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Remarkably Efficient Carbon-Supported Nanostructured Platinum-Bismuth Catalysts for the Selective Electrooxidation of Glucose and Methyl-Glucoside

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Pt/C and Pt9Bi1/C catalysts are synthesized by wet chemistry, characterized by physicochemical and electrochemical methods, and evaluated towards glucose and methyl-glucoside electrooxidation in alkaline medium. Pt9Bi1/C leads to onset potentials 150 to 350 mV lower than those recorded on Pt/C for glucose and methyl-glucoside oxidation, respectively. From in situ infrared spectroscopy, main reaction products of glucose and methyl-glucoside oxidation are gluconate and methyl-glucuronate, respectively. Chronoamperometry is performed for 6 h in a 25-cm2 electrolysis cell fitted with a Pt9Bi1/C anode to oxidize 18.0 g L−1 glucose and 19.4 g L-1 methyl-glucoside at cell voltages of 0.30 V and 0.50 V, respectively, and a Pt/C cathode to produce hydrogen. Analyses of the reaction products by high-performance liquid chromatography, by 13C nuclear magnetic resonance, and by mass spectroscopy indicate that gluconate and methyl-glucuronate are formed with 100% faradaic efficiency and 100% selectivity at 40% glucose and 37% methyl-glucoside conversions, respectively.

Pt9Bi1/ electrocatalyst is the most outstanding one for the electrooxidation of glucose and methyl-glucoside in terms of activity, selectivity, and faradaic yield towards high value-added gluconate and methyl-glucuronate compounds, respectively.

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Neha, N., Kouamé, B.S.R., Rafaïdeen, T. et al. Remarkably Efficient Carbon-Supported Nanostructured Platinum-Bismuth Catalysts for the Selective Electrooxidation of Glucose and Methyl-Glucoside. Electrocatalysis 12, 1–14 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12678-020-00586-y

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