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Shi-Qiang Wang1, Soumya Mukherjee1, Ewa Patyk-Kaźmierczak1
1Department of Chemical Sciences, Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick, Republic of Ireland.
Abstract:
Purification of the C8 aromatics (xylenes and ethylbenzene) is particularly challenging because of their similar physical properties. It is also relevant because of their industrial utility. Physisorptive separation of C8 aromatics has long been suggested as an energy efficient solution but no physisorbent has yet combined high selectivity (>5) with high adsorption capacity (>50 wt %). Now a counterintuitive approach to the adsorptive separation of o-xylene from other C8 aromatics involves the study of a known nonporous layered material, [Co(bipy)2 (NCS)2 ]n (sql-1-Co-NCS), which can reversibly switch to C8 aromatics loaded phases with different switching pressures and kinetics, manifesting benchmark o-xylene selectivity (SOX/EB ≈60) and high saturation capacity (>80 wt %). Structural insight into the observed selectivity and capacity is gained by analysis of the crystal structures of C8 aromatics loaded phases.
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