Experimental and kinetic evaluation on cobalt Salen conjugated organic polymers for CO2 cycloaddition reactions and iodine vapor adsorption.

[Display omitted] • The SP-COPs exhibited high catalytic efficiency of CO 2 conversion and excellent I 2 adsorption capacity. • The synergistic mechanism of CO 2 conversion was proved by experimental and kinetics. • The iodine adsorption kinetic process was described. The fixing reactions of carbon dioxide with epoxides will not only help to ameliorate the problem of global warming, but also facilitate the synthesis of cyclic carbonates that have a multitude of applications. Herein, a new sequence of Salen cobalt complexes adjusted with different counterions and interconnected with pyrene group were synthesized through Friedel–Crafts alkylation, which were served as conjugated organic polymers (SP-COPs) for taking advantage of catalytic CO 2 fixation reactions and iodine adsorption. Further characterizations were carried out through FT-IR, UV, TGA, and SEM to comprehend the intact structure, thermal stability, morphology and other physical and chemical properties. All materials exhibited effective catalytic performance, and in particular, SP-COP-1 with co-catalyst of TBAI achieved 96.2% conversion under ultra-mild conditions. The E a was obtained to be 46.4 kJ·mol−1 by performing kinetic experiments at different temperatures by fitting the experimental data. The performance of iodine vapor adsorbed by these materials at ambient pressure of 75°C reached 2.8 g·g−1, 2.2 g·g−1 and 2.6 g·g−1 respectively, and the adsorption process is describable in terms of pseudo-first-order and pseudo-second-order adsorption kinetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]