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Tang K, Shao JY, Zhong YW. A Multi-Pyridine-Anchored and -Linked Bilayer Photocathode for Water Reduction. Chemistry 2023; 29:e202302663. [PMID: 37782056 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202302663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2023] [Revised: 09/19/2023] [Accepted: 10/02/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023]
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The development of efficient photocathodes is of critical importance for the constructions of promising tandem photo-electrochemical cells. Most known dye-sensitized photocathodes are prepared with the conventional carboxylic or phosphonic acid anchors and require the presence of other terminal linking groups to connect catalysts; they suffer from high synthetic difficulty and low adsorption stability in aqueous media. Here, a compact bilayer photocathode has been prepared by using a pyrene-based photosensitizer with multiple terminal pyridine moieties as both the anchoring and linking groups to connect a Co hydrogen-evolution catalyst to the NiO substrate. The catalyst and dye molecule are assembled in a layer-by-layer manner on NiO through the metal-pyridine coordination. This photocathode exhibits good dye adsorption stability in aqueous media. A stable cathodic photocurrent of 70 μA cm-2 was achieved, with H2 being generated at the photocathode under the visible-light irradiation. The Faraday efficiency of H2 evolution was estimated to be 9.1 %. Transient absorption spectral studies suggest that the interfacial hole transfer occurs within a few picoseconds. The integration of the organic photosensitizer with pyridine anchoring and linking groups is expected to provide a simple method for the fabrication of stable and efficient photocathodes.
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- Kun Tang
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences Key Laboratory of Photochemistry Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences Key Laboratory of Photochemistry Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences Key Laboratory of Photochemistry Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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Wang L, Polyansky DE, Concepcion JJ. Self-Assembled Bilayers as an Anchoring Strategy: Catalysts, Chromophores, and Chromophore-Catalyst Assemblies. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:8020-8024. [PMID: 31062973 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b01044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Anchoring strategies for immobilization of molecular catalysts, chromophores, and chromophore-catalyst assemblies on electrode surfaces play an important role in solar energy conversion devices such as dye-sensitized solar cells and dye-sensitized photoelectrosynthesis cells. They are also important in interfacial studies with surface-bound molecules including electron-transfer dynamics and mechanistic studies related to small molecule activation catalysis. Significant progress has been made in this area, but many challenges remain in terms of stability, synthetic complexity, and versatility. We report here a new anchoring strategy based on self-assembled bilayers. This strategy takes advantage of noncovalent interactions between long alkyl chains chemically bound to a metal-oxide electrode surface and long alkyl chains on the molecule being anchored. The new methodology is applicable to the heterogenization of both catalysts and chromophores as well as to the in situ "synthesis" of chromophore-catalyst assemblies on the electrode surface.
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- Lei Wang
- Chemistry Division , Brookhaven National Laboratory , Upton , New York 11973 , United States
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- Chemistry Division , Brookhaven National Laboratory , Upton , New York 11973 , United States
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- Chemistry Division , Brookhaven National Laboratory , Upton , New York 11973 , United States
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Activation and selective oxy-functionalization of alkanes with metal complexes: Shilov reaction and some new aspects. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molcata.2016.08.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Sberegaeva AV, Watts D, Vedernikov AN. Oxidative Functionalization of Late Transition Metal–Carbon Bonds. ADVANCES IN ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.adomc.2017.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Lupo KM, Hinton DA, Ng JD, Padilla NA, Goldsmith RH. Probing Heterogeneity and Bonding at Silica Surfaces through Single-Molecule Investigation of Base-Mediated Linkage Failure. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2016; 32:9171-9179. [PMID: 27541852 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b02456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The nature of silica surfaces is relevant to many chemical systems, including heterogeneous catalysis and chromatographies utilizing functionalized-silica stationary phases. Surface linkages must be robust to achieve wide and reliable applicability. However, silyl ether-silica support linkages are known to be susceptible to detachment when exposed to basic conditions. We use single-molecule spectroscopy to examine the rate of surface linkage failure upon exposure to base at a variety of deposition conditions. Kinetic analysis elucidates the role of thermal annealing and addition of blocking layers in increasing stability. Critically, it was found that successful surface modification strategies alter the rate at which base molecules approach the silica surface as opposed to reducing surface linkage reactivity. Our results also demonstrate that the innate structural diversity of the silica surface is likely the cause of observed heterogeneity in surface-linkage disruption kinetics.
