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Switching Adsorbent Layered Material that Enables Stepwise Capture of C8 Aromatics via Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Transformations

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CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
Volume 35, Issue 23, Pages 10001-10008

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c01920

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Separation of C-8 aromatic isomers is crucial to the petrochemical industry. This study introduces a new coordination network, sql-4,5-Zn, which exhibits high sorption capacity and selectivity for C-8 aromatics.
Separation of the C-8 aromatic isomers, xylenes (PX, MX, and OX) and ethylbenzene (EB), is important to the petrochemical industry. Whereas physisorptive separation is an energy-efficient alternative to current processes, such as distillation, physisorbents do not generally exhibit strong C-8 selectivity. Herein, we report the mixed-linker square lattice (sql) coordination network [Zn-2(sba)(2)(bis)](n)mDMF (sql-4,5-Zn, H(2)sba or 4 = 4,4 '-sulfonyldibenzoic acid, bis or 5 = trans-4,4 '-bis(1-imidazolyl)stilbene) and its C-8 sorption properties. sql-4,5-Zn was found to exhibit high uptake capacity for liquid C-8 aromatics (similar to 20.2 wt %), and to the best of our knowledge, it is the first sorbent to exhibit selectivity for PX, EB, and MX over OX for binary, ternary, and quaternary mixtures from gas chromatography. Single-crystal structures of narrow-pore, intermediate-pore, and large-pore phases provided insight into the phase transformations, which were enabled by flexibility of the linker ligands and changes in the square grid geometry and interlayer distances. This work adds to the library of two-dimensional coordination networks that exhibit high uptake, thanks to clay-like expansion, and strong selectivity, thanks to shape-selective binding sites, for C-8 isomers.

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