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Tang Z, Liu X, Yang Y, Jin F. Recent advances in CO 2 reduction with renewable reductants under hydrothermal conditions: towards efficient and net carbon benefit CO 2 conversion. Chem Sci 2024; 15:9927-9948. [PMID: 38966379 PMCID: PMC11220608 DOI: 10.1039/d4sc01265h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2024] [Accepted: 05/19/2024] [Indexed: 07/06/2024] Open
Abstract
The ever-growing atmospheric CO2 concentration threatening the environmental sustainability of humankind makes the reduction of CO2 to chemicals or fuels an ideal solution. Two priorities are anticipated for the conversion technology, high efficiency and net carbon benefit, to ensure the mitigation of the CO2 problem both promptly and sustainably. Until now, catalytic hydrogenation or solar/electro-chemical CO2 conversion have achieved CO2 reduction promisingly while, to some extent, compromising to fulfill the two rules, and thus alternative approaches for CO2 reduction are necessary. Natural geochemical processes as abiotic CO2 reductions give hints for efficient CO2 reduction by building hydrothermal reaction systems, and this type of reaction atmosphere provides room for introducing renewable substances as reductants, which offers the possibility to achieve CO2 reduction with net carbon benefit. While the progress in CO2 reduction has been abundantly summarized, reviews on hydrothermal CO2 reduction are relatively scarce and, more importantly, few have focused on CO2 reduction with renewable reductants with the consideration of both scale of efficiency and sustainability. This review provides a fundamental and critical review of metal, biomass and polymer waste as reducing agents for hydrothermal CO2 reduction. Various products including formic acid, methanol, methane and multi-carbon chemicals can be formed, and effects of operational parameters such as temperature, batch holding time, pH value and water filing as well as detailed reaction mechanisms are illustrated. Particularly, the critical roles of high temperature and pressure water as reaction promotor and catalyst in hydrothermal CO2 conversion are discussed at the mechanistic level. More importantly, this review compares hydrothermal CO2 reduction with other methods such as catalytic hydrogenation and photo/electrocatalysis, evaluating their efficiency and potential for net carbon benefit. The aim of this review is to promote the understanding of CO2 activation under a hydrothermal environment and provide insights into the efficient and sustainable strategy of hydrothermal CO2 conversion for future fundamental research and industrial applications.
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- Zien Tang
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai 200240 P. R. China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai 200240 P. R. China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai 200240 P. R. China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai 200240 P. R. China
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Hydrogen Science, Center of Hydrogen Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai 200240 P. R. China
- Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security Shanghai 200092 P. R. China
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Aicher D, Damunupola D, Stark CBW, Wiehe A, Brückner C. meso-Tetrahexyl-7,8-dihydroxychlorin and Its Conversion to ß-Modified Derivatives. Molecules 2024; 29:2144. [PMID: 38731635 PMCID: PMC11085094 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29092144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2024] [Revised: 04/30/2024] [Accepted: 05/01/2024] [Indexed: 05/13/2024] Open
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meso-Tetrahexylporphyrin was converted to its corresponding 7,8-dihydroxychlorin using an osmium tetroxide-mediated dihydroxylation strategy. Its diol moiety was shown to be able to undergo a number of subsequent oxidation reactions to form a chlorin dione and porpholactone, the first meso-alkylporphyrin-based porphyrinoid containing a non-pyrrolic building block. Further, the diol chlorin was shown to be susceptible to dehydration, forming the porphyrin enol that is in equilibrium with its keto-chlorin form. The meso-hexylchlorin dione could be reduced and it underwent mono- and bis-methylation reactions using methyl-Grignard reagents, and trifluoromethylation using the Ruppert-Prakash reagent. The optical and spectroscopic properties of the products are discussed and contrasted to their corresponding meso-aryl derivatives (where known). This contribution establishes meso-tetrahexyl-7,8-dihydroxychlorins as a new and versatile class of chlorins that is susceptible to a broad range of conversions to generate functionalized chlorins and a pyrrole-modified chlorin analogue.
