Iron-incorporated metal-organic frameworks for oxidative cleavage of trans -anethole to p -anisaldehyde.

An iron-incorporated Zn-MOF catalyst Zn-bpydc·Fe was fabricated for the oxidative cleavage of trans -anethole to p -anisaldehyde under facile conditions, under 1 atm of O 2 . The Fe coordinated bipyridine serves as the catalytically active center inside the structural skeleton of Zn-MOFs. This work affords a new avenue for the mild oxidation of olefins.