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Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Reduction with Borohydrides (BH4–): A Sustainable Route for CO2 Utilization†

Indra Neel Pulidindi, Swaroopa Guguloth, Hitarth Narkhede, Nilesh Kumar Gabu, Manan Shah, Suresh Selvaraj

Abstract


Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the major green house gas responsible for global warming and the accompanied disastrous effects of climate change. Globally research efforts are on for the utilization of the challenge as an opportunity. Enormous research efforts are focused on the conversion of CO2 to fuels and chemicals. Finding suitable reducing agent, like the borohydrides, is the key for the effective utilization of CO2 for the production of fuels and chemicals, rather than searching for a catalyst owing to the major kinetic and thermodynamic constraints involved in the catalytic conversion of CO2 to useful chemicals and fuels. Here in the research efforts on the conversion of CO2 to formate, a green hydrogen carrier, using sodium borohydride (NaBH4) is reported. In addition, viable methods for the coversion of CO2 to other useful fuels, like methanol and nitrogen containing organic compounds, useful for pharmaceutical industry were summarized.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijem.v9i2.1066

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