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- Daniel Aicher
- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustr. 3, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, 55 N Eagleville Rd., Storrs, CT 06269-3060, USA
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- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustr. 3, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustr. 3, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, 55 N Eagleville Rd., Storrs, CT 06269-3060, USA
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Yong WW, Zhang HT, Guo YH, Xie F, Zhang MT. Redox-Active Ligand Assisted Multielectron Catalysis: A Case of Electrocatalyzed CO 2-to-CO Conversion. ACS ORGANIC & INORGANIC AU 2023; 3:384-392. [PMID: 38075450 PMCID: PMC10704577 DOI: 10.1021/acsorginorgau.3c00027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2023] [Revised: 07/31/2023] [Accepted: 08/10/2023] [Indexed: 03/16/2024]
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The selective reduction of carbon dioxide remains a significant challenge due to the complex multielectron/proton transfer process, which results in a high kinetic barrier and the production of diverse products. Inspired by the electrostatic and H-bonding interactions observed in the second sphere of the [NiFe]-CODH enzyme, researchers have extensively explored these interactions to regulate proton transfer, stabilize intermediates, and ultimately improve the performance of catalytic CO2 reduction. In this work, a series of cobalt(II) tetraphenylporphyrins with varying numbers of redox-active nitro groups were synthesized and evaluated as CO2 reduction electrocatalysts. Analyses of the redox properties of these complexes revealed a consistent relationship between the number of nitro groups and the corresponding accepted electron number of the ligand at -1.59 V vs. Fc+/0. Among the catalysts tested, TNPPCo with four nitro groups exhibited the most efficient catalytic activity with a turnover frequency of 4.9 × 104 s-1 and a catalytic onset potential 820 mV more positive than that of the parent TPPCo. Furthermore, the turnover frequencies of the catalysts increased with a higher number of nitro groups. These results demonstrate the promising design strategy of incorporating multielectron redox-active ligands into CO2 reduction catalysts to enhance catalytic performance.
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- Wen-Wen Yong
- Center
of Basic Molecular Science (CBMS), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Institute
of Materials, China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), Jiangyou 621908, China
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- Center
of Basic Molecular Science (CBMS), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Center
of Basic Molecular Science (CBMS), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Center
of Basic Molecular Science (CBMS), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Center
of Basic Molecular Science (CBMS), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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Sun JW, Wu X, Liu PF, Chen J, Liu Y, Lou ZX, Zhao JY, Yuan HY, Chen A, Wang XL, Zhu M, Dai S, Yang HG. Scalable synthesis of coordinatively unsaturated metal-nitrogen sites for large-scale CO 2 electrolysis. Nat Commun 2023; 14:1599. [PMID: 37072410 PMCID: PMC10113237 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36688-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2022] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 04/20/2023] Open
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Practical electrochemical CO2-to-CO conversion requires a non-precious catalyst to react at high selectivity and high rate. Atomically dispersed, coordinatively unsaturated metal-nitrogen sites have shown great performance in CO2 electroreduction; however, their controllable and large-scale fabrication still remains a challenge. Herein, we report a general method to fabricate coordinatively unsaturated metal-nitrogen sites doped within carbon nanotubes, among which cobalt single-atom catalysts can mediate efficient CO2-to-CO formation in a membrane flow configuration, achieving a current density of 200 mA cm-2 with CO selectivity of 95.4% and high full-cell energy efficiency of 54.1%, outperforming most of CO2-to-CO conversion electrolyzers. By expanding the cell area to 100 cm2, this catalyst sustains a high-current electrolysis at 10 A with 86.8% CO selectivity and the single-pass conversion can reach 40.4% at a high CO2 flow rate of 150 sccm. This fabrication method can be scaled up with negligible decay in CO2-to-CO activity. In situ spectroscopy and theoretical results reveal the crucial role of coordinatively unsaturated metal-nitrogen sites, which facilitate CO2 adsorption and key *COOH intermediate formation.
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- Ji Wei Sun
- Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hierarchical Nanomaterials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hierarchical Nanomaterials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hierarchical Nanomaterials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hierarchical Nanomaterials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hierarchical Nanomaterials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hierarchical Nanomaterials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hierarchical Nanomaterials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hierarchical Nanomaterials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- Physics Department and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, 3663 North Zhongshan Road, Shanghai, 200062, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, Institute of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China.
