The conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2), an abundant renewable carbon reagent, into
chemicals of academic and industrial interest is of imminent importance to create a higher …

Imidazolium ionic liquids (ILs), imidazolylidene N‐heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs), and
zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) are imidazolate motifs which have been extensively …

We prepared bifunctional MgII porphyrin catalysts 1 for the solvent-free synthesis of cyclic
carbonates from epoxides and CO2. The activities of 1d, 1h, and 1i, which have Br–, Cl …

Chemical fixation of carbon dioxide (CO2), which is an inexpensive and renewable carbon
source, is becoming more and more important. The development of both new reactions and …

Carbenes are perhaps the most versatile reactive intermediates in chemistry. Since the
original visions of “methylene” by Dumas 1 in 1835 and a generalization of this vision by Nef …

This Concept article discusses the potential of oxidative carbene catalysis in synthesis and
comprehensively covers pioneering studies as well as recent developments. Oxidative …

Highly active bifunctional diporphyrin and triporphyrin catalysts were synthesized through
Stille coupling reactions. As compared with a porphyrin monomer, both exhibited improved …

A series of phosphorus ylide (P-ylide) CO2 adducts were synthesized and first used as
organocatalysts for CO2 transformation. Detailed studies on the cycloaddition reaction of …

The frustrated Lewis pair system consisting of 2 equiv of 2, 2, 6, 6-tetramethylpiperidine
(TMP) and tris (pentafluorophenyl) borane [B (C6F5) 3] activates carbon dioxide to form a …

A noble-metal-free system for photochemical reduction of CO2 has been developed by
integrating graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) with a cobalt-containing zeolitic imidazolate …