1. Photosynthetic carbon dioxide fixation 2. Partial reactions and chemical rescue of site-directed mutants 3. Rubisco as mechanistic probes 4. Elements of the structure of ribulose 5. Learning from Rubisco's mistakes 6. Tests and models of mechanisms for biotin-dependent carbon dioxide fixation 7. Chemistry of B12 derivations related to their roles in bacterial carbon dioxide fixation 8. Stoichiometric and catalytic activation of carbon dioxide on transition- metal complexes 9. Organometallic chemistry of carbon dioxide pertinent to catalysis 10. Catalytic additions of carbon dioxide adducts to alkynes 11. Activation and reduction of carbon dioxide to formylmethanofuran 12. Hydrogenatian of carbon dioxide by catalysts 13. Carbon dioxide as an organic building block 14. Electrochemical syntheses involving carbon dioxide 15. Photochemical electron transfer applied to the reduction of carbon dioxide 16. Room temperature catalytic and photocatalytic fixation of carbon dioxide 17. Retrodiction of carbon dioxide fixation towards a chemoautotropic origin of life 18. Structure - activity correlations in carbamoyl phosphate synthetases 19. How enzymes deal with carbon dioxide and bicarbonate 19. Cyanobacterial carbon dioxide concentrating mechanism 20. Molecular biology and biochemistry of carbon dioxide