Ligand engineering towards electrocatalytic urea synthesis on a molecular catalyst.

ABSTRACT: Electrocatalytic C-N coupling from carbon dioxide and nitrate provides a sustainable alternative to the conventional energy-intensive urea synthetic protocol, enabling wastes upgrading and value-added products synthesis. The design of efficient and stable electrocatalysts is vital to promote the development of electrocatalytic urea synthesis. In this work, copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) is adopted as a modeling catalyst toward urea synthesis owing to its accurate and adjustable active configurations. Combining experimental and theoretical studies, it can be observed that the intramolecular Cu-N coordination can be strengthened with optimization in electronic structure by amino substitution (CuPc-Amino) and the electrochemically induced demetallation is efficiently suppressed, serving as the

SUBMITTER: Li H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11473519 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature