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Inside Back Cover: Upgrading Carbon Dioxide by Incorporation into Heterocycles (ChemSusChem 1/2015)
Author(s) -
Yu Bing,
He LiangNian
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chemsuschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.412
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1864-564X
pISSN - 1864-5631
DOI - 10.1002/cssc.201403171
Subject(s) - synthon , nucleophile , moiety , carbon fixation , chemistry , reagent , organic synthesis , cyclic amines , carbon dioxide , combinatorial chemistry , intramolecular force , organic chemistry , nanotechnology , materials science , amine gas treating , catalysis
The Inside Back Cover picture shows the chemical transformation of CO 2 as an appealing tool for heterocycle synthesis through rationally designed substrates and subsequent intramolecular cyclization. This pattern of CO 2 fixation can be regarded as a “nucleophilic pathway”, avoiding use of stoichiometric organometallic reagents. With this strategy, either the entire “CO 2 ” moiety or “CO” fragment could be incorporated into a variety of heterocycles including cyclic carbamates, benzoxazine‐2‐one, 4‐hydroxyquinolin‐2‐one, quinazoline‐2,4(1 H ,3 H )‐diones, benzimidazolones, and α‐alkylidene cyclic carbonate. In their Minireview on page 52 (DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201402837 ), Yu et al. discuss strategies for upgrading CO 2 into value‐added heterocycles under mild conditions and potential utilization of CO 2 as an alternative and ideal sustainable C 1 synthon in organic synthesis rather than just being wasted.