title: Thermodynamics and kinetics of CO2, CO, and H+ binding to the metal centre of CO2 reduction catalysts.
abstract: In our developing world, carbon dioxide has become one of the most abundant greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. It is a stable, inert, small molecule that continues to present significant challenges toward its chemical activation as a useful carbon end product. This tutorial review describes one approach to the reduction of carbon dioxide to carbon fuels, using cobalt and nickel molecular catalysts, with particular focus on studying the thermodynamics and kinetics of CO(2) binding to metal catalytic sites.
authors.affiliation: Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA. jschneider@bnl.gov
authors.forename: Jacob
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: Hongfei
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.forename: James T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Muckerman
authors.forename: Etsuko
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fujita
mesh_terms: D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000737:chemistry*; D002248:Carbon Monoxide / Q000737:chemistry*; D002384:Catalysis; D003035:Cobalt / Q000737:chemistry*; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D007700:Kinetics; D009532:Nickel / Q000737:chemistry*; D009942:Organometallic Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D009942:Organometallic Compounds; D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D003035:Cobalt; D009532:Nickel; D002248:Carbon Monoxide