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Synthesis and Performance Characterizations of Transition Metal Single Atom Catalyst for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
Published on: April 10, 2018
Kinetics and thermodynamics of CO2 binding to a metal centre promotes CO2 reduction
Liliang Huang1, Shuanglin He1,2, Fang Huang3
1State Key Laboratory of Environment-Friendly Energy Material, School of Materials and Chemistry, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, P. R. China. chenlin101101@aliyun.com.
Abstract:
Herein, we report the design, synthesis, and characterization of a series of manganese terpyridine dicarbonyl derivatives (1-5) each covalently bonded to a proximal amide moiety as a proton relay. By finely tuning the kinetics of binding of CO2 to the metal centre, we improved the turnover frequency (TOF) for the CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) from 325 s-1 to 1359 s-1. The performances ranked this series of catalysts among the most promising earth-abundant molecular catalysts for CO2-to-CO conversion.
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