Patent ID: 7557064

Claim:
A method for immobilizing an aryl-containing organic ligand, comprising: combining together the following in a single reaction medium: an organic ligand comprising at least one aryl group or functionalized aryl group; a functionalized support material having a plurality of available functional groups; and a tethering agent having an anchoring functional group selected so as to bond with the functionalized support material and a bonding functional group that is selected so as to bond with the aryl group or functionalized aryl group, wherein the anchoring functional group is selected so as to react with the functionalized support material in the same reaction medium as a reaction medium used to react the bonding functional group with the aryl group or functionalized aryl group of the organic ligand; and in the single reaction medium, (i) reacting the bonding functional group of the tethering agent with the aryl group or functionalized aryl group of the organic ligand and (ii) reacting the anchoring functional group of the tethering agent with an available functional group of the support material, so as to yield an aryl-containing organic ligand immobilized on the support material wherein the bonding functional group of the tethering agent is an alkyl halide or an acyl halide and the reaction of the bonding functional group is a Freidel-Crafts alkylation reaction or a Freidel-crafts acylation reaction.