Heterogeneous Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction in Aqueous Medium Using a Novel N4-Macrocyclic Cobalt Complex.

ABSTRACT: Molecular catalysts represent an exceptional class of materials in the realm of electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction (CO₂RR), offering distinct advantages owing to their adaptable structure, which enables precise control of electronic configurations and outstanding performance in CO₂RR. This study introduces an innovative approach to heterogeneous electrochemical CO₂RR in an aqueous environment, utilizing a newly synthesized N4-macrocyclic cobalt complex generated through a dimerization coupling reaction. By incorporating the quaterpyridine moiety, this cobalt complex exhibits the capability to catalyze CO₂RR at low overpotentials and reaches near-unity CO production across a wide potential range, as verified by the online mass spectrometry a

SUBMITTER: Sun L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11579555 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature