Novel Molecular Building Blocks Based on the Boradiazaindacene Chromophore: Applications in Fluorescent Metallosupramolecular Coordination Polymers

Bright polymers : Fluorescent coordination polymers made up of versatile functionalized bodipy (boron‐dipyrrin) chromophore building blocks, such as that depicted, are described. Polymerization is signaled by changes in fluorescence emission intensity and shifts in peak emission wavelengths.

     

Fluorescence‐Tuned Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane‐Based Porous Polymers

Two series of new polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS)‐based fluorescent hybrid porous polymers, HPP‐1 and HPP‐2 , have been prepared by the Heck reaction of octavinylsilsesquioxane with 2,2′,7,7′‐tetrabromo‐9,9′‐spirobifluorene and 1,3,6,8‐tetrabromopyrene, respectively. Three sets of reaction conditions were employed to assess their effect on fluorescence. These materials exhibit tunable fluorescence from nearly no fluorescence to bright fluorescence both in the solid state and dispersed in ethanol under UV light irradiation by simply altering the reaction conditions. We speculated that the difference may be attributable to the fluorescence quenching induced by Et₃N, P(o‐CH₃Ph)₃, and their hydrogen bromide salts employed in the reactions. This finding could give valuable suggestions for the construction of porous polymers with tunable/controllable fluorescence, especially those prepared by Heck and Sonogashira reactions in which these quenchers are used as organic bases or co‐catalysts. In addition, the porosities can also be tuned, but different trends in porosity have been found in these two series of polymers, which suggests that various factors should be carefully considered in the preparation of porous polymers with tunable/controllable porosity. Furthermore, HPP‐1 c showed moderate CO₂ uptake and fluorescence that was efficiently quenched by nitroaromatic explosives, thereby indicating that these materials could be utilized as solid absorbents for the capture and storage of CO₂ and as sensing agents for the detection of explosives.     

Preparation of Porous Polymers Based on the Building Blocks of Cyclophosphazene and Cage-like Silsesquioxane and Their Use as Basic Catalysts for Knoevenagel Reactions

Phosphazene-containing porous materials are of a great interest due to their unique properties, caused by the synergetic presence of nitrogen and phosphorus atoms, and have found applications as adsorbents, basic catalysts, etc. On the other hand, cage-like silsesquioxanes are ideal building blocks for the preparation of covalently-linked porous materials. Here two new phosphazene-functionalized organosilsesquioxane cage-based porous polymers were synthesized successively by a Friedel-Crafts reaction of hexapyrrolylcyclotriphosphazene with octavinylsilsesquioxane in the presence of AlCl₃ and CF₃SO₃H as catalysts. The nature of acid catalysts barely influenced the character of pores due to the interaction of catalysts with basic nitrogen atoms of phosphazene units. The obtained polymers exhibited high efficiency as metal-free catalysts for the Knoevenagel reaction. This work opens new perspectives in the use of porous polymers based on cage-like organosiloxane compounds as basic catalysts for various reactions.     

Molecular Expansion for Constructing Porous Organic Polymers with High Surface Areas and Well-Defined Nanopores

Construction of porous organic polymers (POPs) with high surface areas, well-defined nanopores, and excellent stability remains extremely challenging because of the unmanageable reaction process. Until now, only a few reported POPs have Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface areas (S_BET) exceeding 3000 m² g⁻¹. Herein, we demonstrate a molecular expansion strategy to integrate high surface areas, large nanopore sizes, and outstanding stability into POPs. A series of hyper-crosslinked conjugated polymers ( HCCPs ) with exceptional porosity are synthesized through this strategy. Specially, HCCP-6 and HCCP-11 exhibit the highest surface areas (S_BET >3000 m² g⁻¹) and excellent total pore volumes (up to 3.98 cm³ g⁻¹) among these HCCPs . They present decent total CH₄ storage capacities of 491 and 421 mg g⁻¹ at 80 bar and 298 K, respectively. Meanwhile, they are highly stable in harsh environments. The facile and general molecular expansion strategy would lead to improved synthetic routes of POPs for desired functions.     

