Exploiting Decarbonylation and Dehydrogenation of Formamides for the Synthesis of Ureas, Polyureas, and Poly(urea-urethanes)

Chem. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1039/D4SC03948C, Edge Article James Luk, Alister S. Goodfellow, Nachiket More, Michael Buehl, Amit Kumar Urea derivatives, polyureas, and poly(urea-urethanes) are materials of great interest. However, their current methods of synthesis involve toxic feedstocks - isocyanate and phosgene gas. There is significant interest in developing...