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In this work, the main focus was to understand the formation of
18O ethanol was because it is the most abundant 18O oxygenate
produced. Subsequent work will examine the C3 product pathways
for 1-propanol and allyl alcohol formation as well as the acetate
pathways, which are evidently more complicated. Since we now
know that incorporation of 18O is critical in the formation of oxy-
genates, it is paramount to use this technique to investigate other
catalyst systems used for COR such as bimetallic systems and
oxide-derived Cu.28–32 For example, oxide-derived Cu catalysts
have been shown to yield a high selectivity towards oxygenates
versus hydrocarbons.31 It is expected that such experiments will
lead to new insights on how oxygenate formation mechanisms
might be different on these catalysts. Finally, our discovery of
concerted solvent water incorporation of O into oxygenates may
have implications for many other oxygen insertion processes.
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ASSOCIATED CONTENT
Supporting Information
The Supporting Information is available free of charge on the
ACS Publications website. Synthesis, characterization, experi-
mental methods and control experiments.
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AUTHOR INFORMATION
Corresponding Author
Author Contributions
⊥These authors contributed equally.
Notes
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This material is based upon work performed by the Joint Center
for Artificial Photosynthesis, a DOE Energy Innovation Hub,
supported through the Office of Science of the U.S. Department
of Energy under Award Number DE-SC0004993. Y.L. acknowl-
edges the support of an A*STAR National Science Scholarship.
The quantum mechanics (QM) calculations used the resources of
the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment
(XSEDE) which is supported by National Science Foundation
grant number ACI-1053575. We thank Lingfei Wei for technical
illustrations.
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