Surface hydrogen migration significantly promotes electroreduction of acetonitrile to ethylamine

Abstract The electrochemical reduction of acetonitrile (AN) to ethylamine (EA) is an attractive yet challenging process, primarily due to the competing hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). This study demonstrates the ability to halt the HER at Volmer step, where protons migrate to the unsaturated bond...

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Main Authors: Yulong Tang, Jiejie Li, Yichao Lin, Moxing Cheng, Shuibo Wang, Ziqi Tian, Junjie Zhou, Haolei Zhang, Yunan Wang, Liang Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57462-w