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Green and Sustainable Chemistry in Practice: Development and Industrialization of a Novel Process for Polycarbonate Production from CO2 without Using Phosgene

This review focuses on the world’s first process for producing an aromatic polycarbonate (PC) using CO2 as starting material. The process is an example of green and sustainable chemistry as previous methods of producing PC use not only highly toxic and corrosive phosgene made from CO and Cl2 as a monomer, but also very large amounts of CH2Cl2 and water.

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