Shilun Qiu, Guangshan Zhu and co-workers have made a microporous organic-inorganic silsesquioxane-based framework, JUC-Z1, which is an effective absorber of both benzene and water. The team used a Yamamoto-type of Ullmann cross-coupling reaction to make the framework. ‘Its ability to selectively adsorb benzene makes JUC-Z1 greatly promising for applications dealing with environmental aromatic pollutant problems,’ say Qiu and Zhu.
Read more in their Dalton Transactions Hot Article which we have made FREE to access until the 12th January.
A covalently-linked microporous organic-inorganic hybrid framework containing polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane moieties
Ye Peng, Teng Ben, Jun Xu, Ming Xue, Xiaofei Jing, Feng Deng, Shilun Qiu and Guangshan Zhu
Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01268H, Paper
