With significant recent increases in anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, it has become crucial that effective processes for atmospheric CO2 removal are studied. Currently, popular methods of removal involve “trap-and-transform” methodology, in which carbon dioxide is trapped from the atmosphere and reduced to ‘value-added’ products. However, current catalysts capable of performing this reduction often fail to exhibit concomitantly a) reliable product selectivity, b) high-yield, and c) facile synthetic pathways. Previous research suggests that a specific copper(II) bis(thiosemicarbazone) transition metal compound catalyst was able to photo- and electrochemically reduce carbon dioxide to methanol with respectable yield. This project aims to synthesize phenylated derivatives of Ni(II) and Cu(II) bis(thiosemicarbazone) compounds to investigate their catalytic potential as CO2 reductants.

Synthesis and characterization of phenylated transition metal bis(thiosemicarbazone) compounds for CO2 reduction

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