TY - JOUR
T1 - Moving Beyond Boron
T2 - The Emergence of New Linkage Chemistries in Covalent Organic Frameworks
AU - Deblase, Catherine R.
AU - Dichtel, William R.
N1 - Funding Information:
W.R.D. acknowledges the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation for a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and the Army Research Office for a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives (MURI) award under grant number W911NF-15-1-0447. C.R.D. acknowledges support from the NSF in the form of an NSF GRFP (DGE-1144153) award. Research by C.R.D., W.R.D., and others highlighted in thisPerspective was supported through the DOE through grant DE-FG02-87ER45298, by the Energy Materials Center at Cornell (emc2), an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences (DE-SC000001086) and an Innovation Economy Matching Grant from the New York State, Empire State Development Division of Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR), under contract number C090148.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2016/8/9
Y1 - 2016/8/9
N2 - Since their discovery in 2005, covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have attracted interest as potential materials for gas storage, catalysis, energy storage, and other applications because of their ability to periodically and reliably organize designed functionality into high surface area materials. Most of the first examples relied on boron-containing linkages, which suffer from hydrolytic and oxidative instability that limit their utility. In this Perspective, we describe the trend toward more robust linkages by highlighting the design, synthesis, and properties of several recent examples. The continued development of new COF chemistries, along with improved understanding of their formation and control of their final form, will provide a means to harness their molecularly precise solid-state structures for useful purposes.
AB - Since their discovery in 2005, covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have attracted interest as potential materials for gas storage, catalysis, energy storage, and other applications because of their ability to periodically and reliably organize designed functionality into high surface area materials. Most of the first examples relied on boron-containing linkages, which suffer from hydrolytic and oxidative instability that limit their utility. In this Perspective, we describe the trend toward more robust linkages by highlighting the design, synthesis, and properties of several recent examples. The continued development of new COF chemistries, along with improved understanding of their formation and control of their final form, will provide a means to harness their molecularly precise solid-state structures for useful purposes.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b00891
DO - 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b00891
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84981267003
VL - 49
SP - 5297
EP - 5305
JO - Macromolecules
JF - Macromolecules
SN - 0024-9297
IS - 15
ER -