China Three Gorges University

About: China Three Gorges University is a education organization based out in Yichang, China. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Catalysis & Landslide. The organization has 11161 authors who have published 8011 publications receiving 82224 citations. The organization is also known as: Sanxia Daxue.

Enhanced carbon dioxide conversion at ambient conditions via a pore enrichment effect.

Abstract: Chemical fixation of carbon dioxide (CO2) may be a pathway to retard the current trend of rapid global warming. However, the current economic cost of chemical fixation remains high because the chemical fixation of CO2 usually requires high temperature or high pressure. The rational design of an efficient catalyst that works at ambient conditions might substantially reduce the economic cost of fixation. Here, we report the rational design of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) as efficient CO2 fixation catalysts under ambient conditions based on the finding of “pore enrichment”, which is concluded by a detailed investigation of the 10994 COFs. The best predicted COF, Zn-Salen-COF-SDU113, is synthesized, and its efficient catalytic performance for CO2 cycloaddition to terminal epoxide is confirmed with a yield of 98.2% and turnover number (TON) of 3068.9 under ambient conditions, which is comparable to the reported leading catalysts. Moreover, this COF achieves the cycloaddition of CO2 to 2,3-epoxybutane under ambient conditions among all porous materials. This work provides a strategy for designing porous catalysts in the economic fixation of carbon dioxide. Currently the cost of CO2 chemical fixation remains high because of harsh reaction conditions. Here, the authors report a covalent organic framework screened from 10994 candidates as the efficient CO2 fixation catalyst under ambient conditions based on the finding of a “pore enrichment effect”.

Odorless Isocyanide Chemistry: One-Pot Synthesis of Heterocycles via the Passerini and Postmodification Tandem Reaction Based on the in Situ Capture of Isocyanides

Abstract: This paper reports the tandem reaction strategy of the Passerini/Staudinger/aza-Wittig reaction based on the in situ capture of isocyanides. According to this strategy, isocyanides are synthesized in situ and immediately work as the substrate for the Passerini reaction and postmodification tandem reaction in one pot. In addition, two types of new compounds, 5-oxo-3,5-dihydrobenzo[e][1,4]oxazepines and 6-oxo-5,6-dihydro-2H-1,4-oxazines, were synthesized using the tandem reaction strategy that includes five-step transformations in one pot.