Wei-Xin Ma

Dicationic Porous Poly(Ionic Liquid)s with Hydrogen Bond Donors for Efficient Catalytic Conversion of CO2 under Mild Conditions.

The formation of cyclic carbonates by coupling CO2 with epoxides offers a practical way of upgrading the surplus CO2 that has accumulated in the atmosphere, and thus helps to mitigate global warming. Because CO2 is intrinsically robust thermodynamically and sluggish kinetically, however, this transformation usually dem...