Covalent organic frameworks comprising cobalt porphyrins for catalytic CO 2 reduction in water

Abstract
Improving cobalt catalysts: Tethering molecular catalysts together is a tried and trusted method for making them easier to purify and reuse. Lin et al. now show that the assembly of a covalent organic framework (COF) structure can also improve fundamental catalytic performance. They used cobalt porphyrin complexes as building blocks for a COF. The resulting material showed greatly enhanced activity for the aqueous electrochemical reduction of CO 2 to CO. Science , this issue p. 1208
Funding Information
  • U.S. Department of Energy
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (101528-002)
  • DOE, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Energy Frontier Research Center (DESC0001015)