Continuous flow knitting of a triptycene hypercrosslinked polymer

• Cher Hon Lau ^*a
• Tian-dan Lu ^b
• Shi-Peng Sun ^b
• Xianfeng Chen ^a
• Mariolino Carta ^c
• Daniel M. Dawson ^d

• ^a School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, Robert Stevenson Road,Edinburgh EH9 3FB, UK
• ^b State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech. University, Nanjing 210009, China
• ^c Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Swansea University, Grove Building, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
• ^d School of Chemistry, EaStCHEM and Centre of Magnetic Resonance, University of St. Andrews, KY16 9ST, UK

By replacing Lewis acids with Brønsted acids as catalysts, continuous flow synthesis of hypercrosslinked polymers is achieved within 10% of the time required for a typical batch reaction. Compared with batch-synthesised polymers, the flow-produced materials take up 24% more CO2, precluding the need for lengthy reaction protocols to yield high-performance hypercrosslinked polymers for carbon capture.

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