Issue 12, 2023

Bifunctional catalysts for the conversion of CO2 into value-added products – distance as a design parameter for new catalysts

Abstract

More than 1000 CO2 chemistry publications within the last five years have featured the application of bifunctional catalysts. The majority of these articles investigate hydrogenation reactions of CO2 for producing alkanes, alcohols, and ethers. Reactions using CO2 and epoxides as reactants for producing cyclic carbonates or linear polycarbonates have also been extensively researched. For all of these CO2 chemistries, an informed choice of the combined materials and their arrangement as a bifunctional catalyst is critical to their performance. Herein, we identify the distance between active sites in bifunctional catalysts as an important control parameter for the system performance. We show that a range of optimal distances between the active sites can be identified for each of the interaction mechanisms enabled by bifunctional catalysts, namely steric and electrostatic interactions as well as concentration gradients of intermediate products. For the design of bifunctional core–shell catalysts, a model-based workflow is suggested.

Graphical abstract: Bifunctional catalysts for the conversion of CO2 into value-added products – distance as a design parameter for new catalysts

Article information

Article type
Minireview
Submitted
10 2月 2023
Accepted
28 4月 2023
First published
01 5月 2023
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2023,13, 3469-3482

Bifunctional catalysts for the conversion of CO2 into value-added products – distance as a design parameter for new catalysts

M. A. Rudolph, P. Isbrücker and R. Schomäcker, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2023, 13, 3469 DOI: 10.1039/D3CY00194F

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