CO₂ chemistry
By: edited by Rudi van Eldik, Michele Aresta ; Antonella Angelini [and twenty-four others] ; contributors
Edition: First edition.
Series: Advances in Inorganic Chemistry -- Volume 66; Advances in inorganic chemistry -- v. 66.
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Waltham, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9780127999296; 9780124202214
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Carbon dioxide; Inorganic Chemistry
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Notes: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Table of contents: title: Front Cover; CO2 Chemistry; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter One: Personal Adventures in the Synthesis of Copolymers from Carbon Dioxide and Cyclic Ethers; 1. Introduction; 2. Carbon Dioxide as a Source of Chemical Carbon; 3. Copolymers from Oxiranes and Carbon Dioxide; 4. Block Copolymers of Polycarbonates and Lactides; 5. Terpolymers from Oxiranes and Carbon Dioxide; 6. Depolymerization of Polycarbonates; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter Two: Synthesis of Organic Carbonates; 1. Introduction; 2. Market and Production; 3. Linear Organic Carbonates.; title: 3.1. Conventional synthesis3.2. Innovative synthesis; 3.2.1. Use of carbon dioxide as reactant; 3.2.2. Innovative synthesis based on urea utilization; 4. Synthesis of Organic Cyclic Carbonates; 4.1. Carboxylation of epoxides; 4.1.1. Use of conventional solvents; 4.1.2. Use of ionic liquids; 4.1.3. Use of sc-CO2; 4.1.4. Combined reaction media, sc-CO2, and ionic liquids; 4.2. Oxidative carboxylation of olefins; 4.2.1. Use of oxygen as oxidant; 4.2.2. Use of other oxidants; 4.3. Other synthetic routes to cyclic carbonates; 4.3.1. From halohydrins.; title: 4.3.2. Reaction of cyclic ketals with carbon dioxide4.4. Synthesis of cyclic carbonates from propargyl alcohols; 4.5. Reaction between carbon dioxide and diols; 4.6. Reaction of urea and diols; 4.7. Reaction of carbon dioxide or urea with glycerol to afford glycerol carbonate; 4.8. Reactivity of cyclic alkylene carbonates; 5. Transesterification Reactions; 5.1. Synthesis of linear carbonates; 5.2. Synthesis of cyclic carbonates; 6. Summary; References; Chapter Three: Synthesis of Aromatic Carbamates from CO2: Implications for the Polyurethane Industry; 1. General Introduction.; title: 2. Introduction to the PU Industry3. CO2 as a Raw Material for Isocyanates (Carbamates); 4. Possible Routes to Carbamates from CO2; 4.1. CO2 activation; 4.2. Ureas; 4.3. Substituted ureas; 4.4. Carbonates; 4.5. Electrochemical activation; 4.6. CO2+RNH2+ROH; 5. Synthesis of Aromatic Carbamates from CO2; 5.1. Background and hypothesis; 5.2. Methodology: Experiment and analysis; 5.3. Results, including by-product formation; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter Four: Reactions of CO2 and CO2 Analogs (CXY with X, Y=O, S, NR) with Reagents Containing Si-H and Si-N Units.; title: 1. Introduction2. CO2 Activation via Reactions with SiN and SiH Bonds; 2.1. CO2 insertion reactions into SiN bonds; 2.2. CO2 insertion reactions into SiH bonds; 3. Reactions of CO2 Analog Molecules with SiN Bonds and SiH Bonds; 3.1. Isoelectronic molecules: Carbon disulfide, and carbonyl sulfide; 3.2. Other heterocumulenes: Isocyanates and isothiocyanates; 4. Applications; 5. Conclusions and Outlook; References; Chapter Five: Recent Studies of Rhenium and Manganese Bipyridine Carbonyl Catalysts for the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2; 1. Introduction.