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Inside Cover: Mechanism of Carbon Dioxide Adsorption in a Highly Selective Coordination Network Supported by Direct Structural Evidence (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 6/2013)
Author(s) -
Plonka Anna M.,
Banerjee Debasis,
Woerner William R.,
Zhang Zhijuan,
Nijem Nour,
Chabal Yves J.,
Li Jing,
Parise John B.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201210206
Subject(s) - adsorption , nanoporous , cover (algebra) , molecule , carbon dioxide , mechanism (biology) , atmosphere (unit) , chemistry , chemical engineering , materials science , nanotechnology , organic chemistry , physics , engineering , thermodynamics , mechanical engineering , quantum mechanics
Understanding of gas adsorption mechanisms at the molecular level is vital for the rational development of compounds that can remove harmful greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. In their Communication on page 1692 ff., J. Li and J. B. Parise et al. describe the adsorption of CO 2 molecules in a “pocket” between two aromatic rings of a nanoporous coordination network. The CO 2 –framework interaction is characterized by a combination of methods.