	US 12,322,837 B2
	Electrochemical reduction of halogenated compounds comprising a haloalkane
Betar Gallant, Cambridge, MA (US); Timothy Manning Swager, Newton, MA (US); Kosuke Yoshinaga, Cambridge, MA (US); and Haining Gao, Cambridge, MA (US)
Assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US)
Filed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US)
Filed on Feb. 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/679,014.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/153,331, filed on Feb. 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0367884 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. H01M 6/16 (2006.01); H01M 4/13 (2010.01); H01M 4/133 (2010.01); H01M 4/134 (2010.01); H01M 4/38 (2006.01); H01M 4/583 (2010.01); H01M 10/0567 (2010.01); H01M 4/02 (2006.01)

CPC H01M 6/168 (2013.01) [H01M 4/133 (2013.01); H01M 4/134 (2013.01); H01M 4/381 (2013.01); H01M 4/382 (2013.01); H01M 4/5835 (2013.01); H01M 10/0567 (2013.01); H01M 2004/027 (2013.01); H01M 2004/028 (2013.01); H01M 2300/0025 (2013.01)]

20 Claims

1. An electrochemical cell, comprising:

a first electrode comprising an alkali metal and/or an alkaline earth metal;

a second electrode; and

a halogenated compound comprising a haloalkane associated with a conjugated system via at least one alkene linker, wherein the halogenated compound has the structure Ar-CH₂═CH₂—C_nF_2n+1, and wherein Ar comprises at least one optionally substituted aromatic group.