1. Metal‐Organic Frameworks for Practical Separation of Cyclic and Linear Polymers.
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Sawayama, Taku, Wang, Yubo, Watanabe, Tomohisa, Takayanagi, Masayoshi, Yamamoto, Takuya, Hosono, Nobuhiko, and Uemura, Takashi
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METAL-organic frameworks ,POLYMER fractionation ,POLYETHYLENE glycol ,POLYMERS ,NANOPORES ,COLUMN chromatography ,LINEAR polymers - Abstract
The purification step in the manufacturing of cyclic polymers is difficult as complete fractionation to eliminate linear impurities requires considerable effort. Here, we report a new polymer separation methodology that uses metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs) to discriminate between linear and cyclic polyethylene glycols (PEGs) via selective polymer insertion into the MOF nanopores. Preparation of a MOF‐packed column allowed analytical and preparative chromatographic separation of these topologically distinct pairs. In addition, gram‐scale PEGs with only cyclic structures were successfully obtained from a crude reaction mixture by using MOF as an adsorbent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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