Experimental reasons for the variable efficiencies of organic electrocatalysts used for converting carbon dioxide to methanol

• Main Authors: Budanovic, Maja, Urbančok, Dejan, Er, Jasmine Y. H., Tessensohn, Malcolm Eugene, Webster, Richard David
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Science::Chemistry; Controlled Potential Electrolysis; Gas Chromatography
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159908
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Pyridinium (the protonated form of pyridine) and related compounds have been proposed to be promising homogenous electrocatalysts in the electrochemical reduction of CO2 to methanol due to the low overpotential required to achieve faradaic yields of about 20 %, although the percentage yields vary dr...