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Francis Verpoort,教授、博士生导师

基本情况

出生年月:1963-09        籍贯:比利时
学历:比利时根特大学(Ghent University),博士;
工作单位:武汉理工大学材料复合新技术国家重点实验室
联系地址:武汉市洪山区武汉理工大学南湖校区化学楼3楼办公室
联系电话:+86-15071172245
Email:francis.verpoort@ghent.ac.kr

研究领域

1. 金属有机催化功能材料:包括金属有机配合物,金属有机骨架(MOFs)及其衍生材料,多孔有机聚合物(POPs)等;
2. 绿色化学:利用催化剂将CO2转化为化工新产品与高分子材料;
3. 高分子材料和复合材料:致力于利用催化剂合成各类高分子材料与复合材料;
4. 能源方面:主要致力于水分解反应催化剂的研发;
5. 有机合成与药物设计:主要致力于化合物库的合理设计与合成以发现具有生物活性的化合物。

教育经历

1991/12–1996/05:根特大学(比利时),金属有机化学与催化,博士
1989/10–1991/07:根特大学(比利时),无机化学,硕士
1987/10–1989/07:鲁汶大学(比利时),无机化学,学士
1981/09–1985/06:布鲁格奥斯滕德理工大学(比利时),工业化学,学士

科研项目

1. 国家自然科学基金青年项目(项目批准号:22102127),基于金属簇合物催化的双取代碳酸亚乙烯酯的新合成路线研究,2022-01至2024.12,24万,在研,主持
2. 齐鲁工业大学(山东省科学院)生物基材料与绿色造纸国家重点实验室开放基金, (项目批准号:GZKF202023), 生物质基离子液体在CO2催化转化中的应用, 2021-01至2022-12, 6万, 在研, 主持
3. 国家自然科学基金委外国青年学者研究基金延续项目(项目批准号:21950410754),金属在MOFs 衍生的功能化碳基体的分散及其前驱体作为一种强而有效的催化剂用于CO2转化,绿色化学和能源,2020/01-2021/12,30万,在研,参与
4. 国家自然科学基金外国青年学者研究基金项目(项目批准号:21850410449),MOFs衍生的分散在碳基体中的金属作为有效的二氧化碳转化催化剂,2019/01-2019/12,20万,参与,已结题
5. 青年科学基金项目 (项目批准号:21502146),金属有机骨架材料开发及绿色能源净化与绿色化学催化应用,2016/01-2018/12,21万,参与,已结题

工作经历

2012/03至今:武汉理工大学材料复合新技术国家重点实验室,国家“高层次人才”,首席教授(全职)
2014/08至今:根特大学国际校区(韩国),教授
2011/03-2011/08:大连理工大学,教授
1998/10至今:根特大学(比利时),教授
1996/10-1998/09: 根特大学(比利时),副教授
1991/12-1996/09: 根特大学(比利时),助理教授

代表性论文(*通讯作者)

