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UTSA-74: A MOF-74 Isomer with Two Accessible Binding Sites per Metal Center for Highly Selective Gas Separation

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Feng Luo, Changsheng Yan, Lilong Dang, Rajamani Krishna, Wei Zhou, Hui Wu, Xinglong Dong, Yu Han, Tong-Liang Hu, Michael O'Keeffe, Lingling Wang, Mingbiao Luo, Rui-Biao Lin, Banglin Chen

Abstract

A new metal-organic framework Zn2(H2O)(dobdc)¿0.5(H2O) (UTSA-74, H4dobdc=2,5-dioxido-1,4- benzenedicarboxylic acid), Zn-MOF-74/CPO-27-Zn isomer, has been synthesized and structurally characterized. It has a novel four coordinated fgl topology with one-dimensional channels of about 8.0 Å. Unlike metal sites in the well-established MOF- 74 with a rod-packing structure in which each of them is in a five coordinate square pyramidal coordination geometry, there are two different Zn2+ sites within the binuclear secondary building units in UTSA-74 in which one of them (Zn1) is in a tetrahedral while another (Zn2) in an octahedral coordination geometry. After activation, the two axial water molecules on Zn2 sites can be removed, generating UTSA-74a with two accessible gas binding sites per Zn2 ion. Accordingly, UTSA-74a takes up moderately high and comparable amount of acetylene (145 cm3/cm3) to Zn-MOF-74. Interestingly, the accessible Zn2+ sites in UTSA-74a are bridged by carbon dioxide molecules instead of being terminally bound in Zn-MOF-74, so UTSA-74a adsorbs much smaller amount of carbon dioxide (90cm3/cm3) than Zn-MOF-74 (146 cm3/cm3) at room temperature and 1 bar, leading to a superior MOF material for highly selective C2H2/CO2 separation. X-ray crystal structures, gas sorption isotherms, molecular modeling, simulated and experimental breakthrough comprehensively support this result.
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Journal of American Chemical Society
Volume
138
Issue
17
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

Porous materials, Gas separation, Open metal sites

Citation

Luo, F. , Yan, C. , Dang, L. , Krishna, R. , Zhou, W. , Wu, H. , Dong, X. , Han, Y. , Hu, T. , O'Keeffe, M. , Wang, L. , Luo, M. , Lin, R. and Chen, B. (2016), UTSA-74: A MOF-74 Isomer with Two Accessible Binding Sites per Metal Center for Highly Selective Gas Separation, Journal of American Chemical Society, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=920850 (Accessed April 28, 2025)

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Created May 3, 2016, Updated October 12, 2021