Carbon Dioxide Capture and Use: Organic Synthesis Using Carbon Dioxide from Exhaust Gas

• Published in: Angewandte Chemie (International ed.) Vol. 53; no. 3; pp. 771 - 774
• Main Authors: Kim, Seung Hyo, Kim, Kwang Hee, Hong, Soon Hyeok
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim WILEY-VCH Verlag 13.01.2014; WILEY‐VCH Verlag; Wiley; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Edition: International ed. in English
• Subjects: Carbon capture and storage; Carbon dioxide; carbon dioxide capture; carbon dioxide fixation; Chemistry; Chemistry, Multidisciplinary; Emissions; ethanolamine; Exhaust; Physical Sciences; Pictures; Recycled; renewable resources; Science & Technology; Strategy; sustainable chemistry; Synthesis; Transformations; renewable resources; carbon dioxide capture; TERMINAL ALKYNES; carbon dioxide fixation; CO2 CAPTURE; EPOXIDES; ATMOSPHERIC CO2; MILD CONDITIONS; ethanolamine; sustainable chemistry; CARBOXYLATION; CYCLIC CARBONATES; IONIC LIQUIDS; SECONDARY-AMINES; COPOLYMERIZATION
• ISSN: 1433-7851; 1521-3773
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.201308341

A carbon capture and use (CCU) strategy was applied to organic synthesis. Carbon dioxide (CO2) captured directly from exhaust gas was used for organic transformations as efficiently as hyper‐pure CO2 gas from a commercial source, even for highly air‐ and moisture‐sensitive reactions. The CO2 capturing aqueous ethanolamine solution could be recycled continuously without any diminished reaction efficiency. Exhaust gas is good enough! Carbon dioxide captured directly from exhaust gas was used for organic syntheses (see picture) as efficiently as hyper‐pure CO2 gas from a commercial source, even for highly air‐ and moisture‐sensitive reactions. The CO2 capturing aqueous ethanolamine solution could be recycled continuously without any diminished reaction efficiency.