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- Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hierarchical Nanomaterials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China.
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Lalisse RF, Hadad CM, Brückner C, Guberman-Pfeffer MJ. [3 + 2]-Cycloadditions with Porphyrin β,β'-Bonds: Theoretical Basis of the Counterintuitive meso-Aryl Group Influence on the Rates of Reaction. J Org Chem 2022; 87:16473-16482. [PMID: 36444511 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.2c02192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Removal of a β,β'-bond from meso-tetraarylporphyrin using [3 + 2]-cycloadditions generates meso-tetraarylhydroporphyrins. Literature evidence indicates that meso-tetraphenylporphyrins react more sluggishly with 1,3-dipoles such as ylides and OsO4 (in the presence of pyridine) than meso-tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)porphyrin. The trend is counterintuitive for the reaction with OsO4, as this formal oxidation reaction is expected to proceed more readily with more electron-rich substrates. This work presents a density functional theory-based computational study of the frontier molecular orbital (FMO) interactions and reaction profile thermodynamics involved in the reaction of archetypical cycloaddition reactions (a simple ylide, OsO4, OsO4·py, OsO4·(py)2, and ozone) with the β,β'-double bonds of variously fluorinated meso-arylporphyrins. The trend observed for the Type I cycloaddition of an ylide is straightforward, as lowering the LUMO of the porphyrin with increasing meso-phenyl-fluorination also lowers the reaction barrier. The corresponding simple FMO analyses of Type III cycloadditions do not correctly model the reaction energetics. This is because increasing fluorination leads to lowering of the porphyrin HOMO-2, thus increasing the reaction barrier. However, coordination of pyridine to OsO4 preorganizes the transition state complex; lowering of the energy barrier by the preorganization exceeds the increase in repulsive orbital interactions, overall accelerating the cycloaddition and rationalizing the counterintuitive experimental findings.
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- Remy F Lalisse
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, 100 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, 100 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Unit 3060, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3060, United States
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, 333 Cedar St., New Haven, Connecticut 06510, United States.,Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University, 840 West Campus Drive, West Haven, Connecticut 06516, United States
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Dou S, Sun L, Xi S, Li X, Su T, Fan HJ, Wang X. Enlarging the π-Conjugation of Cobalt Porphyrin for Highly Active and Selective CO 2 Electroreduction. CHEMSUSCHEM 2021; 14:2126-2132. [PMID: 33754489 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202100176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2021] [Revised: 03/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Heterogeneous molecular catalysts have attracted considerable attention as carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2 RR) electrocatalysts. The π-electron system of conjugated ligands in molecular catalysts may play an important role in determining the activity. In this work, by enlarging π-conjugation through appending more aromatic substituents on the porphyrin ligand, altered π-electron system endows the as-prepared 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4-(pyren-1-yl)phenyl)porphyrin CoII with high Faradaic efficiency (ca. 95 %) for CO production, as well as high turnover frequency (2.1 s-1 at -0.6 V vs. RHE). Density functional theory calculation further suggests that the improved electrocatalytic performance mainly originates from the higher proportion of Co d z 2 orbital and the CO2 π* orbital in the HOMO of the (Co-porphyrin-CO2 )- intermediate with larger π-conjugation, which facilitates the CO2 activation. This work provides strong evidence that π-conjugation perturbation is effective in boosting the CO2 RR.
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- Shuo Dou
- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 62 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637459, Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 62 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637459, Singapore
- Cambridge CARES, CREATE Tower, Singapore, 138602, Singapore
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- Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, A*STAR), Singapore, 627833, Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 62 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637459, Singapore
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- Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, P. R. China
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- School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637371, Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 62 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637459, Singapore
- Cambridge CARES, CREATE Tower, Singapore, 138602, Singapore
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Nganga J, Chaudhri N, Brückner C, Angeles-Boza AM. β-Oxochlorin cobalt(II) complexes catalyze the electrochemical reduction of CO 2. Chem Commun (Camb) 2021; 57:4396-4399. [PMID: 33949479 DOI: 10.1039/d1cc00573a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Inspired by the architecture of the macrocycle of heme d1, a series of synthetic mono-, di- and tri-β-oxo-substituted porphyrinoid cobalt(ii) complexes were evaluated as electrocatalytic CO2 reducers, identifying complexes of unusually high efficiencies in generating multi-electron reduction products, including CH4.
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- John Nganga
- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, 55 N. Eagleville Road, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, 55 N. Eagleville Road, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, 55 N. Eagleville Road, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, 55 N. Eagleville Road, Storrs, CT 06269, USA. and Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, 97 N. Eagleville Road, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
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Marianov AN, Kochubei AS, Roman T, Conquest OJ, Stampfl C, Jiang Y. Resolving Deactivation Pathways of Co Porphyrin-Based Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction in Aqueous Medium. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c05092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- School of Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
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- School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia
- The University of Sydney Nano Institute, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia
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- School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia
- The University of Sydney Nano Institute, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia
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- School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia
- The University of Sydney Nano Institute, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia
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- School of Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
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Chaturvedi A, Williams CK, Devi N, Jiang JJ. Effects of Appended Poly(ethylene glycol) on Electrochemical CO 2 Reduction by an Iron Porphyrin Complex. Inorg Chem 2021; 60:3843-3850. [PMID: 33629857 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c03612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Electrochemical carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction is a sustainable approach for transforming atmospheric CO2 into chemical feedstocks and fuels. To overcome the kinetic barriers of electrocatalytic CO2 reduction, catalysts with high selectivity, activity, and stability are needed. Here, we report an iron porphyrin complex, FePEGP, with a poly(ethylene glycol) unit in the second coordination sphere, as a highly selective and active electrocatalyst for the electrochemical reduction of CO2 to carbon monoxide (CO). Controlled-potential electrolysis using FePEGP showed a Faradaic efficiency of 98% and a current density of -7.8 mA/cm2 at -2.2 V versus Fc/Fc+ in acetonitrile using water as the proton source. The maximum turnover frequency was calculated to be 1.4 × 105 s-1 using foot-of-the-wave analysis. Distinct from most other catalysts, the kinetic isotope effect (KIE) study revealed that the protonation step of the Fe-CO2 adduct is not involved in the rate-limiting step. This model shows that the PEG unit as the secondary coordination sphere enhances the catalytic kinetics and thus is an effective design for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction.
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- Ashwin Chaturvedi
- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210172, Cincinnati 45221, Ohio, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210172, Cincinnati 45221, Ohio, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210172, Cincinnati 45221, Ohio, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210172, Cincinnati 45221, Ohio, United States
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Insights on forming N,O-coordinated Cu single-atom catalysts for electrochemical reduction CO 2 to methane. Nat Commun 2021; 12:586. [PMID: 33500393 PMCID: PMC7838205 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20769-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 42.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2020] [Accepted: 12/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Single-atom catalysts (SACs) are promising candidates to catalyze electrochemical CO2 reduction (ECR) due to maximized atomic utilization. However, products are usually limited to CO instead of hydrocarbons or oxygenates due to unfavorable high energy barrier for further electron transfer on synthesized single atom catalytic sites. Here we report a novel partial-carbonization strategy to modify the electronic structures of center atoms on SACs for lowering the overall endothermic energy of key intermediates. A carbon-dots-based SAC margined with unique CuN2O2 sites was synthesized for the first time. The introduction of oxygen ligands brings remarkably high Faradaic efficiency (78%) and selectivity (99% of ECR products) for electrochemical converting CO2 to CH4 with current density of 40 mA·cm-2 in aqueous electrolytes, surpassing most reported SACs which stop at two-electron reduction. Theoretical calculations further revealed that the high selectivity and activity on CuN2O2 active sites are due to the proper elevated CH4 and H2 energy barrier and fine-tuned electronic structure of Cu active sites. Single-atom catalysts (SACs) are promising candidates to catalyze CO2 reduction for the formation of high value hydrocarbons but most of the reactions yield CO. Here, the authors show a low-temperature calcining process to fabricate a carbon-dots-based SAC to efficiently convert CO2 to methane.
