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Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2016 Apr 11;55(16):4928-32. doi: 10.1002/anie.201510726. Epub 2016 Mar 16.

Targeted Synthesis of Two Super-Complex Zeolites with Embedded Isoreticular Structures.

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)

Jiho Shin, Hongyi Xu, Seungwan Seo, Peng Guo, Jung Gi Min, Jung Cho, Paul A Wright, Xiaodong Zou, Suk Bong Hong

Affiliations

  1. Center for Ordered Nanoporous Materials Synthesis, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, POSTECH, Pohang, 790-784, Korea.
  2. Inorganic and Structural Chemistry and Berzelii Center EXSELENT on Porous Materials, Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, 10691, Stockholm, Sweden.
  3. EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9ST, UK.
  4. Inorganic and Structural Chemistry and Berzelii Center EXSELENT on Porous Materials, Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, 10691, Stockholm, Sweden. [email protected].
  5. Center for Ordered Nanoporous Materials Synthesis, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, POSTECH, Pohang, 790-784, Korea. [email protected].

PMID: 26990818 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201510726

Abstract

A novel structural coding approach combining structure solution, prediction, and the targeted synthesis of new zeolites with expanding complexity and embedded isoreticular structures was recently proposed. Using this approach, the structures of two new zeolites in the RHO family, PST-20 and PST-25, were predicted and synthesized. Herein, by extending this approach, the next two higher generation members of this family, PST-26 and PST-28, have been predicted and synthesized. These two zeolites have much larger unit cell volumes (422,655 Å(3) and 614,912 Å(3), respectively) than those of the lower generations. Their crystallization was confirmed by a combination of both powder X-ray and electron diffraction techniques. Aluminate and water concentrations in the synthetic mixture were found to be the two most critical factors influencing the structural expansion of embedded isoreticular zeolites under the synthetic conditions studied herein.

© 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

Keywords: X-ray diffraction; microporous materials; structure prediction; synthesis design; zeolites

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