Fig. 7: Reaction profiles.

The complete reaction cycle of acetylene hydrochlorination over the Cu ICPs (black and red lines), CuCl (yellow line), CuCl2 (blue line), CuN4 (c2–c5, green line), CuN4-CuN4 (pink line), and CuN3O-CuN3O (cyan line); inset: ESR spectra of DMPO capturing Cl• during HCl adsorption on Cu-NOC-973 catalyst.