Noria: A Highly Xe-Selective Nanoporous Organic Solid

Rahul S Patil; Debasis Banerjee; Cory M Simon; Jerry L Atwood; Praveen K Thallapally

doi:10.1002/chem.201602131

Noria: A Highly Xe-Selective Nanoporous Organic Solid

Chemistry. 2016 Aug 26;22(36):12618-23. doi: 10.1002/chem.201602131. Epub 2016 Jul 5.

Authors

Rahul S Patil^{1

2}, Debasis Banerjee², Cory M Simon³, Jerry L Atwood¹, Praveen K Thallapally⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, United States.
² Fundamental and Computational Science Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, 99352, United States.
³ Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States.
⁴ Fundamental and Computational Science Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, 99352, United States. Praveen.Thallapally@pnnl.gov.

PMID: 27377260
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201602131

Abstract

Separation of xenon and krypton is of industrial and environmental concern; the existing technologies use cryogenic distillation. Thus, a cost-effective, alternative technology for the separation of Xe and Kr and their capture from air is of significant importance. Herein, we report the selective Xe uptake in a crystalline porous organic oligomeric molecule, noria, and its structural analogue, PgC-noria, under ambient conditions. The selectivity of noria towards Xe arises from its tailored pore size and small cavities, which allows a directed non-bonding interaction of Xe atoms with a large number of carbon atoms of the noria molecular wheel in a confined space.

Keywords: adsorption; organic macrocyclic compounds; selective gas separation; xenon.