Issue 6, 2016

Dendrimer-like conjugated microporous polymers

Abstract

Four dendrimer-like polycarbazole conjugated polymer networks P-G1-T, P-G2-T, P-G1-Fo and P-G2-Fo were designed and synthesized by FeCl3 oxidative coupling polymerization. Aromatic thiophene and fluorenone units were employed as the linkers between carbazole units to construct the building blocks. The first generation polymers (1st) were produced from the monomers containing two carbazole units, while the second generation polymers (2nd) were produced from the monomers with six carbazole units, which feature double oxidative polymerization sites compared with the monomers for the 1st generation. It was found that the 2nd generation polymers show a higher Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) surface area and a higher gas adsorption performance than the 1st generation polymers because of more reactive sites and larger torsion angles in the monomers for the 2nd generation, which led to a highly crosslinked polymer structure and thus a high surface area. All of the polymers show high isosteric heats of CO2 adsorption over 33 kJ mol−1 because the incorporation of heteroatoms (N, S and/or O) into the skeleton of the polymers enhanced the interaction between the pore wall and CO2 molecules.

Graphical abstract: Dendrimer-like conjugated microporous polymers

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
03 Nov 2015
Accepted
31 Dec 2015
First published
04 Jan 2016

Polym. Chem., 2016,7, 1281-1289

Dendrimer-like conjugated microporous polymers

S. Qiao, T. Wang, W. Huang, J. Jiang, Z. Du, F. Shieh and R. Yang, Polym. Chem., 2016, 7, 1281 DOI: 10.1039/C5PY01767J

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