Chiral covalent organic frameworks: design, synthesis and property

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are constructed using reticular chemistry with the building blocks being connected via covalent bonds and have emerged as a new series of porous materials for multitudinous applications. Most COFs reported to date are achiral, and only a small fraction of COFs with...

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Published inChemical Society reviews Vol. 49; no. 17; pp. 6248 - 6272
Main Authors Han, Xing, Yuan, Chen, Hou, Bang, Liu, Lujia, Li, Haiyang, Liu, Yan, Cui, Yong
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Royal Society of Chemistry 01.09.2020
Subjects
catalytic activity
chemical bonding
Chemical bonds
Covalence
Covalent bonds
design
Enantiomers
enantioselectivity
Porous materials
porous media
separation
society
synthesis
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Summary:Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are constructed using reticular chemistry with the building blocks being connected via covalent bonds and have emerged as a new series of porous materials for multitudinous applications. Most COFs reported to date are achiral, and only a small fraction of COFs with chiral nature are reported. This review covers the recent advances in the field of chiral COFs (CCOFs), including their design principles and synthetic strategies, structural studies, and potential applications in asymmetric catalysis, enantioselective separation, and chiral recognition. Finally, we illustrate the remaining challenges and future opportunities in this field. Owing to the unique structural features and facile tunability of the subcomponents and channels, chiral COFs show great potential in heterogeneous catalysis, enantioselective separation, and recognition.
Bibliography:Bang Hou was born in Henan province, China, in 1994. He received his BS degree from China Agricultural University in 2015. In the fall of 2015, he joined Prof. Yong Cui's group at Shanghai Jiao Tong University for a PhD degree. His current research interest focuses on chiral covalent organic frameworks for catalysis and separation.
Lujia Liu obtained his BSc from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2009. After working at Nippon Paint (China) Co. Ltd as a formulation chemist, he moved to New Zealand and completed his PhD at Massey University in 2015. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University in the United States. In 2020, he joined Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, as a lecturer. He is the recipient of the 2015 Royal Society of New Zealand Hatherton Award. His current research interests lie in crystalline porous solids.
Yan Liu received her BS degree in applied chemistry in 2006 and PhD in chemistry in 2011 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She conducted postdoctoral research at the University of North Carolina (2011-2013). She joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2014, where she is now a professor of chemistry. Her research interest focuses on supramolecular chemistry and coordination chemistry.
Chen Yuan was born in Yunnan province, China, in 1993. He received his BS degree from Sichuan University in 2015. In the fall of 2015, he joined Prof. Yong Cui's group at Shanghai Jiao Tong University for a PhD degree. His current research interest focuses on chiral covalent organic frameworks for chiral recognition and separation.
Xing Han was born in Anhui province, China, in 1990. He received his BS degree from Anhui Normal University in 2013. Then, he joined the research group of Prof. Yong Cui at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and obtained his PhD degree in 2019 focusing on the design and synthesis of functional covalent organic frameworks.
Yong Cui received his PhD in physical chemistry in 1999 from Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, CAS. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Science and Technology of China, University of North Carolina and University of Chicago from 1999 to 2005. He joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2005, where he is now a chair professor of chemistry. His research interest focuses on the fields of molecular assembly, porous materials and chiral materials.
Haiyang Li was born in 1990. He obtained his BS in chemistry from Zhengzhou University in 2011, and received his PhD degree under the supervision of Prof. Thomas C. W. Mak and Prof. Shuang-Quan Zang from Zhengzhou University in 2017. He joined the college of chemistry of Zhengzhou University in 2017. His research focuses on the design and synthesis of functional porous framework materials.
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ISSN:0306-0012
1460-4744
1460-4744
DOI:10.1039/d0cs00009d