151. Chemical understanding of novel zeolitic materials
- Author
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Pérez Pariente, Joaquín
- Abstract
Trabajo presentado en el 3º Ciclo de Palestras sobre Peneiras Moleculares, celebrado en Campinas (Brasil) del 12 al 13 de noviembre de 2015., Zeolites are gene rally described as aluminosilicates belonging to the tectosilicates family whose framework is formed by a three dimensional array of corner-sharing T04 tetrahedral, where T atoms, either Si or Al, are at the centre of the tetrahedral, while oxygen atoms are located at each vertex. The tetrahedral are arranged in such a way that they leave intracrystalline cavities, which are filled with water molecules and the cations compensating the negative charge of the framework due to the presence of aluminium. This classical definition has been challenged in many ways by the materia ls discovered along the years in many research centers and laboratories ali over the world. Materia Is containing T atoms other than just Si and Al, or having carbon atoms replacing sorne of the oxygen atoms, are now easily available. Moreover, organic molecules are found replacing the conventional inorganic cations and water inside the cavities, while fluoride anions also played in sorne examples a structural role. 2-D materia Is have also been prepared, the size range of the windows giving access to the intracrystallline voids has expanded, and the architectural features of these materials are increasingly complex. Ahead from just cataloguing the new specimens, the way of thinking that has allowed reaching such leve! of variety will be charted in this presentation. In this way, and starting from the classical definition of zeolite materials, it will be shown .how basic chemical principies can be applied to understand the main synthesis strategies used to obtain such materia Is. But maybe the most interesting things are yet to come. To which extension present knowledge can be used to anticipate yet unknown materials or, at least, how feasible would it be to crystallize them? lt is the purpose of this presentation to stimulate the discussion on these matters.
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- 2015