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Sato S, Sekizawa K, Shirai S, Sakamoto N, Morikawa T. Enhanced performance of molecular electrocatalysts for CO 2 reduction in a flow cell following K + addition. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2023; 9:eadh9986. [PMID: 37939196 PMCID: PMC10631738 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adh9986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2023] [Accepted: 10/06/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023]
Abstract
Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction is a key aspect of artificial photosynthesis systems designed to produce fuels. Although some molecular catalysts have good performance for CO2 reduction, these compounds also suffer from poor durability and energy efficiency. The present work demonstrates the improved CO2 reduction activity exhibited by molecular catalysts in a flow cell. These catalysts were composed of a cobalt-tetrapyridino-porphyrazine complex supported on carbon black together with potassium salt and were both stable and efficient. These systems were found to promote electrocatalytic CO2 reduction with a current density of 100 mA/cm2 and generated CO over at least 1 week with a selectivity of approximately 95%. The optimal catalyst gave a turnover number of 3,800,000 and an energy conversion efficiency of more than 62% even at 200 mA/cm2.
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- Shunsuke Sato
- Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Incorporated, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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- Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Incorporated, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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- Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Incorporated, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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- Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Incorporated, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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- Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Incorporated, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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Suzuki TM, Nagatsuka K, Nonaka T, Yamaguchi Y, Sakamoto N, Uyama T, Sekizawa K, Kudo A, Morikawa T. Highly selective CO 2 electrolysis in aqueous media by a water-soluble cobalt dimethyl-bipyridine complex. Chem Commun (Camb) 2023; 59:12318-12321. [PMID: 37753608 DOI: 10.1039/d3cc03940d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/28/2023]
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A water-soluble Co complex with dimethyl-bipyridine ligands reduced CO2 to CO electrochemically with almost 100% selectivity at -0.80 V vs. NHE in an aqueous medium (pH 6.8) without an organic solvent. The reaction overpotential was 270 mV. A possible CO formation mechanism was discussed based on experiments and calculations.
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- Tomiko M Suzuki
- Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., 41-1 Yokomichi, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan.
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan.
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- Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., 41-1 Yokomichi, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan.
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan.
- Carbon Value Research Center, Research Institute for Science & Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda-shi, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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- Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., 41-1 Yokomichi, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan.
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- Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., 41-1 Yokomichi, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan.
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- Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., 41-1 Yokomichi, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan.
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan.
- Carbon Value Research Center, Research Institute for Science & Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda-shi, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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- Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., 41-1 Yokomichi, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan.
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Johnsen WD, Deegbey M, Grills DC, Polyansky DE, Goldberg KI, Jakubikova E, Mallouk TE. Lewis Acids and Electron-Withdrawing Ligands Accelerate CO Coordination to Dinuclear Cu I Compounds. Inorg Chem 2023. [PMID: 37228171 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c01003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
Abstract
A series of dinuclear molecular copper complexes were prepared and used to model the binding and Lewis acid stabilization of CO in heterogeneous copper CO2 reduction electrocatalysts. Experimental studies (including measurement of rate and equilibrium constants) and electronic structure calculations suggest that the key kinetic barrier for CO binding may be a σ-interaction between CuI and the incoming CO ligand. The rate of CO coordination can be increased upon the addition of Lewis acids or electron-withdrawing substituents on the ligand backbone. Conversely, Keq for CO coordination can be increased by adding electron density to the metal centers of the compound, consistent with stronger π-backbonding. Finally, the electrochemically measured kinetic results were mapped onto an electrochemical zone diagram to illustrate how these system changes enabled access to each zone.
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- Walter D Johnsen
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-3816, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-6682, United States
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- Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, United States
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- Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-3816, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-6682, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-3816, United States
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Lodh J, Paul S, Sun H, Song L, Schöfberger W, Roy S. Electrochemical organic reactions: A tutorial review. Front Chem 2023; 10:956502. [PMID: 36704620 PMCID: PMC9871948 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2022.956502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2022] [Accepted: 12/07/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Although the core of electrochemistry involves simple oxidation and reduction reactions, it can be complicated in real electrochemical organic reactions. The principles used in electrochemical reactions have been derived using physical organic chemistry, which drives other organic/inorganic reactions. This review mainly comprises two themes: the first discusses the factors that help optimize an electrochemical reaction, including electrodes, supporting electrolytes, and electrochemical cell design, and the second outlines studies conducted in the field over a period of 10 years. Electrochemical reactions can be used as a versatile tool for synthetically important reactions by modifying the constant electrolysis current.
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- Joyeeta Lodh
- Eco-Friendly Applied Materials Laboratory (EFAML), Materials Science Centre, Department of Chemical Sciences, Mohanpur Campus, Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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- Eco-Friendly Applied Materials Laboratory (EFAML), Materials Science Centre, Department of Chemical Sciences, Mohanpur Campus, Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, Laboratory for Sustainable Chemistry and Catalysis (LSusCat), Johannes Kepler University (JKU), Linz, Austria
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, Laboratory for Sustainable Chemistry and Catalysis (LSusCat), Johannes Kepler University (JKU), Linz, Austria
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, Laboratory for Sustainable Chemistry and Catalysis (LSusCat), Johannes Kepler University (JKU), Linz, Austria,*Correspondence: Wolfgang Schöfberger, ; Soumyajit Roy,
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- Eco-Friendly Applied Materials Laboratory (EFAML), Materials Science Centre, Department of Chemical Sciences, Mohanpur Campus, Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India,*Correspondence: Wolfgang Schöfberger, ; Soumyajit Roy,
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Xia W, Wang F. Molecular catalysts design: Intramolecular supporting site assisting to metal center for efficient CO2 photo- and electroreduction. MOLECULAR CATALYSIS 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mcat.2022.112884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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CO2 Electroreduction on Carbon-Based Electrodes Functionalized with Molecular Organometallic Complexes—A Mini Review. Catalysts 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/catal12111448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Heterogeneous electrochemical CO2 reduction has potential advantages with respect to the homogeneous counterpart due to the easier recovery of products and catalysts, the relatively small amounts of catalyst necessary for efficient electrolysis, the longer lifetime of the catalysts, and the elimination of solubility problems. Unfortunately, several disadvantages are also present, including the difficulty of designing the optimized and best-performing catalysts by the appropriate choice of the ligands as well as a larger heterogeneity in the nature of the catalytic site that introduces differences in the mechanistic pathway and in electrogenerated products. The advantages of homogeneous and heterogeneous systems can be preserved by anchoring intact organometallic molecules on the electrode surface with the aim of increasing the dispersion of active components at a molecular level and facilitating the electron transfer to the electrocatalyst. Electrode functionalization can be obtained by non-covalent or covalent interactions and by direct electropolymerization on the electrode surface. A critical overview covering the very recent literature on CO2 electroreduction by intact organometallic complexes attached to the electrode is summarized herein, and particular attention is given to their catalytic performances. We hope this mini review can provide new insights into the development of more efficient CO2 electrocatalysts for real-life applications.
