posted on 2021-08-18, 14:03authored byBo Song, Xiangyi Li, Anjun Qin, Ben Zhong Tang
Using carbon dioxide (CO2) as a feedstock to synthesize
various polymers has drawn much attention. One-pot multicomponent
tandem polymerization (MCTP) with great synthetic simplicity and efficiency
is a powerful strategy for the synthesis of new CO2-based
luminescent polymers. In this work, we successfully developed a new
one-pot MCTP combining three sequential carboxylation–cyclization–esterification
reactions of CO2, diynes, and alkyl dihalides to directly
convert CO2 into luminescent polymers with aggregation-enhanced
emission (AEE) property. This MCTP could be facilely performed in N,N-dimethylacetamide in the presence
of a cheap catalyst CuI and an organic base 7-methyl-1,5,7-triazabicyclo[4.4.0]dec-5-ene
under atmospheric pressure. A series of poly(β-alkoxyacrylate)s
with well-defined structures and high molecular weights (Mw up to 15400) were obtained in high yields (up to 96%).
The resultant polymers possess good thermal stability with high decomposition
temperatures and high char yields. Because of polymerization-induced
emission (PIE) effect, the nonluminescent monomers could be converted
to luminescent poly(β-alkoxyacrylate)s with AEE features. Thus,
this work provides a new pathway to directly transform CO2 into luminescent polymers via a one-pot MCTP strategy.