Challenges and Opportunities in Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Chemicals and Fuels

X She, Y Wang, H Xu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The global temperature increase must be limited to below 1.5° C to alleviate the worst effects
of climate change. Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction (ECO2R) to generate chemicals and …

Active Sites of Cobalt Phthalocyanine in Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Methanol

CL Rooney, M Lyons, Y Wu, G Hu, M Wang… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Many metal coordination compounds catalyze CO2 electroreduction to CO, but cobalt
phthalocyanine hybridized with conductive carbon such as carbon nanotubes is currently …

Direct electrosynthesis of methylamine from carbon dioxide and nitrate

Y Wu, Z Jiang, Z Lin, Y Liang, H Wang - Nature Sustainability, 2021 - nature.com
The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide is an appealing technology that stores
renewable electricity in the chemical form and has the potential to transform the way carbon …

Heterogeneous Molecular Catalysts of Metal Phthalocyanines for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Reactions

Y Wu, Y Liang, H Wang - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Molecular catalysts, often deployed in homogeneous conditions, are favorable
systems for structure–reactivity correlation studies of electrochemical reactions because of …

Ultrathin, Cationic Covalent Organic Nanosheets for Enhanced CO2 Electroreduction to Methanol

Y Song, P Guo, T Ma, J Su, L Huang, W Guo… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Metalloporphyrins and metallophthalocyanines emerge as popular building blocks to
develop covalent organic nanosheets (CONs) for CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) …

Molecular engineering of metal complexes for electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction: From adjustment of intrinsic activity to molecular immobilization

ZW Yang, JM Chen, LQ Qiu, WJ **e… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction (ECO2RR) is one promising method for storing
intermittent clean energy in chemical bonds and producing fuels. Among various kinds of …

Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to Methanol by Cobalt Phthalocyanine: Quantifying CO2 and CO Binding Strengths and Their Influence on Methanol Production

L Yao, KE Rivera-Cruz, PM Zimmerman, N Singh… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cobalt phthalocyanine (CoPc) is an active electrocatalyst for the sequential electrochemical
reductions of CO2-to-CO and CO-to-methanol (CH3OH), and it has been shown to be active …

Impact of the Surface Microenvironment on the Redox Properties of a Co-Based Molecular Cathode for Selective Aqueous Electrochemical CO2-to-CO Reduction

M Haake, D Aldakov, J Pérard, G Veronesi… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Electrode-confined molecular catalysts are promising systems to enable the efficient
conversion of CO2 to useful products. Here, we describe the development of an original …

A review of the development of porphyrin-based catalysts for electrochemical CO2 reduction

S Gu, AN Marianov, T Lu, J Zhong - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
The reduction of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO 2) to carbon-based fuels provides a
potential solution to the sustainable and scalable energy storage challenges. To solve the …

Mechanism-guided realization of selective carbon monoxide electroreduction to methanol

J Li, B Shang, Y Gao, S Cheon, CL Rooney, H Wang - Nature Synthesis, 2023 - nature.com
Cobalt phthalocyanine can effectively convert CO2 or CO to methanol. However, this
reaction is hampered by low selectivity (a methanol Faradaic efficiency of less than 40%) …