Capturing CO2: A new method has been developed for the chemical fixation of CO
2 by using allyltrimethoxysilane as a nucleophile in the presence of palladium nanoparticles as a catalyst. The palladium-catalyzed three-component coupling of either (chloromethyl)arenes or (chloromethyl)heteroarenes with allyltrimethoxysilane and carbon dioxide (i.e., a carboxylative Hiyama coupling reaction) successfully produced α,β-unsaturated esters in satisfactory to good yields. More information can be found in the full paper by Ming Bao,
Xiujuan Feng et al. on
page 177 in Issue 2, 2017 (DOI:
10.1002/ajoc.201600510).