Professor Michael North

Professor of Organic Chemistry and joint director of the URC in Catalysis and Intensified Processing

 

Catalytic Synthesis of Cyclic Carbonates and Thiocarbonates

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1.        J. Meléndez, M. North and R. Pasquale; ‘Synthesis of cyclic carbonates from atmospheric pressure carbon dioxide using exceptionally active aluminium(salen) complexes as catalysts’ Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2007, 3323-3326.

2.        M. North and R. Pasquale ‘Mechanism of cyclic carbonate synthesis from epoxides and CO2’ Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 2946-2948.

3.        J. Meléndez, M. North and P. Villuendas ‘One-component catalysts for cyclic carbonate synthesis’ Chem. Commun. 2009, 2577-2579.

4.        M. North, P. Villuendas and C. Young ‘A gas phase flow reactor for ethylene carbonate synthesis from waste CO2’ Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 11454-11457 (highlighted in Chemistry World: and December 2009 issue page 29).

5.        M. North, and P. Villuendas ‘Aluminium(salen) and Tetrabutylammonium Bromide Catalysed Synthesis of Cyclic Di- and Trithiocarbonates from Epoxides and Carbon Disulphide’ Synlett, 2010, 623-627.

6.         I.S. Metcalfe, M. North, R. Pasquale and A. Thursfield ‘An integrated approach to energy and chemicals production’ Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, 3, 212-215. Highlighted in Highlights in Chemical Technology.

7.         W. Clegg, R.W. Harrington, M. North, and R. Pasquale ‘Cyclic carbonate synthesis catalysed by bimetallic aluminium(salen) complexes’ Chem. Eur. J. 2010, 16, 6828-6843.

8.         W. Clegg, R. W. Harrington, M. North, P. Villuendas ‘A bimetallic aluminum(salen) complex for the synthesis of 1,3-oxathiolane-2-thiones and 1,3-dithiolane-2-thiones’ J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 6201–6207.

9.         J. Meléndez, M. North, P. Villuendas, and C. Young ‘One-component bimetallic aluminium(salen)-based catalysts for cyclic carbonate synthesis and their immobilization’ Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 3885–3902.

10.      M. North, and C. Young ‘Bimetallic aluminium(acen) complexes as catalysts for the synthesis of cyclic carbonates from carbon dioxide and epoxides’ Catal. Sci. Technol. 2011, 1, 93–99.

11.      M. North, B. Wang, and C. Young ‘Influence of flue gas on the catalytic activity of an immobilized aluminium(salen) complex for cyclic carbonate synthesis’ Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, 4, 4163–4170 (featured on back cover).

12.      M. North and C. Young ‘Reducing the cost of production of bimetallic aluminium catalysts for the synthesis of cyclic carbonates’ ChemSusChem 2011, 4, 1685–1693.

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