Facile, room-temperature 17O enrichment of zeolite frameworks revealed by solid-state NMR spectroscopy
Abstract
A new approach for room-temperature 17O enrichment of zeolites reveals a surprisingly dynamic and labile framework, where rapid and reversible bond breaking takes place. 17O NMR spectroscopy shows that although O sites in both framework Si-O-Al and Si-O-Si linkages are enriched simply on exposure to H217O(l), the enrichment of Si-O-Al species is more rapid, with a more uniform framework enrichment observed at longer durations. We demonstrate that this unexpected enrichment can be observed for two different framework topologies and for Na-exchanged (i.e., non-acidic) zeolites, as well as their protonic forms, confirming that the Brønsted acid proton is not necessary for isotopic exchange into the framework. This work not only offers new opportunities for structural characterization of these chemically and industrially important materials using NMR spectroscopy, but suggests that further investigation of the rate and position of enrichment in zeolite frameworks could provide new insight into their chemical reactivity and their stability in aqueous-based applications such as ion exchange and catalysis.
Citation
Pugh , S M , Wright , P A , Law , D , Thompson , N & Ashbrook , S E 2020 , ' Facile, room-temperature 17 O enrichment of zeolite frameworks revealed by solid-state NMR spectroscopy ' , Journal of the American Chemical Society , vol. 142 , no. 2 , pp. 900-906 . https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b10528
Publication
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0002-7863Type
Journal article
Description
Funding: Authors thank EPRSC and BP for a CASE Award for SMP (EP/N50936X/1). We would like to thank the ERC (EU FP7 Consolidator Grant 614290 “EXONMR”). SEA would like to thank the Royal Society and the Wolfson Foundation for a merit award.Collections
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