“…Over the past decades, photocatalysis, specifically visible-light-driven photocatalysis which is a mild and efficient catalytic strategy, has undergone enormous developments, 43–48 offering a new route for carboxylation with CO 2 . 49–55 For example, Li summarized recent developments in light-induced carboxylation of organic compounds containing alkenes, alkynes, C–H bonds, C–O bonds, and C–(pseudo)halide bonds and unsaturated amines with CO 2 , and their respective reaction mechanism of photocatalytic CO 2 fixation was given; 49 Shi reviewed the visible-light driven carboxylation of CC, CO, C–halide, C–H, C(sp 3 )–O and other miscellaneous bonds with CO 2 ; 51 Yu and Zhang conducted a review on the visible light-driven carboxylation of different chemical raw materials (including alkenes, alkynes, aldehydes, ketones, imines, organo halides and others) with CO 2 , and provided a perspective on this field; 52 Yu and Zhou reviewed visible-light-driven reductive carboxylation with CO 2 via dual visible light photoredox/transition metal catalysis, visible light photoredox-catalyzed carbanion formation, visible-light-induced charge-transfer complex formation, 54 etc . However, no review has systematically discussed the synthesis of aromatic carboxylic acids using visible-light driven carboxylation with CO 2 .…”