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Carbon dioxide (CO(2)) is an easily available, renewable carbon resource, which has the advantages of being non-toxic, abundant and economical. CO(2) is also attractive as an environmentally friendly chemical reagent, and is especially useful as a phosgene substitute. CO(2) is an "anhydrous carbonic acid" that rapidly reacts with basic compounds. Nucleophilic attack at CO(2) conveniently produces carboxyl and carbamoyl groups. Further reactions of these species with electrophiles lead to the formation of organic carbonates and carbamates. The present article deals with the synthetic technologies leading to organic carbonates using CO(2) as a raw material.
ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 200 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract, please click on HTML or PDF.
Supercritical carbon dioxide is efficiently converted to dimethyl carbonate (DMC) via the reaction with methanol in the presence of a catalytic amount of dialkyltin oxide or its derivatives. The removal of water is the key to accomplishing the high conversion by shifting the equilibrium to dimethyl carbonate. Dehydration is successfully carried out by circulating the reaction mixture through a dehydrating tube packed with molecular sieve 3A. Under the effective dehydration conditions, the DMC yield is almost linearly dependent on the reaction time, catalyst amount, methanol concentration, and CO 2 pressure.
The catalytic activity of phosphonium salts towards cyclic carbonate synthesis from propylene oxide and CO2 has been enormously enhanced by their immobilization onto silica that itself has no catalytic activity.
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