1D and 2D solid state NMR investigations of the framework structure of As-synthesized AlPO4-14.

The framework structure of As-synthesized AlPO4-14 has been investigated with a combination of different one-dimensional 27Al and 31P solid state NMR techniques and 27Al/31P double resonance methods. The results are found to be fully consistent with the assumed structural model. 27Al MAS and DOR experiments at three different magnetic field strengths together with simulations show the presence of two tetrahedral sites, one pentacoordinated and one octahedral aluminum site. The 27Al quadrupolar coupling constants and the 31P isotropic chemical shifts of the tetrahedral sites correlate well with tetrahedral shear-strain parameters and mean P-O-Al bond angles, respectively. These correlations allow one to assign all of the NMR resonances to specific T-sites in the proposed framework structure. The assignments are then further confirmed by the application of three different two-dimensional heteronuclear correlation methods (i.e., 27Al-->31P TEDOR, CP, and INEPT) which reveal the connectivities between AlOx and PO4 polyhedra. The two-dimensional INEPT experiment is applied here for the first time in the solid state.

1H solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance study of the mobility of the tetrapropylammonium template in a purely siliceous MFI-type zeolite.

Dynamics of tetrapropylammonium (TPA) cation occluded during the synthesis in a siliceous MFI zeolite is investigated by 1H broad-line nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods. Second moments M2, spin-lattice relaxation times T1 and T1 rho are measured in a large temperature domain. To al comparison, similar measurements are also reported in bulk tetrapropylammonium bromide (TPABr). Whereas methyl reorientation at low temperature and tumbling of the cation in the plastic phase are observed in crystalline TPABr in accordance with published studies, a new slower motion which could not be identified is observed below the phase transition. Such a motion is much more clearly shown by the existence of a minimum of T1 rho in a quenched sample. Our measurements in the zeolite demonstrate that the TPA template exhibits a larger and more complex mobility below 378 K. Beyond the fast methyl reorientation, the results disclose a motion which probably involves the entire propyl arms inside the channels. So the zeolite framework seems to make such a kind of motion easier. On the contrary, even at 450 K, the highest temperature investigated, the tumbling which would necessitate exchange of the propyl arms between the channels is not observed. A slow motion, responsible for a decrease of T1 rho above 350 K, could not be identified. While a simple correlation time is sufficient to describe the relaxation time dependences in TPABr, a distribution (such as Williams-Watts) is required to account for those in the zeolite.