Catching Carbon Dioxide

Methods for capturing small molecules with metal coordination complexes always fascinates me.  Molecules are always being developed to capture gas that we either want to store (like hydrogen) or get rid of (like carbon dioxide).  This summary article highlights a method of capturing CO2 as oxalate, which can be used to make other molecules.

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/88/i03/8803notw2.html

Amazing Slug…

There may be some possibilities here…?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34824610/ns/technology_and_science-science/?GT1=43001