By a series of quaternization and amidoalkylation reactions, polymers based on microporous poly(styrene-co-divinylbenzene-), and containing quaternary ammonium groups (Q) and carboxamide groups (L) imitating polar aprotic solvents (DMA c and NMP) are prepared. These two types of functional groups L, Q exhibit a cooperative effect in the activation of sodium phenoxide in its reaction with 1-bromooctane. The measure of the cooperative effect depends on the type of isolation of the sites in which the functional groups L and Q are bound to the polymeric matrix