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Cencer M, Li C, Agarwal G, Gomes Neto RJ, Amanchukwu CV, Assary RS. Interactions of CO 2 Anion Radicals with Electrolyte Environments from First-Principles Simulations. ACS OMEGA 2022; 7:18131-18138. [PMID: 35664611 PMCID: PMC9161390 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.2c01733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2022] [Accepted: 04/21/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Successful transformation of carbon dioxide (CO2) into value-added products is of great interest, as it contributes in part to the circular carbon economy. Understanding chemical interactions that stabilize crucial reaction intermediates of CO2 is important, and in this contribution, we employ atom centered density matrix propagation (ADMP) molecular dynamics simulations to investigate interactions between CO2 - anion radicals with surrounding solvent molecules and electrolyte cations in both aqueous and nonaqueous environments. We show how different cations and solvents affect the stability of the CO2 - anion radical by examining its angle and distance to a coordinating cation in molecular dynamics simulations. We identify that the strength of CO2 - interactions can be tailored through choosing an appropriate cation and solvent combination. We anticipate that this fundamental understanding of cation/solvent interactions can facilitate the optimization of a chemical pathway that results from selective stabilization of a crucial reaction intermediate.
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- Morgan
M. Cencer
- Materials
Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Materials
Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Materials
Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Pritzker
School of Molecular Engineering, The University
of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Pritzker
School of Molecular Engineering, The University
of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
- Chemical
Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne
National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Materials
Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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Takeda Y, Sato S, Morikawa T. Hot-carrier photocatalysts for artificial photosynthesis. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:164705. [PMID: 35490024 DOI: 10.1063/5.0088459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We applied hot-carrier extraction to particulate photocatalysts for artificial photosynthetic reactions including water splitting for H2 production and CO2 reduction to CO and HCOOH, and elucidated promising features of hot-carrier photocatalysts (HC-PCs). We designed a specific structure of the HC-PC; a semiconductor core in which thermalization of photo-generated carriers is significantly suppressed is surrounded by a shell whose bandgap is wider than that of the core. Among the photo-generated hot carriers in the core, only carriers whose energies are larger than the shell bandgap are extracted passing through the shell to the active sites on the shell surface. Thus, the shell functions as an energy-selective contact. We calculated the upper bounds of the rates of the carrier supply from the core to the active sites using a newly constructed detailed-balance model including partial thermalization and nonradiative recombination of the carriers. It has been revealed that the HC-PCs can yield higher carrier-supply rates and thus potentially higher solar-to-chemical energy conversion efficiencies for H2 and CO production than those of conventional photocatalysts with the assistance of intraband transition and Auger recombination/impact ionization. It should be noted, however, that one of the necessary conditions for efficient hot-carrier extraction is sufficiently large carrier density in the core, which, in turn, requires concentrated solar illumination by several hundreds. This would raise rate-limiting problems of activities of the chemical reactions induced by the photo-generated carriers and material-transfer properties.
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- Yasuhiko Takeda
- Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., 41-1 Yokomichi, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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- Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., 41-1 Yokomichi, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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- Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., 41-1 Yokomichi, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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Siritanaratkul B, Eagle C, Cowan AJ. Manganese Carbonyl Complexes as Selective Electrocatalysts for CO 2 Reduction in Water and Organic Solvents. Acc Chem Res 2022; 55:955-965. [PMID: 35285618 PMCID: PMC9007415 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.1c00692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The electrochemical
reduction
of CO2 provides a way
to sustainably generate carbon-based fuels and feedstocks. Molecular
CO2 reduction electrocatalysts provide tunable reaction
centers offering an approach to control the selectivity of catalysis.
Manganese carbonyl complexes, based on [Mn(bpy)(CO)3Br]
and its derivatives (bpy = 2,2′-bipyridine), are particularly
interesting due to their ease of synthesis and the use of a first-row
earth-abundant transition metal. [Mn(bpy)(CO)3Br] was first
shown to be an active and selective catalyst for reducing CO2 to CO in organic solvents in 2011. Since then, manganese carbonyl
catalysts have been widely studied with numerous reports of their
use as electrocatalysts and photocatalysts and studies of their mechanism. This class of Mn catalysts only shows CO2 reduction
activity with the addition of weak Brønsted acids. Perhaps surprisingly,
early reports showed increased turnover frequencies as the acid strength
is increased without a loss in selectivity toward CO evolution. It
may have been expected that the competing hydrogen evolution
reaction could have led to lower selectivity. Inspired by these works
we began to explore if the catalyst would work in protic solvents,
namely, water, and to explore the pH range over which it can operate.
Here we describe the early studies from our laboratory that first
demonstrated the use of manganese carbonyl complexes in water and
then go on to discuss wider developments on the use of these catalysts
in water, highlighting their potential as catalysts for use in aqueous
CO2 electrolyzers. Key to the excellent selectivity
of these catalysts in the presence
of Brønsted acids is a proton-assisted CO2 binding
mechanism, where for the acids widely studied, lower pKa values actually favor CO2 binding over Mn–H
formation, a precursor to H2 evolution. Here we discuss
the wider literature before focusing on our own contributions in validating
this previously proposed mechanism through the use of vibrational
sum frequency generation (VSFG) spectroelectrochemistry. This allowed
us to study [Mn(bpy)(CO)3Br] while it is at, or near, the
electrode surface, which provided a way to identify new catalytic
intermediates and also confirm that proton-assisted CO2 binding operates in both the “dimer” and primary (via
[Mn(bpy)(CO)3]−) pathways. Understanding
the mechanism of how these highly selective catalysts operate is important
as we propose that the Mn complexes will be valuable models to guide
the development of new proton/acid tolerant CO2 reduction
catalysts.
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- Bhavin Siritanaratkul
- Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy and the Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZF, U.K
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- Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy and the Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZF, U.K
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- Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy and the Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZF, U.K
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Zhang L, Zhang Y, Zhu B, Guo J, Wang D, Cao Z, Chen L, Wang L, Zhai C, Tao H. Facile Synthesis of Fe@C Loaded on g-C 3N 4 for CO 2 Electrochemical Reduction to CO with Low Overpotential. ACS OMEGA 2022; 7:11158-11165. [PMID: 35415327 PMCID: PMC8991900 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c07298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2021] [Accepted: 03/09/2022] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Electrochemical CO2 reduction has been acknowledged as a hopeful tactic to alleviate environmental and global energy crises. Herein, we designed an Fe@C/g-C3N4 heterogeneous nanocomposite material by a simple one-pot method, which we applied to the electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction (ECR). Our optimized 20 mg-Fe@C/g-C3N4-1100 catalyst displays excellent performance for the ECR and a maximum Faradaic efficiency (FE) of 88% with a low overpotential of -0.38 V vs. RHE. The Tafel slope reveals that the first electron transfer, which involves a surface-adsorbed *COOH intermediate, is the rate-determining step for 20 mg-Fe@C/C3N4-1100 during the ECR. More precisely, the coordinating capability of the g-C3N4 framework and Fe@C species as a highly active site promote the intermediate product transmission. These results indicate that the combination of temperature adjustment and precursor optimization is key to facilitating the ECR of an iron-based catalyst.
