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Acknowledgements The author thanks Prof. D. Sholl for discussions on calculating free energies
and Prof. J.-C. Tan for sharing INS data.
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M (2016) A zeolitic imidazolate framework with conformational variety: conformational
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ZIF system zinc(II) 4,5-dichoroimidazolate: theoretical and experimental investigations of the
polymorphism and crystallization mechanisms. Zeitschrift Fur Kristallographie-Cryst Mater
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of zeolitic imidazolate frameworks probed by In-Situ PFG NMR. In Fantazzini P, Bortolotti V,
Karger J, Galvosas P (eds) Conference proceedings magnetic resonance in porous media, AIP,
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Acknowledgements The author thanks Prof. D. Sholl for discussions on calculating free energies
and Prof. J.-C. Tan for sharing INS data.
References
1. Tagliabue M, Farrusseng D, Valencia S, Aguado S, Ravon U, Rizzo C, Corma A, Mirodatos C
(2009) Natural gas treating by selective adsorption: material science and chemical engineering
interplay. Chem Eng J 155:553–566
2. Sholl DS, Lively RP (2016) Seven chemical separations to change the world. Nature 532:435–
437
3. Ruthven DM, Reyes SC (2007) Adsorptive separation of light olefins from paraffins.
Microporous Mesoporous Mater 104:59–66
4. Gucuyener C, van den Bergh J, Gascon J, Kapteijn F (2010) Ethane/ethene separation turned
on its head: selective ethane adsorption on the metal-organic framework ZIF-7 through a gateopening mechanism. J Am Chem Soc 132:17704–17706
5. van den Bergh J, Gucuyener C, Pidko EA, Hensen EJM, Gascon J, Kapteijn F (2011) Understanding the anomalous alkane selectivity of ZIF-7 in the separation of light alkane/alkene
mixtures. Chem A Euro J 17:8832–8840
6. Zhang C, Lively RP, Zhang K, Johnson JR, Karvan O, Koros WJ (2012) Unexpected molecular
sieving properties of zeolitic imidazolate framework-8. J Phys Chem Lett 3:2130–2134
7. Du Y, Mao K, Wooler B, Sharma AK, Colmyer D, Nines M, Weston SC (2017) Insights
into the flexibility of ZIF-7 and its structural impact in alcohol adsorption. J Phys Chem C
121:28090–28095
8. Mason JA, Oktawiec J, Taylor MK, Hudson MR, Rodriguez J, Bachman JE, Gonzalez MI,
Cervellino A, Guagliardi A, Brown CM, Llewellyn PL, Masciocchi N, Long JR (2015)
Methane storage in flexible metal-organic frameworks with intrinsic thermal management.
Nature 527:357
9. Park KS, Ni Z, Côté AP, Choi JY, Huang R, FJ, Uribe-, Romo, Chae HK, M O’Keeffe, Yaghi
OM (2006) Exceptional chemical and thermal stability of zeolitic imidazolate frameworks.
Proc Natl Acad Sci 103:10186–10191
10. Huang X-C, Lin Y-Y, Zhang J-P, Chen X-M (2006) Ligand-directed strategy for zeolitetype metal-organic frameworks: zinc(II) Imidazolates with unusual zeolitic topologies. Angew
Chem Int Ed 45:1557–1559
11. Ryder MR, Civalleri B, Bennett TD, Henke S, Rudic S, Cinque G, Fernandez-Alonso F, Tan
J-C (2014) Identifying the role of terahertz vibrations in metal-organic frameworks: from
gate-opening phenomenon to shear-driven structural destabilization. Phys Rev Lett 113
12. Coudert FX (2017) Molecular mechanism of swing effect in zeolitic imidazolate framework
ZIF-8: continuous deformation upon adsorption. Chem Phys Chem 18:2732–2738
13. Springer S, Baburin IA, Heinemeyer T, Schiffmann JG, van Wullen L, Leoni S, Wiebcke
M (2016) A zeolitic imidazolate framework with conformational variety: conformational
polymorphs versus frameworks with static conformational disorder. Cryst Eng Comm
18:2477–2489
14. Springer S, Heidenreich N, Stock N, van Wullen L, Huber K, Leoni S, Wiebcke M (2017) The
ZIF system zinc(II) 4,5-dichoroimidazolate: theoretical and experimental investigations of the
polymorphism and crystallization mechanisms. Zeitschrift Fur Kristallographie-Cryst Mater
232:77–90
15. Kortunov P, Ni Z, Paur C, Reyes S, Zengel J (2011) Loading-dependent transport properties
of zeolitic imidazolate frameworks probed by In-Situ PFG NMR. In Fantazzini P, Bortolotti V,
Karger J, Galvosas P (eds) Conference proceedings magnetic resonance in porous media, AIP,
vol1330, pp 57–60