(1) Correlating single-atomic ruthenium inter-distance with long-range interaction boosts hydrogen evolution reaction kinetics. Bowen Jiang, Jiawei Zhu, Zhenzhi Xia, Jiahui Lyu, Xingchuan Li, Lirong Zheng, Cheng Chen, Somboon Chaemchuen, Tongle Bu, Francis Verpoort, Shichun Mu, Jinsong Wu, John Wang, Zongkui Kou, Adv. Materials, accepted 2023.
(2) Surface Functionalization of Porous Coordination Nanocages Via Click Chemistry and Their Application in Drug Delivery" - Direct Synthesis of the 2D Copper(II) 5-Prop-2-ynoxyisophthlate MOF. Nazir Ahmad, Hussein A. Younus, Zhang Gaoke, Kristof Van Hecke, and Francis Verpoort, Adv. Mat. 2019, 1801399.
(3) A Physicochemical Introspection of Porous Organic Polymer Photocatalysts for Wastewater Treatment. Jeet Chakraborty, Ipsita Nath, Francis Verpoort, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2022,51, 1124-1138.
(4) Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) for Heterogeneous Catalysis: Recent Trends in Design and Synthesis with Structure-activity Relationship. Syed Shoaib Ahmad Shah, Muhammad Sufyan Javed, Tayyaba Najam, Muhammad Altaf Nazir, Aziz ur Rehman, Abdul Rauf, Manzar Sohail, Francis Verpoort*, Shu-Juan Bao. Mat. Today, 2023, 67, 229-255.
(5) Hydrogen bond-mediated pH-universal electrocatalytic hydrogen production by conjugated porous poly-indigo. Ipsita Nath, Jeet Chakraborty, Reinaud Lips, Sander Dekyvere, Jiang Min, Rajender S. Varma and Francis Verpoort*, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1039/D2TA08365E.
(6) CO2-Induced Dissolution of ZnO into Ionic Liquids and Its Catalytic Application for the Hydration of Propargylic Alcohols. Yongxing Zhang, Jia Hu, Yong Xu, Xiangyu Yan, Siqi Zhang, Kang Duan, Cheng Chen, Ye Yuan, Francis Verpoort. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2022, 310, 121270.
(7) Self-sacrifice MOFs for Heterogeneous catalysis: Synthesis mechanisms and future perspectives, Awais Ahmad, Safia Khan, Sadaf Tariq, Rafael Luque, Francis Verpoort, Materials Today, 2022, Materials Today 2022, 55, 137-169.
(8) Constructing A Stable Cobalt-Nitrogen-Carbon Air Cathode from Coordinatively Unsaturated Zeolitic-Imidazole Frameworks for Rechargeable Zinc-Air Batteries. Nano Research 2022, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4243-4.
(9) Rational Design of Electrospun Nanofiber-Typed Electrocatalysts for Water Splitting: A Review.Zhenyuan Zhang, Xiao Wu, Zongkui Kou, Na Song, Guangdi Nie, Ce Wang, Francis Verpoort, Shichun Mu. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022, 428, 131133.
(10) Novel kinetic modeling of thiabendazole removal by adsorption and photocatalysis on porous organic polymers: effect of pH and visible light intensity. Alireza Ranjbari, Kristof Demeestere, Francis Verpoort, Philippe M. Heynderickx, Chem Eng J, Available online 9 November 2021, 133349 In Press, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.133349.
(11) Xenes as an Emerging 2D Monoelemental Family: Fundamental Electrochemistry and Energy Applications. Wang, Tingting; Wang, Huide; Kou, Zongkui; Liang, Weiyuan; Luo, Xiaoling; Verpoort, Francis; Zeng, Yu-Jia; Zhang, Han, Adv. Func. Mat. 30, 2020, 2002885.
(12) Rational Design of Holey 2D non-layered Transition Metal Carbide/Nitride Heterostructure Nanosheets for Highly Efficient Water Oxidation. Zongkui Kou, Tingting Wang, Qilin Gu, Mo Xiong, Lirong Zheng, Xin Li, Zhenghui Pan, Hao Chen, Francis Verpoort, Anthony K. Cheetham, Shichun Mu, John Wang. Adv. Energy Mater., 2019, 1803768.
