CO2 conversion covers a wide range of possible application areas from fuels to bulk and commodity chemicals and even to specialty products with biological activity such as pharmaceuticals. In the present review, we discuss selected examples in these areas in a combined analysis of the state-of-the-art of synthetic methodologies and processes with their life cycle assessment. Thereby, we attempted to assess the potential to reduce the environmental footprint in these application fields relative to the current petrochemical value chain. This analysis and discussion differs significantly from a viewpoint on CO2 utilization as a measure for global CO2 mitigation. Whereas the latter focuses on reducing the end-of-pipe problem “CO2 emissions” from todays’ industries, the approach taken here tries to identify opportunities by exploiting a novel feedstock that avoids the utilization of fossil resource in transition toward more sustainable future production. Thus, the motivation to develop CO2-based chemistry does...

Sustainable Conversion of Carbon Dioxide: An Integrated Review of Catalysis and Life Cycle Assessment

Water-tolerant solid acid catalysts.

State of the art and future challenges of zeolites as catalysts

Conversion of methanol to hydrocarbons over zeolite H-ZSM-5 : On the origin of the olefinic species

Lung Wa Chung,† W. M. C. Sameera,‡ Romain Ramozzi,‡ Alister J. Page, Miho Hatanaka,‡ Galina P. Petrova, Travis V. Harris,‡,⊥ Xin Li, Zhuofeng Ke, Fengyi Liu, Hai-Bei Li, Lina Ding, and Keiji Morokuma*,‡ †Department of Chemistry, South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen 518055, China ‡Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry, Kyoto University, 34-4 Takano Nishihiraki-cho, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8103, Japan Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan 2308, Australia Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Sofia, Bulgaria Boulevard James Bourchier 1, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Oswego, Oswego, New York 13126, United States State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Science of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710119, China School of Ocean, Shandong University, Weihai 264209, China School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, 100 Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou, Henan 450001, China

The ONIOM Method and Its Applications

https://ris.utwente.nl/ws/files/6651605/Lercher96infra-red.pdf

Infrared studies of the surface acidity of oxides and zeolites using adsorbed probe molecules

Alkylation of Toluene over Basic Catalysts—Key Requirements for Side Chain Alkylation

https://ris.utwente.nl/ws/files/6861524/Palomares97selective.pdf

Selective alkylation of toluene over basic zeolites: an in situ infrared spectroscopic investigation

n-Butane Isomerization over Acidic Mordenite

https://ris.utwente.nl/ws/files/6718730/Grundling96selectivity.pdf

G. Eder-Mirth

Papers

Infrared studies of the surface acidity of oxides and zeolites using adsorbed probe molecules

Alkylation of Toluene over Basic Catalysts—Key Requirements for Side Chain Alkylation

Selective alkylation of toluene over basic zeolites: an in situ infrared spectroscopic investigation

n-Butane Isomerization over Acidic Mordenite

Selectivity Enhancement in Methylamine Synthesis via Postsynthesis Modification of Brønsted Acidic Mordenite