Affiliation:
1. College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
Abstract
In order to understand the mechanism of the electrochemical reduction of CO* on Cu(111), which competitively generates two intermediates, CHO* and COH*, we performed a first principles calculation on these two electrocatalytic reactions, including the solvent effect and imposing a constant potential. The transition states of the two reactions under constant potential conditions were located by the electrochemical nudged elastic band (eNEB) method and the charge effect in the two reactions was elucidated by charge correction in the constant potential model and Bader charge analysis. It was found that the two reactions have different potential dependencies and involve different degrees of partial charge transfer. In addition, we confirmed that the COH* reaction pathway exists only in a certain potential range when using the implicit solvent model.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,Catalysis,General Environmental Science
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