Very efficient organo-zinc scorpionates for CO<sub>2</sub>fixation into a variety of cyclic carbonates: synthesis, coordination ability and catalytic studies
Marta Navarro, Andrés Garcés, Luis F. Sánchez‐Barba, David González-Lizana, Agustín Lara‐Sánchez
Abstract
-limonene carbonate. Additionally, these bicomponents can be efficiently used up to six times without significant loss of activity. Kinetic investigations confirmed that the reaction shows an apparent first-order dependence on the catalyst and co-catalyst concentrations, which indicates an intramolecular monometallic mechanism.
Topics & Concepts
ChemistryCatalysisCycloadditionIntramolecular forceSteric effectsZincPhosphoniumCombinatorial chemistryOrganic chemistryCarbon dioxide utilization in catalysisbiodegradable polymer synthesis and propertiesAsymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis