Postsynthetically Modified Covalent Organic Frameworks for Efficient and Effective Mercury Removal

Autor: Hao Wei, Qi Sun, Nicholas Nguyen, Shengqian Ma, Lukasz Wojtas, Carter W. Abney, Lyndsey D. Earl, Briana Aguila, Yuchuan Cheng, Jason A. Perman
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(7)
ISSN: 1520-5126
Popis: A key challenge in environmental remediation is the design of adsorbents bearing an abundance of accessible chelating sites with high affinity, to achieve both rapid uptake and high capacity for the contaminants. Herein, we demonstrate how two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks (COFs) with well-defined mesopore structures display the right combination of properties to serve as a scaffold for decorating coordination sites to create ideal adsorbents. The proof-of-concept design is illustrated by modifying sulfur derivatives on a newly designed vinyl-functionalized mesoporous COF (COF-V) via thiol–ene “click” reaction. Representatively, the material (COF-S-SH) synthesized by treating COF-V with 1,2-ethanedithiol exhibits high efficiency in removing mercury from aqueous solutions and the air, affording Hg2+ and Hg0 capacities of 1350 and 863 mg g–1, respectively, surpassing all those of thiol and thioether functionalized materials reported thus far. More significantly, COF-S-SH demonstrates an ultrahigh ...
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