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Liquid-phase adsorption on metal-organic frameworks

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This work is focusing on the potential application of metal-organic frameworks as porous materials in heterogeneous catalysis where the substrate is in solution. The understanding of such a liquid-phase heterogeneous catalytic process requires adsorption equilibrium data in solution. For this purpose several metal-organic frameworks were synthesized as reference materials and tested as adsorbents for the adsorption of substrate molecules such as styrene or ethylcinnamate from the liquid phase. The adsorption capacity strongly depends on the polarity of the substrate with respect to the solvent. In several instances solvent and polarity effects are heavily superimposed on the pore size effects. Adsorption isotherms, rates and hydrogenation of the substrates are reported and discussed.

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Abbreviations

bdc:

1,4-benzenedicarboxylate

btc:

1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate

btb:

1,3,5-benzenetribenzoate

c 0 :

initial concentration of substrate in solution

c i :

effective concentration of substrate in solution

dabco:

1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane

DCM:

dichloromethane

DEF:

N,N-diethylformamide

d kin :

kinetic diameter

DMF:

N,N-dimethylformamide

DUT:

Dresden University of Technology

HKUST:

Hong-Kong University of Science and Technology

m ads :

amount of substrate adsorbed on adsorbent

MeIM:

2-methylimidazolate

MIL:

Matériaux de l’Institut Lavoisier

MOF:

Metal-Organic Framework

ndc:

2,6-naphthalene dicarboxylate

Pd(acac)2 :

palladium acetylacetonate

PXRD:

powder X-ray diffraction

TIPB:

triisopropylbenzene

V P :

Specific total pore volume (p/p 0=0.9)

ZIF:

Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks

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    Antje Henschel, Irena Senkovska & Stefan Kaskel

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Henschel, A., Senkovska, I. & Kaskel, S. Liquid-phase adsorption on metal-organic frameworks. Adsorption 17, 219–226 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10450-010-9317-z

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