Elucidating Electric Field-Induced Rate Promotion of Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Alcohol Dehydration

• Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 147; no. 31; pp. 27599 - 27610
• Main Authors: Dinakar, Bhavish, Westendorff, Karl S., Torres, Juan F., Dakhchoune, Mostapha, Groenhout, Katelyn, Ewell, Nathan, Surendranath, Yogesh, Dincă, Mircea, Román-Leshkov, Yuriy
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 06.08.2025

Applied potentials have been demonstrated as a powerful tool to promote heterogeneous Brønsted acid catalysis by orders of magnitude, leveraging interfacial electric fields to stabilize protonated intermediates. However, the use of flat two-dimensional electrodes with inherently low active site dens...