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Layer-by-layer Synthesis and Transfer of Freestanding Conjugated Microporous Polymer Nanomembranes
Published on: December 15, 2015
Post-cationic Modification of a Pyrimidine-Based Conjugated Microporous Polymer for Enhancing the Removal Performance
Yuchuan Liu1, Yuanzheng Cui1, Chenghui Zhang1
1State Key Lab of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun, 130012, P.R. China.
Abstract:
Ionic porous organic polymers have attracted much attention due to their broad applications in catalysis, energy storage/conversion, proton conduction, etc. In this paper, an ionic porous organic polymer, CMP-PM-Me, was synthesized through post-synthetic modification of a pyrimidine-based conjugated microporous polymer, CMP-PM, which was constructed by the palladium catalyzed Sonogashira reaction of 1,3,5-triethynylbenzen and 2,5-dibromopyrimidine. These two polymers are porous with Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface areas of 416 and 241 m2 g-1 for CMP-PM and CMP-PM-Me, respectively. Due to the cationic framework, CMP-PM-Me exhibits a much faster and more efficient adsorption performance to anionic dyes such as Congo red (CR) and methyl orange (MO) than that of CMP-PM with a neutral framework. The uptakes for CR are 400.0 mg g-1 for CMP-PM-Me and 344.8 mg g-1 for CMP-PM, respectively. Furthermore, CMP-PM-Me could quickly and drastically separate anionic dyes from the binary mixed solution of anionic and nonanionic dyes within a short time. This work not only enriches the family of ionic organic porous polymers and widens their synthetic utility, but also demonstrates their applications in the adsorption and separation of anionic dyes in water.
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