“…Thus, the improvement of the DMC production process has drawn much attention. Currently, several main DMC synthesis routes have been developed, including phosgenation, 3 oxidative carbonylation, [4][5][6] alcoholysis of urea, 7,8 transesterification, [9][10][11][12] direct methanol syntheses from CO 2, 13,14 and so on. Among the routes, transesterification represents one of the main carbonate synthesis processes owing to its high atomic utilization, high yield of DMC, and mild reaction conditions (Scheme 1).…”