Porous polymer networks prepared from ethynylpyridines

Series of new micro/mesoporous polymer networks with high content of pyridine segments was prepared. For the preparation were used ethynylpyridine type of monomers which were successfully homopolymerized and copolymerized with hydrocarbon diethynylarenes by chain-growth coordination polymerization catalyzed with [Rh(NBD)acac] complex. Polymerizations provided polyacetylene networks with main chains densely cross- linked by pyridine or arylene links. Prepared pyridine networks showed specific surface area SBET from 308 m2 /g to 923 m2 /g and variable content of pyridine segments in an interval from 3,27 mmol/g to 7,86 mmol/g. In networks, pyridine segments made part of interchain links or side groups. Networks with pyridine segments were successfully quaternized by heterogeneous postpolymerization reaction with bromoethane to form well covalently defined networks containing N-ethylpyridinium segments. Quaternized networks containing pyridinim segments in amount from 2,41 mmol/g to 4,24 mmol/g had preserved micro/mesoporous texture with values of SBET from 331 m2 /g to 592 m2 /g. Polyacetylene networks with N-ethylpyridinium segments were prepared also by catalyst-free (spontaneous) quaternization polymerization of diethylpyridines. These networks were worse covalently defined and had proved lower..