Ion-exchanged metal-organic frameworks for industrially relevant catalysis applications
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Author(s)
Park, Hoyoung Daniel.
Advisor(s)
Yuriy Román-Leshkov and Mircea Dincă.
Date Issued
2019
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
The inorganic clusters of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) offer a unique combination of synthetic tunability, structural uniformity, and site accessibility uncommon in conventional heterogeneous catalysts. As such, the inorganic nodes of MOFs provide a promising platform that can be engineered to promote challenging chemical transformations for which no adequate solid catalysts exist. This thesis focuses on the postsynthetic ion exchange behavior of the inorganic nodes in MOFs and its use in the preparation of ion-exchanged MOF catalysts for industrially relevant chemical transformations. Chapter 1 introduces the characteristics of MOFs relevant to heterogeneous catalysis and highlights their structural tunability with an emphasis on their node ion exchange behavior.
Chapter 2 details the application of the postsynthetic ion exchange strategy in the preparation of Co(CO)₄⁻- incorporated Cr-MIL-101 (Co(CO)₄cCr- MIL-101, Cr-MIL-101 = Cr₃O(BDC)₃F, H₂BDC = 1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid), the first heterogeneous catalyst for epoxide carbonylation. Chapters 3 and 4 outline the use of Co(CO)₄ cCr-MIL-101 in a fixed-bed reactor process for the continuous-flow carbonylative production of [beta]-lactone and succinic anhydride, respectively. Chapter 5 describes the use of Cr³⁺-exchanged MFU- 4l (Cr-MFU-4l, MFU- 4l = Zn₅Cl₄(BTDD)₃, H₂BTDD = bis(1H-1,2,3,-triazolo[4,5-b],[4',5'-i])dibenzo[1,4]dioxin)) as an exemplary system to demonstrate pre-reaction treatment with alkylaluminum species as a simple method to isolate a MOF catalyst for gas phase ethylene polymerization.
The favorable performance of these MOF catalysts underscores the intrinsic advantages of their inorganic nodes, which support precise coordination geometries as isolated single sites within a porous scaffold for novel catalytic applications. Combined with the high structural tunability of the node metal sites, the inorganic clusters of MOFs hold tremendous potential for rational catalyst design.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, 2019
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Chemical Engineering.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
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