Hydrogen-Bonding Secondary Coordination Sphere Effect on CO2 Reduction

Great efforts of the scientific community are focused on development catalysts for reduction carbon dioxide (CO2) to useful molecules such as monoxide, formic acid, methanol, ethanol, methane, ethylene, or acetate. Various metal porphyrin complexes were synthesized and studied develop highly active selective catalysts. While substituents core (the primary coordination sphere) determine reactivity metal, introduction secondary is important binding activation CO2. In this review, selected examples iron with a sphere capable stabilizing intermediates CO2 process by hydrogen bonding presented.