Outside Back Cover: Sulfur Conversion to Donor‐Acceptor Ladder Polymer Networks Through Mechanochemical Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution for Efficient CO <sub>2</sub> Photoreduction (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 20/2025)
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).
Authors
- Chengcheng Tian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8952-5513)
- Xiang Zhu
- Sheng Dai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8046-3931)
- Na Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4888-5971)
- Xin‐Ping Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3147-8333)
- Jiwei Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7147-6116)
- Yifan Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1849-7484)
- Tao Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5004-160X)
- Xia Jiang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5754-7937)
- Zijian Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7965-0617)
Institutions
- Shanghai University (CN)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US)
- East China University of Science and Technology (CN)
- Sichuan University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition
- Published
- 2025-04-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202507727
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.70