Design of Porous Organic Polymer based Promising Molecular Nanoarchitecture in Advanced Heterogeneous Catalysis

Abstract

Porous organic polymers (POPs) having very high surface areas, tunable pore volumes, excellent stabilities and controllable chemical composition have recently emerged a growing research interest as a most promising molecular nanoarchitecture for binding of metal or metal oxide nanoparticles (NPs) in the development of new advanced heterogeneous catalysts. Here in this featured article, we have focused on development of various kinds of POPs and immobilization of NPs in the framework of these POPs with their prospective employment as heterogeneous nanocatalysts to catalyze several catalytic reactions. These POP-based materials exhibit superior catalytic performance in coupling, hydrogenation and various acid catalyzed reactions with tremendous recyclability and combination of best features of both homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts.