Highly Selective, High-Capacity Separation of o-Xylene from C8 Aromatics by a Switching Adsorbent Layered Material

Shi Qiang Wang; Soumya Mukherjee; Ewa Patyk-Kaźmierczak; Shaza Darwish; Alankriti Bajpai; Qing Yuan Yang; Michael J. Zaworotko

doi:10.1002/anie.201901198

Highly Selective, High-Capacity Separation of o-Xylene from C₈ Aromatics by a Switching Adsorbent Layered Material

Shi Qiang Wang, Soumya Mukherjee, Ewa Patyk-Kaźmierczak, Shaza Darwish, Alankriti Bajpai, Qing Yuan Yang, Michael J. Zaworotko

University of Limerick

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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 (S_OX/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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	6630-6634
Number of pages	5
Journal	Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume	58
Issue number	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201901198
Publication status	Published - 13 May 2019

Keywords

C aromatics
nonporous layered materials
physisorptive separation
square lattice coordination networks
switching behavior

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