REVIEW ARTICLE

Methodologies for chemical utilization of CO2 to valuable compounds through molecular activation by efficient catalysts

  • Liangnian HE ,
  • Ya Du ,
  • Chengxia MIAO ,
  • Jinquan WANG ,
  • Xiaoyong DOU ,
  • Ying WU
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  • State Key Laboratory and Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China

Received date: 24 Jun 2008

Accepted date: 15 Oct 2008

Published date: 05 Jun 2009

Copyright

2014 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Abstract

The reactions of CO2 with oxirane to produce cyclic carbonate, and with aziridine to afford oxazolidine have been of interest as a useful method for its fixation by a chemical process. Highly efficient processesemploying recyclable CO2-phlilic homogeneous catalyst were devised for environmentally benign synthesis of cyclic carbonates and oxazolidinones under supercritical CO2 without any organic solvent. These processes represent pathways for greener chemical fixations of CO2 to afford industrial useful materials such as organic carbonates and oxazolidinones with great potential applications.

Cite this article

Liangnian HE , Ya Du , Chengxia MIAO , Jinquan WANG , Xiaoyong DOU , Ying WU . Methodologies for chemical utilization of CO2 to valuable compounds through molecular activation by efficient catalysts[J]. Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, 0 , 3(2) : 224 -228 . DOI: 10.1007/s11705-009-0067-y

Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 20421202, 20672054), the Tianjin Natural Science Foundation, the 111 project (B06005) and State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology (No. KF0506) for their financial support.
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