The massive emission of CO2 due to the human activation and industrial production, and subsequent series environmental problems such as greenhouse effect, glacier melting and a rise in sea level, are one of the global challenges in this century. Nevertheless, CO2 is also a renewable, non-toxic and low-cost C1 resource for industry and pharmacy. Both homo- and hetero-generous catalytic systems have been developed for the conversion of CO2, while most of the reported catalysts convert CO2 to only one type of product, and the materials to activate CO2 in different progresses are quite rare. The development of efficient versatile catalysts to convert CO2 into multi high value-added products is just at the beginning, which could contribute to reduce the cost, save the energy-consuming and expand the application area of CO2 fixation and conversion. In this abstract, we show an investigation of a molybdenum alkoxide compound, namely Mo2(OR)6 (R is alkyl group), as a homogeneous catalyst for the conversion of CO2. Under ambient pressure, CO2 were converted by this molybdenum catalyst into multi products including propiolic acids, cyclic carbonates, benzo[d]thiazole and benzo[d]oxazole carboxylic acids in high yield, short reaction time, low energy-consuming, good tolerance of substrates and excellent selectivity.

Conversion of CO2 into multi-products via the molybdenum alkoxide catalyst

255th National Meeting (2018)

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