Carboxylation of Acetylene without Salt Waste: Using thermodynamic predictions to optimize the catalyst and the reaction solvent
The utilization of CO2 as C1 building block is a key towards a sustainable industrial synthesis of base chemicals. In this work, we developed a circular process for the production of the C4 chemical dimethyl [...] dimethyl succinate from CO2 and acetylene, i.e. a C-H carboxylation reaction. The inherent formation of salt waste in such C-H carboxylations has so far been a major challenge. This was resolved in this …
