Scientists in Germany and Canada have developed a new way to capture sulfur dioxide gas. It could minimise the environmental impact of the gas, which causes acid rain.
The team made a series of frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) consisting of a bulky phosphane Lewis base component and a boron Lewis acid component. The FLPs rapidly and efficiently trap sulfur dioxide by adding the phosphane component to sulfur and the boron to oxygen.
Link to journal article
Reactions of Phosphorus/Boron Frustrated Lewis Pairs with SO2
M Sajid et al
Chem. Sci., 2012, DOI: 10.1039/c2sc21161k