聚合物孔材料的制备*

聚合物孔材料的制备和应用研究已经成为聚合物科学和材料科学热点,制备聚合物孔材料的方法发展很快。本文综述了聚合物孔材料的制备方法,包括胶体晶模版法、水模版法、超临界二氧化碳发泡法、自组装法等。其中本课题组首次提出的无模版自组装法操作简单、无需模版、环境友好,具有广阔的发展前景。     

Ultrastable Conjugated Microporous Polymers Containing Benzobisthiadiazole and Pyrene Building Blocks for Energy Storage Applications

In recent years, conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs) have become important precursors for environmental and energy applications, compared with inorganic electrode materials, due to their ease of preparation, facile charge storage process, π-conjugated structures, relatively high thermal and chemical stability, abundance in nature, and high surface areas. Therefore, in this study, we designed and prepared new benzobisthiadiazole (BBT)-linked CMPs (BBT–CMPs) using a simple Sonogashira couplings reaction by reaction of 4,8-dibromobenzo(1,2-c;4,5-c′)bis(1,2,5)thiadiazole (BBT–Br₂) with ethynyl derivatives of triphenylamine (TPA-T), pyrene (Py-T), and tetraphenylethene (TPE-T), respectively, to afford TPA–BBT–CMP, Py–BBT–CMP, and TPE–BBT–CMP. The chemical structure and properties of BBT–CMPs such as surface areas, pore size, surface morphologies, and thermal stability using different measurements were discussed in detail. Among the studied BBT–CMPs, we revealed that TPE–BBT–CMP displayed high degradation temperature, up to 340 °C, with high char yield and regular, aggregated sphere based on thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), respectively. Furthermore, the Py–BBT–CMP as organic electrode showed an outstanding specific capacitance of 228 F g⁻¹ and superior capacitance stability of 93.2% (over 2000 cycles). Based on theoretical results, an important role of BBT–CMPs, due to their electronic structure, was revealed to be enhancing the charge storage. Furthermore, all three CMP polymers featured a high conjugation system, leading to improved electron conduction and small bandgaps.     

Palladium Nanoparticles Supported on a Porous Organic Polymer: An Efficient Catalyst for Suzuki‐Miyaura and Sonogashira Coupling Reactions

A new porous organic polymer (POP) with high thermal stability and large surface area has been synthesized and applied in the preparation of Pd/POP catalyst. Pd/POP was characterized by XRD, TGA, SEM and TEM. The catalyst consists of highly dispersed palladium nanoparticles of 0.9–4 nm size on POP with a large surface area of 650 m²/g. It presents high catalytic activity for Suzuki‐Miyaura and Sonogashira reactions. The catalyst was reusable for three to five times without significant loss of activity.     

Amorphous Porous Organic Polymers Based on Schiff‐Base Chemistry for Highly Efficient Iodine Capture

Porous organic polymers (POPs) have been considered as prominent adsorbents for volatile iodine. So far, both crystalline and amorphous POPs have accomplished excellent iodine capture capability. Considering the difficulty and challenges in preparing perfect crystalline POPs, more explorations into developing versatile amorphous POPs are needed. Herein, amorphous POPs based on the Schiff‐base reaction were designed and synthesized for volatile iodine removal. Four amorphous POPs products named as NDB‐H , NDB‐S , ADB‐HS , and ADB‐S obtained under different solvothermal conditions were investigated in terms of their morphologies, porosity, and their iodine enrichment performance in detail. It is noteworthy that excellent efficiency for removing iodine vapor was acquired for NDB‐S (≈425 wt %), ADB‐HS (≈345 wt %), and ADB‐S (≈342 wt %). Remarkably, NDB‐H exhibited an iodine capture capacity up to ≈443 wt %. Excellent reusability was obtained as well. Amorphous NDB‐H has accomplished an extremely high iodine capture performance, illustrating the great chance to exploit versatile amorphous POPs for iodine enrichment and removal based on Schiff‐base chemistry.     

