Hydrazone-based covalent organic frameworks for Lewis acid catalysis

Dalton Trans. 2018 Oct 9;47(39):13824-13829. doi: 10.1039/c8dt03005g.

Abstract

Hydrazone-based covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are rich in functional groups but have very limited variety and applications. Herein, two hydroxy-rich hydrazone-based COFs are synthesized in pure water and postsynthetically incorporated with CoII, exhibiting Lewis acid catalytic activity towards cyanosilylation of various aldehydes with size selectivity.