A Tandem Strategy for Enhancing Electrochemical Glycine Synthesis
Yuan-Zi Xu a, Victor Mougel a
a ETH Zurich, Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry & Applied Biosciences, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg, 1, Zürich, CH
Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS)
Proceedings of MATSUS Fall 2023 Conference (MATSUSFall23)
#N2X - Recent advances on nitrogen activation and conversion
Torremolinos, Spain, 2023 October 16th - 20th
Organizers: Victor Mougel, Nella Vargas-Barbosa and Roland Marschall
Poster, Yuan-Zi Xu, 357
Publication date: 18th July 2023

In this study, a facile tandem method was developed for efficient glycine electrosynthesis by increasing the yield of the intermediate. In the tandem electrocatalytic operation, oxalic acid is first reduced to glyoxylic acid in the OA-to-GA step at the surface of Lead foil, followed by C-N coupling to produce glycine in the GA+NT-to-GL step. Impressively, compared to the one-step electrolysis, the tandem electrolysis showed a significant improvement to a maximum glycine FE of 46.1 ± 1.7% at -300mA cm-2 and maintained a high FE plateau across a wide current density range. In addition, the improved tandem electrolysis demonstrated a high glycine partial current density of -226 ± 25.5 mA cm-2 or an glycine production rate of 0.82 ± 0.1 mM h-1 cm-2, indicating a significant improvement over previous reports.The tandem strategy developed in this work provides a new method for promoting C-N coupled reaction and can therefore be further extended to other electrochemical energy conversion reactions.

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