Ben Van de Voorde

TL;DR: The catalytic activity of the zirconium terephthalate UiO-66(Zr) can be drastically increased by using a modulation approach, resulting in a more open framework with a large number of open sites and is a highly active catalyst for several Lewis acid catalyzed reactions.

TL;DR: An overview of most of the existing literature on the capability of MOFs to separate and purify liquid mixtures is given, with an accent on separation mechanisms and structure-selectivity relationships.

TL;DR: A clear linear free-energy relationship (LFER) was found between Hammett σ(m) values of the linker substituents X and the rate k(X) of a carbonyl-ene reaction, the first LFER ever observed for MOF catalysts.

TL;DR: The synthesis of the commercially available aluminum fumarate sample A520 has been optimized and its structure analyzed through a combination of powder diffraction, solid-state NMR spectroscopy, molecular simulation, IR spectroscopic, and thermal analysis.

TL;DR: An optimized adsorbent for the deep and selective removal of nitrogen contaminants out of fuel feeds, namely MIL-100(V), based on results derived from IR spectroscopic observation of adsorbed indole molecules.