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- Lina Zhang
- School
of Petrochemical Engineering & Environment, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan 316022, People’s Republic of China
- School
of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, People’s Republic
of China
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- SINOPEC
Dalian Research Institute of Petroleum and Petrochemicals, Dalian, Liaoning 116045, People’s Republic
of China
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- School
of Petrochemical Engineering & Environment, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan 316022, People’s Republic of China
- Zhejiang
Provincial Key Laboratory of Petrochemical Environmental Pollution
Control, Zhoushan, Zhejiang 316022, People’s Republic of China
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- School
of Petrochemical Engineering & Environment, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan 316022, People’s Republic of China
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- School
of Petrochemical Engineering & Environment, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan 316022, People’s Republic of China
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- SINOPEC
Dalian Research Institute of Petroleum and Petrochemicals, Dalian, Liaoning 116045, People’s Republic
of China
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- School
of Petrochemical Engineering & Environment, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan 316022, People’s Republic of China
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- School
of Petrochemical Engineering & Environment, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan 316022, People’s Republic of China
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- School
of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, People’s Republic
of China
- Email for C.Z.:
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- School
of Petrochemical Engineering & Environment, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan 316022, People’s Republic of China
- SINOPEC
Dalian Research Institute of Petroleum and Petrochemicals, Dalian, Liaoning 116045, People’s Republic
of China
- College
of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, People’s Republic
of China
- Email for H.T.:
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Morikawa T, Sato S, Sekizawa K, Suzuki TM, Arai T. Solar-Driven CO 2 Reduction Using a Semiconductor/Molecule Hybrid Photosystem: From Photocatalysts to a Monolithic Artificial Leaf. Acc Chem Res 2022; 55:933-943. [PMID: 34851099 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.1c00564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The synthesis of organic chemicals from H2O and CO2 using solar energy is important for recycling CO2 through cyclical use of chemical ingredients produced from CO2 or molecular energy carriers based on CO2. Similar to photosynthesis in plants, the CO2 molecules are reduced by electrons and protons, which are extracted from H2O molecules, to produce O2. This reaction is uphill; therefore, the solar energy is stored as the chemical bonding energy in the organic molecules. This artificial photosynthetic technology mimicking green vegetation should be implemented as a self-standing system for on-site direct solar energy storage that supports CO2 recycling in a circular economy. Herein, we explain our interdisciplinary fusion methodology to develop hybrid photocatalysts and photoelectrodes for an artificial photosynthetic system for the CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) in aqueous solutions. The key factor for the system is the integration of uniquely different functions of molecular transition-metal complexes and solid semiconductors. A metal complex catalyst and a semiconductor appropriate for a CO2RR and visible-light absorption, respectively, are linked, and they function complementary way to catalyze CO2RR under visible-light irradiation as a particulate photocatalyst dispersion in solution. It has also been proven that Ru complexes with bipyridine ligands can catalyze a CO2RR as photocathodes when they are linked with various semiconductor surfaces, such as those of doped tantalum oxides, doped iron oxides, indium phosphides, copper-based sulfides, selenides, silicon, and others. These photocathodes can produce formate and carbon monoxide using electrons and protons extracted from water through potential-matched connections with photoanodes such as TiO2 or SrTiO3 for oxygen evolution reactions (OERs). Benefiting from the very low overpotential of an aqueous CO2RR at metal complexes approaching the theoretical lower limit, the semiconductor/molecule hybrid system demonstrates a single tablet-formed monolithic electrode called "artificial leaf." This single electrode device can generate formate (HCOO-) from H2O and CO2 in a water-filled single-compartment reactor without requiring a separation membrane under unassisted or bias-free conditions, either electrically or chemically. The reaction proceeds with a stoichiometric electron/hole ratio and stores solar energy with a solar-to-chemical energy conversion efficiency of 4.6%, which exceeds that of plants. In this Account, the key results that marked our milestones in technological progress of the semiconductor/molecule hybrid photosystem are concisely explained. These results include design, proof of the principle, and understanding of the phenomena by time-resolved spectroscopies, synchrotron radiation analyses, and DFT calculations. These results enable us to address challenges toward further scientific progress and the social implementation, including the use of earth-abundant elements and the scale-up of the solar-driven CO2RR system.
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- Takeshi Morikawa
- Toyota Central R&D Laboratories., Inc., Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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- Toyota Central R&D Laboratories., Inc., Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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- Toyota Central R&D Laboratories., Inc., Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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- Toyota Central R&D Laboratories., Inc., Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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- Toyota Central R&D Laboratories., Inc., Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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Carr CR, Koenig JDB, Grant MJ, Piers WE, Welch GC. Boosting CO 2-to-CO evolution using a bimetallic diketopyrrolopyrrole tethered rhenium bipyridine catalyst. Catal Sci Technol 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d2cy01453j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
The use of homogeneous electro- and photo-catalysis involving molecular catalysts offers valuable insight into reaction mechanisms as it relates to the structure–function of these tunable systems.
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- Cody R. Carr
- University of Calgary, Department of Chemistry, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada
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- University of Calgary, Department of Chemistry, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada
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- University of Calgary, Department of Chemistry, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada
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- University of Calgary, Department of Chemistry, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada
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- University of Calgary, Department of Chemistry, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada
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Nishi T, Sato S, Morikawa T. Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to HCOOH Catalyzed by Agn(NO3)n+1 Clusters Prepared by Laser Ablation at the Air-Liquid Interface. CHEM LETT 2021. [DOI: 10.1246/cl.210483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Teppei Nishi
- TOYOTA CENTRAL R&D LABS., INC., 41-1 Yokomichi, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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- TOYOTA CENTRAL R&D LABS., INC., 41-1 Yokomichi, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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- TOYOTA CENTRAL R&D LABS., INC., 41-1 Yokomichi, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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Jin S, Hao Z, Zhang K, Yan Z, Chen J. Advances and Challenges for the Electrochemical Reduction of CO 2 to CO: From Fundamentals to Industrialization. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:20627-20648. [PMID: 33861487 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202101818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 188] [Impact Index Per Article: 62.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Abstract
The electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2 RR) provides an attractive approach to convert renewable electricity into fuels and feedstocks in the form of chemical bonds. Among the different CO2 RR pathways, the conversion of CO2 into CO is considered one of the most promising candidate reactions because of its high technological and economic feasibility. Integrating catalyst and electrolyte design with an understanding of the catalytic mechanism will yield scientific insights and promote this technology towards industrial implementation. Herein, we give an overview of recent advances and challenges for the selective conversion of CO2 into CO. Multidimensional catalyst and electrolyte engineering for the CO2 RR are also summarized. Furthermore, recent studies on the large-scale production of CO are highlighted to facilitate industrialization of the electrochemical reduction of CO2 . To conclude, the remaining technological challenges and future directions for the industrial application of the CO2 RR to generate CO are highlighted.
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- Song Jin
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
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Takeda Y, Suzuki TM, Sato S, Morikawa T. Particulate photocatalytic reactors with spectrum-splitting function for artificial photosynthesis. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:15659-15674. [PMID: 34269360 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp00597a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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We have applied spectrum splitting, which is the most reliable way for highly efficient solar energy utilization, to particulate photocatalytic reactors. We have elucidated that the spectrum splitting is feasible using plural cells/compartments, in which photocatalyst particles of different bandgaps are suspended respectively, arranged optically in series. When the particles are sufficiently small (≤20 nm in diameter), high-energy photons are absorbed in the wide-gap cell/compartment on the solar illumination side while low-energy photons reach the backside narrow-gap cell/compartment with being scarcely diffuse-reflected. We have proposed two concrete configurations of the reactors: wide-gap cell/narrow-gap Z-scheme cell (WG/Z), and wide-gap cell/two-compartment cell of middle-gap and narrow-gap (WG/MG-NG), based on the previous configuration of a two-compartment cell of wide-gap and narrow-gap (WG-NG). We have constructed a new model of the carrier supply process from the semiconductor photocatalysts to the active sites, and calculated the practical upper limits of the carrier supply rates and solar-to-chemical conversion efficiencies. The spectrum-splitting reactors can yield higher efficiencies of artificial photosynthetic H2 and CO production by up to 1.5-1.6 times than the conventional Z-scheme reactors. The newly proposed WG/Z reactor widens the room of the material developments and improves the robustness against solar spectrum variation, and hence would be a promising practical solution, although the efficiency is slightly lower than that for the ideal WG-NG reactor. The WG/MG-NG reactor yields the highest efficiency among the three configurations, with high spectral robustness.
