Flexible porous organic polymers with 1,2-diol subunits favoring the high loading of Pd nanoparticles

In recent years, the flexibility of porous organic polymers has demonstrated very unique properties during their applications. This paper reports a novel soluble porous polymer (named BIT-POP-75 and BIT-POP-75-OH) with 1,2-diketone and 1,2-diol subunits in the flexible polymer chain using contorted subunits. The solubility of the porous polymer and the flexible chelating 1,2-diol moiety facilitates the high loading and uniform dispersion of Pd nanoparticles to give the catalyst Pd@BIT-POP-75-OH, which shows high efficiency (k_app = 0.965 min⁻¹) for the catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol with good recyclability (10 cycles).