Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide with a Well-Defined PN3 -Ru Pincer Complex

Shixiong Min; Shahid Rasul; Huaifeng Li; David C Grills; Kazuhiro Takanabe; Lain-Jong Li; Kuo-Wei Huang

doi:10.1002/cplu.201500474

Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide with a Well-Defined PN³ -Ru Pincer Complex

Chempluschem. 2016 Feb;81(2):166-171. doi: 10.1002/cplu.201500474. Epub 2015 Nov 13.

Authors

Shixiong Min^{1

2}, Shahid Rasul¹, Huaifeng Li¹, David C Grills³, Kazuhiro Takanabe¹, Lain-Jong Li¹, Kuo-Wei Huang¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Physical Science and Engineering and KAUST Catalysis Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
² School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beifang University of Nationalities, Ningxia, 750021, P. R. China.
³ Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973-5000, USA.

PMID: 31968761
DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201500474

Abstract

A well-defined PN³ -Ru pincer complex (5) bearing a redox-active bipyridine ligand with an aminophosphine arm has been established as an effective and stable molecular electrocatalyst for CO₂ reduction to CO and HCOOH with negligible formation of H₂ in a H₂ O/MeCN mixture.

Keywords: N,P ligands; electrocatalysts; electrochemistry; redox; ruthenium.

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