Design, preparation and application of conjugated microporous polymers

Conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs) are of great interest because these types of materials have high specific surface area and pore diameters less than 2 nm. CMPs have found applications in the fields of hydrogen storage, heterogeneous catalysts, gas-permeable membranes and light-emitting organics. A large number of recent reports have demonstrated that CMPs can be prepared using several approaches like noble metal-mediated ethynyl, Sonogashira-Hagihara coupling, Suzuki coupling and Yamamoto coupling reactions. In this review, the synthetic routes, functionalization and potential applications of CMPs are systematically introduced. (c) 2013 Society of Chemical Industry