Delocalized electron effect on single metal sites in ultrathin conjugated microporous polymer nanosheets for boosting CO2 cycloaddition

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Zhang, Xiaofei
Liu, Haitao
An, Pengfei
Shi, Yanan
Han, Jianyu
Yang, Zhongjie
Long, Chang
Guo, Jun
Zhao, Shenlong
Zhao, Kun
Yin, Huajie
Zheng, Lirong
Zhang, Binhao
Tang, Zhiyong
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CO2 cycloaddition with epoxides at low temperature and pressure has been broadly recognized as an ambitious but challenging goal, which requires the catalysts to have precisely controlled Lewis acid sites. Here, we demonstrate that both stereochemical environment and oxidation state of single cobalt active sites in cobalt tetraaminophthalocyanine [CoPc(NH2)4] are finely tuned via molecular engineering with 2,5-di-tert-butyl-1,4-benzoquinone (DTBBQ). Notably, DTBBQ incorporation not only enables formation of 5-nm-thick conjugated microporous polymer (CMP) nanosheets due to the steric hindrance effect of tert-butyl groups but also makes isolated cobalt sites with high oxidation state due to the presence of delocalized electron-withdrawing effect of alkene groups in DTBBQ via conjugated skeleton. Notably, when used as heterogeneous catalysts for CO2 cycloaddition with different epoxides, single cobalt active sites on the ultrathin CMP nanosheets exhibit unprecedentedly high activity and excellent stability under mild reaction conditions.

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Science Advances

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6

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17

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© 2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S.Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC).

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Environmental sciences

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Zhang, X; Liu, H; An, P; Shi, Y; Han, J; Yang, Z; Long, C; Guo, J; Zhao, S; Zhao, K; Yin, H; Zheng, L; Zhang, B; Liu, X; Zhang, L; Li, G; Tang, Z, Delocalized electron effect on single metal sites in ultrathin conjugated microporous polymer nanosheets for boosting CO2 cycloaddition, Science Advances, 2020, 6 (17), pp. eaaz4824:1-eaaz4824:10

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