Abstract

Novel porous polymers can serve as self-supporting solid carriers and provide abundant coordination or charged sites for single-site metals, and thus are emerging as advanced functional materials in heterogeneous catalysis for various transformations traditionally catalyzed by homogeneous systems. A brief overview of the development of this heterogenization given, including the recent advances regarding electrovalent bonds by employing charged supports represented by porous ionic polymers (PIPs), which is exemplified herein with a novel single-site Rh1 /PIP catalyst, featuring a new active site [Rh(CO)I3 ]2- dual-ionically bound onto a quaternary phosphonium cationic framework polymer, different from the single-ionically bound [Rh(CO)2 I2 ]- in previous studies. Such a unique metal configuration of Rh1 /PIP leads to excellent performance in vapor-phase methanol carbonylation, outperforming commercial homo- and heterogeneous catalysts.

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