Selectivity and direct visualization of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide in a decorated porous host - pp887 - 894
Sihai Yang, Junliang Sun, Anibal J. Ramirez-Cuesta, Samantha K. Callear, William I. F. David, Daniel P. Anderson, Ruth Newby, Alexander J. Blake, Julia E. Parker, Chiu C. Tang & Martin Schröder
doi:10.1038/nchem.1457
Porous solids are well suited to the capture of environmentally harmful gases, but further understanding of the solid–gas interactions involved is required. Combining dynamic and static characterization with modelling, researchers have now described how a metal–organic framework binds CO2 and SO2 selectively through hydroxyl groups — rather than amine ones as typically featured.