Chemical fixation of carbon dioxide by NaI/PPh3/PhOH.
In the presence of catalytic amounts of sodium iodide, triphenylphosphine, and phenol, carbon dioxide can efficiently react with epoxides to give the corresponding five-membered cyclic carbonates in high yields. The mechanism of this reaction was disclosed by (31)P NMR spectroscopic data and deuterium labeling experiments.
Huang
Jin-Wen
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State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, 354 Fenglin Road, Shanghai 200032, China.
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Min
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