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process constitutes a wide range of substituted cyclic carbon-
ates in moderate to high yields using CO2 as a C1 synthon.
More importantly, this eco-friendly method can also expand to
a variety of sugar alcohols that are widely available and low-
cost bio-feedstock, thus effectively obtaining structurally
diverse polycyclic carbonates with high chemo- and stereo-
selectivity. Further investigation towards the practical appli-
cation of functionalized cyclic carbonates, especially bio-based
polycyclic carbonates, is currently underway in our laboratories.
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Conflicts of interest
We declare that we have no conflicts of interest.
Acknowledgements
This work is supported by National Natural Science
Foundation of China (Grant No. 91856108), the Program for
Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in
University (IRT-17R14), and the Fundamental Research Funds
for the Central Universities (DUT18LK55).
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