Although nature uses CO2 as its main carbon source, the employment of CO2 as a readily available inexpensive feedstock for commodity chemicals is still in its infancy.[1] Major industrial applications include the synthesis of urea, salicylic acid, and cyclic and polymeric carbonates.[2] The reduction of CO2 to formic acid, methanol, or methane on an industrial scale is much less advanced. For example, there are only few pilot plants that are ...
