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CATALYSIS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 11, Issue 11, Pages 3799-3809Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1cy00488c
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21502136, 81803835]
- Shandong Outstanding Youth Innovation Team Program [2019KJC032]
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Conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs) are promising alternatives to traditional inorganic semiconductors for photocatalysis due to their superior properties. Tetrathienoanthracene-based TTA-CMP shows excellent catalytic activity and reusability in various organic reactions, indicating its potential as an efficient solid organocatalyst.
Owing to their advantages of superior inherent porosity, high chemical stability, light weight, and molecularly tunable optoelectronic properties, conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs) have been receiving increasing attention and research interest as promising alternatives to traditional inorganic semiconductors for heterogeneous photocatalysis. Herein, we report the concise synthesis of tetrathienoanthracene-based conjugated microporous polymers (TTA-CMP) via a bottom-up strategy. TTA-CMP was employed as metal-free visible-light solid organocatalyst for three prototypic organic reactions: the dehydrogenative coupling reaction, dehydrogenative-Mannich reaction, and photocatalytic synthesis of benzimidazoles. Indeed, TTA-CMP showed excellent photocatalytic activity (29 examples, 80-98% yield) and outstanding reusability (10-12 times) in these three reactions. The extended pi-conjugation in TTA-CMP enhances its visible light absorption, therefore, TTA-CMP displays higher catalytic activity than the corresponding small molecular photocatalyst. This work reveals the bright future of TTA-CMP as an efficient solid organocatalyst for other photocatalytic syntheses.
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