Oxidative carboxylation of olefins with CO2: environmentally benign access to five-membered cyclic carbonates

Liang Wang; Sisi Que; Ziwei Ding; Esmail Vessally

doi:10.1039/c9ra10755j

Oxidative carboxylation of olefins with CO₂: environmentally benign access to five-membered cyclic carbonates

RSC Adv. 2020 Mar 3;10(15):9103-9115. doi: 10.1039/c9ra10755j. eCollection 2020 Feb 27.

Authors

Liang Wang¹, Sisi Que^{1

2

3}, Ziwei Ding², Esmail Vessally⁴

Affiliations

¹ State Key Lab of Coal Mine Disaster Dynamics and Control, Chongqing University Chongqing 400044 China.
² State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources in Western China, Xi'an University of Science and Technology Xi'an 710054 China.
³ Key Laboratory of Hydraulic and Waterway Engineering of the Ministry of Education, College of River and Ocean Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University Chongqing 400074 China.
⁴ Department of Chemistry, Payame Noor University Tehran Iran vessally@yahoo.com vesali@pnu.ac.ir.

Abstract

The purpose of this focus review is to provide a comprehensive overview of the direct synthesis of five-membered cyclic carbonates via oxidative carboxylation of the corresponding olefins and carbon dioxide with particular attention on the mechanistic features of the reactions. The review is divided into two main sections. The first section is a discussion of the single-step reactions, while the second consists of an overview of one-pot, two-step sequential reactions.

Publication types

Review