Highly selective adsorption of ethylene over ethane in a MOF featuring the combination of open metal site and π-complexation

  • Yiming Zhang
  • , Baiyan Li
  • , Rajamani Krishna
  • , Zili Wu
  • , Dingxuan Ma
  • , Zhan Shi
  • , Tony Pham
  • , Katherine Forrest
  • , Brian Space
  • , Shengqian Ma

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Abstract

The introduction of the combination of open metal site (OMS) and π-complexation into MOF has led to very high ethylene-ethane adsorption selectivity at 318 K, as illustrated in the context of MIL-101-Cr-SO3Ag. The interactions with ethylene from both OMS and π-complexation in MIL-101-Cr-SO3Ag have been investigated by in situ IR spectroscopic studies and computational calculations, which suggest that π-complexation contributes dominantly to the high ethylene-ethane adsorption selectivity.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2714-2717
Number of pages4
JournalChemical Communications
Volume51
Issue number13
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 14 2015

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