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- Yasuhiko Takeda
- Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Inc., 41-1, Yokomichi, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan.
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- Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Inc., 41-1, Yokomichi, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan.
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- Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Inc., 41-1, Yokomichi, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan.
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- Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Inc., 41-1, Yokomichi, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan.
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Dubed Bandomo GC, Mondal SS, Franco F, Bucci A, Martin-Diaconescu V, Ortuño MA, van Langevelde PH, Shafir A, López N, Lloret-Fillol J. Mechanically Constrained Catalytic Mn(CO) 3Br Single Sites in a Two-Dimensional Covalent Organic Framework for CO 2 Electroreduction in H 2O. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c00314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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- Geyla C. Dubed Bandomo
- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Avinguda Països Catalans 16, Tarragona 43007, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Avinguda Països Catalans 16, Tarragona 43007, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Avinguda Països Catalans 16, Tarragona 43007, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Avinguda Països Catalans 16, Tarragona 43007, Spain
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- ALBA Synchrotron Light Source, Carretera BP 1413, Km. 3.3, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona 08290, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Avinguda Països Catalans 16, Tarragona 43007, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Avinguda Països Catalans 16, Tarragona 43007, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Avinguda Països Catalans 16, Tarragona 43007, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Avinguda Països Catalans 16, Tarragona 43007, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Avinguda Països Catalans 16, Tarragona 43007, Spain
- Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Passeig Lluïs Companys, 23, Barcelona 08010, Spain
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Kinzel NW, Werlé C, Leitner W. Transition Metal Complexes as Catalysts for the Electroconversion of CO 2 : An Organometallic Perspective. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:11628-11686. [PMID: 33464678 PMCID: PMC8248444 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202006988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2020] [Revised: 08/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The electrocatalytic transformation of carbon dioxide has been a topic of interest in the field of CO2 utilization for a long time. Recently, the area has seen increasing dynamics as an alternative strategy to catalytic hydrogenation for CO2 reduction. While many studies focus on the direct electron transfer to the CO2 molecule at the electrode material, molecular transition metal complexes in solution offer the possibility to act as catalysts for the electron transfer. C1 compounds such as carbon monoxide, formate, and methanol are often targeted as the main products, but more elaborate transformations are also possible within the coordination sphere of the metal center. This perspective article will cover selected examples to illustrate and categorize the currently favored mechanisms for the electrochemically induced transformation of CO2 promoted by homogeneous transition metal complexes. The insights will be corroborated with the concepts and elementary steps of organometallic catalysis to derive potential strategies to broaden the molecular diversity of possible products.
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- Niklas W. Kinzel
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy ConversionStiftstr. 34–3645470Mülheim an der RuhrGermany
- Institut für Technische und Makromolekulare Chemie (ITMC)RWTH Aachen UniversityWorringer Weg 252074AachenGermany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy ConversionStiftstr. 34–3645470Mülheim an der RuhrGermany
- Ruhr University BochumUniversitätsstr. 15044801BochumGermany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy ConversionStiftstr. 34–3645470Mülheim an der RuhrGermany
- Institut für Technische und Makromolekulare Chemie (ITMC)RWTH Aachen UniversityWorringer Weg 252074AachenGermany
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Garcia Bellido C, Álvarez‐Miguel L, Miguel D, Lalaoui N, Cabon N, Gloaguen F, Le Poul N. Electrochemically Driven Reduction of Carbon Dioxide Mediated by Mono‐Reduced Mo‐Diimine Tetracarbonyl Complexes: Electrochemical, Spectroelectrochemical and Theoretical Studies. ChemElectroChem 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/celc.202100359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Carlos Garcia Bellido
- Laboratoire de Chimie, Électrochimie Moléculaires et Chimie Analytique (UMR CNRS 6521) Université de Bretagne Occidentale 6 Avenue Le Gorgeu 29238 Brest France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie, Électrochimie Moléculaires et Chimie Analytique (UMR CNRS 6521) Université de Bretagne Occidentale 6 Avenue Le Gorgeu 29238 Brest France
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- GIR MIOMET-IU CINQUIMA, Química Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Valladolid 7 Paseo de Belén 47011 Valladolid Spain
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- Laboratoire de Chimie, Électrochimie Moléculaires et Chimie Analytique (UMR CNRS 6521) Université de Bretagne Occidentale 6 Avenue Le Gorgeu 29238 Brest France
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- ISCR (Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes) UMR 6226 F-35000 Rennes France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie, Électrochimie Moléculaires et Chimie Analytique (UMR CNRS 6521) Université de Bretagne Occidentale 6 Avenue Le Gorgeu 29238 Brest France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie, Électrochimie Moléculaires et Chimie Analytique (UMR CNRS 6521) Université de Bretagne Occidentale 6 Avenue Le Gorgeu 29238 Brest France
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Jin S, Hao Z, Zhang K, Yan Z, Chen J. Advances and Challenges for the Electrochemical Reduction of CO
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to CO: From Fundamentals to Industrialization. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202101818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Song Jin
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center College of Chemistry Nankai University Tianjin 300071 China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center College of Chemistry Nankai University Tianjin 300071 China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center College of Chemistry Nankai University Tianjin 300071 China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center College of Chemistry Nankai University Tianjin 300071 China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center College of Chemistry Nankai University Tianjin 300071 China
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Ling Y, Ma Q, Yu Y, Zhang B. Optimization Strategies for Selective CO2 Electroreduction to Fuels. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s12209-021-00283-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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AbstractCapturing CO2 from the atmosphere and converting it into fuels are an efficient strategy to stop the deteriorating greenhouse effect and alleviate the energy crisis. Among various CO2 conversion approaches, electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) has received extensive attention because of its mild operating conditions. However, the high onset potential, low selectivity toward multi-carbon products and poor cruising ability of CO2RR impede its development. To regulate product distribution, previous studies performed electrocatalyst modification using several universal methods, including composition manipulation, morphology control, surface modification, and defect engineering. Recent studies have revealed that the cathode and electrolytes influence the selectivity of CO2RR via pH changes and ionic effects, or by directly participating in the reduction pathway as cocatalysts. This review summarizes the state-of-the-art optimization strategies to efficiently enhance CO2RR selectivity from two main aspects, namely the cathode electrocatalyst and the electrolyte.
