Catalytic, asymmetric cyanohydrin synthesis in propylene carbonate

Kinetics and mechanistic investigation of epoxide/CO2 cycloaddition by a synergistic catalytic effect of pyrrolidinopyridinium iodide and zinc halides

“…Although these processes have the advantages of less toxicity than phosgene route, however, these are still not economically feasible due to relatively expensive feedstocks and additional steps involved in downstream processing. Organic cyclic carbonates have a broad range of applications such as polar aprotic green solvents [17][18][19][20] , monomer for the production of polycarbonates [21] and polyurethanes [22,23] , electrolytes in Liion batteries [24,25] and intermediate for the production of many other valuable chemicals such as glycol, pyrimidines and carbamates [17,26] . Although cyclic carbonates formation was observed Scheme 1.…”

Amine‐bis(phenolato)cobalt(II) Catalysts for the Formation of Organic Carbonates from Carbon Dioxide and Epoxides

“…[1][2][3][4] The industrial application of CO 2 is currently limited to the production of urea, methanol, cyclic carbonate, and salicylic acid. [21][22][23] Moreover, polycarbonates derived from CO 2 have promising physical properties like durability, biodegradability, high transparency, heat resistance, and gas permeability which make them possible candidates for applications in the automotive, medical and electronics industries. [5,[10][11][12][13] Cyclic carbonates are in high industrial demand, [14,15] given their use as precursors to polycarbonates, [14,16] electrolytes in lithium ion batteries, [17][18][19] additives to gasolines, [20] thickeners of cosmetics, [18] and as so called "green solvents".…”

Proline-Catalysed Amination Reactions in Cyclic Carbonate Solvents

“…Cyclic carbonates ( Figure 1 ), especially ethylene carbonate ( 2 ) and propylene carbonate ( 3 ), are attracting increasing interest as green solvents for metal-catalysed reactions [ 26 , 27 , 28 ]. Ethylene carbonate ( 2 ) is a solid at room temperature (m.p.…”