Simple Quaternary Ammonium Cations-Templated Syntheses of Extra-Large Pore Germanosilicate Zeolites
Simple Quaternary Ammonium Cations-Templated Syntheses of Extra-Large Pore Germanosilicate Zeolites
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DOI:
10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b03179
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发表时间:
2016-09-27
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8.6
通讯作者:
Yu, Jihong
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作者:
Bai, Risheng;Sun, Qiming;Yu, Jihong
Zeolites are a class of inorganic microporous crystalline materials formed by TO4 (T= Si, Ge, Al, P, etc.) tetrahedral units with uniform pores and regular channels. 1, 2 They are of great importance in ion-exchange, adsorption, and catalysis, because of the unique porous structures, high surface areas, moderate acidities, and excellent thermal stabilities. 3, 4 However, the narrow pore openings of zeolites strongly hinder the transportation of bulky molecules, and thus restrict the performance of zeolites in the catalytic conversion of large molecules. 5, 6 Such a problem can be solved by the utilization of mesoporous materials or hierarchical zeolites. 7− 9 However, the hydrothermal stability and acidity of the mesoporous materials are not as sufficient as those of the crystalline zeolites; 10 on the other hand, using the combined templates of surfactant molecules and organic cations in synthesizing hierarchical zeolites usually generates impurity phases composed of zeolite crystals and amorphous mesoporous materials instead of the hierarchical zeolites. 11 To overcome these problems, great efforts have been made to synthesize zeolites with extra-large pores (T> 12), and so far much progress has been achieved, for instance, the successful preparation of VPI-5 (VFI, 18-R), 12 UTD-1 (DON, 14-R), 13 ITQ-33 (ITT, 18-R), 14 ITQ-37 (-ITV, 30-R), 15 ITQ-40 (-IRY, 16-R), 16 ITQ-43 (28-R), 17 ITQ-44 (IRR, 18-R), 18 ITQ-51 (IFO, 16-R), 19 and ITQ-54 (-IFU, 20-R), 20 etc. Very recently, the successful synthesis of a new germanosilicate zeolite, named NUD-1, possessing 18-ring channels, further enriches the extra-large pore zeolite family. 21 Significantly, the extra-large pore zeolites are promising in cracking heavy oils. 14 Using rational designed templates, with characteristics of bulky size, appropriate rigidity and proper C/N ratio, etc., is one of the key strategies for synthesizing the extra-large pore zeolites possessing novel zeolite topologies. 22 However, the complicated synthesis procedure, expensive cost, and sometimes high toxicity involved in synthesizing these templates may limit the large-scale industrial applications of the extra-large pore zeolites. Notably, Strohmaier and co-workers used tetraethylammonium (TEA) cations together with alkali metal as templates successfully prepared ECR-34 (ETR), containing 18-ring channel systems, 23 Lin and co-workers synthesized PKU-12 (-CLO, 20-R) using diisopropylethylmethylammonium as the template that was prepared from N, N-diisopropylethylamine and the highly toxic methyl iodide. 24 However, when the simple, cheap, and commercially available quaternary ammonium bases, such as tetraethylammonium hydroxide (TEAOH), tetrapropylammonium hydroxide (TPAOH), and tetrabutylammonium hydroxide (TBAOH), were used as the sole organic template, the maximum opening windows of the obtained zeolite frameworks is no more than 12-rings, such as zeolites MFI, 25* BEA, 26 SZR, 27 and MEL, 28 etc. Herein, with a series of the simple quaternary ammonium hydroxide TEAOH (∼ 8 Å), TPAOH (∼ 9 Å), and TBAOH (∼ 10 Å) 29 as the sole organic template, we have for the first time successfully synthesized the extra-large pore germanosilicate zeolites ITQ-33 (18R× 10R× 10R), ITQ-44 (18R× 12R× 12R), and NUD-1 (18R× 12R× 10R) by introducing