化学
催化作用
氢化物
电化学
三苯基膦
密度泛函理论
法拉第效率
组合化学
无机化学
光化学
计算化学
物理化学
电极
金属
有机化学
作者
Zehua Gao,Kecheng Wei,Tao Wu,Jia Dong,De‐en Jiang,Shouheng Sun,Lai‐Sheng Wang
摘要
It has been a long-standing challenge to create and identify the active sites of heterogeneous catalysts, because it is difficult to precisely control the interfacial chemistry at the molecular level. Here we report the synthesis and catalysis of a heteroleptic gold trihydride nanocluster, [Au22H3(dppe)3(PPh3)8]3+ [dppe = 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane, PPh3 = triphenylphosphine]. The Au22H3 core consists of two Au11 units bonded via six uncoordinated Au sites. The three H atoms bridge the six uncoordinated Au atoms and are found to play a key role in catalyzing electrochemical reduction of CO2 to CO with a 92.7% Faradaic efficiency (FE) at -0.6 V (vs RHE) and high reaction activity (134 A/gAu mass activity). The CO current density and FECO remained nearly constant for the CO2 reduction reaction for more than 10 h, indicating remarkable stability of the Au22H3 catalyst. The Au22H3 catalytic performance is among the best Au-based catalysts reported thus far for electrochemical reduction of CO2. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations suggest that the hydride coordinated Au sites are the active centers, which facilitate the formation of the key *COOH intermediate.
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