Preparation of surface functionalized porous organic-inorganic hybrid materials or mesoporous materials with coordinatively unsaturated metal sites and catalytic applications thereof

1. A method of selectively functionalizing coordinatively unsaturated metal sites of a porous organic-inorganic material comprising

reacting a porous organic-inorganic hybrid material having metal unsaturated sites with one or more selected from a group consisting of an organic substance, an inorganic substance, an ionic liquid, and an organic-inorganic substance to functionalize the unsaturated metal sites, rather than hydroxide groups, on the surface of the material to form a surface functionalized porous organic inorganic hybrid material;

or reacting a porous organic-inorganic mesoporous material having coordinately unsaturated metal sites with one or more selected from a group consisting of an organic substance, an inorganic substance, an ionic liquid, and an organic-inorganic substances to functionalize the unsaturated metal sites, rather than hydroxide groups, on the surface of the material to form a surface functionalized porous organic inorganic mesoporous material.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the porous organic-inorganic hybrid material is a crystalline polymer compound formed by bonding an organic ligand with a central metal ion and has a molecule-sized pore structure or a nanosized pore structure, and the organic-inorganic mesoporous material is a molecular sieve having a coordinately unsaturated metal sites formed by substitution of dissimilar metals.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the precursor of the central metal ion of the porous organic-inorganic hybrid material is one or more metals selected from among Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W, Mn, Re, Fe, Ru, Os, Co, Rh, Ir, Ni, Pd, Pt, Cu, Ag, Aq Zn, Cd, Hg, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Sc, Y, Al, Ga, In, Tl, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb, As, Sb and Bi, or metal compounds thereof.

4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein an organic material, serving as the ligand, methane dithionic acid group, a methane dithionic acid anion group, a pyridine group and a pyrazine group, or mixtures thereof.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the compound having the carboxylic acid is one or more selected from among benzene dicarboxylic acid, naphthalene dicarboxylic acid, benzene tricarboxylic acid, naphthalene tricarboxylic acid, pyridine dicarboxylic acid, bipyridyl dicarboxylic acid, formic acid, oxalic acid, malonic acid, succinic acid, glutaric acid, hexanedioic acid, heptanedioic acid, and cyclohexyl dicarboxylic acid.

6. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the porous organic-inorganic hybrid material is in a form of a thin film a membrane, pellet, ink, extrudate, or sphere.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the organic substance is one or more compounds selected from among compounds represented by Formulas 1 to 3 below:

H 2 N-M-R1  [Formula 1]

HS-M-R2  [Formula 2]

(OH) 2 OP-M-R3  [Formula 3]

wherein M is an alkylene or aralkylene group of C 1 ˜C 2-3 including or not including unsaturated hydrocarbons, and each of R 1 , R 2 and R 3 is independently an organic alkylene or aralkylene group, unsubstituted or substituted with one or more selected from among halogen elements, a vinyl group (—C═CH 2 ), an amino group (—NH 2 ), an imino group (—NHR 14 ), a mercapto group (—SH), a hydroxyl group (—OH), a carboxylic acid group (—COOH), a sulfonic acid group (—SO 3 H), an alkoxy group (—OR) and a phosphoric group (—PO(OH) 2 ).

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the inorganic substance is polyoxometallate of [AlO 4 Al1 2 (OH) 24 (H 2 O) 12 ] 7+ or [PW 12 O 40 ] 4− , and the polyoxometallate is one or more selected from among a structure of Keggin anion [(XM 12 O 40 ) n− , where n is an integer of 1˜10; X is P, Si, H, Ga, Ge, V, Cr, Me or Fe; and M is one or more selected from among W, Mo, and Co], a structure of Lindqvist anion [(M 6 O 19 ) n− , where n is an integer of 1˜10; and M is W, Mo, Ta, V or W], a structure of Anderson-Evans anion [(M x (OH) 6 M 6 O 18 ) n− , where n is an integer of 1˜10; Mx is Cr, Ni, Fe, or Mn; and M is Mo, or W] or [(M 4 (H 2 O) 4 (P 2 W 15 O 56 ) 2 ) n− , where n is an integer of 1˜10; and M is one or more transition metals or transition metal clusters selected from among Cu, Zn, Ni, Mn, and the like], and Dawson-Wells structure (P 2 W 15 O 56 ) 2 .

