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He has been engaged in the synthesis and application research of metal-organic hybrid materials with nanopores for a long time, and creatively cross-cuts and combines the frontier research fields such as organic synthesis, inorganic synthesis, structural chemistry, catalysis, and materials science, and proposes design synthesis Nano-metal-organic zeolite compounds are used as catalysts in the field of catalysis. Among them, many compounds have a pore size of 2 to 5 nm and can be used as heterogeneous catalysts. Their catalytic activity is close to or even exceeds that of the corresponding homogeneous catalyst, which is a great breakthrough in this research field. . The results of the study were published by J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2005, 12, 8940-8941), which aroused widespread interest from chemists at home and abroad, and was selected as "Hot Articles" for two consecutive years, and by Science " Highlighted. " Among them, Science, Chem. Rev. and other well-known international journals commented on the research work and gave full affirmation.

Wu Chuande

(Professor, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University)

Graduated in July 1992

Wu Chuande Research Field

1. Synthesis and application of metal - porphyrin framework materials (MPFs)

Metal-organic framework materials (MOFs) are a new type of functional materials that have been very popular in recent years. They are used in the fields of gas molecule adsorption and resolution, chiral resolution, chemical sensing, fluorescence, magnetism, nonlinear optics, and catalysis. All have potential application value. The research group has been dedicated to the research of porphyrin chemistry, and in the research of metal-porphyrin framework materials (MPFs), a large number of novel and uniquely structured metal-porphyrin framework materials have been synthesized, and their catalytic reaction performance has been focused on.

2. Synthesis and application of metal - carbene framework materials (MCFs)

The research group reacted a series of N-heterocyclic carbene or imidazolium complex bridged ligands with metal salts under appropriate conditions to obtain a series of crystals with higher yields. The crystal structure of the materials was determined by X-ray diffraction. Among them, the pore size of most materials reached 1 ~ 4 nm, and the active metal ions or carbene carbon atoms were exposed in the nano MCFs pores. The calculation results show that the porosity of most MCFs is close to 70%. The results show that the new MCFs catalysts show very high specific catalytic activity in Heck, Suzuki-Miyaur, and reduction hydrogenation reactions, which are much higher than those of corresponding homogeneous catalysts.

3. Synthesis and application of metal - amino acid framework materials (MAFs)

Natural a-amino acids, as a basic structural unit of biological macromolecules, have shown a lot of functionality and high selectivity and have attracted widespread interest from chemists. Amino acid, as a homogeneous organic small molecule chiral catalyst, shows excellent catalytic activity in a variety of reactions. It plays a role as a simulated enzyme in chemical reactions, laying the foundation for the establishment of the theory of " organic catalysis ". The research group uses amino acids as basic building blocks to bridge transition metal ions to form chiral metal-organic hybrid materials, mainly to study their applications in chiral catalysis and chiral separation.

4. Synthesis and application of organic - inorganic hybrid materials ( PMOFs )

Polyacid compounds, also known as polyoxometalates (POMs for short), are metal-oxygen clusters on the nanometer scale. Porous materials with their stable structure, large porosity and specific surface area make them widely used in many fields such as catalysis, adsorption, resolution, loading, ion exchange, and molecular recognition. The research team used heteropoly acid inorganic ligands and functional organic ligands to bridge the transition metal ions to synthesize PMOFs, and studied their applications in heterogeneous catalysis. ^[1]

Wu Chuande Research Results

1.Min Zhao, Sha Ou, and Chuan-De Wu *, Porous MetalOrganic Frameworks for Heterogeneous Biomimetic Catalysis, Acc. Chem. Res . 2014, 47, 1199-1207.

2.Ming-Jie Dong, Min Zhao, Sha Ou, Chao Zou, and Chuan-De Wu *, A Luminescent Dye @ MOF Platform: Emission Fingerprint Relationships of Volatile Organic Molecules, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 1575-1579.

3.Guo-Qiang Kong, Sha Ou, Chao Zou, Chuan-De Wu *, Assembly and Post-Modification of a MetalOrganic Nanotube for Highly Efficient Catalysis, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 19851-19857 .

4.Xiu-Li Yang, Ming-Hua Xie, Chao Zou, Yabing He, Banglin Chen, * Michael O'Keeffe, Chuan-De Wu *, Porous Metalloporphyrinic Frameworks Constructed from Metal 5,10,15,20- Tetrakis (3 , 5-biscarboxylphenyl) porphyrin for Highly Efficient and Selective Catalytic Oxidation of Alkylbenzenes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 10638-10645.

5.Chao Zou, Zhijuan Zhang, Xuan Xu, Qihan Gong, Jing Li *, Chuan-De Wu *, A Multifunctional Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Structure Based on MnIII-Porphyrin and Polyoxometalate as a Highly Effective Dye Scavenger and Heterogenous Catalyst, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 87-90. 6. Liqing Ma, Chuan-De Wu, Marcela M Wanderley, Wenbin Lin, Single-crystal to single-crystal cross-linking of an interpenetrating chiral metal-organic framework and implications in asymmetric catalysis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed . 2010, 49, 8244-8248.

7.Chuan-De Wu and Wenbin Lin, Heterogeneous Asymmetric Catalysis with Homochiral Metal-Organic Frameworks: Network Structure-Dependent Catalytic Activity, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed . 2007, 46, 1075-1078 (Highlighted in Science, 2007, 315 , 19).

8.Chuan-De Wu, Aiguo Hu, Lin Zhang, and Wenbin Lin, A Homochiral Porous Metal-Organic Framework for Highly Enantioselective Heterogeneous Asymmetric Catalysis, J. Am. Chem. Soc . 2005, 127, 8940-8941 ("Hot Articles ").

9.Chuan-De Wu and Wenbin Lin, Highly Porous, Homochiral Metal-Organic Frameworks: Solvent-Exchange-Induced Single-Crystal to Single-Crystal Transformations, Angew. Chem. Int. E d. 2005, 44, 1958-1961.

10.Chuan-De Wu, Can-Zhong Lu, Hong-Hui Zhuang and Jin-Shun Huang, Hydrothermal Assembly of a Novel Three-Dimensional Framework Formed by [GdMo12O42] 9- Anions and Nine Coordinated GdIII Cations, J. Am. Chem Soc. 2002, 124, 3836-3837.