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Barrett JA, Miller CJ, Kubiak CP. Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 Using Group VII Metal Catalysts. TRENDS IN CHEMISTRY 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.trechm.2020.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Kinzel NW, Werlé C, Leitner W. Übergangsmetallkomplexe als Katalysatoren für die elektrische Umwandlung von CO
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– eine metallorganische Perspektive. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202006988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- Niklas W. Kinzel
- Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Energiekonversion Stiftstraße 34–36 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr Deutschland
- Institut für Technische und Makromolekulare Chemie (ITMC) RWTH Aachen University Worringer Weg 2 52074 Aachen Deutschland
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Energiekonversion Stiftstraße 34–36 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr Deutschland
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum Universitätsstraße 150 44801 Bochum Deutschland
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Energiekonversion Stiftstraße 34–36 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr Deutschland
- Institut für Technische und Makromolekulare Chemie (ITMC) RWTH Aachen University Worringer Weg 2 52074 Aachen Deutschland
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Willkomm J, Bouzidi S, Bertin E, Birss VI, Piers WE. Aqueous CO 2 Reduction by a Re(bipyridine)-polypyrrole Film Deposited on Colloid-Imprinted Carbon. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c04035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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- Janina Willkomm
- Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
- Physical Sciences Center, Department of Chemistry, St. Francis University, 5009 Chapel Square, Antigonish, Nova Scotia B2G 2W5, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
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Yue Z, Ou C, Ding N, Tao L, Zhao J, Chen J. Advances in Metal Phthalocyanine based Carbon Composites for Electrocatalytic CO
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Reduction. ChemCatChem 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202001126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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- Zijun Yue
- School of Materials Science and Engineering Department of Energy and Environmental Materials Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Power Batteries and Materials Jiangxi University of Sciences and Technology Hakka Avenue 156 Ganzhou 341000 P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering Department of Energy and Environmental Materials Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Power Batteries and Materials Jiangxi University of Sciences and Technology Hakka Avenue 156 Ganzhou 341000 P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering Department of Energy and Environmental Materials Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Power Batteries and Materials Jiangxi University of Sciences and Technology Hakka Avenue 156 Ganzhou 341000 P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering Department of Energy and Environmental Materials Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Power Batteries and Materials Jiangxi University of Sciences and Technology Hakka Avenue 156 Ganzhou 341000 P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering Department of Energy and Environmental Materials Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Power Batteries and Materials Jiangxi University of Sciences and Technology Hakka Avenue 156 Ganzhou 341000 P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering Department of Energy and Environmental Materials Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Power Batteries and Materials Jiangxi University of Sciences and Technology Hakka Avenue 156 Ganzhou 341000 P.R. China
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Sakamoto N, Nishimura YF, Nonaka T, Ohashi M, Ishida N, Kitazumi K, Kato Y, Sekizawa K, Morikawa T, Arai T. Self-assembled Cuprous Coordination Polymer as a Catalyst for CO2 Electrochemical Reduction into C2 Products. ACS Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c01593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- Naonari Sakamoto
- Toyota Central R&D Laboratories Inc., 41-1, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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- Toyota Central R&D Laboratories Inc., 41-1, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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- Toyota Central R&D Laboratories Inc., 41-1, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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- Toyota Central R&D Laboratories Inc., 41-1, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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- Toyota Central R&D Laboratories Inc., 41-1, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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- Toyota Central R&D Laboratories Inc., 41-1, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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- Toyota Central R&D Laboratories Inc., 41-1, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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- Toyota Central R&D Laboratories Inc., 41-1, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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- Toyota Central R&D Laboratories Inc., 41-1, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan
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Yang C, Li S, Zhang Z, Wang H, Liu H, Jiao F, Guo Z, Zhang X, Hu W. Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Nanomaterials for Electrocatalytic CO 2 Reduction. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2020; 16:e2001847. [PMID: 32510861 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202001847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2020] [Revised: 04/28/2020] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Electrochemical CO2 reduction (ECR) to value-added chemicals and fuels is regarded as an effective strategy to mitigate climate change caused by CO2 from excess consumption of fossil fuels. To achieve CO2 conversion with high faradaic efficiency, low overpotential, and excellent product selectivity, rational design and synthesis of efficient electrocatalysts is of significant importance, which dominates the development of ECR field. Individual organic molecules or inorganic catalysts have encountered a bottleneck in performance improvement owing to their intrinsic shortcomings. Very recently, organic-inorganic hybrid nanomaterials as electrocatalysts have exhibited high performance and interesting reaction processes for ECR due to the integration of the advantages of both heterogeneous and homogeneous catalytic processes, attracting widespread interest. In this work, the recent advances in designing various organic-inorganic hybrid nanomaterials at the atomic and molecular level for ECR are systematically summarized. Particularly, the reaction mechanism and structure-performance relationship of organic-inorganic hybrid nanomaterials toward ECR are discussed in detail. Finally, the challenges and opportunities toward controlled synthesis of advanced electrocatalysts are proposed for paving the development of the ECR field.
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- Chenhuai Yang
- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Sciences, Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin, 300072, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Sciences, Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin, 300072, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Sciences, Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin, 300072, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Technology and Equipment for Biological Diagnosis and Therapy in Universities of Shandong, Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research (iAIR), University of Jinan, Jinan, 250022, China
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- Institute for New Energy Materials and Low-Carbon Technologies, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, 300384, China
- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Porous Materials, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, 300384, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Sciences, Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Sciences, Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin, 300072, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Sciences, Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin, 300072, China
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Mouchfiq A, Todorova TK, Dey S, Fontecave M, Mougel V. A bioinspired molybdenum-copper molecular catalyst for CO 2 electroreduction. Chem Sci 2020; 11:5503-5510. [PMID: 32874493 PMCID: PMC7448372 DOI: 10.1039/d0sc01045f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2020] [Accepted: 05/08/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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A bimetallic Mo–Cu complex inspired by the active site of the carbon monoxide dehydrogenase enzyme mediates the electroreduction of carbon dioxide to formic acid.
Non-noble metal molecular catalysts mediating the electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide are still scarce. This work reports the electrochemical reduction of CO2 to formate catalyzed by the bimetallic complex [(bdt)MoVI(O)S2CuICN]2– (bdt = benzenedithiolate), a mimic of the active site of the Mo–Cu carbon monoxide dehydrogenase enzyme (CODH2). Infrared spectroelectrochemical (IR-SEC) studies coupled with density functional theory (DFT) computations revealed that the complex is only a pre-catalyst, the active catalyst being generated upon reduction in the presence of CO2. We found that the two-electron reduction of [(bdt)MoVI(O)S2CuICN]2– triggers the transfer of the oxo moiety to CO2 forming CO32– and the complex [(bdt)MoIVS2CuICN]2– and that a further one-electron reduction is needed to generate the active catalyst. Its protonation yields a reactive MoVH hydride intermediate which reacts with CO2 to produce formate. These findings are particularly relevant to the design of catalysts from metal oxo precursors.
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- Ahmed Mouchfiq
- Laboratoire de Chimie des Processus Biologiques , UMR 8229 CNRS , Collège de France , Sorbonne Universitè , 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot , 75231 Paris Cedex 05 , France .
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- Laboratoire de Chimie des Processus Biologiques , UMR 8229 CNRS , Collège de France , Sorbonne Universitè , 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot , 75231 Paris Cedex 05 , France .
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- Laboratoire de Chimie des Processus Biologiques , UMR 8229 CNRS , Collège de France , Sorbonne Universitè , 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot , 75231 Paris Cedex 05 , France . .,Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1 , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland .
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- Laboratoire de Chimie des Processus Biologiques , UMR 8229 CNRS , Collège de France , Sorbonne Universitè , 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot , 75231 Paris Cedex 05 , France .
