Novel Covalent Triazine Framework for High-Performance CO2 Capture and Alkyne Carboxylation Reaction.

Carbon dioxide capture and conversion have attracted extreme enthusiasm from the scientific community owing to global warming and environmental problems. However, conversion of CO2 under atmospheric pressure is of great challenge because of the inertness of CO2. Herein, we present a novel covalent triazine framework (CTF-DCE) prepared via ZnCl2-catalyzed ionothermal trimerization reaction of di(4-cyanophenyl)ethyne, which displays a high Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface area of 1355 m2 g-1 and an excellent CO2 capture capacity of 191 mg/g at 273 K/1 bar. More importantly, silver species can be successfully fixed on the CTF matrix to produce a stable CTF-DCE-Ag heterogeneous catalyst for outstanding catalysis in the terminal alkyne carboxylation reactions under atmospheric pressure. CTF-DCE-Ag exhibited over sixfold higher turnover numbers than Ag@MIL-101. The recyclability test of the CTF-DCE-Ag catalyst demonstrated a great potential application in various environmental and energy-related applications.