CO2 is an attractive alternative feedstock to oil for the fine chemicals industry, due to its abundance and the fact that it is a waste product in many other industrial processes. But carbon dioxide’s inertness makes it difficult to realistically use as a C-1 reagent. In this hot paper Jim Anderson and Rafael Bou Moreno from UCL report advances towards the green dream by synthesising ureas from the reaction of CO2 with 12- and 14-electron titanium imido complexes.
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Synthesis of ureas from titanium imido complexes using CO2 as a C-1 reagent at ambient temperature and pressure
James C. Anderson and Rafael Bou Moreno
DOI: 10.1039/C1OB06576A
