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Synthesis of Zeolites Using the ADOR Assembly-Disassembly-Organization-Reassembly Route
Published on: April 3, 2016
Adjustment of the performance and stability of isostructural zeolitic tetrazolate-imidazolate frameworks
Hai-Zhen Li1, Dong-Ying Du2, Yayong Sun1
1State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China. wangfei04@fjirsm.ac.cn.
Abstract:
Presented here are two isostructural SOD-type zeolitic tetrazolate-imidazolate frameworks (ZTIFs), Zn(etz)0.86(mim)1.14 (ZTIF-9, Hetz = 5-ethyltetrazole, Hmim = 2-methylimidazole) and Zn(vtz)0.63(mim)1.37 (ZTIF-10, Hvtz = 5-vinyltetrazole). The adjustment of the ligand ratios within these ZTIFs was realized through changing the substituent groups of tetrazole ligands. Remarkably, ZTIF-9 with a suitable ligand ratio perfectly balances gas uptake and stability, exhibiting 6-fold improvement of C2H2 uptake compared to the prototype ZIF-8 (Zn(mim)2).
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