Carbon dioxide as a raw material
(PHYSorg.com Chemistry)

Researchers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum have found a way to turn climate-damaging CO2 into an alcohol that could serve as a raw material for the chemical industry without producing large amounts of salt waste. The reaction mechanism is described by Timo Wendling and Prof Dr. Lukas Goossen, together with a colleague of the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, in the journal Chemistry-A European Journal.