Rational Design and Synthesis of Hybrid Porous Polymers Derived from Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes via Heck Coupling Reactions

Heck coupling reactions are introduced as an efficient method to prepare porous polymers. Novel inorganic‐organic hybrid porous polymers (HPPs) were constructed via Heck coupling reactions from cubic functional polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS), iodinated octaphenylsilsesquioxanes (OPS) and octavinylsilsesquioxanes (OVS) using Pd(OAc)₂/PPh₃ as the catalyst. Here, two iodinated OPS were used, IOPS and p‐I₈OPS. IOPS was a mixture with 90% octasubstituted OPS (I₈) and some nonasubstituted OPS (I₉), while p‐I₈OPS was a nearly pure compound with ≥99% I₈ and ≥93% para‐substitution. IOPS and p‐I₈OPS reacted with OVS to produce the porous materials HPP‐1 and HPP‐2, which exhibited comparable specific surface areas with S_BET of 418 ± 20 m² g⁻¹ and 382 ± 20 m² g⁻¹, respectively, with total pore volumes of 0.28 ± 0.01 cm³ g⁻¹ and 0.23 ± 0.01 cm³ g⁻¹, respectively. HPP‐1 showed a broader pore size distribution and possessed a more significant contribution from the mesopores, when compared with HPP‐2, thereby indicating that IOPS may induce more disorder because of the geometrical asymmetry. HPP‐1 and HPP‐2 possessed moderate carbon dioxide uptakes of 134 and 124 cm³ g⁻¹ at 1 bar at 195 K, making them promising candidates for CO₂ capture and storage. The synthesized porous polymers may be easily post‐functionalized using the retained ethenylene groups.

     

Conjugated Microporous Polymers for Heterogeneous Catalysis

Conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs) are a class of crosslinked polymers that combine permanent micropores with π‐conjugated skeletons and possess three‐dimensional (3D) networks. Compared with conventional materials such as metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent organic frameworks (COFs), CMPs usually have superior chemical and thermal stability. CMPs have made significant progress in heterogeneous catalysis in the past seven years. With a bottom‐up strategy, catalytic moieties can be directly introduced into in the framework to produce heterogeneous CMP catalysts. Higher activity, stability, and selectivity can be obtained with heterogeneous CMP catalysts in comparison with their homogeneous analogs. In addition, CMP catalysts can be easily isolated and recycled. In this review, we focus on CMPs as an intriguing platform for developing various highly efficient and recyclable heterogeneous catalysts in organic reactions. The design, synthesis, and structure of these CMP catalysts are also discussed in this focus review.     

Conformation Control of Conjugated Polymers

In the past few decades, conjugated polymers have aroused extensive interest in organic electronic applications. The electrical performance of conjugated polymers has a close relationship with their backbone conformation. The conformation of the polymer backbone strongly affects the πelectron delocalization along polymer chains, the energy band gap, interchain interactions, and further affects charge transport properties. To realize a rigid coplanar backbone that usually possesses efficient intrachain charge transport properties and enhanced π–π stackings, such conformation control becomes a useful strategy to achieve high-performance (semi)conducting polymers. This minireview summarizes the most important polymer structures through conformation control at the molecular level, and then divides these rigid coplanar conjugated polymers into three categories: 1) noncovalent interactions locked conjugated polymers; 2) double-bond linked conjugated polymers; 3) ladder conjugated polymers. The effect of the conformation control on physical nature, optoelectronic properties, and their device performance is also discussed, as well as the challenges of chemical synthesis and structural characterization.     

Facile synthesis of hyperbranched poly(p‐phenyleneethynylene‐alt‐m‐phenyleneethynylene) with narrow dispersity and high branching degree by sonogashira polymerization of an AB2 monomer

An AB₂ monomer PhBr₂  C  C  Ph  C  CH containing one acetylene group and two bromide groups was efficiently synthesized by a strategy based on the different reactivity between aromatic iodide and bromide in Sonogashira reaction. The Sonogashira polymerization of PhBr₂  C  C  Ph  C  CH was investigated to get hyperbranched poly(p‐phenyleneethynylene‐alt‐m‐phenyleneethynylene) (hb‐PMPE) in terms of the effects of monomer addition method, core molecule with different functionality, and ratio of [monomer]/[core molecule]. The results showed that narrow dispersities (D) (D: 1.23∼1.50) were obtained by slow monomer addition and with core molecule. Bifunctional core molecule induced narrower dispersity than monofunctional core molecule. The molecular weight of hb‐PMPE increased with increasing ratio of [monomer]/[core molecule], however, a negative deviation from calculated value was observed. The dispersity slightly increased with increasing [monomer]/[core molecule]. When the ratio of [monomer]/[core molecule] was below 50/1, monomodal distribution was observed; whereas when the ratio increased to 70/1, bimodal distribution was obtained. All the polymers showed degrees of branching (DBs) around 0.6. The hb‐PMPEs showed one major absorption band with λ_max around 330 nm, and emission band with λ_max around 390 nm. All the polymers showed relative quantum yields (Φ_r) above 0.5 in dilute THF solution. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2018 , 56, 96–104     

