El disolvente aprótico expone un mecanismo alterado para la electrosíntesis de etileno catalizado por cobre

An T Chu1, Yogesh Surendranath1

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.

Resumen

En los disolventes apróticos, los electrocatalizadores de cobre convierten el monóxido de carbono (CO) en productos valiosos de C2 como el etileno. Este estudio revela un nuevo mecanismo que implica pasos de transferencia de electrones acoplados a protones (PCET), que difieren de las condiciones acuosas.

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