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Efficient adsorptive separation of propylene/propane (C₃H₆/C₃H₈) is highly desired and challenging. Known strategies focus on either the thermodynamic or the kinetic mechanism. Here, we report an interesting reactivity of a metal–organic framework that improves thermodynamic and kinetic adsorption selectivity simultaneously. When the metal–organic framework is heated under oxygen flow, half of the soft methylene bridges of the organic ligands are selectively oxidized to form the more polar and rigid carbonyl bridges. Mixture breakthrough experiments showed drastic increase of C₃H₆/C₃H₈ selectivity from 1.5 to 15. For comparison, the C₃H₆/C₃H₈ selectivities of the best‐performing metal–organic frameworks Co‐MOF‐74 and KAUST‐7 were experimentally determined to be 6.5 and 12, respectively. Gas adsorption isotherms/kinetics, single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction, and computational simulations revealed …