Li, Xia, Sensharma, Debobroto, Loots, Leigh, Geng, Shubo, Javannikkhah, Sousa, Lin, En, Bon, Volodymyr, Liu, Wansheng, Wang, Zhifang, He, Tao, Mukherjee, Soumya, Vandichel, Matthias, Kaskel, Stefan, Barbour, Leonard J., Zhang, Zhenjie and Zaworotko, Michael J. (2024) Reversible Phase Transformations in a Double-Walled Diamondoid Coordination Network with a Stepped Isotherm for Methane. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 146 (27). pp. 18387-18395. ISSN 0002-7863
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Abstract
Flexible metal–organic materials (FMOMs) with stepped isotherms can offer enhanced working capacity in storage applications such as adsorbed natural gas (ANG) storage. Unfortunately, whereas >1000 FMOMs are known, only a handful exhibit methane uptake of >150 cm3/cm3 at 65 atm and 298 K, conditions relevant to ANG. Here, we report a double-walled 2-fold interpenetrated diamondoid (dia) network, X-dia-6-Ni, [Ni2L4(μ-H2O)]n, comprising a new azo linker ligand, L– (L– = (E)-3-(pyridin-4-yldiazenyl)benzoate) and 8-connected dinuclear molecular building blocks. X-dia-6-Ni exhibited gas (CO2, N2, CH4) and liquid (C8 hydrocarbons)-induced reversible transformations between its activated narrow-pore β phase and γ, a large-pore phase with ca. 33% increase in unit cell volume. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SCXRD) studies of the as-synthesized phase α, β, and γ revealed that structural transformations were enabled by twisting of the azo moiety and/or deformation of the MBB. Further insight into these transformations was gained from variable temperature powder XRD and in situ variable pressure powder XRD. Low-temperature N2 and CO2 sorption revealed stepped Type F–II isotherms with saturation uptakes of 422 and 401 cm3/g, respectively. X-dia-6-Ni exhibited uptake of 200 cm3/cm3 (65 atm, 298 K) and a high CH4 working capacity of 166 cm3/cm3 (5–65 bar, 298 K, 33 cycles), the third highest value yet reported for an FMOM and the highest value for an FMOM with a Type F–II isotherm.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Reversible; Phase Transformations; Double-Walled Diamondoid; Coordination Network; Stepped Isotherm; Methane; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science & Engineering > Chemistry Faculty of Science & Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute Faculty of Science & Engineering > Research Institutes > Human Health Institute |
| Item ID: | 21503 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1021/jacs.4c03555 |
| Depositing User: | Sousa Javannikkhah |
| Date Deposited: | 05 May 2026 15:49 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of the American Chemical Society |
| Publisher: | American Chemical Society |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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