Carbon Dioxide: an Attractive Building Block for Inorganic and Organic Compounds

The employment of carbon dioxide as C1-unit to build inorganic and organic compounds was investigated. New metal carbamates were synthesized and characterized using different strategies. These complexes were tested as catalytic precursors in some different carbon dioxide activation reactions using reaction conditions as mild as possible. Attention was paid in the study of catalysts action mechanisms employing spectroscopic measurements and DFT calculations.