Issue 53, 2016
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Chemical Communications

Harnessing Lewis acidic open metal sites of metal–organic frameworks: the foremost route to achieve highly selective benzene sorption over cyclohexane†

Soumya Mukherjee,a   Biplab Manna,a   Aamod V. Desai,a   Yuefeng Yin,b   Rajamani Krishna,c   Ravichandar Babarao*d  and  Sujit K. Ghosh ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pashan, Pune 411 008, India
E-mail: sghosh@iiserpune.ac.in

b Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia

c Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands

d Manufacturing, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
E-mail: Ravichandar.Babarao@csiro.au

Abstract

π-Complexation triggered Lewis acid–base interactions between open metal sites (OMS) of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), and π-e− rich adsorptive benzene (Bz) is exploited to establish M-MOF-74 as the best Bz-selective MOF sorbent, marking the first report of utilizing OMS behind benzene/cyclohexane separation; a key advance from the energy-economy standpoint of industrial separation.

Graphical abstract: Harnessing Lewis acidic open metal sites of metal–organic frameworks: the foremost route to achieve highly selective benzene sorption over cyclohexane

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CC03015G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
11 Apr 2016
Accepted
08 May 2016
First published
09 May 2016

Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 8215-8218

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Harnessing Lewis acidic open metal sites of metal–organic frameworks: the foremost route to achieve highly selective benzene sorption over cyclohexane

S. Mukherjee, B. Manna, A. V. Desai, Y. Yin, R. Krishna, R. Babarao and S. K. Ghosh, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 8215 DOI: 10.1039/C6CC03015G

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