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1 , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland .
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De R, Gonglach S, Paul S, Haas M, Sreejith SS, Gerschel P, Apfel UP, Vuong TH, Rabeah J, Roy S, Schöfberger W. Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO 2 to Acetic Acid by a Molecular Manganese Corrole Complex. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:10527-10534. [PMID: 32281187 PMCID: PMC7540269 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202000601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2020] [Revised: 03/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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The controlled electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to value added chemicals is an important strategy in terms of renewable energy technologies. Therefore, the development of efficient and stable catalysts in an aqueous environment is of great importance. In this context, we focused on synthesizing and studying a molecular MnIII‐corrole complex, which is modified on the three meso‐positions with polyethylene glycol moieties for direct and selective production of acetic acid from CO2. Electrochemical reduction of MnIII leads to an electroactive MnII species, which binds CO2 and stabilizes the reduced intermediates. This catalyst allows to electrochemically reduce CO2 to acetic acid in a moderate acidic aqueous medium (pH 6) with a selectivity of 63 % and a turn over frequency (TOF) of 8.25 h−1, when immobilized on a carbon paper (CP) electrode. In terms of high selectivity towards acetate, we propose the formation and reduction of an oxalate type intermediate, stabilized at the MnIII‐corrole center.
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- Ratnadip De
- Eco-Friendly Applied Materials Laboratory (EFAML), Materials Science Centre, Department of Chemical Sciences, Mohanpur Campus, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, 741246, West Bengal, India
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenberger Straße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria
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- Eco-Friendly Applied Materials Laboratory (EFAML), Materials Science Centre, Department of Chemical Sciences, Mohanpur Campus, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, 741246, West Bengal, India
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenberger Straße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria
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- Eco-Friendly Applied Materials Laboratory (EFAML), Materials Science Centre, Department of Chemical Sciences, Mohanpur Campus, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, 741246, West Bengal, India
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- Inorganic Chemistry I, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801, Bochum, Germany
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- Inorganic Chemistry I, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801, Bochum, Germany.,Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Osterfelder Straße 3, 46047, Oberhausen, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e. V., Albert-Einstein-Straße 29a, 18059, Rostock, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e. V., Albert-Einstein-Straße 29a, 18059, Rostock, Germany
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- Eco-Friendly Applied Materials Laboratory (EFAML), Materials Science Centre, Department of Chemical Sciences, Mohanpur Campus, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, 741246, West Bengal, India
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenberger Straße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria
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De R, Gonglach S, Paul S, Haas M, Sreejith SS, Gerschel P, Apfel U, Vuong TH, Rabeah J, Roy S, Schöfberger W. Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO
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to Acetic Acid by a Molecular Manganese Corrole Complex. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202000601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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- Ratnadip De
- Eco-Friendly Applied Materials Laboratory (EFAML) Materials Science Centre Department of Chemical Sciences Mohanpur Campus Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata 741246 West Bengal India
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry Johannes Kepler University Linz Altenberger Straße 69 4040 Linz Austria
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- Eco-Friendly Applied Materials Laboratory (EFAML) Materials Science Centre Department of Chemical Sciences Mohanpur Campus Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata 741246 West Bengal India
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry Johannes Kepler University Linz Altenberger Straße 69 4040 Linz Austria
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- Eco-Friendly Applied Materials Laboratory (EFAML) Materials Science Centre Department of Chemical Sciences Mohanpur Campus Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata 741246 West Bengal India
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- Inorganic Chemistry I Ruhr-Universität Bochum Universitätsstraße 150 44801 Bochum Germany
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- Inorganic Chemistry I Ruhr-Universität Bochum Universitätsstraße 150 44801 Bochum Germany
- Fraunhofer UMSICHT Osterfelder Straße 3 46047 Oberhausen Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e. V. Albert-Einstein-Straße 29a 18059 Rostock Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e. V. Albert-Einstein-Straße 29a 18059 Rostock Germany
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- Eco-Friendly Applied Materials Laboratory (EFAML) Materials Science Centre Department of Chemical Sciences Mohanpur Campus Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata 741246 West Bengal India
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry Johannes Kepler University Linz Altenberger Straße 69 4040 Linz Austria
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Sato S, McNicholas BJ, Grubbs RH. Aqueous electrocatalytic CO 2 reduction using metal complexes dispersed in polymer ion gels. Chem Commun (Camb) 2020; 56:4440-4443. [PMID: 32195491 DOI: 10.1039/d0cc00791a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We use fac-[Re(bpy)(CO)3Cl] ([Re-Cl]) dispersed in polymer ion gel (PIG) ([Re]-PIG) to carry out electrocatalytic CO2 reduction in water. Electrolysis at -0.68 V vs. RHE in a CO2-saturated KOH and K2CO3 solution produces CO with over 90% Faradaic efficiency. The PIG electrode is readily combined with water oxidation catalysts to generate a full electrochemical cell. Additionally, we provide evidence that the PIG electrode can be implemented with other molecular catalysts.
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- Shunsuke Sato
- The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Laboratory of Chemical Synthesis, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
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Ortiz-Rodríguez JC, Santana JA, Méndez-Hernández DD. Linear correlation models for the redox potential of organic molecules in aqueous solutions. J Mol Model 2020; 26:70. [PMID: 32146589 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-020-4331-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2019] [Accepted: 02/23/2020] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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In this study, we use the molecular orbital energy approximation (MOEA) and the energy difference approximation (EDA) to build linear correlation models for the redox potentials of 53 organic compounds in aqueous solutions. The molecules evaluated include nitroxides, phenols, and amines. Both the MOEA and EDA methods yield similar correlation models, however, the MOEA method is less computationally expensive. Correlation coefficients (R2) below 0.3 and mean absolute errors above 0.25 V were found for correlation models built without solvent effects. When explicit water molecules and a continuum solvent model are added to the calculations, correlation coefficients close to 0.8 are reached, and mean absolute errors below 0.18 V are obtained. The incorporation of solvent effects is necessary for good correlation models, particularly for redox processes of charged molecules in aqueous solutions. A comparison of the correlation models from different methodologies is provided. Graphical abstract.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, Cayey, PR, 00736, USA
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Andrei V, Reuillard B, Reisner E. Bias-free solar syngas production by integrating a molecular cobalt catalyst with perovskite-BiVO 4 tandems. NATURE MATERIALS 2020; 19:189-194. [PMID: 31636423 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-019-0501-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2019] [Accepted: 09/05/2019] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The photoelectrochemical (PEC) production of syngas from water and CO2 represents an attractive technology towards a circular carbon economy. However, the high overpotential, low selectivity and cost of commonly employed catalysts pose challenges for this sustainable energy-conversion process. Here we demonstrate highly tunable PEC syngas production by integrating a cobalt porphyrin catalyst immobilized on carbon nanotubes with triple-cation mixed halide perovskite and BiVO4 photoabsorbers. Empirical data analysis is used to clarify the optimal electrode selectivity at low catalyst loadings. The perovskite photocathodes maintain selective aqueous CO2 reduction for one day at light intensities as low as 0.1 sun, which provides pathways to maximize daylight utilization by operating even under low solar irradiance. Under 1 sun irradiation, the perovskite-BiVO4 PEC tandems sustain bias-free syngas production coupled to water oxidation for three days. The devices present solar-to-H2 and solar-to-CO conversion efficiencies of 0.06 and 0.02%, respectively, and are able to operate as standalone artificial leaves in neutral pH solution.
