skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: A Crystalline Polyimide Porous Organic Framework for Selective Adsorption of Acetylene over Ethylene

Journal Article · · Journal of the American Chemical Society
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b08174· OSTI ID:1566590
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3];  [5]; ORCiD logo [5]; ORCiD logo [6]
  1. Jilin Univ., Changchun (China)
  2. Northeast Normal Univ., Changchun (China)
  3. ShanghaiTech Univ., Shanghai (China)
  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun (China)
  5. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  6. Jilin Univ., Changchun (China); Northeast Normal Univ., Changchun (China)

The separation of acetylene from ethylene is a crucial process in the petrochemical industry, as even small acetylene impurities can lead to premature termination of ethylene polymerization. Herein, we present the synthesis of a robust, crystalline naphthalene diimide porous aromatic framework via imidization of linear naphthalene-1,4,5,8-tetracarboxylic dianhydride and triangular tris(4-aminophenyl)amine. The resulting material, PAF-110, exhibits impressive thermal and long-term structural stability, as indicated by thermogravimetric analysis and powder X-ray diffraction characterization. Gas adsorption characterization reveals that PAF-110 has a capacity for acetylene that is more than twice its ethylene capacity at 273 K and 1 bar, and it exhibits a moderate acetylene selectivity of 3.9 at 298 K and 1 bar. Complementary computational investigation of each guest binding in PAF-110 suggests that this affinity and selectivity for acetylene arises from its stronger electrostatic interaction with the carbonyl oxygen atoms of the framework. As a result, to the best of our knowledge, PAF-110 is the first crystalline porous organic material to exhibit selective adsorption of acetylene over ethylene, and its properties may provide insight into the further optimized design of porous organic materials for this key gas separation.

Research Organization:
Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Gas Separations Relevant to Clean Energy Technologies (CGS); Univ. of California, Oakland, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0001015
OSTI ID:
1566590
Journal Information:
Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 140, Issue 46; ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 153 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (61)

Pore chemistry and size control in hybrid porous materials for acetylene capture from ethylene journal May 2016
High acetylene/ethylene separation in a microporous zinc( ii ) metal–organic framework with low binding energy journal January 2016
Effective Acetylene/Ethylene Separation at Ambient Conditions by a Pigment-Based Covalent-Triazine Framework journal October 2017
Separation of Acetylene from Carbon Dioxide and Ethylene by a Water-Stable Microporous Metal-Organic Framework with Aligned Imidazolium Groups inside the Channels journal May 2018
Separation/purification of ethylene from an acetylene/ethylene mixture in a pillared-layer porous metal–organic framework journal January 2017
Recent advances in gas storage and separation using metal–organic frameworks journal March 2018
Potential of microporous metal–organic frameworks for separation of hydrocarbon mixtures journal January 2016
Hydrocarbon Separations in Metal–Organic Frameworks journal September 2013
Tetraarylborate polymer networks as single-ion conducting solid electrolytes journal January 2015
Exploitation of Intrinsic Microporosity in Polymer-Based Materials journal June 2010
Nanoporous organic polymer networks journal April 2012
Topology-directed design of porous organic frameworks and their advanced applications journal January 2013
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs): from design to applications journal January 2013
Storage of Hydrogen, Methane, and Carbon Dioxide in Highly Porous Covalent Organic Frameworks for Clean Energy Applications journal July 2009
Recent advances on simulation and theory of hydrogen storage in metal–organic frameworks and covalent organic frameworks journal January 2009
Ammonia Capture in Porous Organic Polymers Densely Functionalized with Brønsted Acid Groups
  • Van Humbeck, Jeffrey F.; McDonald, Thomas M.; Jing, Xiaofei
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 136, Issue 6, p. 2432-2440 https://doi.org/10.1021/ja4105478
journal January 2014
Construction of Covalent Organic Framework for Catalysis: Pd/COF-LZU1 in Suzuki–Miyaura Coupling Reaction journal December 2011
Covalent organic frameworks comprising cobalt porphyrins for catalytic CO 2 reduction in water journal August 2015
3D Microporous Base-Functionalized Covalent Organic Frameworks for Size-Selective Catalysis journal February 2014
A Belt-Shaped, Blue Luminescent, and Semiconducting Covalent Organic Framework journal November 2008
Oriented 2D Covalent Organic Framework Thin Films on Single-Layer Graphene journal April 2011
A Photoconductive Thienothiophene-Based Covalent Organic Framework Showing Charge Transfer Towards Included Fullerene journal February 2013
Extraction of Photogenerated Electrons and Holes from a Covalent Organic Framework Integrated Heterojunction journal December 2014
Cationic Covalent Organic Frameworks: A Simple Platform of Anionic Exchange for Porosity Tuning and Proton Conduction journal April 2016
Conjugated Microporous Poly(aryleneethynylene) Networks journal September 2007
Synthetic Control of the Pore Dimension and Surface Area in Conjugated Microporous Polymer and Copolymer Networks journal June 2008
Conjugated Microporous Polymers journal March 2009
High Surface Area Conjugated Microporous Polymers: The Importance of Reaction Solvent Choice journal October 2010
Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity (PIMs): Bridging the Void between Microporous and Polymeric Materials journal April 2005
An Efficient Polymer Molecular Sieve for Membrane Gas Separations journal January 2013
Porous, Covalent Triazine-Based Frameworks Prepared by Ionothermal Synthesis journal April 2008
Porous, Fluorescent, Covalent Triazine-Based Frameworks Via Room-Temperature and Microwave-Assisted Synthesis journal April 2012
Targeted Synthesis of a Porous Aromatic Framework with High Stability and Exceptionally High Surface Area journal November 2009
Targeted synthesis of a 3D porous aromatic framework for selective sorption of benzene journal January 2010
Synthesis of a porous aromatic framework for adsorbing organic pollutants application journal January 2011
The atom, the molecule, and the covalent organic framework journal March 2017
Porous, Crystalline, Covalent Organic Frameworks journal November 2005
Designed Synthesis of 3D Covalent Organic Frameworks journal April 2007
A Photoconductive Covalent Organic Framework: Self-Condensed Arene Cubes Composed of Eclipsed 2D Polypyrene Sheets for Photocurrent Generation journal July 2009
Rational Extension of the Family of Layered, Covalent, Triazine-Based Frameworks with Regular Porosity journal March 2010
A Crystalline Imine-Linked 3-D Porous Covalent Organic Framework
  • Uribe-Romo, Fernando J.; Hunt, Joseph R.; Furukawa, Hiroyasu
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 131, Issue 13, p. 4570-4571 https://doi.org/10.1021/ja8096256
journal April 2009
3D Porous Crystalline Polyimide Covalent Organic Frameworks for Drug Delivery journal June 2015
Designed synthesis of large-pore crystalline polyimide covalent organic frameworks journal July 2014
Microporous Networks of High-Performance Polymers: Elastic Deformations and Gas Sorption Properties journal April 2008
Microporous polyimide networks with large surface areas and their hydrogen storage properties journal January 2010
Chemical reduction of a diimide based porous polymer for selective uptake of carbon dioxide versus methane journal January 2010
Synthetic control of network topology and pore structure in microporous polyimides based on triangular triphenylbenzene and triphenylamine units journal January 2011
Functional microporous polyimides based on sulfonated binaphthalene dianhydride for uptake and separation of carbon dioxide and vapors journal January 2013
Structure-property correlations of sulfonated polyimides. II. Effect of substituent groups on membrane properties journal January 2004
Reticular Synthesis of Microporous and Mesoporous 2D Covalent Organic Frameworks
  • Côté, Adrien P.; El-Kaderi, Hani M.; Furukawa, Hiroyasu
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 129, Issue 43, p. 12914-12915 https://doi.org/10.1021/ja0751781
journal October 2007
Two-dimensional sp 2 carbon–conjugated covalent organic frameworks journal August 2017
Covalent organic frameworks journal January 2012
Naphthalene-Based Microporous Polyimides: Adsorption Behavior of CO 2 and Toxic Organic Vapors and Their Separation from Other Gases journal November 2013
Anionic silicate organic frameworks constructed from hexacoordinate silicon centres journal May 2017
Introduction of π-Complexation into Porous Aromatic Framework for Highly Selective Adsorption of Ethylene over Ethane journal June 2014
Metal–organic frameworks with potential for energy-efficient adsorptive separation of light hydrocarbons journal January 2012
Thermodynamics of mixed-gas adsorption journal January 1965
Hydrocarbon Separations in a Metal-Organic Framework with Open Iron(II) Coordination Sites journal March 2012
Rationally tuned micropores within enantiopure metal-organic frameworks for highly selective separation of acetylene and ethylene journal February 2011
Supramolecular binding and separation of hydrocarbons within a functionalized porous metal–organic framework journal December 2014
Optimized Separation of Acetylene from Carbon Dioxide and Ethylene in a Microporous Material journal June 2017

