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Use of CO2 in organic synthesis, e.g. for production of (2), formerly required 100–200 °C and 5–200 atm. Catalysts such as MoCl5/PPh3, AlCl3/PPh3, etc. now permit working under normal conditions.
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Ratzenhofer et al. (1980) studied this question.
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