A Local Proton Source Enhances CO 2 Electroreduction to CO by a Molecular Fe Catalyst
Cyrille Costentin, Samuel Drouet, Marc Robert, Jean-Michel Savéant- Multidisciplinary
Lending a Hand to CO 2 Reduction
Although plants and microbes have been reducing CO
2
with ease for millennia, people still find it extremely challenging. A cost-effective synthetic scheme for transforming CO
2
into fuels and commodity chemicals would be a double boon, lowering atmospheric concentration of the greenhouse gas while supplementing (and perhaps ultimately replacing) dwindling petroleum feedstocks. Toward this end,
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