Low-cost CuNi@MIL-101 as an excellent catalyst toward cascade reaction: integration of ammonia borane dehydrogenation with nitroarene hydrogenation.

Bimetallic CuNi nanoparticles (NPs) with low cost were rationally confined inside MIL-101 to give CuNi@MIL-101, which exhibits high efficiency and excellent recyclability toward the hydrogenation of nitroarenes under mild conditions on coupling with ammonia borane dehydrogenation. This is the first report on MOF-stabilized base metal NPs for cascade reactions.