Highly active copper catalyst obtained through rapid MOF decompositionElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Complete synthetic procedures and XPS spectra. See DOI: 10.1039/c8qi01217b

A decomposed copper based metal-organic framework containing amorphous Cu species was found to be a highly reactive carbon supported catalyst ( a-Cu@C ). This catalyst is active for reduction, oxidation, and N -arylation reactions without further tuning or optimization. Higher catalyst turnover numbers for each of these transformations are obtained when comparing a-Cu@C activity to similar Cu-based materials. A decomposed copper based metal-organic framework containing amorphous Cu species was found to be a highly reactive carbon supported catalyst ( a-Cu@C ).