Supercritical Carbon Dioxide: A Promoter of Carbon–Halogen Bond Heterolysis

T Delgado??Abad, J Martínez??Ferrer…

Index: Delgado-Abad, Thais; Martinez-Ferrer, Jaime; Caballero, Ana; Olmos, Andrea; Mello, Rossella; Gonzalez-Nunez, Maria Elena; Perez, Pedro J.; Asensio, Gregorio Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2013 , vol. 52, # 50 p. 13298 - 13301 Angew. Chem., 2013 , vol. 125, # 50 p. 13540 - 13543

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Abstract

Supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) is an alternative medium for sustainable chemistry [1] that is competitive in a variety of chemical processes of technological importance.[1, 2] Carbon dioxide has zero dipole moment and very low polarizability,[3] and most polarity studies describe scCO2 as a nonpolar medium with a very low dielectric constant and no hydrogen-bonding behavior, comparable to n-hexane or carbon tetrachloride.[3] These ...