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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Manipulating hydrogenation pathways enables economically viable electrocatalytic aldehyde-to-alcohol valorization.

Ze-Cheng Yao, Jing Chai, Tang Tang, Liang Ding, Zhe Jiang, Jiaju Fu, Xiaoxia Chang, Bingjun Xu, Liang Zhang, Jin-Song Hu and 1 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Ze-Cheng Yao *Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2055-4495
Jing Chai *Center for Combustion Energy, School of Vehicle and Mobility, State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Green Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Tang TangBeijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
Liang DingBeijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
Zhe JiangBeijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0320-3378
Jiaju FuBeijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0825-2566
Xiaoxia ChangCollege of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
Bingjun XuCollege of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
Liang ZhangCenter for Combustion Energy, School of Vehicle and Mobility, State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Green Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Jin-Song HuBeijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6268-0959
Li-Jun WanBeijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.

Funding

MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 22025208 22361162665MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 22202212MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 22373055
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Abstract

Electrocatalytic reduction (ECR) of furfural represents a sustainable route for biomass valorization. Unfortunately, traditional Cu-catalyzed ECR suffers from diversified product distribution and industrial-incompatible production rates, mainly caused by the intricate mechanism-performance relationship. Here, we manipulate hydrogenation pathways on Cu by introducing ceria as an auxiliary component, which enables the mechanism switching from proton-coupled electron transfer to electrochemical hydrogen-atom transfer (HAT) and thus high-speed furfural-to-furfuryl alcohol electroconversion. Theoretical and kinetic analyses show that oxygen-vacancy-rich ceria delivers an efficient formation-diffusion-hydrogenation chain of H* by diminishing H* adsorption. Spectroscopic characterizations indicate that Cu/ceria interfacial perimeter enriches the local furfural, synergistically lowering the barrier of the rate-determining HAT step across the perimeter. Our Cu/ceria catalyst realizes high-rate HAT-dominated ECR for electrosynthesis of single-product furfuryl alcohol, achieving a high production rate of 19.1 ± 0.4 mol h

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biomass valorizationelectrocatalytic reductionhydrogenation pathwayhydrogen-atom transfer

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PMID39977322
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