Highly luminescent olefin-linked covalent organic frameworks

Abstract

A new olefin-linked covalent organic framework (COF) was developed using 1,3,5-triformylbenzene (TFB) and tetraethyl p-xylylenediphosphonate (TEXDP) as building blocks through a Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons reaction. By combination of the aromatic columnar ordering and high conjugation, the resulting TFB–TEXDP-COF exhibits a fluorescence quantum yield of up to 41%, which constitutes the new record value among COFs.