Affiliation:
1. College of Chemistry Huazhong Agricultural University 430070 Wuhan P. R. China
2. College of Resources and Environment Huazhong Agricultural University 430070 Wuhan P. R. China
Abstract
AbstractCovalent organic frameworks (COFs) have emerged as efficient heterogeneous photocatalysts for a wide range of relatively simple organic reactions, whereas their application in complex organic transformations, like site‐selective functionalization of unactivated C−H bonds, is underexplored, which can be mainly attributed to the lack of highly active organophotocatalytic cores. Herein through bonding oxygen atoms at the N‐terminus of quinolines in nonsubstituted quinoline‐linked COFs (NQ−COFs), we successfully realized the embedding of active hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) moieties into the skeleton of COFs. This novel designed COF (NQ−COFE5−O), serving as both an excellent photosensitizer and HAT catalyst, exhibited much higher efficiency in C−H functionalization than the corresponding NQ−COFE5. Specially, we evaluated the photocatalytic performance of NQ−COFE5−O on ten different substrates, including quinolines, benzothiazole, and benzoxazole, all of which were transferred to desired products in moderate to high yields (up to 93 %). Furthermore, the as‐synthesized NQ−COFE5−O displayed excellent photostability and could be reused with negligible loss of activity for five catalytic cycles.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
Subject
General Chemistry,Catalysis