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Electrorreducción directa del carbonato al formato

Haibin Ma¹, Enric Ibáñez-Alé^2,3, Ramesha Ganganahalli⁴

¹Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 117543, Singapore.

Journal of the American Chemical Society

|November 4, 2023

Resumen

Los intermediarios de carbonato, anteriormente considerados inertes, pueden reducirse para formarse durante la reducción electroquímica de CO2 en electrodos de cobre. Este descubrimiento ofrece una nueva ruta para convertir carbonatos en productos valiosos como el formato.

Área de la Ciencia:

La electroquímica
Ciencias de la superficie
Catálisis

Sus antecedentes:

Las eficiencias de la reacción electroquímica de reducción de CO2 (eCO2RR) a menudo están limitadas por la formación de carbonatos.
Los carbonatos se consideran típicamente especies electroquímicamente inertes en eCO2RR.

Objetivo del estudio:

Para investigar el comportamiento electroquímico de los intermediarios de carbonato durante eCO2RR.
Para explorar la reducción directa de carbonatos adsorbidos para formarse en electrodos de cobre.
Aclarar el mecanismo y los sitios activos involucrados en la reducción de carbonato.

Principales métodos:

Espectroscopia de Raman in situ, cromatografía líquida y espectroscopia de RMN.
Estudios de etiquetado de isótopos de 13C y deuterio.
Simulaciones de la teoría funcional de la densidad (DFT) y la electrólisis de pulso.

Principales resultados:

Se observaron productos intermedios de carbonato adsorbidos en los electrodos de cobre durante eCO2RR.
Estos carbonatos adsorbidos pueden reducirse para formarse a potenciales más negativos que -0,4 V.
La reducción directa de aniones de carbonato a formato se logró con una eficiencia Faradaic del 61% utilizando electrólisis de pulso.

Conclusiones:

Los carbonatos no son inertes y pueden reducirse electroquímicamente para formarse en el cobre.
Este estudio revela una vía directa para la conversión de carbonatos en formato valioso.
Los resultados proporcionan estrategias para mitigar la formación de carbonatos y mejorar la selectividad del producto eCO2RR.

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