Organic structure-directing agents (SDAs) play a crucial role in the synthesis of zeolites like SSZ-13 (CHA structure), with novel frameworks and compositions. Zeolite crystallization is aided by the removal of the hydrophobic SDA organocations from an aqueous environment and their incorporation into an emerging silicate framework. This study combined several experimental approaches to understand the influence on nucleation to form SSZ-13 as the size of the SDA was changed. We studied crystallization rates, then modeled the SDA fit in the product to look at correlations for the rates, and then performed the measurement of SDA zeolite filling in the products. Then, we moved to determine the driving force for the transfer of this same series of organic SDAs, (C/N + = 7−16) from water to chloroform, the latter a proxy for a much less hydrophilic zeolitic environment. Calorimetric measurements of dissolution enthalpy for each SDA in water and chloroform provided enthalpy data and the distribution coefficients for the transfer reaction were measured, both at room temperature. From these experiments, the corresponding transfer enthalpy, entropy, and free energy were calculated. The thermodynamic parameters of the transfer process depend on the C/N + ratio, location, and environment of the charge in the SDA structure and are a good measure of the ability of the SDA to make the target zeolite, SSZ-13 (CHA). However, the use of a particular, hydrophilic SDA as a counter-example in this particular zeolite synthesis also produced rapid crystallization rates and demonstrated that the opportunity to initiate nucleation, by virtue of docking of the SDA coupled with best SDA-fit, may provide the optimum use of the SDA, providing a stronger factor than the solution transfer thermodynamics.

The high‐silica zeolite SSZ‐27 was synthesized using one of the isomers of the organic structure‐directing agent that is known to produce the large‐pore zeolite SSZ‐26 (CON). The structure of the as‐synthesized form was solved using multi‐crystal electron diffraction data. Data were collected on eighteen crystals, and to obtain a high‐quality and complete data set for structure refinement, hierarchical cluster analysis was employed to select the data sets most suitable for merging. The framework structure of SSZ‐27 can be described as a combination of two types of cavities, one of which is shaped like a heart. The cavities are connected through shared 8‐ring windows to create straight channels that are linked together in pairs to form a one‐dimensional channel system. Once the framework structure was known, molecular modelling was used to find the best fitting isomer, and this, in turn, was isolated to improve the synthesis conditions for SSZ‐27.

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The high-silica zeolite SSZ-27 was synthesized using one of the isomers of the organic structure-directing agent that is knowntoproduce the large-pore zeolite SSZ-26 (CON). The structure of the as-synthesized form was solved using multicrystal electron diffraction data. Data were collected on eighteen crystals,a nd to obtain ah igh-quality and complete data set for structure refinement, hierarchical cluster analysis was employed to select the data sets most suitable for merging. The framework structure of SSZ-27 can be described as acombination of two types of cavities,one of which is shaped like ah eart. The cavities are connected through shared 8-ring windows to create straight channels that are linked together in pairs to form ao ne-dimensional channel system. Once the framework structure was known, molecular modelling was used to find the best fitting isomer,and this,inturn, was isolated to improve the synthesis conditions for SSZ-27.Supportinginformation and the ORCID identification number(s) for the author(s) of this article can be found under: https://doi.org/10.