(13) CO2-Promoted Hydration of Propargylic Alcohols: Green Synthesis of α-Hydroxy Ketones by an Efficient and Recyclable AgOAc/Ionic Liquid System. Li, Di ; Gong, Yanyan; Du, Minchen; Bu, Chao; Chen, Cheng; Chaemchuen, Somboon; Hu, Jia; Zhang, Yongxing; Yuan, Ye; Verpoort, Francis, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2020, https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b07546
(14) B. Taghavi Shahraki, S. Maghsoudi, Y. Fatahi, N. Rabiee, S. Bahadorikhalili, R. Dinarvand, M. Bagherzadeh, F Verpoort*. The Flowering of Mechanically Interlocked Molecules: Novel Approaches to the Synthesis of Rotaxanes and Catenanes. Coord. Chem. Rev., 423, 2020, 213484.
(15) Kinetic modeling of oleic acid esterification with UiO-66: from intrinsic experimental data to kinetics via elementary reaction steps. Chaemchuen, Somboon, Verpoort Francis, Heynderickx Philippe M., Chemical Engineering Journal, 2020, 394 (2020) 124816 (IF: 8.355)
(16) Jeet Chakraborty, Ipsita Nath, Shaoxian Song, Chih-Ming Kao and Francis Verpoort*. Synergistic performance of a sub-nanoscopic cobalt and imidazole grafted in porous organic polymer for CO2 fixation to cyclic carbonates under ambient pressure without co-catalyst., J. Mater. Chem A, 2020, 8, 13916.
(17) Surface Functionalization of Porous Coordination Nanocages Via Click Chemistry and Their Application in Drug Delivery" - Direct Synthesis of the 2D Copper(II) 5-Prop-2-ynoxyisophthlate MOF. Nazir Ahmad, Hussein A. Younus, Zhang Gaoke, Kristof Van Hecke, and Francis Verpoort, Adv. Mat. 2019, 1801399.
(18) Understanding the Roles of Variable Pd(II)/Pd(0) Ratio Supported on Conjugated Poly￾Azobenzene Network: From Characteristic Alteration in Properties to Their Cooperation towards Visible-Light-Induced Selective Hydrogenation. Ipsita Nath; Jeet Chakraborty; Gaoke Zhang; Cheng Chen; Somboon Chaemcheun; Jihae Park; Serge Zhuiykov; Taejun Han; Francis Verpoort, J. Cat. , Volume 385, May 2020, Pages 120-128. (IF: 7.723)
(19) Novel Rapid Room Temperature Synthesis of Conjugated Microporous Polymer for MetalFree Photocatalytic Degradation of Fluoroquinolones. Jeet Chakraborty, Ipsita Nath, Christia Jabbour, Noor Aljammal, Shaoxian Song, Chih-Ming Kao, Philippe M. Heynderickx, and Francis Verpoort Journal of Hazardous Materials, 398, 2020, 122928.
(20) Rational Design of Holey 2D non-layered Transition Metal Carbide/Nitride Heterostructure Nanosheets for Highly Efficient Water Oxidation. Zongkui Kou, Tingting Wang, Qilin Gu, Mo Xiong, Lirong Zheng, Xin Li, Zhenghui Pan, Hao Chen, Francis Verpoort, Anthony K. Cheetham, Shichun Mu, John Wang. Adv. Energy Mater, 2019, 1803768.
(21) Somboon Chaemchuen; Xuan Xiao; Marzieh Ghadamyari; Bibimaryam Mousavi; Nikom Klomkliang; Ye Yuan*; Francis Verpoort*; Robust and efficient catalyst derived from bimetallic Zn/Co zeolitic imidazolate frameworks for CO2 conversion, Journal of Catalysis, 2019, 370: 38-45. (IF:7.92)
(22) Li Di,Du Min-chen,Bu Chao,Chen Cheng,Hu Jia,Zhang Yong-xing,Yuan Ye*,Francis Verpoort*,Three-component Reactions of Propargyl Alcohols,Secondary Amines and CO2 Catalyzed by CuCl2/IonicLiquids, Journal of Molecular Catalysis (China), 2019,33, 543
(23) Two-dimensional dual-metal ZIF derived bifunctional air electrodes with ultra-high electrochemical properties for rechargeable zinc-air batteries. T-T. Wang, Z-K. Kou, S. Mu, J-P. Liu, D-P. He, I. S. Amiinu, W. Meng, K. Zhou, Z-X. Luo, S. Chaemchuen, F. Verpoort, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1705048.
(24) Dandan Song; Di Li; Xuan Xiao; Chen Cheng; Somboon Chaemchuen; Ye Yuan*; Francis Verpoort*; Synthesis of β-oxopropylcarbamates in a recyclable AgBr/ionic liquid catalytic system: An efficient assembly of CO2 under ambient pressure, Journal of CO2 Utilization, 2018, 27, 217-222. (IF:7.132)
