Ultrafast Photoinduced Interfacial Proton Coupled Electron Transfer from CdSe Quantum Dots to 4,4′-Bipyridine

• Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 138; no. 3; pp. 884 - 892
• Main Authors: Chen, Jinquan, Wu, Kaifeng, Rudshteyn, Benjamin, Jia, Yanyan, Ding, Wendu, Xie, Zhao-Xiong, Batista, Victor S, Lian, Tianquan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 27.01.2016
• Subjects: 3-mercaptopropionic acid; adsorption; carbon dioxide; catalysts; cations; electrochemistry; electron transfer; geometry; hydrogen bonding; ligands; lighting; methanol; pyridines; quantum dots

Pyridine and derivatives have been reported as efficient and selective catalysts for the electrochemical and photoelectrochemical reduction of CO2 to methanol. Although the catalytic mechanism remains a subject of considerable recent debate, most proposed models involve interfacial proton coupled el...