Abstract
A two-in-one strategy for the photothermal ring-opening copolymerization (PROCOP) of carbon dioxide (CO2) and epoxides was developed by using visible light as an external stimulus. This strategy bridges two processes involving light-to-heat conversion and the alternating copolymerization of CO2 and epoxides. As a proof-of-concept, aluminum porphyrin complexes were explored as photothermal catalysts to afford the copolymerization of CO2/epoxides under a 635 nm laser irradiation. We demonstrated photothermally enhanced polymerization activity, in which the polymerization initiated by the photothermal effect showed a much higher turnover frequency than in the thermal system. Moreover, the PROCOP demonstrated a spatial-temporal control by a light on/off switch. This study provides a fascinating photothermal strategy not only for the CO2/epoxides copolymerization but also for the ring-opening (co)polymerization of other cyclic monomers.
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