title: Highly efficient separation of a solid mixture of naphthalene and anthracene by a reusable porous metal-organic framework through a single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformation.
abstract: The three-dimensional crystalline porous metal-organic framework [Ni(2)(μ(2)-OH(2))(1,3-BDC)(2)(tpcb)](n) (1) [1,3-H(2)BDC = 1,3-benzenedicarboxylic acid; tpcb = tetrakis(4-pyridyl)cyclobutane] was used to separate a solid mixture of naphthalene and anthracene at room temperature via selective adsorption of naphthalene. The process involved a single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformation. The guest naphthalene molecules could be exchanged with ethanol, and the host, 1, could be regenerated by removal of the guest ethanol molecules.
authors: College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, P. R. China.
authors: Dong
authors: D
authors: Liu
authors: Jian-Ping
authors: JP
authors: Lang
authors: Brendan F
authors: BF
authors: Abrahams