Green Chemistry @ MUN

Jenna’s March Catalysis Science & Technology blog post is now online. Epoxides can couple with carbon dioxide in the presence of aluminium(III) catalysts to give cyclic carbonates, which have a variety of uses in industry.

A single centre aluminium(III) catalyst and TBAB as an ionic organocatalyst for the homogeneous catalytic synthesis of styrene carbonate 
Somsak Supasitmongkol and Peter Styring
Catal. Sci. Technol. 2014, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3CY01015E