OPUS13

National Science Centre’s OPUS13 project No. 2017/25/B/ST5/02484

Development of new pathways for CO₂ utilization:
From a common waste to a valuable chemical feedstock

Project leader: Prof. Janusz Lewiński

Project duration: January 2018 – January 2021

Project value: PLN 1 376 000

PROJECT DESCRIPTION   EXECUTORS   PARTNERS   PAPERS   RECRUITMENT

Project description

Carbon dioxide is the most abundant and important C-1 building block in Nature. Simultaneously, the carbon dioxide is one of the most spreading greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Therefore, in regard to the fight with global warming the decrease of its concentration is now a very important issue. One of the most challenging strategy for decreasing CO₂ amount is its direct transformation into useful and value-added products. This strategy changes the role of CO₂ from an unwonted waste to a commonly available chemical feedstock and, as such, it is a fast developing area of research with potentially far-reaching technological applications. The project aims at more advanced understanding of the CO₂ activation and fixation processes and development of new pathways for rational carbon dioxide transformation into valuable products and materials of desired functionality.

Executors

Collaborating groups

1. Dr. David Fairen-Jimenez, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, University of Cambridge
2. Prof. Andrzej Katrusiak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
3. Dr. Jacinto Sá, Department of Chemistry–Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University
4. Prof. Erwin Reisner, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge

Papers

1. A. Tulewicz, M. Wolska-Pietkiewicz, M. Jędrzejewska, T. Ratajczyk, I. Justyniak, J. Lewinski
   Towards extended zinc ethylsulfinate networks by stepwise insertion of sulfur dioxide into Zn‐C bonds
   Chemistry - A European Journal, 2019, 25, 14072-14080.  WWW  Cover!

Recruitment

Currently, there is no open recruitment