2D covalent organic frameworks with built-in amide active sites for efficient heterogeneous catalysis

Yang Li; Weiben Chen; Ruidong Gao; Ziqiang Zhao; Ting Zhang; Guolong Xing; Long Chen

doi:10.1039/c9cc07500c

2D covalent organic frameworks with built-in amide active sites for efficient heterogeneous catalysis

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Nov 28;55(96):14538-14541. doi: 10.1039/c9cc07500c.

Authors

Yang Li¹, Weiben Chen, Ruidong Gao, Ziqiang Zhao, Ting Zhang, Guolong Xing, Long Chen

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Science, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China. [email protected].

PMID: 31740910
DOI: 10.1039/c9cc07500c

Abstract

Benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamides (BTAs) are versatile building blocks for supramolecular assembly due to the strong intermolecular hydrogen bonding. Herein, a BTA based amine, N1,N3,N5-tris(4-aminophenyl)benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamide (TABTA), was successfully applied to construct two new amide functionalized covalent organic frameworks (COFs) with apparent crystallinity, which were further applied as efficient catalysts for Knoevenagel condensation.