Jianan Erick Huang, Yiqing Chen, Pengfei Ou, Xueda Ding, Yu Yan, Roham Dorakhan, Yanwei Lum, Xiao-Yan Li, Yang Bai, Chengqian Wu, Mengyang Fan, Mi Gyoung Lee, Rui Kai Miao, Yanjiang Liu, Colin O'Brien, Jinqiang Zhang, Cong Tian, Yongxiang Liang, Yi Xu, Mingchuan Luo, David Sinton, Edward H Sargent
Renewable-energy-powered electrosynthesis has the potential to contribute to decarbonizing the production of propylene glycol, a chemical that is used currently in the manufacture of polyesters and antifreeze and has a high carbon intensity. Unfortunately, to date, the electrooxidation of propylene under ambient conditions has suffered from a wide product distribution, leading to a low faradic efficiency toward the desired propylene glycol. We undertook mechanistic investigations and found that the reconstruction of Pd to PdO occurs, followed by hydroxide formation under anodic bias...
March 12, 2024: Journal of the American Chemical Society