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Lashgari A, Williams CK, Glover JL, Wu Y, Chai J, Jiang JJ. Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activity of a Zinc Porphyrin for CO 2 Reduction: Cooperative Effects of Triazole Units in the Second Coordination Sphere. Chemistry 2020; 26:16774-16781. [PMID: 32701198 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202002813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The control of the second coordination sphere in a coordination complex plays an important role in improving catalytic efficiency. Herein, we report a zinc porphyrin complex ZnPor8T with multiple flexible triazole units comprising the second coordination sphere, as an electrocatalyst for the highly selective electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2 ) to carbon monoxide (CO). This electrocatalyst converted CO2 to CO with a Faradaic efficiency of 99 % and a current density of -6.2 mA cm-2 at -2.4 V vs. Fc/Fc+ in N,N-dimethylformamide using water as the proton source. Structure-function relationship studies were carried out on ZnPor8T analogs containing different numbers of triazole units and distinct triazole geometries; these unveiled that the triazole units function cooperatively to stabilize the CO2 -catalyst adduct in order to facilitate intramolecular proton transfer. Our findings demonstrate that incorporating triazole units that function in a cooperative manner is a versatile strategy to enhance the activity of electrocatalytic CO2 conversion.
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- Amir Lashgari
- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210172, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210172, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210172, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 06520, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210172, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210172, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, United States
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Williams CK, Lashgari A, Tomb JA, Chai J, Jiang JJ. Atropisomeric Effects of Second Coordination Spheres on Electrocatalytic CO
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Reduction. ChemCatChem 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202000909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Caroline K. Williams
- Department of Chemistry University of Cincinnati P.O. Box 210172 Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0172 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of Cincinnati P.O. Box 210172 Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0172 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of Cincinnati P.O. Box 210172 Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0172 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of Cincinnati P.O. Box 210172 Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0172 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of Cincinnati P.O. Box 210172 Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0172 USA
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Pucelik B, Sułek A, Dąbrowski JM. Bacteriochlorins and their metal complexes as NIR-absorbing photosensitizers: properties, mechanisms, and applications. Coord Chem Rev 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2020.213340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Wang Y, Jiang Z, Zhang X, Niu Z, Zhou Q, Wang X, Li H, Lin Z, Zheng H, Liang Y. Metal Phthalocyanine-Derived Single-Atom Catalysts for Selective CO 2 Electroreduction under High Current Densities. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:33795-33802. [PMID: 32628446 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c08940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Single-atom catalysts (SACs) with atomically dispersed metal sites in nitrogen-doped carbon matrices (M-N/C) have been identified as promising candidates for the electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR). However, recent studies aiming at economic viability have been inhibited by the low faradaic efficiency (FE) and instability under high current density. Herein, we report a series of SACs derived from cyano-substituted metal phthalocyanines (MePc-CN) in ZIFs (denoted as Me-SACs (Pc)). These phthalocyanine molecules enable the efficient construction of SACs, affording higher metal loading and less variation when compared with their counterparts from metal nitrates (denoted as Me-SACs (S)). Thus, Me-SACs (Pc) exhibit higher activities and selectivities than Me-SACs (S) in H-cell measurements. In gas-diffusion electrode (GDE) setups, the unstable Fe-SAC (Pc) shows only a 50% FE of CO (FEco) at -100 mA cm-2. In contrast, Ni-SAC (Pc) exhibits a higher FEco of >96% at current densities from -10 to -200 mA cm-2 and can stably operate for over 16 h at -200 mA cm-2. The performances of Ni-SAC (Pc) are comparable to those of precious metal catalysts and the best SACs reported so far, representing a promising candidate for practical electrolyzer devices for CO2RR.