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- Katherine M Lupo
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Wisconsin-Madison , 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Wisconsin-Madison , 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Wisconsin-Madison , 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Wisconsin-Madison , 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Wisconsin-Madison , 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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Pho TV, Sheridan MV, Morseth ZA, Sherman BD, Meyer TJ, Papanikolas JM, Schanze KS, Reynolds JR. Efficient Light-Driven Oxidation of Alcohols Using an Organic Chromophore-Catalyst Assembly Anchored to TiO2. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2016; 8:9125-9133. [PMID: 27032068 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b00932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The ligand 5-PO3H2-2,2':5',2″-terthiophene-5-trpy, T3 (trpy = 2,2':6',2″-terpyridine), was prepared and studied in aqueous solutions along with its metal complex assembly [Ru(T3)(bpy)(OH2)](2+) (T3-Ru-OH2, bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine). T3 contains a phosphonic acid group for anchoring to a TiO2 photoanode under aqueous conditions, a terthiophene fragment for light absorption and electron injection into TiO2, and a terminal trpy ligand for the construction of assemblies comprising a molecular oxidation catalyst. At a TiO2 photoanode, T3 displays efficient injection at pH 4.35 as evidenced by the high photocurrents (∼350 uA/cm(2)) arising from hydroquinone oxidation. Addition of [Ru(bpy)(OTf)][OTf]2 (bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine, OTf(-) = triflate) to T3 at the free trpy ligand forms the molecular assembly, T3-Ru-OH2, with the oxidative catalyst fragment: [Ru(trpy)(bpy)(OH2)](2+). The new assembly, T3-Ru-OH2, was used to perform efficient light-driven oxidation of phenol (230 μA/cm(2)) and benzyl alcohol (25 μA/cm(2)) in a dye-sensitized photoelectrosynthesis cell.
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- Toan V Pho
- School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Tech Polymer Network, Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Macromolecular Science and Engineering, University of Florida , Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States
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- School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Tech Polymer Network, Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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Dares CJ, Lapides AM, Mincher BJ, Meyer TJ. Electrochemical oxidation of ²⁴³Am(III) in nitric acid by a terpyridyl-derivatized electrode. Science 2015; 350:652-5. [PMID: 26542564 DOI: 10.1126/science.aac9217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Selective oxidation of trivalent americium (Am) could facilitate its separation from lanthanides in nuclear waste streams. Here, we report the application of a high-surface-area, tin-doped indium oxide electrode surface-derivatized with a terpyridine ligand to the oxidation of Am(III) to Am(V) and Am(VI) in nitric acid. Potentials as low as 1.8 volts (V) versus the saturated calomel electrode were applied, 0.7 V lower than the 2.6 V potential for one-electron oxidation of Am(III) to Am(IV) in 1 molar acid. This simple electrochemical procedure provides a method to access the higher oxidation states of Am in noncomplexing media for the study of the associated coordination chemistry and, more important, for more efficient separation protocols.
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- Christopher J Dares
- Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Idaho National Laboratory, Aqueous Separations and Radiochemistry Department, Idaho Falls, ID, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
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Elgrishi N, Griveau S, Chambers MB, Bedioui F, Fontecave M. Versatile functionalization of carbon electrodes with a polypyridine ligand: metallation and electrocatalytic H+ and CO2 reduction. Chem Commun (Camb) 2015; 51:2995-8. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cc10027a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A carbon electrode is functionalized with a polypyridine ligand and subsequently metallated to catalyze the electroreduction of H+ and CO2.
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- Noémie Elgrishi
- Laboratoire de Chimie des Processus Biologiques
- UMR 8229 CNRS
- 75231 Paris Cedex 05
- France
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- PSL Research University
- Chimie ParisTech
- Unité de Technologies Chimiques et Biologiques pour la Santé
- 75005 Paris
- France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie des Processus Biologiques
- UMR 8229 CNRS
- 75231 Paris Cedex 05
- France
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- PSL Research University
- Chimie ParisTech
- Unité de Technologies Chimiques et Biologiques pour la Santé
- 75005 Paris
- France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie des Processus Biologiques
- UMR 8229 CNRS
- 75231 Paris Cedex 05
- France
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