Samir Barman

Heteroatom-assisted oxygen vacancies in cerium oxide catalysts for efficient synthesis of dimethyl carbonate from CO2 and methanol† The direct synthesis of dimethyl carbonate (DMC) from CO2 and methanol is a green synthetic route owing to the nontoxicity of starting materials and synthetic protocol. One of the key challenges in this approach resides in designing effective catalysts which could activate CO2 and methanol efficiently leading to a high yield of DMC.

1. Introduction Chromium catalysts constructed with phosphine donor ligands exhibiting low bite angles have captivated researchers for decades due to their unparallel potential over other ligand systems to carryout highly selective ethylene oligomerization under amenable conditions [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18].

Mechanical recycling of plastic waste is not sustainable and inefficient in terms of the resources needed to accomplish the process, and the quality of the materials obtained from this technique is substandard. Chemical recycling of waste polymers appears to be preferable because this technology allows for the production of new materials.