title: Zn(ii) assisted synthesis of porous salen as an efficient heterogeneous scaffold for capture and conversion of CO2.
abstract: We have designed a unique strategy to obtain a zinc-salen functionalized porous polymer (Zn@SBMMP) with high zinc content (15.3 wt%) by an easy one-step, cost effective and scalable process, which shows unprecedented catalytic efficiency in the CO2 fixation reaction via cycloaddition of CO2 with epoxides. We hypothesize that a high density of Zn-Schiff base/salen units present in the porous polymer network is responsible for the exceptionally high catalytic performance of Zn@SBMMP.
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur 700 032, India. msab@iacs.res.in.
authors.forename: Subhajit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bhunia
authors.forename: Rostam Ali
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Molla
authors.forename: Vandana
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kumari
authors.forename: Sk Manirul
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Islam
authors.forename: Asim
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bhaumik