The porous covalent organic polymers (COPs) are valuable materials in various fields such as gas storage, adsorption or separation, luminescent detection, catalysis, and sensors. Two thermally stable COPs with aromatic skeleton linked by amine groups were prepared by Buchwald-Hartwig protocol. The COPs with respective Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface area of 204 and 178 m 2 /g were employed for adsorption of hydroxylated aromatic hydrocarbons (HAHs) due to expected strong π-π stacking and hydrogen-bond interactions between COPs and HAH. In adsorption of phenol from water, COP 2 showed far better capacity than COP 1 , silica, basic alumina, and macroporous resin (D101). In adsorption of 2-naphthol COP 1 and COP 2 displayed similar capacity, being 2.8, 5.4, and 7.4 times high as those for macroporous resin (D101), basic alumina, and silica, respectively. COP 1 and COP 2 are useful for efficient separation of 2-naphthol or other HAHs from waste water.ABBREVIATIONS 13 C CP-MAS-NMR 13 C cross-polarization magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance COP covalent organic polymer DPPF 1 0 -bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene HAH hydroxylated aromatic hydrocarbons Pd [DPPF]Cl 2 1 0 -bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene-palladium(II)dichloride dichloromethane complex (1:1)