New Article by Egill Skulason

New Article by Egill Skulason

NordCO2 PI Egill Skulason from University of Iceland just published a computational article on electrochemical reduction of CO2 and product selectivities. The article can be found here.

 

Open PhD Position

Open PhD position in Computational Chemistry at University of Bergen in Norway. Project: Quantum chemical investigations of electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 over nanostructured catalysts based …

Faces of CO2

CO2 is not a big molecule – but there is so much you can do with it!
– You can convert CO2 to medicine in the lab.
– You can feed CO2 to algae, so they become fish-feed.
– You can detect CO2 in human breath and diagnose diseases.
– You can investigate how organisms in the ocean are affected by raising CO2 levels.
– You can study CO2 emissions in Norway and how they affect our climate goals.


Our exhibition ‘Faces of CO2‘ shows great pictures from CO2 related research at UiT.
See the exhibition at Vitensenteret in Tromsø on April 14th or online here: https://site.uit.no/choco/faces-of-co2/

Carbamates from CO2

NordCO2 member Prof. Timo Repo and his co-workers have reported a facile synthesis of cyclic carbamates from amino alcohols and CO2: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2018/cc/c8cc00636a

The article is Open access and free to read for everyone.

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Tosyl-assisted cyclization of carbon dioxide and amino alcohols in the presence of an external base. The carbamate species must be formed first and stabilized to avoid the competing N-tosylation reaction, which prevents the formation of the desired product.