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The gas-sorption properties of a high surface area α-magnesium formate with an expanded unit cell are reported. The material is stable in NH3 and shows very high CH4/N2 (5.2) selectivity.

A novel NbO-type MOF is reported based on a palladated organic linker, showing a remarkable gravimetric and volumetric CO2 uptake, reaching 201.8 cm(3) g(-1) (9.0 mmol g(-1), 39.7 wt%) and 187.8 cm(3) cm(-3) at 273 K and 1 bar, respectively. Accurate theoretical calculations revealed that the exceptional CO2 uptake is due to the combination of Lewis base Pd(ii)-CO2 (24.3 kJ mol(-1)) and Lewis acid Cu(ii)-CO2 (30.3 kJ mol(-1)) interactions, as well as synergistic pore size effects.

This paper reports the results of an international interlaboratory study led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on the measurement of high-pressure surface excess methane adsorption isotherms on NIST Reference Material RM 8850 (Zeolite Y), at 25 °C up to 7.5 MPa. Twenty laboratories participated in the study and contributed over one-hundred adsorption isotherms of methane on Zeolite Y. From these data, an empirical reference equation was determined, along with a 95% uncertainty interval (Uk=2). By requiring participants to replicate a high-pressure reference isotherm for carbon dioxide adsorption on NIST Reference Material RM 8852 (ZSM-5), this interlaboratory study also demonstrated the usefulness of reference isotherms in evaluating the performance of high-pressure adsorption experiments.

The targeted synthesis of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with open metal sites, following reticular chemistry rules, provides a straightforward methodology toward the development of advanced porous materials especially for gas storage/separation applications. Using a palladated tetracarboxylate metalloligand as a 4-connected node, we succeeded in synthesizing the first heterobimetallic In(III)/Pd(II)-based MOF with square-octahedron (soc) topology. The new MOF, formulated as [InO(L)(HO)Cl]·n(solv) (1), features the oxo-centered trinuclear clusters, [In(μ-O)(-COO)], acting as trigonal-prismatic 6-connected nodes that linked together with the metalloligand trans-[PdCl(PDC)] (L) (PDC: pyridine-3,5-dicarboxylate) to form a 3D network. After successful activation of 1 using supercritical CO, high-resolution microporous analysis revealed the presence of small micropores (5.8 Å) with BET area of 795 m g and total pore volume of 0.35 cm g. The activated solid shows high gravimetric (92.3 cm g) and volumetric (120.9 cm cm) CO uptake at 273 K and 1 bar as well as high CO/CH (15.4 for a 50:50 molar mixture) and CO/N (131.7 for a 10:90 molar mixture) selectivity, with moderate Q for CO (29.8 kJ mol). Slight modifications of the synthesis conditions led to the formation of a different MOF with an anionic framework, having a chemical formula [MeNH][In(L)]· n(solv) (2). This MOF is constructed from pseudotetrahedral, mononuclear [In(-COO)] nodes bridged by four L linkers, resulting in a 3D network with PtS topology.

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