Potential of nonporous adaptive crystals for hydrocarbon separation

M Yan, Y Wang, J Chen, J Zhou - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrocarbon separation is an important process in the field of petrochemical industry, which
provides a variety of raw materials for industrial production and a strong support for the …

Industrial Separation Challenges: How Does Supramolecular Chemistry Help?

G Zhang, W Lin, F Huang, J Sessler… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The chemical industry and the chemical processes underscoring it are under intense
scrutiny as the demands for the transition to more sustainable and environmentally friendly …

Guest-induced amorphous-to-crystalline transformation enables sorting of haloalkane isomers with near-perfect selectivity

JR Wu, G Wu, D Li, D Dai, YW Yang - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
The separation of haloalkane isomers with distillation-free strategies is one of the most
challenging research topics in fundamental research and also gave high guiding values to …

Selective Molecular Sieving of Chloro and Bromotoluene Isomers by Trianglimine Macrocycle

X Zhu, G Zhang, LO Alimi, BM Moosa… - Chemistry of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The separation of para-halotoluene (PHT) is crucial in the chemical industry. However, due
to the similar physical properties of those halotoluene isomers, industrial separation can be …

Pillar [3] trianglamines: deeper cavity triangular macrocycles for selective hexene isomer separation

Y Ding, LO Alimi, J Du, B Hua, A Dey, P Yu… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The separation of α-olefins and their corresponding isomers continues to be a big challenge
for the chemical industry due to their overlapping physical properties and low relative …

Separation of ethyltoluene isomers by nonporous adaptive crystals of perethylated and perbromoethylated pillararenes

M Wang, S Fang, S Yang, Q Li, NM Khashab… - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
The separation of p-ethyltoluene (PET) and m-ethyltoluene (MET) is one of the most
challenging steps to isolate PET from C9 aromatic compounds due to their very close boiling …

Selective separation of planar and non-planar hydrocarbons using an aqueous Pd 6 interlocked cage

D Chakraborty, R Saha, JK Clegg, PS Mukherjee - Chemical Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) find multiple applications ranging from fabric dyes
to optoelectronic materials. Hydrogenation of PAHs is often employed for their purification or …

Size‐Selective Capture of Fluorocarbon Gases and Storage of Volatile Halogenated Organic Vapors with Low Boiling Points by Molecular‐Scale Cavities of …

S Ohtani, K Onishi, K Wada, T Hirohata… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Fluorocarbon gases are regarded as one of the largest contributors to serious environmental
problems such as ozone‐depletion and global warming, and thus, the development of …

Water-Soluble Pd6L3 Molecular Bowl for Separation of Phenanthrene from a Mixture of Isomeric Aromatic Hydrocarbons

D Prajapati, P Bhandari, N Hickey… - Inorganic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Phenanthrene is a high-value raw material in chemical industries. Separation of
phenanthrene from isomeric anthracene continues to be a big challenge in the industry due …

Selective adsorption of trace morpholine impurities over N-ethyl morpholine by tetralactam solids

SY Li, H Yao, H Hu, WJ Chen, LP Yang… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The separation and especially the removal of morpholine (MOR) impurities from N-ethyl
morpholine (NEM) is of great significance in the fine chemical industry. Herein, we offer a …