Separation/purification of ethylene from an acetylene/ethylene mixture in a pillared-layer porous metal-organic framework

Arpan Hazra; Saibal Jana; Satyanarayana Bonakala; Sundaram Balasubramanian; Tapas Kumar Maji

doi:10.1039/c7cc00726d

Separation/purification of ethylene from an acetylene/ethylene mixture in a pillared-layer porous metal-organic framework

Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 May 2;53(36):4907-4910. doi: 10.1039/c7cc00726d.

Authors

Arpan Hazra¹, Saibal Jana, Satyanarayana Bonakala, Sundaram Balasubramanian, Tapas Kumar Maji

Affiliation

¹ Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CMPU), Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Jakkur, Bangalore, 560064, India. tmaji@jncasr.ac.in.

PMID: 28267167
DOI: 10.1039/c7cc00726d

Abstract

Here we report the synthesis, structure and porous properties of a 3D pillared-layer porous framework of Mn(ii)-Mn(iii), {[Mn₃(bipy)₃(H₂O)₄][Mn(CN)₆]₂·2(bipy)·4H₂O}_n (1). The guest-removed framework (1a) shows significant uptake of C₂H₂, whereas it excludes the other two C2 hydrocarbons (C₂H₄ and C₂H₆). Furthermore, excellent separation proficiency for C₂H₂ from a mixture of C₂H₂ and C₂H₄ (1 : 99, v/v) is realized in a breakthrough column experiment under ambient conditions.