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High Propene/Propane Selectivity in Isostructural Metal–Organic Frameworks with High Densities of Open Metal Sites†

  1. Prof. Youn-Sang Bae1,4,‡,
  2. Dr. Chang Yeon Lee2,‡,
  3. Dr. Ki Chul Kim1,‡,
  4. Prof. Omar K. Farha2,
  5. Dr. Peter Nickias3,
  6. Prof. Joseph T. Hupp2,*,
  7. Prof. SonBinh T. Nguyen2,*,
  8. Prof. Randall Q. Snurr1,*

Article first published online: 16 JAN 2012

DOI: 10.1002/anie.201107534

Issue

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Volume 51, Issue 8, pages 1857–1860, February 20, 2012

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Bae, Y.-S., Lee, C. Y., Kim, K. C., Farha, O. K., Nickias, P., Hupp, J. T., Nguyen, S. T. and Snurr, R. Q. (2012), High Propene/Propane Selectivity in Isostructural Metal–Organic Frameworks with High Densities of Open Metal Sites. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51: 1857–1860. doi: 10.1002/anie.201107534

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 (USA)

  2. 2

    Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 (USA)

  3. 3

    The Dow Chemical Company, Core R&D, 1776 Building, Midland, MI 48674 (USA)

  4. 4

    Current address: Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749 (S. Korea)

  1. ‡

    These authors contributed equally to this work.

*Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 (USA)

  1. †

    We acknowledge the Dow Chemical Company for financial support of this work. Additional support was provided by the US Department of Energy (Grant No. DEFG02-03ER15457) and the National Science Foundation through the Northwestern NSEC.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 14 FEB 2012
  2. Article first published online: 16 JAN 2012
  3. Manuscript Received: 26 OCT 2011

Funded by

  • US Department of Energy. Grant Number: DEFG02-03ER15457
  • National Science Foundation

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Keywords:

  • adsorption;
  • metal–organic frameworks;
  • open metal sites;
  • propane;
  • propene
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Two go in, one comes out: A series of isostructural M-MOF-74 materials (M=Co, Mn, and Mg) with high densities of open metal sites have been examined for the selective adsorption of propene over propane. Co-MOF-74 exhibits the highest thermodynamic C3H6/C3H8 selectivity (ca. 45) reported for any MOF to date.

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