Tailored Postsynthetic Nitration of a Hypercrosslinked Polymer for Single-Step Ethylene Purification from a Ternary C2 Gas Mixture.
ChemSusChem
; : e202400595, 2024 Jul 17.
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ABSTRACT
Purifying C2H4 from a ternary C2H2/C2H4/C2H6 mixture poses a substantial industrial challenge due to their close physical and chemical properties. In this study, we introduce an innovative design approach to regulate and optimize the nitration degree of a hypercrosslinked polymer to achieve targeted separation performance. We synthesized a porous organic polymer (HCP) using the solvent knitting method and carried out its postsynthetic nitration, resulting in HCP-NO2-1 and HCP-NO2-2 with different nitration degrees. Notably, the adsorption capacity shifted from C2H6 > C2H4 ≈ C2H2 for HCP to C2H2 > C2H6 > C2H4 for HCP-NO2-1 and to C2H2 > C2H4 ≈ C2H6 for HCP-NO2-2, demonstrating the controllable nature of the separation process via the polar nitro group insertion. Remarkably, HCP-NO2-1 exhibited a desirable, selective separation of C2H4 from the C2H6/C2H4/C2H2 mixture thanks to an exquisite combination of the acidic proton-polar nitro group and nonpolar C-Hâââπ interactions. Separation capability was further corroborated by computational simulations and breakthrough tests. This work marks a significant advancement as the first successful postsynthetic functionalization strategy for C2H4 purification from a ternary gas mixture among porous organic polymers.
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ChemSusChem
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2024
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