(25) Cheng Chen, Yang Miao, Kimmy De Winter, Hua-Jing Wang, Patrick Demeyere, Ye Yuan,* and Francis Verpoort,* Ruthenium-Based Catalytic Systems Incorporating a Labile Cyclooctadiene Ligand with N-Heterocyclic Carbene Precursors for the Atom-Economic Alcohol Amidation Using Amines, Molecules 2018, 23, 2413(IF:4.411)
(26) Ye Yuan; Yu Xie; Cheng Zeng; Dandan Song; Somboon Chaemchuen; Cheng Chen*; Francis Verpoort*; A recyclable AgI/OAc− catalytic system for the efficient synthesis of α-alkylidene cyclic carbonates: carbon dioxide conversion at atmospheric pressure, Green Chemistry, 2017, 19, 2936-2940. (IF:10.182)
(27) Ye Yuan, Cheng Chen, Cheng Zeng, Bibimaryam Mousavi, Somboon Chaemchuen, and Francis Verpoort*, Carboxylation of Terminal Alkynes with Carbon Dioxide Catalyzed by an In Situ Ag2O/N-Heterocyclic Carbene Precursor System, ChemCatChem 2017, 9, 882-887. (IF:5.686)
(28) Ye Yuan, Yu Xie, Cheng Zeng, Dandan Song, Somboon Chaemchuen, Cheng Chen* and Francis Verpoort*, A simple and robust AgI/KOAc catalytic system for the carboxylative assembly of propargyl alcohols and carbon dioxide at atmospheric pressure, Catal.Sci.Technol., 2017, 7, 2935–2939(IF:6.119)
(29) Ye Yuan, Yu Xie, Dandan Song, Cheng Zeng, Somboon Chaemchuen, Cheng Chen, Francis Verpoort*, One-pot carboxylative cyclization of propargylic alcohols and CO2 catalysed by N-heterocyclic carbene/Ag systems, Appl Organometl Chem. 2017; e3867(IF:4.105)
(30) Yanyan Gong, Ye Yuan, Cheng Chen, Somboon Chaemchuen*, Francis Verpoort*, Palladium metallated shell layer of shell@core MOFs as an example of an efficient catalyst design strategy for effective olefin hydrogenation reaction, Journal of Catalysis, 2020, 392, 141-149.
(31) Yanyan Gong, Ye Yuan, Cheng Chen, Pan Zhang, Jichao Wang, Serge Zhuiykov, Somboon Chaemchuen, Francis Verpoort, Core-shell metal-organic frameworks and metal functionalization to access highest efficiency in catalytic carboxylation, Journal of Catalysis, 2019, 371, 106-115.
(32) Yanyan Gong, Ye Yuan, Cheng Chen, Pan Zhang, Jichao Wang, Somboon Chaemchuen, Francis Verpoort, Enhancing catalytic performance via structure core-shell metal-organic frameworks, Journal of Catalysis, 2019, 375, 371-379.
(33) Cheng Chen, Zhi-Qin Wang, Yan-Yan Gong, Ji-Chao Wang, Ye Yuan, Hua Cheng, Wei Sang, Somboon Chaemchuen*, Francis Verpoort*. Cobalt embedded in nitrogen-doped porous carbon as a robust heterogeneous catalyst for the atom-economic alcohol dehydrogenation to carboxylic acids, Carbon, 2021, 174, 284-294.
(34) Zhi-Qin Wang; Xiao-Sheng Tang; Zhao-Qi Yang; Bao-Yi Yu, Hua-Jing Wang; Wei Sang, Ye Yuan, Cheng Chen*; Francis Verpoort*; Highly active bidentate N-heterocyclic carbene/ruthenium complexes performing dehydrogenative coupling of alcohols and hydroxides in open air, Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 8591-8594.
(35) Xuan-Jun Wu, Hua-Jing Wang, Zhao-Qi Yang, Xiao-Sheng Tang, Ye Yuan, Wei Su, Cheng Chen* and Francis Verpoort*, Efficient and phosphine-free bidentate N-heterocyclic carbene/ruthenium catalytic systems for the dehydrogenative amidation of alcohols and amines, Org. Chem. Front. 2019, 6, 563-570.
(36) Wei Sang, Yan-Yan Gong, Hua Cheng, Rui Zhang, Ye Yuan, Guang-Gao Fan, Zhi-Qin Wang, Cheng Chen*, Francis Verpoort*, Transition-Metal-Free Base-Controlled C-N Coupling Reactions: Selective Mono Versus Diarylation of Primary Amines with 2-Chlorobenzimidazoles, Adv. Synth. Catal., 2021, 363, 1408-1416.
(37) Wei Sang, Ayao Jean Gavi, Bao-Yi Yu, Hua Cheng, Ye Yuan, Yuan Wu, Petra Lemmens, Cheng Chen*; Francis Verpoort*. Palladium-Catalyzed Ligand-Free C-N Coupling Reactions: Selective Diheteroarylation of Amines with 2-Halobenzimidazoles, Chem. - Asian J., 2020, 15, 129-135.
