Facile Synthesis of a Pentiptycene-Based Highly Microporous Organic Polymer for Gas Storage and Water Treatment.

Rigid H-shaped pentiptycene units, with an intrinsic hierarchical structure, were employed to fabricate a highly microporous organic polymer sorbent via Friedel-Crafts reaction/polymerization. The obtained microporous polymer exhibits good thermal stability, a high Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface area of 1604 m g, outstanding CO, H, and CH storage capacities, as well as good adsorption selectivities for the separation of CO/N and CO/CH gas pairs. The CO uptake values reached as high as 5.00 mmol g (1.0 bar and 273 K), which, along with high adsorption selectivity values (e.g., 47.1 for CO/N), make the pentiptycene-based microporous organic polymer (PMOP) a promising sorbent material for carbon capture from flue gas and natural gas purification. Moreover, the PMOP material displayed superior absorption capacities for organic solvents and dyes. For example, the maximum adsorption capacities for methylene blue and Congo red were 394 and 932 mg g, respectively, promoting the potential of the PMOP as an excellent sorbent for environmental remediation and water treatment.