The separation of propylene and propane is an important but challenging process
primarily achieved through energy-intensive distillation technology in the petrochemical industry. Here
we reported two natural C
4
linkers based metal–organic frameworks (MIP-202 and MIP-203) for C
3
H
6
/C
3
H
8
separation. Adsorption isotherms and selectivity calculations were performed to study the adsorption performance for C
3
H
6
/C
3
H
8
separation. Results show that C
3
H
6
/C
3
H
8
uptake ratios (298 K
100 kPa) for MIP-202 and MIP-203 are 2.34 and 7.4
respectively. C
3
H
6
/C
3
H
8
uptake ratio (303 K
100 kPa) for MIP-203 is up to 50.0. The mechanism for enhanced separation performance of C
3
H
6
/C
3
H
8
on MIP-203 at higher temperature (303 K) was revealed by the
in situ
PXRD characterization. The adsorption selectivities of C
3
H
6
/C
3
H
8
on MIP-202 and MIP-203 (298 K
100 kPa) are 8.8 and 551.4
respectively. The mechanism for the preferential adsorption of
C
3
H
6
over C
3
H
8
in MIP-202 and MIP-203 was revealed by the Monte Carlo simulation. The cost of organic ligands for MIP-202 and MIP-203 was lower than that of organic ligands for those top-performance MOFs. Our work sets a new benchmark for C
3
H
6
sorbents with high adsorption selectivities.
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