Issue 12, 2020

A new challenge for nanocrystalline α-zirconium phosphate: reaction with a diepoxyalkane

Abstract

New organic derivatives of α-zirconium phosphate (ZrP) were prepared by reaction of a gel of nanocrystalline ZrP with 1,2,7,8-diepoxyoctane (diepoxide), leading to the formation of P–O–C bonds. A series of compounds having composition Zr(O3POH)2−2x(O3POCH2CH(OH)(CH2)4CH(OH)CH2OPO3)x (hereafter indicated as ZrP(dep)x) were obtained by varying the diepoxide/Zr molar ratio in the range 0.25–1. The samples were characterized by elemental, thermal and X-ray powder diffraction analysis. The reaction turned out to be nearly quantitative, the x values of ZrP(dep)x being in the range 0.16 to 1.0. The interlayer distance slightly increased with increasing x, going from 12.7 to 13.2 Å. Interestingly, the materials easily intercalated alkanols at room temperature, both from liquid and vapor phases; it is noteworthy that ZrP(dep)0.30 was able to reversibly take up 42 wt% ethanol from the vapor phase, in agreement with the presence of available free space both in the interlayer and in the intercrystal region. Geometrical structural models in which the α-ZrP layers are connected by the dep chains were proposed to support the obtained results.

Graphical abstract: A new challenge for nanocrystalline α-zirconium phosphate: reaction with a diepoxyalkane

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
31 okt 2019
Accepted
12 dec 2019
First published
12 dec 2019

Dalton Trans., 2020,49, 3869-3876

A new challenge for nanocrystalline α-zirconium phosphate: reaction with a diepoxyalkane

M. Pica, A. Donnadio, R. Vivani, E. Boccalon, M. Scattini and M. Casciola, Dalton Trans., 2020, 49, 3869 DOI: 10.1039/C9DT04227J

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