Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
5 years ago

Translational and Rotational Motion of C8 Aromatics Adsorbed in Isotropic Porous Media (MOF-5): NMR Studies and MD Simulations

Translational and Rotational Motion of C8 Aromatics Adsorbed in Isotropic Porous Media (MOF-5): NMR Studies and MD Simulations
Lucy M. Yu, Velencia J. Witherspoon, Seyed Mohamad Moosavi, Berend Smit, Jeffrey A. Reimer, Efrem Braun, Sudi Jawahery, Sondre K. Schnell
We combined nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation to study xylene behavior in MOF-5, probing the effects of adsorbate geometry in a weakly interacting model isotropic metal organic framework (MOF) system. We employed NMR diffusometry and relaxometry techniques at low field (13 MHz) to quantify the self-diffusion coefficients (Ds) and the longitudinal relaxation times (T1) of xylenes in MOF-5 as a function of temperature at the saturated loading for each xylene. These experiments reveal the translational motion activation energies to be 15.3, 19.7, and 21.2 kj mol–1 and the rotational activation energies to be 47.26, 12.88, and 11.55 for the (p-, m-, o-) xylene isomers, respectively. Paraxylene exhibits faster translational motion, yet shows four times the activation energy barrier for rotational motion vis-à-vis the other isomers. MD simulations performed on these model systems corroborate the findings for paraxylene and suggest that paraxylene has the lower free energy barrier for hopping away from its binding sites, yet has the slowest rotational motion in the plane of the xylene molecule.

Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b03181

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b03181

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