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- Virgil Andrei
- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable SynGas Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable SynGas Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable SynGas Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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Chen X, Hu XM, Daasbjerg K, Ahlquist MSG. Understanding the Enhanced Catalytic CO2 Reduction upon Adhering Cobalt Porphyrin to Carbon Nanotubes and the Inverse Loading Effect. Organometallics 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.9b00726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Xiaoyu Chen
- Division of Theoretical Chemistry & Biology, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Carbon Dioxide Activation Center (CADIAC), Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), and Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Gustav Wieds Vej 14, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Carbon Dioxide Activation Center (CADIAC), Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), and Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Gustav Wieds Vej 14, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Division of Theoretical Chemistry & Biology, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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Franco F, Rettenmaier C, Jeon HS, Roldan Cuenya B. Transition metal-based catalysts for the electrochemical CO2 reduction: from atoms and molecules to nanostructured materials. Chem Soc Rev 2020; 49:6884-6946. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cs00835d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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An overview of the main strategies for the rational design of transition metal-based catalysts for the electrochemical conversion of CO2, ranging from molecular systems to single-atom and nanostructured catalysts.
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- Federico Franco
- Department of Interface Science
- Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
- 14195 Berlin
- Germany
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- Department of Interface Science
- Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
- 14195 Berlin
- Germany
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- Department of Interface Science
- Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
- 14195 Berlin
- Germany
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- Department of Interface Science
- Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
- 14195 Berlin
- Germany
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Moura de Salles Pupo M, Kortlever R. Electrolyte Effects on the Electrochemical Reduction of CO 2. Chemphyschem 2019; 20:2926-2935. [PMID: 31600018 PMCID: PMC6899813 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201900680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2019] [Revised: 09/11/2019] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The electrochemical reduction of CO2 to fuels or commodity chemicals is a reaction of high interest for closing the anthropogenic carbon cycle. The role of the electrolyte is of particular interest, as the interplay between the electrocatalytic surface and the electrolyte plays an important role in determining the outcome of the CO2 reduction reaction. Therefore, insights on electrolyte effects on the electrochemical reduction of CO2 are pivotal in designing electrochemical devices that are able to efficiently and selectively convert CO2 into valuable products. Here, we provide an overview of recently obtained insights on electrolyte effects and we discuss how these insights can be used as design parameters for the construction of new electrocatalytic systems.
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- Marilia Moura de Salles Pupo
- Department of Process & Energy Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime & Materials EngineeringDelft University of TechnologyLeeghwaterstraat 392628 CBDelft, TheNetherlands
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- Department of Process & Energy Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime & Materials EngineeringDelft University of TechnologyLeeghwaterstraat 392628 CBDelft, TheNetherlands
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Zhanaidarova A, Jones SC, Despagnet-Ayoub E, Pimentel BR, Kubiak CP. Re(tBu-bpy)(CO)3Cl Supported on Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Selectively Reduces CO2 in Water. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:17270-17277. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b08445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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- Almagul Zhanaidarova
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego. 9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0358, La Jolla, California 92093-0358, United States
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- Electrochemical Technologies Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109, United States
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- Electrochemical Technologies Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109, United States
- Norris Hall of Chemistry, Occidental College, 1600 Campus Road, Los Angeles, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego. 9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0358, La Jolla, California 92093-0358, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego. 9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0358, La Jolla, California 92093-0358, United States
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego. 9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0358, La Jolla, California 92093-0358, United States
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Molecular Catalysis for Utilizing CO2 in Fuel Electro-Generation and in Chemical Feedstock. Catalysts 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/catal9090760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Processes for the conversion of CO2 to valuable chemicals are highly desired as a result of the increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere and the subsequent elevating global temperature. However, CO2 is thermodynamically and kinetically inert to transformation and, therefore, many efforts were made in the last few decades. Reformation/hydrogenation of CO2 is widely used as a means to access valuable products such as acetic acids, CH4, CH3OH, and CO. The electrochemical reduction of CO2 using hetero- and homogeneous catalysts recently attracted much attention. In particular, molecular CO2 reduction catalysts were widely studied using transition-metal complexes modified with various ligands to understand the relationship between various catalytic properties and the coordination spheres above the metal centers. Concurrently, the coupling of CO2 with various electrophiles under homogeneous conditions is also considered an important approach for recycling CO2 as a renewable C-1 substrate in the chemical industry. This review summarizes some recent advances in the conversion of CO2 into valuable chemicals with particular focus on the metal-catalyzed reductive conversion and functionalization of CO2.
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Dalle K, Warnan J, Leung JJ, Reuillard B, Karmel IS, Reisner E. Electro- and Solar-Driven Fuel Synthesis with First Row Transition Metal Complexes. Chem Rev 2019; 119:2752-2875. [PMID: 30767519 PMCID: PMC6396143 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 421] [Impact Index Per Article: 84.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The synthesis of renewable fuels from abundant water or the greenhouse gas CO2 is a major step toward creating sustainable and scalable energy storage technologies. In the last few decades, much attention has focused on the development of nonprecious metal-based catalysts and, in more recent years, their integration in solid-state support materials and devices that operate in water. This review surveys the literature on 3d metal-based molecular catalysts and focuses on their immobilization on heterogeneous solid-state supports for electro-, photo-, and photoelectrocatalytic synthesis of fuels in aqueous media. The first sections highlight benchmark homogeneous systems using proton and CO2 reducing 3d transition metal catalysts as well as commonly employed methods for catalyst immobilization, including a discussion of supporting materials and anchoring groups. The subsequent sections elaborate on productive associations between molecular catalysts and a wide range of substrates based on carbon, quantum dots, metal oxide surfaces, and semiconductors. The molecule-material hybrid systems are organized as "dark" cathodes, colloidal photocatalysts, and photocathodes, and their figures of merit are discussed alongside system stability and catalyst integrity. The final section extends the scope of this review to prospects and challenges in targeting catalysis beyond "classical" H2 evolution and CO2 reduction to C1 products, by summarizing cases for higher-value products from N2 reduction, C x>1 products from CO2 utilization, and other reductive organic transformations.
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory
for Sustainable SynGas Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory
for Sustainable SynGas Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory
for Sustainable SynGas Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory
for Sustainable SynGas Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
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Zhu M, Chen J, Huang L, Ye R, Xu J, Han Y. Covalently Grafting Cobalt Porphyrin onto Carbon Nanotubes for Efficient CO
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Electroreduction. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201900499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Minghui Zhu
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical EngineeringEast China University of Science and Technology Shanghai 200237 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical EngineeringEast China University of Science and Technology Shanghai 200237 China
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- Department of ChemistryCity University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 999077 China
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- Department of ChemistryCity University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 999077 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical EngineeringEast China University of Science and Technology Shanghai 200237 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical EngineeringEast China University of Science and Technology Shanghai 200237 China
- Research Center of Heterogeneous Catalysis and Engineering SciencesSchool of Chemical Engineering and EnergyZhengzhou University Zhengzhou 450001 China
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Zhu M, Chen J, Huang L, Ye R, Xu J, Han YF. Covalently Grafting Cobalt Porphyrin onto Carbon Nanotubes for Efficient CO 2 Electroreduction. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019; 58:6595-6599. [PMID: 30689279 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201900499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Molecular complexes with inexpensive transition-metal centers have drawn extensive attention, as they show a high selectivity in the electrochemical conversion of CO2 to CO. In this work, we propose a new strategy to covalently graft cobalt porphyrin onto the surface of a carbon nanotube by a substitution reaction at the metal center. Material characterization and electrochemical studies reveal that the porphyrin molecules are well dispersed at a high loading of 10 wt. %. As a result, the turnover frequency for CO formation is improved by a factor of three compared to traditional physically-mixed catalysts with the same cobalt content. This leads to an outstanding overall current density of 25.1 mA cm-2 and a Faradaic efficiency of 98.3 % at 490 mV overpotential with excellent long-term stability. This work provides an effective pathway for the improvement of the performance of electrocatalysts that could inspire rational design of molecular catalysts in the future.