Twisted but Conjugated: Building Blocks for Low Bandgap Polymers

Here we report a novel twisted monomer based on a distorted C?C double bond for low bandgap conjugated copolymers. This new building block provides several unique characteristics when compared to classical planar systems such as high solubility, electron accepting ability, and isomeric tunability. The resulting copolymers exhibit broad absorption spanning both visible and near‐infrared regions leading to promising solar cell performance.     

基于荧光共轭聚合物的金属离子检测

以聚乙炔、聚芴、聚噻吩、聚苯撑为代表的荧光共轭聚合物,由于具有独特的光学性能、自组装性能和结构与性能的可调控性,可作为优异的光学传感材料。利用其具有较高摩尔消光系数和荧光量子产率的特点,可设计具有较高灵敏度和选择性的传感器,这已成为生物传感领域的研究热点。以荧光共轭聚合物为基础的金属离子检测,最初是以非水溶性的共轭聚合物为主,通过金属离子与聚合物链上特定基团(如吡啶、冠醚)的结合引起的聚合物荧光性质的变化可实现对某些离子的检测。在共轭聚合物主链上引入亲水性侧链,可大大增强共轭聚合物的水溶性,为金属离子的生物传感检测提供了新的思路,例如可引入能与金属离子结合的生物分子(如DNA、糖基等)来设计传感策略,进一步提高检测的特异性和灵敏度。本文综述了近年来以非水溶性和水溶性荧光共轭聚合物为传感材料,对具有重要生物学意义的重金属离子(Hg²⁺、Pb²⁺)、过渡金属离子(Cu²⁺、Eu³⁺、Ni²⁺、Fe³⁺、Fe²⁺、Ru³⁺、Ag⁺)和碱金属离子(K⁺、Na⁺、Li⁺)进行高灵敏度检测方面的研究进展,并对该领域的发展前景进行了展望。     

共轭聚合物离子荧光化学传感器

荧光传感器能够将分子识别的信息转换成荧光信号,荧光法在灵敏度、选择性和实时原位检测等方面优势突出,最近已引起了人们很大的兴趣。本文主要介绍以共轭聚合物为基础的离子荧光化学传感器的近期研究进展,重点综述了共轭聚合物的荧光化学传感器在阳离子识别检测中的分子设计、合成、作用机理和应用,并展望了该领域的发展方向。     

Eutectic Molten Salt Synthesis of Highly Microporous Macrocyclic Porous Organic Polymers for CO2 Capture

The development of porous materials is of great interest for the capture of CO₂ from various emission sources, which is essential to mitigate its detrimental environmental impact. In this direction, porous organic polymers (POPs) have emerged as prime candidates owing to their structural tunability, physiochemical stability and high surface areas. In an effort to transfer an intrinsic property of a cyclotetrabenzoin-derived macrocycle – its high CO₂ affinity – into porous networks, herein we report the synthesis of three-dimensional (3D) macrocycle-based POPs through the polycondensation of an octaketone macrocycle with phenazine-2,3,7,8-tetraamine hydrochloride. This polycondensation was performed under ionothermal conditions, using a eutectic salt mixture in the temperature range of 200 to 300 °C. The resulting polymers, named 3D-mmPOPs, showed reaction temperature-dependent surface areas and gas uptake properties. 3D-mmPOP-250 synthesized at 250 °C exhibited a surface area of 752 m² g⁻¹ and high microporosity originating from the macrocyclic units, thus resulting in an excellent CO₂ binding enthalpy of 40.6 kJ mol⁻¹ and CO₂ uptake capacity of 3.51 mmol g⁻¹ at 273 K, 1.1 bar.