Sonogashira-Hagihara coupling reactions of tetrahedral silicon-centered monomers, i.e., tetrakis(4bromophenyl)silane (p-Si) and tetrakis(3-bromophenyl)silane (m-Si), and stereocontorted 2,2 0 ,7,7 0tetraethynyl-9,9 0 -spirobifluorene (TESF) result in two novel porous organic polymers, POP-1 and POP-2.Compared with other porous polymers, these materials show high thermal stability and comparable specific surface areas with Brunauer-Emmer-Teller surface areas of up to 983 m 2 g À1 , and total pore volumes of up to 0.81 cm 3 g À1 (POP-1). The N 2 isotherm analysis reveals that their porosities could be tuned by changing the structure geometry of the silicon-centered monomers. Further porosity comparison with other porous polymers indicates that the introduction of silicon-centered units in the porous networks could increase the porosity and copolymerization, i.e., changing the second monomer, is an efficient strategy to tune the porosity of the final materials. For applications, the resulting materials show moderate carbon dioxide uptakes of up to 1.92 mmol g À1 (8.45 wt%) at 273 K and 1.03 bar, and 1.12 mmol g À1 (4.93 wt%) at 298 K and 1.01 bar (POP-1), and also a comparably high binding ability with CO 2 with an isostreic heat of 26.8 kJ mol À1 (POP-1). Moreover, the materials exhibited moderate selectivity of CO 2 over other gases, including N 2 , O 2 and CH 4 . These results reveal that these materials could be potentially applied as promising candidates for storing and capturing CO 2 . † Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: CO 2 adsorption and desorption isotherms of POP-1 and POP-2 at 273 K and 298 K, isosteric heat of CO 2 adsorption of POP-1 and POP-2, Toth model tting of CO 2 , N 2 , CH 4 and O 2 adsorption isotherms of POP-1 and POP-2. See Scheme 1 Synthetic routes of porous organic polymers, POP-1 and POP-2. (i): Pd(PPh 3 )/CuI, DMF/i-Pr 2 NH, 90 C, 72 h. The fragments of these porous polymers are shown as examples. 64164 | RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 64163-64169 This journal is