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- Minghui Zhu
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 999077, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 999077, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China.,Research Center of Heterogeneous Catalysis and Engineering Sciences, School of Chemical Engineering and Energy, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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Rotundo L, Filippi J, Gobetto R, Miller HA, Rocca R, Nervi C, Vizza F. Electrochemical CO 2 reduction in water at carbon cloth electrodes functionalized with a fac-Mn(apbpy)(CO) 3Br complex. Chem Commun (Camb) 2019; 55:775-777. [PMID: 30566121 DOI: 10.1039/c8cc08385a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The organometallic complex (fac-Mn(apbpy)(CO)3Br) (apbpy = 4-(4-aminophenyl)-2,2'-bipyridine) grafted electrochemically onto carbon cloth serves as an electrocatalyst in the aqueous reduction of CO2 to syngas. A faradaic efficiency of around 60% for CO and 40% for H2 at -1.35 V is achieved together with a productivity rate higher than 870 NlCO h-1 gMn-1 at turnover numbers of up to 33 200 during 10 hours of operation.
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- Laura Rotundo
- Department of Chemistry and NIS (Centre of excellence), University of Torino via P. Giuria 7, 10125 Torino, Italy.
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Wang X, Ma H, Meng C, Chen D, Huang F. A rational design of manganese electrocatalysts for Lewis acid-assisted carbon dioxide reduction. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:8849-8855. [PMID: 30977486 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp00514e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Herein, the mechanisms of Brønsted acid- and Lewis acid-assisted CO2 electroreduction by Mn(mesbpy)(CO)3Br (1) were investigated by density functional theory calculations. Our results indicate that for the Lewis acid-assisted cycle, an energy sink (13) is present owing to the interaction between Mg(OTf)2 and activated CO2, which is disadvantageous to the apparent activation energy (ΔG≠). Moreover, a series of substituted 13 counterparts were investigated to reduce the energy sink and decrease ΔG≠. Based on our study on the substituent effect, an excellent linear relationship was found between 2e reduction potentials and LUMO energies of substituted 1, and a moderate linear relationship was observed between ΔG of substituted 13 and the 2e reduction potential of substituted 1 counterparts. Moreover, for the CO2 reduction assisted by a Lewis acid, the formyl-substituted complex R8 has been predicted to be a more effective catalyst with lower overpotential and higher catalytic activity than its parent complex 1.
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- Xiaoli Wang
- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Key Laboratory of Molecular and Nano Probes, Ministry of Education, Collaborative Innovation Center of Functionalized Probes for Chemical Imaging in Universities of Shandong, Institute of Molecular and Nano Science, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250014, P. R. China.
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Arai T, Sato S, Sekizawa K, Suzuki TM, Morikawa T. Solar-driven CO2 to CO reduction utilizing H2O as an electron donor by earth-abundant Mn–bipyridine complex and Ni-modified Fe-oxyhydroxide catalysts activated in a single-compartment reactor. Chem Commun (Camb) 2019; 55:237-240. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cc07900e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Solar-driven CO2 reduction utilizing earth-abundant catalysts of a Mn-complex and Ni-modified β-FeOOH was demonstrated in a single-compartment reactor.
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- Takeo Arai
- Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Inc
- Nagakute
- Japan
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- Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Inc
- Nagakute
- Japan
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- Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Inc
- Nagakute
- Japan
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- Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Inc
- Nagakute
- Japan
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- Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Inc
- Nagakute
- Japan
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Grills DC, Ertem MZ, McKinnon M, Ngo KT, Rochford J. Mechanistic aspects of CO2 reduction catalysis with manganese-based molecular catalysts. Coord Chem Rev 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2018.05.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Kanega R, Onishi N, Wang L, Himeda Y. Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide to Formate by Homogeneous Ir Catalysts in Water. ACS Catal 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b02525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Ryoichi Kanega
- Research Institute of Energy Frontier, Department of Energy and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan
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- Research Institute of Energy Frontier, Department of Energy and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan
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- Research Institute of Energy Frontier, Department of Energy and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan
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- Research Institute of Energy Frontier, Department of Energy and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan
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Fukuzumi S, Lee YM, Ahn HS, Nam W. Mechanisms of catalytic reduction of CO 2 with heme and nonheme metal complexes. Chem Sci 2018; 9:6017-6034. [PMID: 30090295 PMCID: PMC6053956 DOI: 10.1039/c8sc02220h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2018] [Accepted: 06/26/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The catalytic conversion of CO2 into valuable chemicals and fuels has attracted increasing attention, providing a promising route for mitigating the greenhouse effect of CO2 and also meeting the global energy demand. Among many homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts for CO2 reduction, this mini-review is focused on heme and nonheme metal complexes that act as effective catalysts for the electrocatalytic and photocatalytic reduction of CO2. Because metalloporphyrinoids show strong absorption in the visible region, which is sensitive to the oxidation states of the metals and ligands, they are suited for the detection of reactive intermediates in the catalytic CO2 reduction cycle by electronic absorption spectroscopy. The first part of this review deals with the catalytic mechanism for the one-electron reduction of CO2 to oxalic acid with heme and nonheme metal complexes, with an emphasis on how the formation of highly energetic CO2˙ is avoided. Then, the catalytic mechanism of two-electron reduction of CO2 to produce CO and H2O is compared with that to produce HCOOH. The effect of metals and ligands of the heme and nonheme complexes on the CO or HCOOH product selectivity is also discussed. The catalytic mechanisms of multi-electron reduction of CO2 to methanol (six-electron reduced product) and methane (eight-electron reduced product) are also discussed for both electrocatalytic and photocatalytic systems.
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- Shunichi Fukuzumi
- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science , Ewha Womans University , Seoul 03760 , Korea . ; ;
- Graduate School of Science and Engineering , Meijo University , Nagoya , Aichi 468-8502 , Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science , Ewha Womans University , Seoul 03760 , Korea . ; ;
- Research Institute for Basic Sciences , Ewha Womans University , Seoul 03760 , Korea
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- Department of Chemistry , Yonsei University , Seoul 03722 , Korea .
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science , Ewha Womans University , Seoul 03760 , Korea . ; ;
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Shaanxi Normal University , Xi'an 710119 , P. R. China
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Walsh JJ, Neri G, Smith CL, Cowan AJ. Water-Soluble Manganese Complex for Selective Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to CO. Organometallics 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.8b00336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
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- Department of Chemistry, Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZF, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZF, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZF, United Kingdom
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