In industries and academic laboratories, several late transition metal-catalyzed prerequisite
reactions are widely performed during single and multistep synthesis. However, besides the …

Carbon dioxide offers an accessible, cheap and renewable carbon feedstock for synthesis.
Current interest in the area of carbon dioxide valorisation aims at new, emerging …

The reaction between carbon dioxide and epoxides is an attractive pathway for CO2-
utilisation as it can lead to the formation of two different, yet valuable, products: cyclic and …

Cyclic organic carbonates are among the most widely studied targets in the nonreductive
conversion of carbon dioxide using oxiranes as the common reaction partners. Apart from …

Global concerns about high CO 2 levels and dwindling supplies of fossil resources are
increasing. The utilization of CO 2 and waste biomass as renewable resources for valuable …

The present review “Iron Catalysis in Organic Synthesis” covers the literature until the end of
June 2014 and represents a comprehensive update of a previous article published by Bolm …

The catalytic formation of cyclic organic carbonates (COCs) using carbon dioxide (CO2) as a
renewable carbon feed stock is a highly vibrant area of research with an increasing amount …

The use of sustainable metal-based catalysts for the synthesis of five-membered ring
containing cyclic carbonates from epoxides and carbon dioxide is critically reviewed …

Fossil fuel has empowered a remarkable era of prosperity and development of the welfare of
human society. However, the resulting large anthropogenic CO 2 emissions had an adverse …

The metallic catalyst-dominated alternating copolymerization of CO2 and epoxides has
flourished for 50 years; however, the involved multistep preparation of the catalysts and the …