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Science 19 December 1997:
Vol. 278. no. 5346, pp. 2080 - 2085
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5346.2080
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Large-Cage Zeolite Structures with Multidimensional 12-Ring Channels

Xianhui Bu, Pingyun Feng, Galen D. Stucky

Zeolite type structures with large cages interconnected by multidimensional 12-ring (rings of 12 tetrahedrally coordinated atoms) channels have been synthesized; more than a dozen large-pore materials were created in three different topologies with aluminum (or gallium), cobalt (or manganese, magnesium, or zinc), and phosphorus at the tetrahedral coordination sites. Tetragonal UCSB-8 has an unusually large cage built from 64 tetrahedral atoms and connected by an orthogonal channel system with 12-ring apertures in two dimensions and 8-ring apertures in the third. Rhombohedral UCSB-10 and hexagonal UCSB-6 are structurally related to faujasite and its hexagonal polymorph, respectively, and have large cages connected by 12-ring channels in all three dimensions.

X. Bu and P. Feng are in the Department of Chemistry and G. D. Stucky is in the Department of Chemistry and Department of Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.

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