Chiral Cu surfaces for efficient amino acid synthesis via CO2 electrolysis

摘要

Drawing inspiration from CO2 reduction to multi-carbon chemicals, Che and colleagues describe in their recent Chem article the electroreduc-tion of CO2 and NH3 for the synthesis of amino acids on chiral Cu films (CCFs). The chiral kink sites on CCFs contribute to the mechanism of amino acid generation; thus, they are useful for C3+ catalysis.