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To date, there remains an ongoing debate regarding the nature of active sites on CNx. Experimental half-cell ORR activity studies of CNx catalysts correlate the fraction of pyridinic sites (characterized ex situ by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy) to ORR activity. In contrast, density functional theory (DFT) studies using the chemical hydrogen electrode (CHE) approach predominantly show quaternary\/oxide sites to have higher activity than that of pyridinic sites. In this work, we integrate the initial thermodynamic stability analysis of the N-dopant structure at 1.23 V-RHE with subsequent competing ORR elementary steps as a function of applied potential. In contrast to earlier studies, our integrated approach predicts high activity for pyridinic sites, with a majority of quaternary sites, except basal quaternary, which show low activity. This enhanced activity occurs through an initial oxidation of the pyridinic sites via H2O that converts the pyridinic sites to pyridinic oxide structures at 1.23 V-RHE (before the start of ORR). Subsequent ORR steps on this structure result in a stable 4 proton\u2013electron cycle of elementary steps that yield high ORR DFT thermodynamic limiting potentials. Therefore, the DFT-CHE results suggest that pyridinic sites are indeed active for ORR but first must convert to an oxidized structure that mediates the ORR mechanism. 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