Carbon dioxide is an important carbon source in the atmosphere and is “problematic” toward the activities of human beings. Although carbon dioxide is a cheap, abundant and relatively nontoxic C1 source, its chemical transformations have not been widely developed so far and are still far from synthetic applications, especially in the construction of the C–C bond. This critical review summarizes the recent advances on transition-metal-catalyzed C–C bond formation through the fixation of carbon dioxide and their synthetic applications (124 references).
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2011/cs/c0cs00129e#!divAbstract
Transition-metal-catalyzed C–C bond formation through the fixation ofcarbon dioxide
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Corresponding authors
aBeijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing 100871
bState Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China
E-mail: zshi@pku.edu.cn
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011,40, 2435-2452
DOI: 10.1039/C0CS00129E
