Polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) substituted with methyl tetrazole Du, Naiying; Robertson, Gilles P.; Dal-Cin, Mauro M.; Scoles, Ludmila; Guiver, Michael D.
Polymers of Intrinsic
AbstractA polymer of intrinsic microporosity (PIM-1) containing nitrile groups was reacted by [2 + 3] cycloaddition reaction to give a polymer substituted with tetrazole groups (TZ-PIM), and then was further methylated to give a new PIM substituted with methyl tetrazole groups (MTZ-PIM). In contrast to TZ-PIMs, the MTZ-PIMs had distinctly improved solubility characteristics, enabling a more detailed investigation of the degree of conversion for the cycloaddition reaction and the structures of TZ-PIMs, which showed the presence of two kinds of tetrazole rings. Compared with PIM-1, the MTZ-PIM showed higher gas permselectivity with a corresponding decrease in gas permeability for pure gas pairs such as O 2 /N 2 and CO 2 /N 2 , and for mixed gases, such as CO 2 /N 2 . Data for selectivity coupled with high gas permeability is close to the Robeson 2008 upper-bound performance limit for the O 2 /N 2 and CO 2 /N 2 pure gas pairs, and exceeds the upper-bound for the CO 2 /N 2 mixed gas pair.