Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
5 years ago

Photoelectroreduction of Building-Block Chemicals

Photoelectroreduction of Building-Block Chemicals
Shuit-Tong Lee, Wei Cui, Jie Zhang, Yanguang Li, Yeyun Wang, Fengjiao Chen, Yongpan Hu, Junhua Zhou
Down to the wire: A silicon nanowire array photocathode mediates photoelectroreductive transformation of maleic and oxalic acids into building-block chemicals. In their Communication (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201701764), Y. G. Li et al. report a large photovoltage generated from the semiconductor/electrolyte junction of the photocathode, which is used to offset the external bias required by electroreduction. The photoelectrosynthetic approach is selective for succinic and glyoxylic acids.

Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi

DOI: 10.1002/anie.201704345

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