Sugar-based micro/mesoporous hypercross-linked polymers with in situ embedded silver nanoparticles for catalytic reduction

• Qing Yin,
• Qi Chen,
• Li-Can Lu and
• Bao-Hang Han

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1212–1221, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.120

• reduction of 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) with an activity factor ka = 51.4 s−1 g−1, which is higher than some reported AgNP-containing composite materials. Keywords: catalytic reduction; hypercross-linking; porous polymers; silver nanoparticles; sugar; Introduction Hypercross-linked polymers (HCPs) are

• synthesized using a Friedel–Crafts hypercross-linking reaction via knitted perbenzylated monosugars by FDA. Three perbenzylated monosugars Sug-1–3 having similar chemical structure were used as monomers to tune the porosity and PSD. The SSA values of the obtained porous polymer are around 1000 m2 g−1. As the