Chemical fixation of CO 2 to value-added products/materials/fuel has attracted more and more attention from both academia and governmental agencies all over the worldsince CO 2 is an easily available and sustainable C 1 resource with the advantage of being abundant, nontoxic, nonflammable and renewable. Synthesis of organic carbonates starting from CO 2 is one of the most promising methodologies and has been widely investigated. The use of CO 2 and 1,2-diols can bring many advantages, such as

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... using the byproducts generated in the industrial dimethyl carbonate (DMC) process and simplifying the post purification process. In this paper, synthetic methods with reaction mechanism of ethylene carbonate (EC), propylene carbonate (PC) and glycerol carbonate from CO 2 and ethylene glycol (EG), or propylene glycol (PG) or glycerol are systematically discussed.