An unprecedented genre of lanthanide-based coordination polymers to widen the scopes of CO2 fixation

Key Points

• To investigate the role of lanthanide-based coordination polymers in CO2 fixation processes.
• Synthesize coordination polymers using trivalent lanthanide ions and Schiff base ligands.
• Characterize the formed polymers and study their interactions with CO2.
• Analyze the reactivity of the polymers in CO2 fixation.
• Identified effective coordination polymers capable of fixing CO2 into inorganic carbonate.
• Revealed unknown reactive species involved in the CO2 fixation process.