Pyridine-based hypercrosslinked polymers as support materials for palladium photocatalysts and their application in Suzuki–Miyaura coupling reactions

Abstract

A series of hypercrosslinked polymers (P1 to P8) was synthesized from pyridine and conjugated monomers to support palladium for photocatalytic Suzuki–Miyaura coupling reactions. The results of SEM, TEM and XRD analyses reveal that the supports possess a loose porous amorphous lamellar structure, and the TGA test shows that they are thermally stable. Among the prepared photocatalysts, the one using P6 as a support performed the best, displaying excellent photocatalytic and recycling performance under the irradiation of blue light at 30 °C.