Metal-Organic Frameworks for Breakthrough Separation of 2-Butene Isomers with High Dynamic Selectivity and Capacity.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
; 62(22): e202302036, 2023 May 22.
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ABSTRACT
Developing porous sorbents represents a potential energy-efficient way for industrial gas separation. However, a bottleneck for reducing the energy penalty is the trade-off between dynamic adsorption capacity and selectivity. Herein, we showed this problem can be overcome by modulating the kinetic and thermodynamic separation behaviours in metal-organic frameworks for sieving 2-butene geometric isomers, which are desired for upgrading the raffinates to higher value-added end products. We found that the iron-triazolate framework can realize the selective shape screening of 2-butene isomers assisted by electrostatic interactions at the pore apertures. Further introducing uncoordinated N binding sites by ligand substitution lowered the gas diffusion barrier and greatly boosted the dynamic separation performance. In breakthrough tests under ambient conditions, trans-2-C4 H8 can be efficiently separated from cis-2-C4 H8 with a record capacity of 2.10â
mmol g-1 with high dynamic selectivity of 2.39.
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Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
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