Complete furanics-sugar separations with metal-organic framework NU-1000

Mizuho Yabushita; Peng Li; Hirokazu Kobayashi; Atsushi Fukuoka; Omar K Farha; Alexander Katz

doi:10.1039/c6cc05864g

Complete furanics-sugar separations with metal-organic framework NU-1000

Chem Commun (Camb). 2016 Sep 27;52(79):11791-11794. doi: 10.1039/c6cc05864g.

Authors

Mizuho Yabushita¹, Peng Li², Hirokazu Kobayashi³, Atsushi Fukuoka³, Omar K Farha⁴, Alexander Katz⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. askatz@berkeley.edu and Institute for Catalysis, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan. fukuoka@cat.hokudai.ac.jp.
² Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA. o-farha@northwestern.edu.
³ Institute for Catalysis, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan. fukuoka@cat.hokudai.ac.jp.
⁴ Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA. o-farha@northwestern.edu and Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 22254, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. askatz@berkeley.edu.

PMID: 27722267
DOI: 10.1039/c6cc05864g

Abstract

Metal-organic framework NU-1000 selectively adsorbs furanics, while completely excluding the adsorption of monomeric sugars from the same aqueous mixture. The highly refined degree of molecular recognition exhibited by NU-1000 is exemplified with it selectively adsorbing 5-hydroxymethylfurfural, even in the presence of up to a 300-fold excess of glucose in solution.