| Green Chemistry has been described as a relatively new but important field of science, due to the environmental and economic concerns science and industry face in this new century. Neoteric, or new, solvents play a major role in the progress of Green Chemistry because they serve as benign alternatives to traditional volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which are used everyday as solvents in enormous quantities by industry. In particular, fluorous biphasic catalysis (FBC) and the increasingly important use of carbon dioxide (CO 2) as a solvent have gained large attention from the scientific community due in part to their potential in homogenous catalysis and post-reaction catalytic separation (and recovery) techniques. As such, the intent of this dissertation is to investigate the utility of carbon dioxide, based on the principles of Green Chemistry, and more specifically its role in homogeneous catalysis, fluorous biphasic chemistry, and C1 chemistry (CO 2 activation). |
