A review of iron and cobalt porphyrins, phthalocyanines, and related complexes for electrochemical and photochemical reduction of carbon dioxide

Content Provider	United States Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Author	Manbeck, Gerald F. Fujita, Etsuko
Organization	Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Abstract	This review summarizes research on the electrochemical and photochemical reduction of CO₂ using a variety of iron and cobalt porphyrins, phthalocyanines, and related complexes. Metalloporphyrins and metallophthalocyanines are visible light absorbers with extremely large extinction coefficients. However, yields of photochemically-generated active catalysts for CO₂ reduction are typically low owing to the requirement of a second photoinduced electron. This requirement is not relevant to the case of electrochemical CO₂ reduction. Recent progress on efficient and stable electrochemical systems includes the use of FeTPP catalysts that have prepositioned phenyl OH groups in their second coordination spheres. This has led to remarkable progress in carrying out coupled proton-electron transfer reactions for CO₂ reduction. Such ground-breaking research has to be continued in order to produce renewable fuels in an economically feasible manner.
Sponsorship	USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)
Related Links	https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1182538
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10884246
DOI	10.1142/S1088424615300013
Journal	Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
Volume Number	19
Issue Number	01-03
Language	English
Publisher	World Scientific
Publisher Date	2015-03-30
Publisher Place	United States
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY CO₂ reduction porphyrin phthalocyanine cobalt iron
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Chemistry