We report high experimental -xylene (X) selectivity in a pillar-layered metal-organic framework, DUT-8(Cu). Vapor- and liquid-phase adsorption experiments were carried out to confirm high X selectivity and large X uptakes in DUT-8(Cu). Grand canonical Monte Carlo simulation results show that the presence of DABCO ligands allows for the packing of X molecules and is responsible for the X selective nature of the material. The simulation also suggests that the presence of isooctane solvents in the liquid-phase experiments plays an essential role by lowering the adsorption of other xylene isomers, and leads to increased X selectivity in the liquid-phase as compared to the vapor phase. Density functional theory simulations show that the preferential arrangement is due to the preferential adsorption of X on the DABCO ligand and the preferential adsorption of isooctane over other xylene isomers.
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