CO2 created by human activities is a very damaging waste affecting climate change; in ISOF, we attempt to exploit this harmful molecule as a valuable C1-building block to produce added value chemicals. We develop new protocols working at room temperature and atmospheric pressure to develop new synthetic procedures to transform CO2 into high-value products, overcoming kinetic and mass transfer issues affecting gas-liquid reactions.
To this aim, we combine the opportunities offered by catalysis, nanotechnology, flow chemistry, magnetism and aerosol chemistry to overcome limitation related to CO2 conversion, thus providing a novel approach to maximize yield through continuous reactor operation and the recovery and recycling of the catalysts used for the reaction.
