An amine-functionalized MIL-53 metal-organic framework with large separation power for CO2 and CH4

Sarah Couck; Joeri F M Denayer; Gino V Baron; Tom Rémy; Jorge Gascon; Freek Kapteijn

doi:10.1021/ja900555r

An amine-functionalized MIL-53 metal-organic framework with large separation power for CO2 and CH4

J Am Chem Soc. 2009 May 13;131(18):6326-7. doi: 10.1021/ja900555r.

Authors

Sarah Couck¹, Joeri F M Denayer, Gino V Baron, Tom Rémy, Jorge Gascon, Freek Kapteijn

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.

PMID: 19374416
DOI: 10.1021/ja900555r

Abstract

Functionalizing the well-known MIL-53(Al) metal-organic framework with amino groups increases its selectivity in CO(2)/CH(4) separations by orders of magnitude while maintaining a very high capacity for CO(2) capture.