Cited By (21)

Zeolite-Type Metal Oxalate Frameworks journal February 2019
Designed Synthesis of a 2D Porphyrin‐Based sp 2 Carbon‐Conjugated Covalent Organic Framework for Heterogeneous Photocatalysis journal February 2019
Oxygen reduction using a metal-free naphthalene diimide-based covalent organic framework electrocatalyst journal January 2020
Construction of a Stable Crystalline Polyimide Porous Organic Framework for C 2 H 2 /C 2 H 4 and CO 2 /N 2 Separation journal June 2019
Light Hydrocarbon Separations Using Porous Organic Framework Materials journal March 2020
Ammoniating Covalent Organic Framework (COF) for High‐Performance and Selective Extraction of Toxic and Radioactive Uranium Ions journal June 2019
Covalent Organic Frameworks as Favorable Constructs for Photodynamic Therapy journal August 2019
Isostructural Three‐Dimensional Covalent Organic Frameworks journal June 2019
2D covalent organic frameworks with built-in amide active sites for efficient heterogeneous catalysis journal January 2019
Covalent organic frameworks for separation applications journal January 2020
Construction and carbon dioxide capture of microporous polymer networks with high surface area based on cross-linkable linear polyimides journal January 2019
Isostructural Three-Dimensional Covalent Organic Frameworks journal June 2019
Designed Synthesis of a 2D Porphyrin‐Based sp 2 Carbon‐Conjugated Covalent Organic Framework for Heterogeneous Photocatalysis journal May 2019
Synthesis, characterization, and CO 2 uptake of mellitic triimide‐based covalent organic frameworks journal October 2019
Enhancing C 2 H 2 /C 2 H 4 separation by incorporating low-content sodium in covalent organic frameworks journal January 2019
A Crystalline, 2D Polyarylimide Cathode for Ultrastable and Ultrafast Li Storage journal May 2019
Zeolite‐Type Metal Oxalate Frameworks journal January 2019
Interfacial assembled preparation of porous carbon composites for selective CO 2 capture at elevated temperatures journal January 2019
A novel interpenetrated anion-pillared porous material with high water tolerance afforded efficient C 2 H 2 /C 2 H 4 separation journal January 2019
Covalent Organic Frameworks as Favorable Constructs for Photodynamic Therapy journal August 2019
Porous Aromatic Frameworks as a Platform for Multifunctional Applications journal February 2019