Abstract
The net-zero carbon emission scenario of stopping hydrocarbon use as fuel is unlikely to end the extraction of fossil hydrocarbons. Remaining will be a sizable need for hydrocarbons as feedstocks for commodity chemicals destined for transformation into polymers, manufacturing-relevant intermediates, and value-added chemicals. Historically, the primary feedstock source has been oil. Over the past dozen years, however, fracking-based extraction of shale-trapped natural gas from known enormous reserves, in North America, has resulted in feedstock sourcing instead from wet shale gas. This shift has transformed the catalytic chemistry of commodity chemical manufacturing. In this review, following a brief discussion of the merits and limitations of crystallographically well-defined metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as model catalysts and catalyst-supports, we examined their applications for understanding and potentially enabling carbon-economical, catalytic transformation of C1, C2, C3, and C4 components of natural gas to desirable commodity chemicals, intermediates, or model compounds.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 2819-2842 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Energy and Environmental Science |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 9 2022 |
Funding
We thank Dr. Andrew Rosen for helping generate MOFids and MOFkeys. Work done in our own labs was supported by the Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center (ICDC), an EFRC funded by the DOE, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (DE-SC0012702), which made use of the EPIC facility of Northwestern University's NUANCE Center receiving support from the Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE) Resource (NSF ECCS-1542205); the MRSEC program (NSF DMR1720139) at the Materials Research Center; the International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN); the Keck Foundation; and the State of Illinois, through the IIN. T. A. G. gratefully acknowledges the support of the U.S. DOE, Office of Science, Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists, Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program. The SCGSR program is administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) for the DOE, and ORISE is managed by ORAU under Contract DE-SC0014664.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Environmental Chemistry
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
- Nuclear Energy and Engineering
- Pollution
