22nd – 24th November 2021, University of Oslo 🇳🇴
NordCO2 is collaborating with the ITN CO2PERATE to organise the 2021 Winter School, which will take place over the course of three days from the 22nd to the 24th of November this year. The focus of the school will be on the “Mechanisms of CO2 activation” as well as “Isotopic labelling”. The course will consist of digital lectures in the mornings and practical sessions in the afternoon.
Programme:
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Curriculum list:
Session 1 (Introduction):
- Review: Using carbon dioxide as a building block in organic synthesis
- Review: Sustainable Conversion of Carbon Dioxide: An Integrated Review of Catalysis and Life Cycle Assessment
- Chapter: The Carbon Dioxide Molecule and the Effects of Its Interaction with Electrophiles and Nucleophiles, obligatory
Session 2 (CO2 to Chemicals):
- Mini review: Carbon-carbon bonds with CO2: Insights from computational studies
- Review: Synthesis of Carboxylic Acids and Esters from CO2, obligatory page 1-44.
- Chapter: Versatile Use of Carbon Dioxide in the Synthesis of Carbamates
- Perspective: Enantioselective Incorporation of CO2: Status and Potential, obligatory
Session 3 (CO2 to fuels):
- Chapter 2 and Chapter 4 of Transformation of Carbon Dioxide to Formic Acid and Methanol by Wan-Hui Wang, Xiujuan Feng, Ming Bao,
- Reversible Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide to Formic Acid and Methanol: Lewis Acid Enhancement of Base Metal Catalysts obligatory
- Advances in catalytic homogeneous hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to Methanol obligatory
Practical Information:
The courses will take place at UiO, at the Chemistry building (Sem Sælandsvei 26, 0371 Oslo). The accomodation will be at Comfort Hotel Børsparken (Tollbugata 4, 0152 Oslo). Between the two, you can take the tram (lines 4 or 5; from Blindern to Jernbanetorget). It is a 10 minutes trip (about 20 minutes including the walking), and the trams pass by approximately every 5 minutes.
Map:
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