Publications

Angelo Scopano - DC5 Cyclic carbonates are usually obtained from coupling of carbon dioxide and epoxides. The latter are generally prepared through the selective oxidation of alkenes or other compounds containing a double bond. However, a one-pot route in which an...

Giovanni Berluti - DC6 In this work, we developed a new, fully renewable catalytic strategy to synthesise an industrially relevant bio-based cyclic carbonate: 2,5-bis-dicarboxyl furan cyclic carbonate (BDFCC). This compound contains two terminal cyclic carbonate...

  Nishant Chaudhary - DC8 Ring-opening copolymerization (ROCOP) of CO2 and epoxides witnesses continued interest to access sustainable polycarbonates. Introduction of an exocyclic functional group onto the epoxides enables to tune and diversify the properties of...

Natalia Kulbacka - DC2 We report a method for the base-mediated transformation of ether-tethered acrylic ester-based cyclic carbonates into functionalized cyclic acetals. The protocol builds on the use of hydroxyalkyl-substituted cyclic carbonates that undergo an...

Enrico Lanaro - DC1 Herein, it is demonstrated that biobased poly(menthene carbonate) (PMC) can be conveniently used to enable catalysis-promoted atom looping thereby creating functionalized synthons and new types of repolymerizable monomers. The biobased...

Hussein Tabaja - DC7 The methoxycarbonylation of 3-ethylidene-6-vinyltetrahydro-2H-pyran-2-one (EVP), a commodity δ-valerolactone prepared by telomerization of CO2 with butadiene, is reported. The pytbpx ligand proved instrumental to achieve successful formation of...