Well-Defined Cesium Benzotriazolide as an Active Catalyst for Generating Disubstituted Ureas from Carbon Dioxide and Amines

Abstract

The front cover artwork for Issue 2/2017 is provided by a collaboration between Prof. Yong Jin Kim's group (KITECH), Prof. Yunho Lee's group (KAIST), and Korea University of Science and Technology (UST). The image shows that a robust and well-defined Cesium Benzotriazolide can catalyze direct carboxylation of CO2 with various amines to produce corresponding disubstituted ureas in very high yield with highest TOF (344h−1) in the scope of carboxylation of amines. See the Communication itself at https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201601320.