Highly porous and solution-processable organic polymers that can be structurally tailored for various applications are in great demand. Previously reported strategies to prepare porous polymers usually rely on a high level of cross-linking or structurally-rigid polymer backbones. We now demonstrate that one-dimensional linear polymers with flexible backbones prepared through ring opening metathesis polymerization can be highly porous. This new strategy allows facile access to diversified porous organic polymers having tunable mechanical/chemical properties bearing different functionalities.

Porous polymers via ring opening metathesis polymerization

256th National Meeting (2018)

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