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A porphyrin-based covalent organic framework with pH-dependent fluorescence

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Covalent organic frameworks have attracted great attention due to their extensive applications in energy storage, gas separation, catalysis, and photoelectric devices over the past decades. However, the design and synthesis of COFs with fluorescent units have been considered as a big challenge. Herein, we report a porphyrin-based covalent organic framework (TPE-Por-4) by the condensation of the C4-symmetric and D2h-symmetric monomers. Through a series of characterizations, its structure was confirmed. It was found that TPE-Por-4 shows unique fluorescent properties originated from both of porphyrin and tetraphenylethylene building blocks, its suspensions emit strong fluorescence and display an apparent response to pH fluctuation ranging from 2 to 4, and thus, a promising method was provided for spectroscopic monitoring of medium pH value.

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Project funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 21808161 and 21978208) and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2020T130465).

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  1. School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300350, People’s Republic of China

    Xingchun Wu, Xiangdi Zhang, Yanjie Li, Bowei Wang, Yang Li & Ligong Chen

  2. Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin, 300072, People’s Republic of China

    Bowei Wang, Yang Li & Ligong Chen

  3. Tianjin Engineering Research Center of Functional Fine Chemicals, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

    Bowei Wang, Yang Li & Ligong Chen

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Wu, X., Zhang, X., Li, Y. et al. A porphyrin-based covalent organic framework with pH-dependent fluorescence. J Mater Sci 56, 2717–2724 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-020-05380-1

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