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Developing nonmetallic active sites-based catalysts for efficient electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) ) remains challenging. Active N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) as typical nonmetal catalysts have shown high efficiency in organic catalysis but rarely used in electrochemistry. Herein, we report for the first time using the CO2-masked NHCs functionalized metal-organic framework (UiO-66-NHC-CO2) ) as efficient electrocatalyst for the CO2RR towards production of CO. The active NHCs sites protected by the COO- - group in the UiO-66-NHC-CO2 can activate CO2 and the Faradaic efficiency of CO reaches 80.1% at -2.5 V versus Ag/Ag+, + , outcompeting current metal-free catalysts with well-defined active sites. Experimental results and DFT indicate that the NHCs species shielded by CO2 have a lower adsorption activation energy for CO2 compared to imidazolium salts, making it easier to bind and activate CO2 , thus leading to easy reduction to CO. Therefore, the NHCs portion of UiO-66-NHC-CO2 can be capable of activating CO2 and facilitating its reduction to CO. This discovery provides valuable insights for the preactivation of CO2 and efficient electrocatalytic reduction of CO2.
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CCS CHEMISTRY
Year: 2024
Issue: 12
Volume: 6
Page: 3053-3064
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JCR@2023
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