New Catalysts for Upgrading CO2: Beyond Kolbe-Schmitt

该项目是工业和保密的，因此下面提供的摘要是简短和含糊的。这并不是为了使作为该项目一部分的保密协议无效。使用二氧化碳作为氯化化学原料是一个有吸引力的目标，但也是一个具有重大挑战的目标，尤其是任何拟议的反应的热力学。Kolbe-Schmitt(K-S)反应是用于生产水杨酸的Kolbe-Schmitt(K-Schmitt)反应，它不仅在商业上操作，而且具有重要的前景。这个反应特别有趣，因为形成了一个新的C-C键。同样令人惊讶的是，公认的机制暗示二氧化碳的协同、合作活化是一种非常类似于现代受挫路易斯对(FLP)催化剂的方式。我们提出，现代协同催化设计原理的应用将能够大大增加应用范围。

This project is industrial and confidential, therefore the abstract provided below is brief and vague. This is to not void the confidentiality agreement set out as a part of this project.The use of carbon dioxide as a C1 chemical feedstock represents an attractive objective but one with significant challenges, not least the thermodynamics of any proposed reaction. A reaction that holds significant promise, not least in that it is commercially operated, is the Kolbe-Schmitt (K-S) reaction for the production of salicyclic acid. This reaction is particularly interesting in that a new C-C bond is formed. It is also striking that the accepted mechanismimplicates the concerted, cooperative activation of carbon dioxide is a manner very reminiscent of modern frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) catalysts. We propose that the application of modern cooperative catalysis design principles will be able to greatly increase the scope.