Intrinsically porous molecular materials (IPMs) for natural gas and benzene derivatives separations

G Zhang, B Hua, A Dey, M Ghosh… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Separating and purifying chemicals without heat would go a long way toward
reducing the overall energy consumption and the harmful environmental footprint of the …

Engineering membranes with macrocycles for precise molecular separations

T Huang, M Alyami, NM Kashab… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Macrocycles are a class of intrinsically porous organic molecules that can host guest
molecules selectively. Owing to their diversified porous characteristics, host …

Self-Healing B← N-Based Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Framework for Exclusive Recognition and Separation of Toluene from Methyl-Cyclohexane

Y Li, H Chen, J Huang, H Zhang, S Lin… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The effective separation of aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons remains a notable
challenge in the petrochemical industry. Herein, we report a self-healing three-dimensional …

Shape-induced selective separation of ortho-substituted benzene isomers enabled by cucurbit [7] uril host macrocycles

G Zhang, AH Emwas, UFS Hameed, ST Arold, P Yang… - Chem, 2020 - cell.com
The separation of benzene derivatives is energy intensive and laborious as a result of the
overlapping physicochemical properties of these isomers. Here, we report on the separation …

Xylene isomer separations by intrinsically porous molecular materials

G Zhang, Y Ding, A Hashem, A Fakim… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2021 - cell.com
Xylene mixtures and the three individual isomers are valuable chemical feedstocks in the
chemical industry. Separation of these isomers is a pressing challenge due to their …

[HTML][HTML] Application of the chemical-looping concept for azoetrope separation

X Gao, X Geng - Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The need for the separation of azeotropic mixtures for the production of high-end chemicals
and resource recovery has spurred significant research into the development of new …

Preparation and characterization of an iron–β-cyclodextrin inclusion complex: factors influencing the host–guest interaction

S Saffarionpour, LL Diosady - Food & Function, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Cyclodextrins have received attention recently due to their superior binding with countless
hydrophobic molecules. The host–guest interaction between the cyclodextrin cavity and the …

Purification of m-xylene from the mixed xylenes by stripping crystallization

LD Shiau - Separation and Purification Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Stripping crystallization (SC) was applied in this work for purification of m-xylene (MX) from
the mixed xylenes consisting of MX, p-xylene (PX), o-xylene (OX) and ethylbenzene (EB). As …

Adsorptive separation of para-xylene by nonporous adaptive crystals of phenanthrene [2] arene

Y Hou, YR Duan, MH Ding, LL Tang, F Zeng - RSC advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, we developed a new method for the preparation of phenanthrene [2] arene on a
large-scale. Meanwhile, the synthetic phenanthrene [2] arene has been successfully used …

Separation and Detection of meta‐ and ortho‐Substituted Benzene Isomers by Using a Water‐Soluble Pillar[5]arene

G Zhang, B Moosa, A Chen, NM Khashab - ChemPlusChem, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Efficient and energy‐saving separation of benzene isomers bearing a diverse range of
functional groups is a great challenge due to their overlapping physicochemical properties …