title: Synthesis of Ureas from CO2.
abstract: Ureas are an important class of bioactive organic compounds in organic chemistry and exist widely in natural products, agricultural pesticides, uron herbicides, pharmaceuticals. Even though urea itself has been synthesized from CO2and ammonia for a long time, the selective and efficient synthesis of substituted ureas is still challenging due to the difficulty of dehydration processes. Efficient and economic fixation of CO2is of great importance in solving the problems of resource shortages, environmental issues, global warming, etc. During recent decades, chemists have developed different catalytic systems to synthesize ureas from CO2and amines. Herein, we focus on catalytic synthesis of ureas using CO2and amines.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation, Suzhou Research Institute of LICP, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation, Suzhou Research Institute of LICP, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Zhuo
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xin
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation, Suzhou Research Institute of LICP, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, People's Republic of China. yhli@licp.cas.cn.
authors.forename: Yuehui
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4520-1418
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000588:Amines / Q000737:chemistry; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000737:chemistry*; D002384:Catalysis; D015394:Molecular Structure; D014508:Urea / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D000588:Amines; D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D014508:Urea
keywords: Carbamates; Carbon dioxide; Catalysis; Dehydration; Synthesis of ureas