The validity of the Sabatier principle has been empirically proven for decades, mainly based on more easily accessible reference values such as formation energies in combination with catalytic activities . Due to the advent of electronic wave function methods in combination with density functional theory (DFT), the bond strengths between catalysts and reactants can nowadays also be estimated by computational approaches . In addition to computational studies, recent years have also seen an increasing amount of analytical approaches to study various types of reactions . In combination with electron transfer processes, most of these studies rely on thermodynamic considerations in terms of free energy differences between the reactant and the final product state .