Outside Back Cover: Sulfur Conversion to Donor-Acceptor Ladder Polymer Networks Through Mechanochemical Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution for Efficient CO2 Photoreduction (Angew. Chem. 20/2025)
Na Yang, Zi-Jian Zhou, Xiang Zhu, Jiwei Wu, Yifan Zhang, Tao Wang, Xin-Ping Wu, Chengcheng Tian, Xia Jiang, Sheng Dai
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Abstract
A novel mechanochemical-assisted approach converts elemental sulfur into thianthrene-bridged porous ladder polymers with dense donor-acceptor (D-A) junctions, mimicking natural leaves for efficient CO2 photoreduction with H2O, without additional photosensitizers, sacrificial agents, or cocatalysts. The key innovation is a mechanochemical nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr) reaction, enabling sustainable solid-state condensation of sulfur with 1,2-dihaloarenes to form bent thianthrene units. For details read the Research Article by Xiang Zhu, Xin-Ping Wu, Chengcheng Tian, Sheng Dai et al. (e202419108).