Cody Carr

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Chemistry Division
Bldg. 555
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

ccarr@bnl.gov

Research | Education | Appointments | Publications | Awards

Research Activities

Electron- and Photo-Induced Processes for Molecular Energy Conversion Group

Research Interests

Radiation chemistry in organic solvents, radical scavengers, mechanistic understanding of solar fuel forming reactions, pulse radiolysis, and flash photolysis

Education

Ph. D., Chemistry — University of California, Davis 2020
B.Sc., Chemical Physics — University of California, Davis, 2013
A.S., Chemistry, Mathematics, and Natural Science — Sierra College, 2011

Professional Appointments

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2022 - present
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Calgary, CA, 2020-2022

Selected Publications

• Carr CR, Vrionides MA, Grills DC (2023) Reactivity of radiolytically and photochemically generated tertiary amine radicals towards a CO2 reduction catalyst. The Journal of Chemical Physics 159:. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0180065
• Dubrawski ZS, Chang CY, Carr CR, et al (2022) Electrocatalyst decomposition pathways: torsional strain in a second sphere proton relay shuts off CO2RR in a Re(2,2′-bipyridyl)(CO)3X type electrocatalyst. Dalton Transactions 51:17381–17390. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2dt02876j
• Carr CR, Koenig JDB, Grant MJ, et al (2022) Boosting CO2-to-CO evolution using a bimetallic diketopyrrolopyrrole tethered rhenium bipyridine catalyst. Catalysis Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2cy01453j
• Scherpf T, Carr CR, Donnelly LJ, et al (2022) A Mesoionic Carbene–Pyridine Bidentate Ligand That Improves Stability in Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction by a Molecular Manganese Catalyst. Inorganic Chemistry 61:13644–13656. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c02689
• Carr CR, Vesto JI, Xing X, et al (2022) Aluminum-Ligand Cooperative O−H Bond Activation Initiates Catalytic Transfer Hydrogenation. ChemCatChem 14:. https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.202101869
• Carr CR, Berben LA (2021) Homogeneous Electrocatalytic CO2 Hydrogenation. CO2 Hydrogenation Catalysis 237–258. https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527824113.ch9
• Arnold A, Dougherty RJ, Carr CR, et al (2020) A Stable Organo-Aluminum Analyte Enables Multielectron Storage for a Nonaqueous Redox Flow Battery. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 11:8202–8207. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01761
• Bass TM, Carr CR, Sherbow TJ, et al (2020) Syntheses of Square Planar Gallium Complexes and a Proton NMR Correlation Probing Metalloaromaticity. Inorganic Chemistry 59:13517–13523. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01908
• Carr CR, Taheri A, Berben LA (2020) Fast Proton Transfer and Hydrogen Evolution Reactivity Mediated by [Co13C2(CO)24]4–. Journal of the American Chemical Society 142:12299–12305. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c04034
• Carr CR, Cluff DB, Berben LA (2020) Breaking Scaling Relationships in CO2 Electroreduction with Isoelectronic Analogs [Fe4N(CO)12]− and [Fe3MnO(CO)12]−. Organometallics 39:1658–1663. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.9b00848
• Taheri A, Carr CR, Berben LA (2018) Electrochemical Methods for Assessing Kinetic Factors in the Reduction of CO2 to Formate: Implications for Improving Electrocatalyst Design. ACS Catalysis 8:5787–5793. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.8b01799
• Sherbow TJ, Carr CR, Saisu T, et al (2015) Insight into Varied Reaction Pathways for O–H and N–H Bond Activation by Bis(imino)pyridine Complexes of Al(III). Organometallics 35:9–14. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.5b00743

Awards & Recognition

Graduate Student Assoication Travel Award, University of California, Davis 2019

Graduate Studies Travel Award, Univeristy of California, Davis 2018

Provost's Undergraduate Research Fellowship, University of California, Davis 2013