As an economical, safe and renewable carbon resource, CO2 turns out to be an attractive C1 building block for making organic chemicals, materials, and carbohydrates.[1] From the viewpoint of synthetic chemistry,[2] the utilization of CO2 as a feedstock for the production of industrial products may be an option for the recycling of carbon.[3] On the other hand, the transformation of chemically stable CO2 represents a grand challenge in exploring new ...
[Laskavy, Alexander; Shimon, Linda J. W.; Konstantinovski, Leonid; Iron, Mark A.; Neumann, Ronny Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010 , vol. 132, # 2 p. 517 - 523]