Reaction Mechanism and Kinetics for the Selective Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide to Formic Acid and Methanol over the [Cu] Dimer.

With the rapid growth of industrialization, deforestation, and burning of fossil fuels, undeniably there has been an incredible escalation of the CO concentration in the atmosphere. In order to mitigate the problem, the capture and utilization of CO in different value-added chemicals have thus remained topics of concerned research for more than a decade. Accordingly, we have performed molecular -level catalytic hydrogenation of CO to formic acid using bare [Cu] dimers as catalysts.