The production of CO from CO2 is an attractive route to the utilization of CO2 as a C1 source. CO is produced industrially by steam reforming fossil fuels to produce syngas, and is a versatile chemical precursor and fuel. Our recent work on a synthetic cycle for the CO2-to-CO conversion (with subsequent release of CO) based on iron(II) and redox active pydridinediimine (PDI) ligands will be presented. The production of syngas from CO2 and protons will also be discussed, as well as the investigation into CO release from iron(II) by tuning the secondary coordination sphere of these complexes. Lastly, our work employing tandem catalysts to study dihydrogen-derived hydride transfer reactions to multiple variants of the FePDI complexes under CO2 will also be highlighted.

Production of C1 sources via reduction of CO2 on redox active iron ligand platforms

249th National Meeting (2015)

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