Wrocław, Poland, April 29-30, 2025   

Wojciech Bury is an associate professor at the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Wrocław (WChUWr). He began his doctoral studies at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) under the supervision of prof. Janusz Lewiński, and in 2008 he completed his doctoral dissertation. In 2009, he started his research work as an assistant professor at WUT, and in 2011-2014 he carried out his research internship at Northwestern University in the team of prof. Joseph T. Hupp. There, he started his scientific adventure with metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Since 2016, he has become an assistant professor at the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Wrocław. In 2024 he became the head of the Catalysis and Coordination Chemistry research group at WChUWr. He has co-authored 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals and holds two US patents.

Lecture Title:
Pre- and postsynthetic strategies applied to MOFs - towards catalytic applications

The observed rapid growth of interests in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) has been the result of their numerous intriguing properties, which lead to many potential applications of MOFs, including gas storage, separations, heterogenous catalysis, biomedical applications, and others. Proper selection of building blocks allows to design MOF structure and often its desired physicochemical properties [1]. Post-synthetic modifications of MOFs allow for their further functionalization, expanding their possible applications [2]. Nevertheless, presynthetic design of MOFs is of great importance for the construction of multivariate systems. In this presentation our approach to the application of MOFs as platforms and precursors for further transformations into functional systems will be presented.


The aim of our studies was to evaluate pre- and postsynthetic functionalization strategies in model zirconium-based MOFs to test the possibility of incorporating new functions into MOFs with special focus on three research topics: (1) catalytic synthesis of cyclic carbonates under mild reaction conditions [3], (2) synthesis of polymer@MOF hybrids based on radical polymerization of acrylic monomers [4], and (3) imprinting desired compositions into MTV-MOFs to obtain heterogenous catalysts for decomposition of liquid hydrogen sources [5].

 

References
[1] O. M. Yaghi, M. J.Kalmutzki, C. S. Diercks, Introduction to Reticular Chemistry: Metal‐Organic Frameworks and Covalent Organic Frameworks, 1st ed.; Wiley, Weinheim, 2019.
[2] M. Pander, A. Żelichowska and W. Bury, Polyhedron, 2018, 156, 131–137.
[3] M. Pander, M. Janeta, W. Bury, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2021, 13, 8344–8352.
[4] M. Pander, R. Gil-San-Millan, P. Delgado, C. Perona-Bermejo, U. Kostrzewa, K. Kaczkowski, D. J. Kubicki, J. A. R. Navarro, W. Bury, Mater. Horiz., 2023, 10, 1301–1308.
[5] R. Gil-San-Millan, M. Kozieł, W. Bury, ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 2023, 6, 9136-9144.