Carbon dioxide based methodologies for the synthesis of fine chemicals

Rapid environmental changes triggered by the increase in the concentration of heat-absorbing gases such as COin the atmosphere have become a major cause of concern. One of the ways to counter this growing threat will be to efficiently convert atmospheric COinto value-added productsviathe development of efficient transition-metal-catalyzed processes. Conversion of COinto bulk products such as CHOH and methane as well as its incorporation into commercial polyurethane synthesis has been achieved and reviewed extensively. However, the efficient transformation of COinto fine chemicals and value-added chemicals has many fold advantages. Recent years have seen a rapid rise in the number of metal-mediated protocols to achieve this goal of converting COinto fine chemicals. These are essential developments given the requirement of several commodities and fine chemicals in various industrial processes and the utilization of atmospheric COwill help provide a sustainable solution to the current environmental problems. Accordingly, we present here a comprehensive compilation of catalytic processes, involving COas the C1 source for reacting with substrates such as alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, amines, acid chlorides, alcohols, allyl boronates, alkenyl triflates, and many others to provide easy access to a wide variety of useful molecules. Such a technology would certainly prove to be beneficial in solving the problems associated with the environmental accumulation of CO