Synthesis of Iron(II) Clathrochelate-Based Poly(vinylene sulfide) with Tetraphenylbenzene Bridging Units and Their Selective Oxidation into Their Corresponding Poly(vinylene sulfone) Copolymers: Promising Materials for Iodine Capture

Noorullah Baig; Suchetha Shetty; Sameh S Habib; Ali A Husain; Saleh Al-Mousawi; Bassam Alameddine

doi:10.3390/polym14183727

Synthesis of Iron(II) Clathrochelate-Based Poly(vinylene sulfide) with Tetraphenylbenzene Bridging Units and Their Selective Oxidation into Their Corresponding Poly(vinylene sulfone) Copolymers: Promising Materials for Iodine Capture

Polymers (Basel). 2022 Sep 7;14(18):3727. doi: 10.3390/polym14183727.

Authors

Noorullah Baig^{1

2}, Suchetha Shetty^{1

2}, Sameh S Habib³, Ali A Husain³, Saleh Al-Mousawi³, Bassam Alameddine^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Hawally 32093, Kuwait.
² Functional Materials Group, GUST, Hawally 32093, Kuwait.
³ Department of Chemistry Kuwait City, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 12613, Safat 13060, Kuwait.

Abstract

The development of a simple and efficient synthetic methodology to engineer functional polymer materials for gas adsorption is necessary due to its relevance for various applications. Herein, we report the synthesis of metalorganic poly(vinylene sulfide) copolymers CTP1-3 with iron(II) clathrochelate of various side groups connected by tetraphenylbenzene units. CTP1-3 were subsequently oxidized into their respective poly(vinylene sulfone) copolymers CTP4-6 under green reaction conditions. The target copolymers CTP1-6 were characterized using various instrumental analysis techniques. Examination of the iodine adsorption properties of the copolymers revealed high iodine uptake properties, reaching 2360 mg g^-1 for CTP2, and whose reusability tests proved its efficient regeneration, thus proving the importance of iron(II) clathrochelate polymers in iodine capture.

Keywords: click-reaction; iodine adsorption; metalorganic polymer; one-pot synthesis; poly(vinylene sulfide); poly(vinylene sulfone).

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