Back Cover: Bifunctional Silver(I) Complex‐Catalyzed CO 2 Conversion at Ambient Conditions: Synthesis of α‐Methylene Cyclic Carbonates and Derivatives (ChemSusChem 5/2015)

Abstract

© 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. The Back Cover image shows utilization of CO 2 , which holds great promise as a sustainable feedstock rather than a waste. The idea of the whole image comes from an ancient Chinese Taiji (Taoism) nose map: on the one hand, CO 2 is an exhaust gas and a greenhouse gas; on the other hand, it can be upgraded into numerous fruits through an ingenious methodology, namely catalysis, which can be considered as a great contribution towards realizing a beautiful world and better life. Incorporation of CO 2 into chemicals can be achieved through a catalytic pathway at ambient conditions. This metal-promoted protocol can be applied to various transformations of CO 2 into value-added products on a 10g scale. The synergic activation mode based on the bifunctional silver(I) catalyst used is supported by DFT studies, NMR spectroscopy, 13 C labelling, and control experiments. More details can be found in the Full Paper by Song etal. on page (DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201402921).