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- Yang Wang
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
- Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Photonic-Thermal-Electrical Energy Materials and Devices, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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Williams CK, Lashgari A, Chai J, Jiang JJ. Enhanced Molecular CO 2 Electroreduction Enabled by a Flexible Hydrophilic Channel for Relay Proton Shuttling. CHEMSUSCHEM 2020; 13:3412-3417. [PMID: 32379922 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202001037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The effects of primary and second coordination spheres on molecular electrocatalysis have been extensively studied, yet investigations of third functional spheres are rarely reported. Here, an electrocatalyst (ZnPEG8T) was developed with a hydrophilic channel as a third functional sphere that facilitates relay proton shuttling to the primary and second coordination spheres for enhanced catalytic CO2 reduction. Using foot-of-the-wave analysis, the ZnPEG8T catalyst displayed CO2 -to-CO activity (TOFmax ) thirty times greater than that of the benchmark catalyst without a third functional sphere. A kinetic isotopic effect (KIE) study, in conjunction with voltammetry and UV/Vis spectroscopy, uncovered that the rate-limiting step was not the protonation step of the metallocarboxylate intermediate, as observed in many other molecular CO2 reduction electrocatalysts, but rather the replenishment of protons in the proton-shuttling channel. Controlled-potential electrolysis using ZnPEG8T displayed a faradaic efficiency of 100 % for CO2 -to-CO conversion at -2.4 V vs. Fc/Fc+ . A Tafel plot was also generated for a comparison to other reported molecular catalysts. This report validates a strategy for incorporating higher functional spheres for enhanced catalytic efficiency in proton-coupled electron-transfer reactions.
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- Caroline K Williams
- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210172, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45221, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210172, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45221, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210172, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45221, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210172, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45221, United States
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Daryanavard M, Masoumpour MS. A new polypyridyl‐based Ru (II) complex as a highly efficient electrocatalyst for CO
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reduction. Appl Organomet Chem 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/aoc.5389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- Marzieh Daryanavard
- Department of ChemistryEstahban Higher Education Center Estahban 74519‐44655 Iran
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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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Watpathomsub S, Luangchaiyaporn J, Sariciftci NS, Thamyongkit P. Efficient heterogeneous catalysis by pendant metalloporphyrin-functionalized polythiophenes for the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. NEW J CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1039/d0nj01381a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Pendant metalloporphyrin-functionalized polythiophenes serve as efficient catalysts for the practical heterogeneous electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide under ambient conditions in aqueous media.
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- Supranee Watpathomsub
- Department of Chemistry
- Faculty of Science
- Chulalongkorn University
- Bangkok 10330
- Thailand
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- Linz Institute for Organic Solar Cells (LIOS)
- Institute of Physical Chemistry
- Johannes Kepler University
- Linz 4040
- Austria
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Domino electroreduction of CO2 to methanol on a molecular catalyst. Nature 2019; 575:639-642. [DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1760-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 392] [Impact Index Per Article: 78.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2018] [Accepted: 10/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Maher AG, Liu M, Nocera DG. Ligand Noninnocence in Nickel Porphyrins: Nickel Isobacteriochlorin Formation under Hydrogen Evolution Conditions. Inorg Chem 2019; 58:7958-7968. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b00717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Andrew G. Maher
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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Zhang B, Sun L. Artificial photosynthesis: opportunities and challenges of molecular catalysts. Chem Soc Rev 2019; 48:2216-2264. [PMID: 30895997 DOI: 10.1039/c8cs00897c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 408] [Impact Index Per Article: 81.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Molecular catalysis plays an essential role in both natural and artificial photosynthesis (AP). However, the field of molecular catalysis for AP has gradually declined in recent years because of doubt about the long-term stability of molecular-catalyst-based devices. This review summarizes the development history of molecular-catalyst-based AP, including the fundamentals of AP, molecular catalysts for water oxidation, proton reduction and CO2 reduction, and molecular-catalyst-based AP devices, and it provides an analysis of the advantages, challenges, and stability of molecular catalysts. With this review, we aim to highlight the following points: (i) an investigation on molecular catalysis is one of the most promising ways to obtain atom-efficient catalysts with outstanding intrinsic activities; (ii) effective heterogenization of molecular catalysts is currently the primary challenge for the application of molecular catalysis in AP devices; (iii) development of molecular catalysts is a promising way to solve the problems of catalysis involved in practical solar fuel production. In molecular-catalysis-based AP, much has been attained, but more challenges remain with regard to long-term stability and heterogenization techniques.
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- Biaobiao Zhang
- Department of Chemistry, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden.
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