Two major energy-related problems confront the world in the
next 50 years. First, increased worldwide competition for
gradually depleting fossil fuel reserves (derived from past
photosynthesis) will lead to higher costs, both monetarily and politically. Second, atmospheric CO_2 levels are at their highest recorded level since records began. Further increases are predicted to produce large and uncontrollable impacts on the world climate. These projected impacts extend beyond climate to ocean acidification, because the ocean is a major sink for atmospheric CO2.1 Providing a future energy supply that is secure and CO_2-neutral will require switching to nonfossil energy sources such as wind, solar, nuclear, and geothermal energy and developing methods for transforming the energy produced by these new sources into forms that can be stored, transported, and used upon demand.

Frontiers, Opportunities, and Challenges in Biochemical and Chemical Catalysis of CO2 Fixation

A plethora of methods have been developed over the years so that carbon dioxide can be used as a reactant in organic synthesis. Given the abundance of this compound, its utilization in synthetic chemistry, particularly on an industrial scale, is still at a rather low level. In the last 35 years, considerable research has been performed to find catalytic routes to transform CO(2) into carboxylic acids, esters, lactones, and polymers in an economic way. This Review presents an overview of the available homogeneous catalytic routes that use carbon dioxide as a C(1) carbon source for the synthesis of industrial products as well as fine chemicals.

Transformation of Carbon Dioxide with Homogeneous Transition-Metal Catalysts: A Molecular Solution to a Global Challenge?

Rhodium-catalyzed carbon-carbon bond forming reactions of organometallic compounds.

Infrared spectroscopic identification of species arising from reactive adsorption of carbon oxides on metal oxide surfaces

Coordination chemistry and catalysis with hemilabile oxygen-phosphorus ligands

Structure of the product formed in the reaction of carbon dioxide with ruthenium hydride complexes

The review deals with the new rapidly developing field of homogeneous catalysis and coordination chemistry, namely with reactions involving hydrogen transfer from organic compounds to transition metal complexes accompanied by the dissociation of a C–H bond and the formation of a metal–hydrogen bond. Particular attention has been devoted to catalytic reactions in which transition metal compounds serve as catalysts of hydrogen transfer and of the reduction of organic compounds by the C–H bonds of other organic molecules. The bibliography includes 177 references.

Hydrogen Transfer from Organic Compounds Catalysed by Transition Metal Complexes

The reaction of carbon dioxide with dicyclopentadienyldiphenyltitanium leads to carboxylation of the phenyl ring and to metallocycle formation; the molecular structure of the compound has been determined by an X-ray study.

Reaction of carbon dioxide with diphenyltitanocene and X-ray crystal structure of the product

Insertion of carbon dioxide into the rhodium-carbon bond : The structure of tris(triphenylphosphine)rhodium benzoate

The reactions of transition metal compounds involving the formation of CO2 complexes, reactions with insertion of CO2 in transition metal–hydrogen and transition metal–carbon bonds, and homogeneous catalytic processes in which carbon dioxide behaves as a reactant or a modifying ligand are considered. A special section is devoted to reversible reactions accompanied by elimination of carbon dioxide under the influence of transition metal compounds. The bibliography includes 306 references.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1070/RC1978v047n04ABEH002222/pdf

I. S. Kolomnikov

Papers

Structure of the product formed in the reaction of carbon dioxide with ruthenium hydride complexes

Hydrogen Transfer from Organic Compounds Catalysed by Transition Metal Complexes

Reaction of carbon dioxide with diphenyltitanocene and X-ray crystal structure of the product

Insertion of carbon dioxide into the rhodium-carbon bond : The structure of tris(triphenylphosphine)rhodium benzoate

The Interaction of Carbon Dioxide with Transition Metal Complexes