TY - JOUR TT - ENHANCEMENT OF ACIDITY AND CATALYTIC ACTIVITY OF ALUMINA BASED METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK (MIL-53 Al) AU - Yilmaz, Esra AU - Sert, Emine AU - Atalay, Ferhan Sami PY - 2017 DA - November JF - The Eurasia Proceedings of Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics JO - EPSTEM PB - ISRES Publishing WT - DergiPark SN - 2602-3199 SP - 404 EP - 410 IS - 1 KW - MOF KW - MIL-53(Al) KW - solvothermal KW - sulfation KW - and acidity N2 - Metal organic frameworks are highly porous materials which are formed bycombination of metal precursor and salts as inorganic part and ligand asorganic part. They have many advantages such as low density, high surface area,tunable pore size and high porosity. Due to peculiar features, such asunsaturated metal active sites, high surface area and easily functionalization,its usage as catalyst are promising.  The MIL-53(Al) structure contains chains of transcorner-sharing [AlO4(OH)2] octahedra that are connectedto each other by 1,4 benzenedicarboxylate (BDC) ligands, and thus 3D net inwhich one-dimensional channels run parallel to the inorganic backbone of thestructure is formed. There are so many studied onusage of aluminium based metal organic framework in adsorption and gasadsorption and separation processes. However, there is very limited number ofstudies on catalytic properties of this material.  MIL-53(Al) provides several advantages compared withother MOFs such as high thermal stability, cheap, and available raw materials.It is also moisture resistant and has relatively high surface area which makesit an attractive MOF alternative for catalytic processes. In this study,aluminium salt was selected as metal precursor and MIL-53 (Al) was synthesizedby solvothermal method.  Then the synthesized material was sulfated to increasethe acidity. The characterization of synthesized and sulfated materials wereperformed by FT-IR, BET, XRD and TGA methods. The catalytic activity ofsulfated material was tested in esterification reaction of acetic acid. Theeffects of time, sulfation, temperature and alcohol type were investigated.  CR - Patil, D. V.; Rallapalli, P. B. S.; Dangi, G. P.; Tayade, R. J.; Somani, R. S.; Bajaj, H. C. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 2011, 50 (18), 10516–10524. Zhou, M.; Wu, Y. N.; Qiao, J.; Zhang, J.; McDonald, A.; Li, G.; Li, F. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 2013, 405, 157–163. Xie, L.; Liu, D.; Huang, H.; Yang, Q.; Zhong, C. Chemical Engineering Journal 2014, 246, 142–149. Trung, T. K.; Trens, P.; Tanchoux, N.; Bourrelly, S.; Llewellyn, P. L.; Loera-Serna, S. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2008, 53 (22), 78035. Hu, Y. H.; Zhang, L. Advanced Materials 2010, 22 (20), 1–14. Himsl, D.; Wallacher, D.; Hartmann, M. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 2009, 48 (25), 4639–4642. Maes, M.; Vermoortele, F.; Alaerts, L.; Couck, S.; Kirschhock, C. E. a; Denayer, J. F. M.; De Vos, D. E. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2010, 132 (43), 15277–15285. Goesten, M. G.; Juan-Alcañiz, J.; Ramos-Fernandez, E. V.; Sai Sankar Gupta, K. B.; Stavitski, E.; Van Bekkum, H.; Gascon, J.; Kapteijn, F. Journal of Catalysis 2011, 281 (1), 177–187. Hassan, S. M.; Ibrahim, a a; Mannaa, M. a. 2013, 4 (2), 104–116. Qu, Y.; Peng, S.; Wang, S.; Zhang, Z.; Wang, J. Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering 2009, 17 (5), 773–780. Sert, E.; Buluklu, A. D.; Karakuş, S.; Atalay, F. S. Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification 2013, 73, 23–28. Sert, E.; Atalay, F. S. Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification 2014, 81, 41–47. UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/epstem/issue//365049 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/381462 ER -