(38) Wan-Qiang Wang, Hua Cheng, Ye Yuan, Yu-Qing He, Hua-Jing Wang, Zhi-Qin Wang, Wei Sang, Cheng Chen*, Francis Verpoort*. Highly Efficient N-Heterocyclic Carbene/Ruthenium Catalytic Systems for the Acceptorless Dehydrogenation of Alcohols to Carboxylic Acids: Effects of Ancillary and Additional Ligands, Catalysts, 2020, 10, 10.
(39) Hua Cheng, Maoqian Xiong, Ni Zhang, Huajing Wang, Yang Miao, Wei Su, Ye Yuan, Cheng Chen*, Francis Verpoort*. Efficient N-heterocyclic carbene/ruthenium catalytic systems for the alcohol amidation with amines: Involvement of poly-carbene complexes? ChemCatChem, 2018, 10, 4338-4345.
(40) Wan-Qiang Wang, Ye Yuan, Yang Miao, Bao-Yi Yu, Hua-Jing Wang, Zhi-Qin Wang, Wei Sang, Cheng Chen*, Francis Verpoort*. Well-defined N-heterocyclic carbene/ruthenium complexes for the alcohol amidation with amines: The dual role of cesium carbonate and improved activities applying an added ligand, Appl. Organomet. Chem. 2020, 34, e5323.
(41) Haotian Wu, Rongrong Hou, Ye Yuan, Jingli Zhang,* Bifeng Chen, Taolei Sun*, Highly Regioselective Synthesis of 1-Acyl-5-hydroxypyrazolines or Synthesis of 3,5-Disubstituted Pyrazoles from (E)-β-Chlorovinyl Ketones and Benzohydrazides or Hydrazine Hydrate, HETEROCYCLES, 2020, 100, 916-933.
(42) Guangyong Shi, Wei Xu, Jichao Wang, Ye Yuan, Somboon Chaemchuen*, Francis Verpoort*, A Cu-based MOF for the effective carboxylation of terminal alkynes with CO2 under mild conditions, Journal of CO2 Utilization, 2020, 39, 101177.
(43) Youchi Zhang, Jingli Zhang*, Ye Yuan, Liran Liu, Bifeng Chen, Taolei Sun*, Synthesis of Polysubstituted 2H-Pyran-2-ones or Phenols via One-Pot Reaction of (E)-β-Chlorovinyl Ketones and Electron-Withdrawing Group Substituted Acetates or β-Diketones, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2020, 13 1976-1986.
(44) Xing Yang, Ze-Hun Cao, Yang Zhou, Feng Cheng, Zi-Wei Lin, Zhi Ou, Ye Yuan, Yi-Yong Huang*, Petasis-Type gem-Difluoroallylation Reactions Assisted by the Neighboring Hydroxyl Group in Amines, Organic Letters, 2018, 20, 2585-2589.
(45) Bibimaryam Mousavi, Somboon Chaemchuen, Chizoba I. Ezugwu, Ye Yuan, Francis Verpoort*, The effect of synthesis procedure on the catalytic performance of isostructural ZIF-8, Applied Organometallic Chemistry, 2018, 32, e4062.
(46)A robust molecular catalyst generated in-situ for photo- and electrochemical water oxidation" by Hussein A. Younus, Nazir Ahmad, Adeel H. Chughtai, Matthias Vandichel, Michael Busch, Kristof Van Hecke, Mekhman Yusubov, Shaoxian Song, Francis Verpoort, ChemSusChem, 2017, 10, 862-875.
(47)A Recyclable AgI/OAc- Catalytic System for the Efficient Synthesis of α-Alkylidene Cyclic Carbonates: Carbon Dioxide Conversion at Atmospheric Pressure, Y. Yuan, Y. Xie, C. Zeng, D. Song, S. Chaemchuen, C. Chen, F. Verpoort, Green Chem, 2017,19, 2936-2940.
(48)Engineered Synthesis of Hierarchical Porous Organic Polymers for Visible Light and Natural Sunlight Induced Rapid Degradation of Azo, Thiazine and Fluorescein Based Dyes in a Unique Mechanistic Pathway. I. Nath, J. Chakraborty, P. M. Heynderickx, F. Verpoort. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2018, 227, 102-113.
(49)Metal organic frameworks mimicking natural enzymes: a structural and functional analogy, Ipsita Nath, Jeet Chakraborty and Francis Verpoort, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2016, 45, 4127-4170.
(50)Metal–organic molecular cages: applications of biochemical implications, Nazir Ahmad, Hussein A. Younus, Adeel H. Chughtai and Francis Verpoort, Chem. Soc. Rev, 2015,44, 9-25.
(51)Metal-Organic Frameworks for upgrading Biogas via CO2 adsorption to Biogas green energy, S. Chaemchuen, N. A. Kabir, K. Zhou, F. Verpoort, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2013, 42, 9304-9332