Well, sorta boring. It is a linear molecule without any charge on it. It is grossly stable. If your a plant, you won't be reading this, but you might find CO2 vital.
In order for plants to utilize carbon dioxide it takes a lot of energy. A lot of sunshine. The form of energy that is used by plants is called ATP (adenosine triphosphate). ATP is vitally important to metabolism. The energy the plants of Earth use is garnered from sunlight due to WAVE LENGTH.
There are several different chlorophyll. They all utilize sunlight for producing ATP that in turn utilizes carbon dioxide in it's metabolism. When sunlight wavelength is utilized by plants that literally use the vibration to produce energy, it is selective. It doesn't use all the wavelength of sunlight.
The Sun delivers a full spectrum of light to Earth. But, chlorophyll with it's different colors/molecular structure uses it selectively. Everyone who wants to understand why vision is colorful understands the absorption of light and how the colors we see is what is left over when selective wavelength is absorbed by objects. The color black is a complete absorption of all visual wavelength, white color is a complete reflection of visual wavelength.
