Carbon Dioxide Capture and Activation

Research on CO₂ capture and utilization to produce chemicals and fuels has received a significant amount of attention in recent years, primarily because of the growing recognition in the scientific community that progress in this field offers opportunities for solving the problems of both fossil fuel depletion and global warming. The goal of this chapter is to display the broad array of recent developments in this area of research, including the current technology and promising methods for CO₂ capture, the thermodynamics/kinetics of CO₂ binding and structures of metal CO₂ complexes, conversion of CO₂ to industrially useful chemicals, hydrogenation of CO₂ to produce fuels, and the electrochemical and photochemical reduction of CO₂.