Electrocarboxylation of CO2 with Organic Substrates: Toward Cathodic Reaction

Advances and challenges in the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide

“…Metal sites play an important role as the main foundation for adsorbing CO 2 and activating it into different products. 73–76 Since various metal elements have their distinct state of electron clouds in different shell orbitals, they congenitally have significant differences in the CO 2 RR electrocatalytic activity, including current density, stability, and even the types and selectivity of generated products. To date, researchers have researched single-atom catalysts (SACs) covering most of the transition metal elements like Mo, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn, precious metal elements like Au, Ag, Pt, and Ir, and p-block elements like Bi, Sn, and Sb to explore their intrinsic CO 2 RR electrocatalytic properties (Fig.…”

Electrocatalytic hydrogenation coupling oxidation using water in a highly efficient paired cell enabled by an oxygen defect-rich layered double hydroxide

“…Take reduction as an example, in recent years, electrochemical reduction reactions have garnered increasing interest due to their environmental friendliness and practical application prospects. 5–7 In particular, great attention has been paid to the preparation of high value chemical products by electrocatalytic reduction using water as the hydrogen source. 8–10 The use of electrocatalytic water splitting as a hydrogen source has been successfully extended to reduction reactions of several compounds including the reduction of nitrobenzene, 11,12 biomass such as lignin 13 and furfural, 10,14,15 benzaldehyde, 16 benzoic acid, 17 etc.…”