@article {32774,
	title = {Chelating N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands Enable Tuning of Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Formate and Carbon Monoxide: Surface Organometallic Chemistry},
	journal = {Angewandte Chemie International Edition},
	volume = {57},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {4981-4985},
	abstract = {<p>Abstract Reported here is the chelate effect as a design principle for tuning heterogeneous catalysts for electrochemical CO2 reduction. Palladium functionalized with a chelating tris-N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligand (Pd-timtmbMe) exhibits a 32-fold increase in activity for electrochemical reduction of CO2 to C1 products with high Faradaic efficiency (FEC1=86\&thinsp;\%) compared to the parent unfunctionalized Pd foil (FE=23\&thinsp;\%), and with sustained activity relative to a monodentate NHC-ligated Pd electrode (Pd-mimtmbMe). The results highlight the contributions of the chelate effect for tailoring and maintaining reactivity at molecular-materials interfaces enabled by surface organometallic chemistry.</p>},
	keywords = {CO2 reduction, electrocatalysis, N-heterocyclic carbenes, palladium, surface chemistry},
	doi = {10.1002/anie.201800367},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.201800367},
	author = {Cao, Zhi and Derrick, Jeffrey S. and Xu, Jun and Gao, Rui and Gong, Ming and Nichols, Eva M. and Smith, Peter T. and Liu, Xingwu and Wen, Xiaodong and Cop{\'e}ret, Christophe and Chang, Christopher J.}
}
@article {29150,
	title = {Electrocatalytic Alloys for CO2 Reduction},
	journal = {ChemSusChem},
	volume = {11},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {48-57},
	abstract = {<p>Abstract Electrochemically reducing CO2 using renewable energy is a contemporary global challenge that will only be met with electrocatalysts capable of efficiently converting CO2 into fuels and chemicals with high selectivity. Although many different metals and morphologies have been tested for CO2 electrocatalysis over the last several decades, relatively limited attention has been committed to the study of alloys for this application. Alloying is a promising method to tailor the geometric and electric environments of active sites. The parameter space for discovering new alloys for CO2 electrocatalysis is particularly large because of the myriad products that can be formed during CO2 reduction. In this Minireview, mixed-metal electrocatalyst compositions that have been evaluated for CO2 reduction are summarized. A distillation of the structure\&ndash;property relationships gleaned from this survey are intended to help in the construction of guidelines for discovering new classes of alloys for the CO2 reduction reaction.</p>},
	keywords = {ALLOYS, CO2 reduction, electrocatalysis, electrolysis, heterogeneous catalysis},
	doi = {10.1002/cssc.201701825},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cssc.201701825},
	author = {He, J. and Johnson, N. J. and Huang, A. and Berlinguette, C. P.}
}
