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Hui-Hui Sun1, Zhi-Bei Zhou1, Yubin Fu2
1State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 200032, Shanghai, China.
Abstract:
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have been demonstrated as promising photocatalysts for hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) production. However, the construction of COFs with new active sites, high photoactivity, and wide-range light absorption for efficient H2O2 production remains challenging. Herein, we present the synthesis of a novel azobenzene-bridged 2D COF (COF-TPT-Azo) with excellent performance on photocatalytic H2O2 production under alkaline conditions. Notably, although COF-TPT-Azo differs by only one atom (-N=N- vs. -C=N-) from its corresponding imine-linked counterpart (COF-TPT-TPA), COF-TPT-Azo exhibits a significantly narrower band gap, enhanced charge transport, and prompted photoactivity. Remarkably, when employed as a metal-free photocatalyst, COF-TPT-Azo achieves a high photocatalytic H2O2 production rate up to 1498 μmol g-1 h-1 at pH = 11, which is 7.9 times higher than that of COF-TPT-TPA. Further density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that the -N=N- linkages are the active sites for photocatalysis. This work provides new prospects for developing high-performance COF-based photocatalysts.
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