Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) are crystalline, porous organic materials with promise for applications including catalysis, energy storage, electronics, gas storage, water treatment, and drug delivery. Conventional solvothermal synthesis approaches to COFs require elevated temperatures, inert reaction environments, and long reaction times. Here, we report that transition metal nitrates can catalyze the rapid synthesis of imine COFs. We tested a series of transition metal nitrates as catalysts for the synthesis of a model COF and found that all transition metal nitrates produced crystalline COF products for reactions conducted at ambient temperatures. The reactions were insensitive to the presence of oxygen. Fe(NO3)3• 9H2O was found to produce the most crystalline product, and by optimizing the catalyst loading we found that crystalline COF could be produced within 10 minutes. We further tested Fe(NO3)3• 9H2O as a catalyst for 6 different COF targets varying in linker lengths, substituents, and stabilities, and found that Fe(NO3)3• 9H2O effectively catalyzed the synthesis of all imine COFs tested. This work demonstrates a simple, low-cost approach for the synthesis of imine COFs and will significantly lower the barrier for the development of imine COFs for various applications.Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are crystalline and porous organic networks that have shown promise for applications including catalysis, energy storage, electronics, gas storage, water treatment, membrane separations, and drug delivery. [1][2][3][4][5] Imine COFs are of particular interest for applications because they exhibit excellent stability in water and various organic solvents. 5 However, imine COFs are typically synthesized in batch, high temperature (120 ℃) solvothermal or hydrothermal reactions that require 3 days or longer to achieve significant yields and good crystallinity. 3,[5][6][7] Hence, simpler, lower-cost, and more rapid approaches to the synthesis of imine COFs are needed.A number of studies have explored alternative, faster, and less energy-intensive approaches to the synthesis of imine COFs.Marder and coworkers developed an approach to produce imine COFs under solvothermal conditions within four hours using mild activation procedures to avoid pore collapse. 8 Wang and coworkers developed a general method to synthesize imine COFs in 160 seconds under electron bean radiation. 9 Exposure to light, 10 reaction in a microwave, 11,12 and sonication 13 can also promote reversible reactions and tremendously decrease the required reaction time. In