New sustainable catalyst: Fast, selective, reductive conversion of CO2!
Anthropogenic climate change drastically affects our planet, with CO2 being the most critical gaseous driver. Here, we present a fast, effective, and sustainable route for coupling diverse alcohols, amines and amides with CO2 via heterogenization of a natural metal-based homogeneous catalyst through decorating on functionalized graphene oxide. Combined synthetic, experimental, and theoretical studies unravel mechanistic routes to convergent 4‑electron reduction of CO2 under mild conditions. We successfully replace the toxic and expensive ruthenium species with inexpensive, ubiquitously available and recyclable iron. This iron-based functionalized graphene oxide, functions as an efficient catalyst for the selective conversion of CO2 into a formaldehyde oxidation level. This work is developed and realized, with Dr. Ghosh and Professor Ariya.
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