Although molecular complexes can serve as well-defined model catalysts for CO2 electroreduction, few compounds reduce CO2 beyond two electrons. Now, hydrophobic molecular cobalt terpyridine complexes, containing perfluorinated alkyl side chains, have been shown to assemble at the gas–liquid–solid interface and to electrocatalytically reduce CO2 to methane with high efficiencies.
- Morgan McKee
- Maximilian Kutter
- Nikolay Kornienko
