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Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Dec 04;56(93):14693-14696. doi: 10.1039/d0cc04965d. Epub 2020 Nov 09.

A dramatic conformational effect of multifunctional zwitterions on zeolite crystallization.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

Lei Dong, Dong Zhai, Zhuwen Chen, Guangchao Zheng, Yanding Wang, Mei Hong, Shihe Yang

Affiliations

  1. State Key Laboratory of Chemical Oncogenomics, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nano-Micro Materials Research, School of Chemical Biology & Biotechnology, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School (PKUSZ), Shenzhen 518055, P. R. China. [email protected] [email protected].

PMID: 33165479 DOI: 10.1039/d0cc04965d

Abstract

Carnitine functions as a mesoporogen in LTA zeolite synthesis whereas its structural analogue acetylcarnitine acts as a crystal growth modifier. An array of experimental and theoretical studies reveal a remarkable effect of molecular conformation on the actual roles of organic functional groups during zeolite crystallization.

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