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the ionic liquid is one or more salts selected from among ammonium, Phosphonium, Sulphonitun, Pyrrolidnium, Imidazolium, Thiazolium, Pyrichun and Triazolium.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the organic-inorganic hybrid substance is an organic metal compound, one or more selected from among compounds represented by Formulas 4 to 11 below:

Si(OR 1 ) 4−x R x (1≦ x ≦3)  [Formula 4]

Si(OR 3 ) 4−(y+z) R 2 y Z z (1 ≦y+z ≦3)  [Formula 5]

Si(OR 4 ) 4−a R 5 a Si (1 ≦a≦ 3)  [Formula 6]

Z 1 b (OR 6 ) 3−b Si-A-Si(OR 7 ) 3−C Z 2 C (0 ≦b≦ 2 , 0 ≦c≦ 2)  [Formula 7]

R 8 e M 1 (OR 9 ) 4−e (1 ≦e≦ 3)  [Formula 8]

R 10 g M 2 Z 3 f (OR 11 ) 4−(f+g) (1 ≦f+g≦ 3)  [Formula 9]

M 3 (OR 12 ) h (1 ≦h≦ 2)  [Formula 10]

M 4 (OR 13 ) i Z 4 j (1 ≦i+j≦ 2)  [Formula 11]

wherein A is an alkylene or aralkylene group of C 1 ˜C 20 including or not including unsaturated hydrocarbons, each of Z 1 , Z 2 , Z 3 and Z 4 is independently selected from among halogen elements, each of M 1 and M 2 is independently one or more elements selected from among transition metals, Lanthanides and Actinides, each of M 3 and M 4 is independently one or more elements selected from among alkali metals and alkaline earth metals, each R and R 1 to R 13 is independently an alkyl group, alkenyl group or alkynyl group of C 1 ˜C 20 , unsubstituted or substituted with one or more selected from among halogen elements, a vinyl group (—C═CH 2 ), an amino group (—NH 2 ), an imino group (—NHR 14 ), a mercapto group (—SH), a hydroxyl group (—OH), and a carboxylic acid group (—COOH), or is selected from among a vinyl group (—C═CH), an amino group (—NH 2 ), an imino group (—NHR 14 ), a mercapto group (—SH), a hydroxyl group (—OH) and a carboxylic acid group (COOH), and R 14 is an alkyl group, an alkenyl group or an alkynyl group of C 1 ˜C 10 , unsubstituted or substituted with halogen, an amino group, a mercapto group or a hydroxyl group.

11. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

secondarily supporting the surface-functionalized porous organic-inorganic hybrid material with ionic liquids or inorganic polyoxometallates.

12. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

supporting one or more metals selected from among precious metals, transition metals, typical metals and Lanthanides, or oxides thereof on the surface functionalized porous organic-inorganic hybrid material.

13. The method according to claim 12 , wherein the porous organic inorganic hybrid material is chromium terephthalate, iron terephthalate, vanadium terephthalate, aluminum terephthalate, chromium benzenetricarboxylate, iron benzenetricarboxylate, vanadium benzenetricarboxylate, or aluminum benzenetricarboxylate.

14. A surface functionalized porous organic-inorganic hybrid material composition prepared using the method according to claim 1 .

15. A catalyst composition comprising the surface functionalized porous organic-inorganic hybrid material prepared using the method according to claim 1 .

16. The catalyst composition according to claim 15 , wherein the catalyst composition is used for an acid-base reaction, hydrogenation, dehydrogenation, carbon-carbon bonding reaction, or oxidation reaction by oxygen, air or hydrogen peroxide.