The viability of electrocatalytic CO2 reduction as a pathway for CO2 utilization is contingent on developing selective processes towards high-value carbon-based chemicals. New work demonstrates a strategy to expand the possible products to carbonate esters by sequential redox cycles in a single electrochemical cell.
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Varela, A.S. The benefits of cycling. Nat Energy 6, 698–699 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-021-00870-1
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