A Novel Strategy for the Construction of Covalent Organic Frameworks from Nonporous Covalent Organic Polymers
Zhuang Miao1, Guiyan Liu1, Yumeng Cui1
1Tianjin Key Laboratory of Structure and Performance for Functional Molecules, Key Laboratory of Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Functional Material Chemistry (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, P. R. China.
Abstract:
The field of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) has been developed significantly in the past decade on account of their important characteristics and vast application potential. On the other hand, the discovery of novel synthetic methodology is still a challenging task to further promote the preparation of COFs. Herein, an interesting protocol for the conversion of amorphous nonporous covalent organic polymers (COPs) to COFs was established, affording four COFs with high crystallinity and porosity. Specifically, imine-linked amorphous COP-1 was successfully converted to COF-1-4 by replacing one type of linker with other organic building blocks. The realization of this conversion provides a facile method for constructing COFs from COPs.
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