In my thesis I researched the issue of carbon dioxide and its potential for binding, as well as disposal from the environment, as this reduces its impact on the environment. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas that causes ocean acidification, affects plants and their accelerated growth, causes the greenhouse effect and, as a result, global warming, leading to melting glaciers and rising ocean levels. In order to successfully prevent environmental impacts, methods are being developed to efficiently bind metal-organic complexes with their different coordination and different ligands. Metal complexes act as ideal heterogeneous catalysts for CO2 activation and their ability to bind in many combinations of different ligands to metal ions. Further research is therefore primarily concerned with finding the most optimal combinations of metal centers and ligands to form complexes, to bind CO2 under mild conditions, thus also achieving the concept of "green chemistry". The thesis describes synthetic processes using CO2 to produce chemicals such as: carbonates and carbamates, carboxylic acids, methanol and urea. The Kolbe-Schmidt process is also described.
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