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Implementing a chemical C–N coupling step to intercept reactive intermediates in electrocatalytic CO2 or NOxy– reduction reactions is an emerging approach to sustainable electrosynthesis of organonitrogen compounds from cheap and abundant feedstocks.
The electrochemical construction of C–N bonds from abundant CO2 and nitrogenous sources is of interest for the sustainable synthesis of value-added organonitrogen compounds, which requires comprehensive considerations of electrocatalysts, the interface microenvironment, mechanisms, reactors and paired reactions to push this area towards competition with traditional thermochemical methods.
