Construction of Aluminum‐Porphyrin‐Based Hypercrosslinked Ionic Polymers (HIPs) by Direct Knitting Approach for CO<sub>2</sub> Capture and In‐Situ Conversion to Cyclic Carbonates
Wei Xu, Min Chen, Yiying Yang, Kechi Chen, Yingyin Li, Zixuan Zhang, Rongchang Luo
Abstract
Abstract Hypercrosslinked polymers (HCPs) constructed by Friedel‐Crafts reaction have drawn increasing attention in recent decades, but their multifunctionalization remains a huge challenge. Herein, a series of aluminum‐porphyrin‐based hypercrosslinked ionic polymers have been successfully synthesized by direct knitting approach without additional electrophilic comonomers, which involves the copolymerization of neutral porphyrin monomers and ionic building. By increasing the connected nodes numbers of ionic monomers, the introduction of abundant tetraphenylmethane fragements into the porphyrin backbones endows them with high‐density ionic active sites. Accordingly, the well‐matched molar ratios of aluminum sites to nucleophilic chloride anions that work synergistically for CO 2 /epoxide coupling can be achieved. Al‐HIP‐2 with flexible ionic pendants and a high Al/Cl ratio allows CO 2 cycloaddition to be performed at ambient conditions or with diluted CO 2 ; while Al‐HIP‐3 with rigid ionic moieties and a relatively low Al/Cl ratio exhibits higher specific surface area and stronger CO 2 capture ability. Therefore, this co‐condensation strategy provides a simple and feasible pathway for adjusting the reactivity ratios of comonomers via simple structural changes in the knitting process, thus achieving the rational construction of multifunctionalized HCPs for CO 2 capture and in‐situ conversion to cyclic carbonates.