Highly efficient and selective visible-light driven CO2-to-CO conversion by a Co-based cryptate in H2O-CH3CN solution

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Summary

A photochemical reduction of CO2 to CO was shown using the copper cryptate as catalyst in combination with the ruthenium photosensitizer . Turnover numbers (TONs) up to 51392 and a selectivity of 98% for CO were reached in MeCN/H2O. The experiments were conducted under visible-light irradiation (λ = 450 nm) using TEOA as sacrificial electron donor (see section SEDs below).

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Content of the published article in detail

The article contains results for the reduction of CO2 to CO under visible-light catalysis using a copper complex as a catalyst. The catalytic system performs best (referring to the TON of CO production) in MeCN/H2O with complex xx.

Catalyst

Photosensitizer

Investigation

Sacrificial electron donor

In this study, the experiments were done with the sacrificial electron donor TEOA.

Additives

In this study, no additives were tested.

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