Abstract
Conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs) containing tetraphenylethylene (TPE) were synthesized via the Suzuki coupling polymerization. The tetrafunctional TPE moiety in the polymer backbone was linked with the difunctional phenylene group to exhibit a porous structure with high fluorescence in the solid state because of aggregation-induced emissive TPE. The porous polymer with a fluorescent TPE group successfully detected nitroaromatic explosive compounds that exhibited fluorescence quenching, in which the polymer shows high quenching efficiency to picric acid among nitroaromatic explosive compounds. The interaction between the electron-rich TPE group and the electron-deficient nitroaromatic compounds played a decisive role in fluorescence quenching via a photoinduced electron transfer (PET). Compared with a linear polymer containing TPE, the porous, crosslinked polymer showed better sensing performance toward nitroaromatic compounds, presumably because of the more efficient interaction between TPE and nitroaromatic compounds in the pores of TPE-based CMP (TPE-CMP).
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