ABSTRACT The escalating global demand for energy and the diminishing reserves of conventional fossil fuels have driven intense research into alternative and sustainable oil production. Biomass is one of the sustainable and renewable resources for producing green energy. Biodiesel derived from biomass is widely acknowledged as an environmentally friendly and renewable biofuel. As a result, there is a pressing need to develop highly efficient catalysts to facilitate biomass conversion and utilization. Current studies suggest that MOFs, due to their high surface area, tunable porosity, and catalytic flexibility, have become the next‐generation materials of choice for catalytic processes in next‐generation oil production. Through the manipulation of their modular designs, MOFs overcome the long‐term limitations of traditional catalysis, such as metal sintering, low selectivity, and deactivation, while providing control over the reaction pathways. All these improvements notwithstanding, scalability, hydrothermal stability, and synthesis expense remain issues. Future research must focus on low‐cost MOF synthesis, defect engineering for stability improvement, and continuous‐flow reactor integration. This review concludes MOFs' applications as the next generation of catalysts for sustainable oil production, providing atom‐efficient pathways for lowering carbon prints and attuning to global energy transition targets. By combining structural accuracy with catalytic flexibility, MOFs open the door to the circular carbon economy, converting underutilized resources into high‐value fuels. Further, the review offers observations on current challenges in this area and provides an outlook on possible avenues for improving MOF‐based catalysts. The review concludes by providing observations on the future of MOF‐based catalysts in biodiesel production, highlighting their promising potential in enhancing sustainable biofuel technology and future biorefinery processes.
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