Pore Engineering for One-Step Ethylene Purification from a Three-Component Hydrocarbon Mixture.

ABSTRACT: Ethylene production from C2 hydrocarbon mixtures through one separation step is desirable but challenging because of the similar size and physical properties of acetylene, ethylene, and ethane. Herein, we report three new isostructural porous coordination networks (NPU-1, NPU-2, NPU-3; NPU represents Northwestern Polytechnical University) that are sustained by 9-connected nodes based upon a hexanuclear metal cluster of composition [Mn₆(μ₃-O)₂(CH₃COO)₃]⁶⁺. NPU-1/2/3 exhibit a dual cage structure that was systematically fine-tuned in terms of cage size to realize selective adsorption of C₂H₂ and C₂H₆ over C₂H₄. Dynamic breakthrough ex

SUBMITTER: Zhu B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8297724 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature