CO2 Capture with Silylated Ethanolamines and Piperazines.

Invited for this month's cover is the group of Marcus Herbig from the TU Bergakademie in Freiberg. The cover picture shows the reaction of CO2 with a silyl derivative of the biogenic amine ethanolamine. The role of CO2 as a contributor to climate change makes "carbon capture" a desirable goal. However, in addition to simply capture CO2, aminosilanes form silylcarbamates, which represent starting materials for a variety of crucial chemicals. Thus, the entrapped CO2 represents a useful C1 building block. The ESF-funded Junior Research Group CO2-Sil at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg (represented by their Logo and location) pursues that kind of goals. CO2-Sil studies these key reactions of CO2 insertion in depth by syntheses, quantum chemical calculations and calorimetric experiments. CO2 brought to the ground by our method shall be feedstock for various branches in chemistry. Read the full text of their Full Paper at 10.1002/open.201900269.