Background Information Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is a colorless, odorless gas that is produced in large quantities during the chemical combustion of fuels. It has been categorized as a greenhouse gas that poses a significant danger to the environment. The continued production of carbon dioxide is inevitable due to the energy demand in many domestic and industrial processes. However, the harmful effects of the gas can be reduced by using the emitted carbon dioxide for other beneficial uses. One strategy entails the direct capture and sequestration of the gas through nanoporous adsorbent substances or amine-based liquid sorbents (Darunte, Walton, Sholl, & Jones, 2016). Indeed, the chemical transformation of carbon dioxide has gained momentum as an efficient strategy sequestering CO 2 (Kim, Kim, Jang, Seo, & Ahn, 2013). Chemical studies show that carbon dioxide is a viable 1-carbon building block that can be transformed into useful substances such as cyclic carbonates, dimethyl carbonates, urethanes, N,N-disubstituted ureas, and formic acid among others. The production of cyclic carbonates entails combining CO 2 and styrene oxide to generate five-membered cyclic carbonates (Yang et al., 2014). The resultant cyclic carbonate has immense uses as electrolytes, polar aprotic solvents, and precursors in numerous chemical reactions. Nonetheless, carbon dioxide is an inert gas, which complicates the fixation process (Kim et al., 2013). A number of homogeneous catalysts, including liquid catalysts, quaternary ammonium salts, transition metal complexes, and ionic liquid catalysts have been investigated for their catalytic potential in the cyclic addition of CO 2 and styrene oxide. The main problem with the homogeneous catalysts is difficulties in separation of the product and recovery of the catalyst. Consequently, heterogeneous catalysts have been proposed for these cyclic addition reactions. However, a significant number of these catalysts demonstrate low activities under harsh conditions, for example, high temperatures, and elevated CO 2 pressure. In addition, some catalysts can only work in the presence of organic solvents or co-catalysts. Therefore, there is a need for an environmentally-friendly heterogeneous catalyst that exhibits high catalytic power under a wide range of conditions, especially in mild conditions. The purpose of this review is to examine different metal-organic frameworks and determine their potential effectiveness for the synthesis of organic or cyclic carbonates from carbon dioxide. Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are created by the simultaneous polymerization of organic molecules with metal ions or groups of metal ions (Kitagawa, 2014). MOFs have gained popularity as a new type of adsorbent crystalline materials with outstanding zeolite-resembling attributes, for example, easily reached pore volumes, homogeneous microspores, high adsorption capabilities, and considerable internal surface areas (Eddaoudi, Sava, Eubank, Adil, & Guillerm, 2015). These properties make them suitable contenders for functions such as separation and stowage of gases, magnetism, and as catalysts. MOFs have a modular nature and display facile tunability, which makes them the perfect heterogeneous catalysts with consistent active sites that are f