Patent ID: 8791220

Claim:
A porous inorganic/organic homogenous copolymeric hybrid material of the formula: wherein R 1 is H, F, Cl, Br, I, lower alkyl; R 2 and R 3 are each independently H, F, Cl, Br, I, alkane, substituted alkane, alkene, substituted alkene, aryl, substituted aryl, cyano, ether, substituted ether, embedded polar group; R 4 and R 5 are each independently H, F, Cl, Br, I, alkane, substituted alkane, alkene, substituted alkene, aryl, substituted aryl, ether, substituted ether, cyano, amino, substituted amino, diol, nitro, sulfonic acid, cation or anion exchange groups, 0≦a≦2, 0≦b≦4, and 0≦c≦4, provided that b+c≦4 when a=1; 1≦d≦20, 0.0003≦y/z≦500 and 0.002≦x/(y+z)≦210; wherein the porous inorganic/organic homogenous copolymeric hybrid material has specific pore volumes of about 0.25 to 2.5 cm 3 /g and an average pore diameter of about 20 to 300 Å.