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Chirality-Induced Selective Electrosynthesis Hydrogen Peroxide and Tandem Green Chemical Synthesis

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Boying Zhang
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Haochuan Li
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Ruijuan Zhang
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Taoyang Wang
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Ranye Shi
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Haining Liu *
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Shanlin Qiao *
DOI:10.1002/anie.7494092delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Two-electron oxygen reduction reaction (2e−-ORR) toward hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) suffers from sluggish O─O preservation and spin-forbidden triplet O2-to-singlet H2O2 transition. Herein, we resolve this pivotal challenge by leveraging the chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect in inherently chiral Salen covalent organic frameworks (C-Salen-COFs-Zn) as 2e−-ORR electrocatalysts. The CISS effect imparts uniform surface electron spin polarization to the C-Salen-COFs-Zn, whereby triplet O2 bearing two parallel-spin electrons readily accepts opposite-spin electrons, alleviating the spin-forbidden transition to promote the generation of H2O2. The C-Salen-COF-Zn exhibits exceptional spin selectivity with CISS-induced spin polarization efficiency exceeding 90%, delivering superior electrocatalytic performance to its achiral counterpart. C-Salen-COF-Zn achieves 87.0% H2O2 selectivity, 297.7 mmol g−1 h−1 production rates at 0.2 V versus RHE, and Faradaic efficiencies up to 93.7% at 0.6 V versus RHE in H-type cell. Flow-cell system achieves 1169.7 and 1207.6 mmol g−1 h−1 H2O2 yield for C-Salen-COF-Zn. Comprehensive mechanistic studies reveal that C-Salen-COF-Zn preferentially adopts a Pauling-type adsorption mode, favoring •O2− formation by partially filling the π* antibonding orbitals, preserving the O─O bond. The spin-selective C-Salen-COF-Zn was integrated into a closed-loop cascade system for on-demand H2O2 generation and utilization, delivering 72% sodium perborate, 56% sodium peroxycarbonate, 82.7% lignin-to-benzoic acid conversions, and electro-Fenton degradation in advanced oxidation processes.
Keywords:
chiral covalent organic frameworks
chirality-dependent interfacial electron-transfer
chirality-induced spin selectivity
spin-selective electrocatalysis
two-electron oxygen reduction reaction

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Angewandte Chemie-International Edition cover
Angewandte Chemie-International Edition
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16.9
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5.6W
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53.0W

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Hebei University of Science and Technology
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