Practical electrochemical hydrogenation of nitriles at the nickel foam cathode
Rok Narobe, Marcel Nicolas Perner, María de Jesús Gálvez‐Vázquez, Conrad Kuhwald, Martin Klein, Peter Broekmann, Sina Rösler, Bertram Cezanne, Siegfried R. Waldvogel
Abstract
We report a scalable hydrogenation method for nitriles based on cost-effective materials in a very simple two-electrode setup under galvanostatic conditions.
Topics & Concepts
ElectrolysisNitrileElectrochemistryAmine gas treatingCathodeNickelElectrodeMaterials scienceChemistryChemical engineeringCombinatorial chemistryOrganic chemistryPhysical chemistryEngineeringElectrolyteAmmonia Synthesis and Nitrogen ReductionElectrocatalysts for Energy ConversionAsymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis