Ligand engineering towards electrocatalytic urea synthesis on a molecular catalyst
Hunan University · University of Science and Technology of China · +4 more institutions
Abstract
Electrocatalytic C-N coupling from carbon dioxide and nitrate provides a sustainable alternative to the conventional energy-intensive urea synthetic protocol, enabling wastes upgrading and value-added products synthesis. The design of efficient and stable electrocatalysts is vital to promote the development of electrocatalytic urea synthesis. In this work, copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) is adopted as a modeling catalyst toward urea synthesis owing to its accurate and adjustable active configurations. Combining experimental and theoretical studies, it can be observed that the intramolecular Cu-N coordination can be strengthened with optimization in electronic structure by amino substitution (CuPc-Amino) and the…
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14Topics & keywords
- Catalysis
- Ligand (biochemistry)
- Urea
- Chemistry
- Combinatorial chemistry
- Electrocatalyst
- Electrochemistry
- Biochemistry