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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
卷 125, 期 25, 页码 13802-13808出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c01481
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- National Science Foundation [CHE-1665372]
- Icelandic Research Fund
In the CO2 electrochemical reduction on copper electrodes, HCOOH and CO are formed at similar onset potentials, but with different mechanisms due to different transition state energies. These competing reactions are found to have almost equal energies of the rate-limiting steps, resulting in the similar onset potential.
In CO2 electrochemical reduction on copper electrodes, the formation of HCOOH and CO has been observed at a similar onset potential even though the former is thermodynamically more stable. Results of theoretical calculations of the formation of these products are presented here where the transition state energy for various mechanisms is evaluated as a function of applied voltage. The calculations are based on electron density functional theory combined with searches of saddle points on the energy surface describing the system at a given voltage, and the simulated system includes a few water molecules explicitly while the rest of the dielectric is represented as a continuum. The mechanism for HCOO- formation is found to involve concerted electron and hydrogen atom transfer to CO2 while CO is formed in two concerted electron and proton transfer steps with adsorbed COOH as an intermediate. Conversion of COOH to HCOOH is not a viable process as it involves a transition state of high energy so the formation of HCOOH and CO products does not have a common intermediate but rather represents competing reaction paths. The energies of the transition states of the rate-limiting steps for these two paths are almost equal, consistent with the onset potential being similar.
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