Electrochemical hydrogeneration (ECH) of biomass-derived platform molecules, which avoids the disadvantages in utilizing fossil fuel and gaseous hydrogen, is a promising route toward value-added chemicals production. Herein, we reported a CoO/Co heterostructure-supported Pt single atoms electrocatalyst (Pt-CoO/Co) that exhibited an outstanding performance with a high conversion (>99%), a high Faradaic efficiency (87.6%), and robust stability (24 recyclability) at -20 mA/cm for electrochemical phenol hydrogenation to high-valued KA oil (a mixture of cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone). Experimental results and the density functional theory calculations demonstrated that Pt-CoO/Co presented strong adsorption of phenol and hydrogen on the catalyst surface simultaneously, which was conducive to the transfer of the adsorbed hydrogen generated on the single atom Pt sites to activated phenol, and then, ECH of phenol with high performance was achieved instead of the direct hydrogen evolution reaction. This work described that the multicomponent synergistic single atom catalysts could effectively accelerate the ECH of phenol, which could help the achievement of large-scale biomass upgrading.
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