Dynamic covalent chemistry (DCC) has been strongly integrated into diverse research fields, and has enabled easy access to a variety of combinatorial libraries, 2-D shape-persistent macrocycles, and 3-D molecular cages that target many important applications, such as drug discovery, biotechnology, molecular separation, light harvesting, etc. This presentation will focus on the efficient synthesis of shape-persistent, structure-tunable 3-D covalent organic polyhedrons (COPs) as well as porous polymer frameworks (PPFs) via reversible metathesis reactions. The framework materials and the well-defined discrete COPs have shown great potential in carbon capture, fullerene separation, biomedical diagnostics, etc. These results illustrate how the thermodynamically controlled DCC can be utilized to construct target-specific nanomaterials and enable their practical applications.

Development and applications of 3D covalent organic polyhedrons (COPs) and porous polymer frameworks (PPFs) through dynamic covalent chemistry

246th National Meeting (2013)

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