High separation capacity and selectivity of C2 hydrocarbons over methane within a microporous metal-organic framework at room temperature

Yabing He; Zhangjing Zhang; Shengchang Xiang; Hui Wu; Frank R Fronczek; Wei Zhou; Rajamani Krishna; Michael O'Keeffe; Banglin Chen

doi:10.1002/chem.201103927

High separation capacity and selectivity of C2 hydrocarbons over methane within a microporous metal-organic framework at room temperature

Chemistry. 2012 Feb 13;18(7):1901-4. doi: 10.1002/chem.201103927. Epub 2012 Jan 20.

Authors

Yabing He¹, Zhangjing Zhang, Shengchang Xiang, Hui Wu, Frank R Fronczek, Wei Zhou, Rajamani Krishna, Michael O'Keeffe, Banglin Chen

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at san Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, Texas 78249-0698, USA.

PMID: 22262665
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201103927

Abstract

A separation story! A microporous metal-organic framework (UTSA-34) of non-interpenetrated binodal (4,6)-connected ybh network with interconnected cages of about 12.8 Å has been realised to exhibit highly selective separation of C(2) hydrocarbons from methane with a separation capacity of 3.0 mol kg(-1) and selectivity of 35 at room temperature (see figure).