A Short Perspective on Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction to CO

Maxime Tarrago; Shengfa Ye

doi:10.2533/chimia.2020.478

A Short Perspective on Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction to CO

Authors

Maxime Tarrago Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Shengfa Ye Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany; State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China; ; shengfa.ye@dicp.ac.cn, Email: shenfa.ye@kofo.mpg.de

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2533/chimia.2020.478

PMID:

32560753

Keywords:

Electrochemical CO2 reduction, Non-noble metal catalysts

Abstract

This short review summarizes examples of many homogeneous non-noble catalysts for CO₂-to-CO reduction and compares their feasible mechanisms. The focus is to show that elucidating the electronic structure of the catalytic system likely provides better understanding of the reaction mechanism and product selectivity.