Advancing the Synthesis for Perdeuterated Small Organic Chemicals via Electrochemical CO2 Reduction

Bjørt Óladóttir Joensen; Qiucheng Xu; Kasper Enemark-Rasmussen; Victoria Frankland; Arun Prakash Periasamy; John R. Varcoe; Ib Chorkendorff; Brian Seger

doi:10.1021/acscatal.4c06353

Advancing the Synthesis for Perdeuterated Small Organic Chemicals via Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction

Bjørt Óladóttir Joensen
, Qiucheng Xu
, Kasper Enemark-Rasmussen
, Victoria Frankland
, Arun Prakash Periasamy
, John R. Varcoe
, Ib Chorkendorff
, Brian Seger^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
University of Surrey

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Abstract

High deuteration yields are difficult to attain with conventional chemical synthesis methods. In this work, we demonstrate that deuterated chemicals can be produced using electrochemical CO₂ reduction in the presence of D₂O. The absence of H₂O enables deuteration yields over 99% for products such as ethanol-d₆ and formate-d.

Original language	English
Journal	ACS Catalysis
Volume	15
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	1038-1045
ISSN	2155-5435
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.4c06353
Publication status	Published - 2025

Keywords

CO2 electroreduction
D2 evolution reaction
Deuteration

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