Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Carbon dioxide capture and efficient fixation in a dynamic porous coordination polymer

  • Pengyan Wu,
  • Yang Li,
  • Jia-Jia Zheng,
  • Nobuhiko Hosono,
  • Ken-ichi Otake,
  • Jian Wang,
  • Yanhong Liu,
  • Lingling Xia,
  • Min Jiang,
  • Shigeyoshi Sakaki,
  • Susumu Kitagawa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12414-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Porous coordination polymers that possess structural flexibility show great promise for gas adsorption and catalysis. Here the authors synthesize a dynamic porous coordination polymer with rotating ligands that permit effective CO2 trapping, and demonstrate subsequent CO2 cycloaddition to epoxides.