Promoting electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction to <i>n</i>-propanol over ethanol at Cu step sites.

ABSTRACT: Obtaining valuable C₃₊ products directly from the electrocatalytic reduction of CO₂ or CO is an attractive but challenging task, due to the much more complicated reaction pathways and sluggish kinetics of C₃₊ products than their C₁ and C₂ counterparts. As different C₃₊ products and competitive C₂ side-products may share the common rate-determining step (e.g. the carbon-carbon coupling), the regulation of subsequent selectivity-determining step(s) is critical for promoting the selectivity of C₃₊ products. Herein, we focused on tuning the selectivity competition between n-propanol (n-C₃H₇OH, an important C₃₊ alcohol) versus ethanol (C₂

SUBMITTER: Xue Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12230853 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature