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Yang J, Zhan S, Wang L, Yang H, Duan L, Fan X, Liu T, Sun L. Adaptive water oxidation catalysis on a carboxylate-sulfonate ligand with low onset potential. Chem Commun (Camb) 2024. [PMID: 38804570 DOI: 10.1039/d4cc02303j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2024]
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A water oxidation catalyst Ru-bcs (bcs = 2,2'-bipyridine-6'-carboxylate-6-sulfonate) with a hybrid ligand was reported. Ru-bcs utilizes the electron-donating properties of carboxylate ligands and the on-demand coordination feature of sulfonate ligands to enable a low onset potential of 1.21 V vs. NHE and a high TOF over 1000 s-1 at pH 7. The adaptive chemistry uncovered in this work provides new perspectives for developing molecular catalysts with high efficiency under low driving forces.
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- Jing Yang
- College of Health Science and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, China.
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- Department of Chemistry - Ångström, Uppsala University, Box 523, 751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels, School of Science, Westlake University, 310024 Hangzhou, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels, School of Science, Westlake University, 310024 Hangzhou, China.
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- Institute of Wenzhou, Zhejiang University, 325005, Wenzhou, China.
- Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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- Institute of Wenzhou, Zhejiang University, 325005, Wenzhou, China.
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- Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels, School of Science, Westlake University, 310024 Hangzhou, China.
- Department of Chemistry, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden
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Noll N, Würthner F. Bioinspired Water Preorganization in Confined Space for Efficient Water Oxidation Catalysis in Metallosupramolecular Ruthenium Architectures. Acc Chem Res 2024; 57:1538-1549. [PMID: 38710509 PMCID: PMC11112732 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.4c00148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2024] [Revised: 04/13/2024] [Accepted: 04/16/2024] [Indexed: 05/08/2024]
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ConspectusNature has established a sustainable way to maintain aerobic life on earth by inventing one of the most sophisticated biological processes, namely, natural photosynthesis, which delivers us with organic matter and molecular oxygen derived from the two abundant resources sunlight and water. The thermodynamically demanding photosynthetic water splitting is catalyzed by the oxygen-evolving complex in photosystem II (OEC-PSII), which comprises a distorted tetramanganese-calcium cluster (CaMn4O5) as catalytic core. As an ubiquitous concept for fine-tuning and regulating the reactivity of the active site of metalloenzymes, the surrounding protein domain creates a sophisticated environment that promotes substrate preorganization through secondary, noncovalent interactions such as hydrogen bonding or electrostatic interactions. Based on the high-resolution X-ray structure of PSII, several water channels were identified near the active site, which are filled with extensive hydrogen-bonding networks of preorganized water molecules, connecting the OEC with the protein surface. As an integral part of the outer coordination sphere of natural metalloenzymes, these channels control the substrate and product delivery, carefully regulate the proton flow by promoting pivotal proton-coupled electron transfer processes, and simultaneously stabilize short-lived oxidized intermediates, thus highlighting the importance of an ordered water network for the remarkable efficiency of the natural OEC.Transferring this concept from nature to the engineering of artificial metal catalysts for fuel production has fostered the fascinating field of metallosupramolecular chemistry by generating defined cavities that conceptually mimic enzymatic pockets. However, the application of supramolecular approaches to generate artificial water oxidation catalysts remained scarce prior to our initial reports, since such molecular design strategies for efficient activation of substrate water molecules in confined nanoenvironments were lacking. In this Account, we describe our research efforts on combining the state-of-the art Ru(bda) catalytic framework with structurally programmed ditopic ligands to guide the water oxidation process in defined metallosupramolecular assemblies in spatial proximity. We will elucidate the governing factors that control the quality of hydrogen-bonding water networks in multinuclear cavities of varying sizes and geometries to obtain high-performance, state-of-the-art water oxidation catalysts. Pushing the boundaries of artificial catalyst design, embedding a single catalytic Ru center into a well-defined molecular pocket enabled sophisticated water preorganization in front of the active site through an encoded basic recognition site, resulting in high catalytic rates comparable to those of the natural counterpart OEC-PSII.To fully explore their potential for solar fuel devices, the suitability of our metallosupramolecular assemblies was demonstrated under (electro)chemical and photocatalytic water oxidation conditions. In addition, testing the limits of structural diversity allowed the fabrication of self-assembled linear coordination oligomers as novel photocatalytic materials and long-range ordered covalent organic framework (COF) materials as recyclable and long-term stable solid-state materials for future applications.
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- Niklas Noll
- Institut für Organische Chemie
& Center for Nanosystems Chemistry, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg Germany
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- Institut für Organische Chemie
& Center for Nanosystems Chemistry, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg Germany
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de Gracia Triviño JA, Ahlquist MSG. Removing the Barrier in O-O Bond Formation Via the Combination of Intramolecular Radical Coupling and the Oxide Relay Mechanism. J Phys Chem A 2024; 128:3794-3800. [PMID: 38709647 PMCID: PMC11103688 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.4c00404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2024] [Revised: 04/09/2024] [Accepted: 04/10/2024] [Indexed: 05/08/2024]
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The Ru(tda) catalyst has been a major milestone in the development of molecular water oxidation catalysts due to its outstanding performance at neutral pH. The role of the noncoordinating carboxylate group is to act as a nucleophile, donating an oxygen atom to the oxo group, thereby acting as an oxide relay (OR) mechanism for O-O bond formation. A substitution of the carboxylates for phosphonate groups has been proposed, resulting in the Ru(tPaO) catalyst, which has shown even more efficient performance in experimental characterization. In this study, we explore the feasibility of the OR mechanism in the newly reported Ru(tPaO) molecular catalyst. We investigated the catalytic cycle using density functional theory and identified a variation of the OR mechanism that involves radical oxygen atoms in O-O bond formation. We have also determined that the subsequent hydroxide nucleophilic attack is the sole rate-limiting step in the catalytic cycle. All activation free energies are very low, with a free-energy barrier of 2.1 kcal/mol for O-O bond formation and 4.2 kcal/mol for OH- nucleophilic attack.
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- Juan Angel de Gracia Triviño
- Division
of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, Department of Chemistry, School
of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- PDC
Center for High-Performance Computing, School of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute
of Technology, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division
of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, Department of Chemistry, School
of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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Liu T, Zhan S, Shen N, Wang L, Szabó Z, Yang H, Ahlquist MSG, Sun L. Bioinspired Active Site with a Coordination-Adaptive Organosulfonate Ligand for Catalytic Water Oxidation at Neutral pH. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:11818-11828. [PMID: 37196315 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c03415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Many enzymes use adaptive frameworks to preorganize substrates, accommodate various structural and electronic demands of intermediates, and accelerate related catalysis. Inspired by biological systems, a Ru-based molecular water oxidation catalyst containing a configurationally labile ligand [2,2':6',2″-terpyridine]-6,6″-disulfonate was designed to mimic enzymatic framework, in which the sulfonate coordination is highly flexible and functions as both an electron donor to stabilize high-valent Ru and a proton acceptor to accelerate water dissociation, thus boosting the catalytic water oxidation performance thermodynamically and kinetically. The combination of single-crystal X-ray analysis, various temperature NMR, electrochemical techniques, and DFT calculations was utilized to investigate the fundamental role of the self-adaptive ligand, demonstrating that the on-demand configurational changes give rise to fast catalytic kinetics with a turnover frequency (TOF) over 2000 s-1, which is compared to oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) in natural photosynthesis.
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- Tianqi Liu
- Department of Chemistry, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry-BMC, Uppsala University, BMC Box 576, S-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QZ, U.K
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- State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, School for Radiological and Interdisciplinary Sciences (RAD-X) and Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiation Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, Soochow University, 215123 Suzhou, China
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- Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels and Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Westlake University, 310024 Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden
- Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels and Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Westlake University, 310024 Hangzhou, China
- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), Dalian 116024, China
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Feng Y, Sun W, Liang X, Dong X, Yang X, Hu C, Li B, Yang J, Ma B, Ding Y. Mononuclear ruthenium (II) complex covalently anchored on melem and g-C 3N 4 as efficient heterogeneous catalysts for chemical water oxidation. J Colloid Interface Sci 2023; 643:480-488. [PMID: 37088051 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2023.04.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2022] [Revised: 04/02/2023] [Accepted: 04/12/2023] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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Ru-melem and Ru-C3N4 were synthesized by a simple and facile strategy to construct a novel covalently anchoring by introducing easily synthesized amide bond as a bridge connecting the Ru-terpy and melem or g-C3N4, respectively. The covalent anchoring of Ru complex on melem or C3N4 not only makes these materials exhibit water oxidation activity under CeIV-driven (CeIV = Ce(NH4)2(NO3)6) reaction condition, but also makes the obtained heterogeneous catalysts show higher catalytic activity than the corresponding homogeneous catalysts, which reveals that the covalent anchoring strategy of Ru complex is beneficial to improve the catalytic activity of homogeneous Ru catalysts. The synthetic method of hybrid catalysts offers an insightful strategy for enhancing water oxidation activity of molecular catalysts.
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- Yu Feng
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalysis of Gansu Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalysis of Gansu Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalysis of Gansu Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China; School of Basic Medical Sciences, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan 750004, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalysis of Gansu Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalysis of Gansu Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalysis of Gansu Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalysis of Gansu Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalysis of Gansu Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalysis of Gansu Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalysis of Gansu Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China; State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China.
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Li YY, Wang XY, Li HJ, Chen JY, Kou YH, Li X, Wang Y. Theoretical study on the mechanism of water oxidation catalyzed by a mononuclear copper complex: important roles of a redox non-innocent ligand and HPO 4 2- anion. RSC Adv 2023; 13:8352-8359. [PMID: 36926005 PMCID: PMC10011972 DOI: 10.1039/d3ra00648d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2023] [Accepted: 02/25/2023] [Indexed: 03/16/2023] Open
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The water oxidation reaction is the bottleneck problem of the artificial photosynthetic system. In this work, the mechanism of water oxidation catalyzed by a mononuclear copper complex in alkaline conditions was studied by density functional calculations. Firstly, a water molecule coordinating with the copper center of the complex (Cuii, 1) generates Cuii-H2O (2). 2 undergoes two proton-coupled electron transfer processes to produce intermediate (4). The oxidation process occurs mainly on the ligand moiety, and 4 (˙L-Cuii-O˙) can be described as a Cuii center interacting with a ligand radical antiferromagnetically and an oxyl radical ferromagnetically. 4 is the active species that can trigger O-O bond formation via the water nucleophilic attack mechanism. This process occurs in a step-wise manner. The attacking water transfers one of the protons to the HPO4 2- coupled with an electron transfer to the ligand radical, which generates a transient OH˙ interacting with the oxyl radical and H2PO4 -. Then the O-O bond is formed through the direct coupling of the oxo radical and the OH radical. The triplet di-oxygen could be released after two oxidation processes. According to the Gibbs free energy diagram, the O-O bond formation was suggested to be the rate-limiting step with a calculated total barrier of 19.5 kcal mol-1. More importantly, the copper complex catalyzing water oxidation with the help of a redox non-innocent ligand and HPO4 2- was emphasized.
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- Ying-Ying Li
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou Normal University Zhengzhou 450044 China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou Normal University Zhengzhou 450044 China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou Normal University Zhengzhou 450044 China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry and Materia Medica, Hubei Key Laboratory of Materials Chemistry and Service Failure, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074 P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou Normal University Zhengzhou 450044 China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou Normal University Zhengzhou 450044 China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou Normal University Zhengzhou 450044 China
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Green Energy by Hydrogen Production from Water Splitting, Water Oxidation Catalysis and Acceptorless Dehydrogenative Coupling. INORGANICS 2023. [DOI: 10.3390/inorganics11020088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2023] Open
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In this review, we want to explain how the burning of fossil fuels is pushing us towards green energy. Actually, for a long time, we have believed that everything is profitable, that resources are unlimited and there are no consequences. However, the reality is often disappointing. The use of non-renewable resources, the excessive waste production and the abandonment of the task of recycling has created a fragile thread that, once broken, may never restore itself. Metaphors aside, we are talking about our planet, the Earth, and its unique ability to host life, including ourselves. Our world has its balance; when the wind erodes a mountain, a beach appears, or when a fire devastates an area, eventually new life emerges from the ashes. However, humans have been distorting this balance for decades. Our evolving way of living has increased the number of resources that each person consumes, whether food, shelter, or energy; we have overworked everything to exhaustion. Scientists worldwide have already said actively and passively that we are facing one of the biggest problems ever: climate change. This is unsustainable and we must try to revert it, or, if we are too late, slow it down as much as possible. To make this happen, there are many possible methods. In this review, we investigate catalysts for using water as an energy source, or, instead of water, alcohols. On the other hand, the recycling of gases such as CO2 and N2O is also addressed, but we also observe non-catalytic means of generating energy through solar cell production.
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Vereshchuk N, Gil-Sepulcre M, Ghaderian A, Holub J, Gimbert-Suriñach C, Llobet A. Metamorphic oxygen-evolving molecular Ru and Ir catalysts. Chem Soc Rev 2023; 52:196-211. [PMID: 36459110 DOI: 10.1039/d2cs00463a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Today sustainable and clean energy conversion strategies are based on sunlight and the use of water as a source of protons and electrons, in a similar manner as it happens in Photosystem II. To achieve this, the charge separation state induced by light has to be capable of oxidising water by 4 protons and 4 electrons and generating molecular oxygen. This oxidation occurs by the intermediacy of a catalyst capable of finding low-energy pathways via proton-coupled electron transfer steps. The high energy involved in the thermodynamics of water oxidation reaction, coupled with its mechanistic complexity, is responsible for the difficulty of discovering efficient and oxidatively robust molecules capable of achieving such a challenging task. A significant number of Ru coordination complexes have been identified as water oxidation catalysts (WOCs) and are among the best understood from a mechanistic perspective. In this review, we describe the catalytic performance of these complexes and focus our attention on the factors that influence their performance during catalysis, especially in cases where a detailed mechanistic investigation has been carried out. The collective information extracted from all the catalysts studied allows one to identify the key features that govern the complex chemistry associated with the catalytic water oxidation reaction. This includes the stability of trans-O-Ru-O groups, the change in coordination number from CN6 to CN7 at Ru high oxidation states, the ligand flexibility, the capacity to undergo intramolecular proton transfer, the bond strain, the axial ligand substitution, and supramolecular effects. Overall, combining all this information generates a coherent view of this complex chemistry.
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- Nataliia Vereshchuk
- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avda. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain. .,Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Marcel·lí Domingo s/n, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avda. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain.
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avda. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain. .,Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Marcel·lí Domingo s/n, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avda. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain. .,Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, CZ-16628 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avda. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain. .,Departament de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avda. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain. .,Departament de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
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Chemical and electrochemical water oxidation catalyzed by heteroleptic Ru(III) complexes of anionic 2,6 pyridine dicarboxylate ligand: Experimental and theoretical study. Polyhedron 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2022.115898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Liu T, Li G, Shen N, Wang L, Timmer BJJ, Kravchenko A, Zhou S, Gao Y, Yang Y, Yang H, Xu B, Zhang B, Ahlquist MSG, Sun L. Promoting Proton Transfer and Stabilizing Intermediates in Catalytic Water Oxidation via Hydrophobic Outer Sphere Interactions. Chemistry 2022; 28:e202104562. [PMID: 35289447 PMCID: PMC9314586 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202104562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
The outer coordination sphere of metalloenzyme often plays an important role in its high catalytic activity, however, this principle is rarely considered in the design of man‐made molecular catalysts. Herein, four Ru‐bda (bda=2,2′‐bipyridine‐6,6′‐dicarboxylate) based molecular water oxidation catalysts with well‐defined outer spheres are designed and synthesized. Experimental and theoretical studies showed that the hydrophobic environment around the Ru center could lead to thermodynamic stabilization of the high‐valent intermediates and kinetic acceleration of the proton transfer process during catalytic water oxidation. By this outer sphere stabilization, a 6‐fold rate increase for water oxidation catalysis has been achieved.
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- Tianqi Liu
- Department of Chemistry School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health KTH Royal Institute of Technology 10044 Stockholm Sweden
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry & Biology School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health KTH Royal Institute of Technology 10691 Stockholm Sweden
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- State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection School for Radiological and Interdisciplinary Sciences (RAD−X) and Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiation Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions Soochow University 215123 Suzhou China
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- Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels School of Science Westlake University 310024 Hangzhou China
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- Department of Chemistry School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health KTH Royal Institute of Technology 10044 Stockholm Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health KTH Royal Institute of Technology 10044 Stockholm Sweden
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- Nanotechnology and Functional Materials, Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering The Ångström Laboratory Uppsala University 751 03 Uppsala Sweden
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- Wallenberg Wood Science Center Department of Fiber and Polymer Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm 10044 Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health KTH Royal Institute of Technology 10044 Stockholm Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health KTH Royal Institute of Technology 10044 Stockholm Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health KTH Royal Institute of Technology 10044 Stockholm Sweden
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- Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels School of Science Westlake University 310024 Hangzhou China
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry & Biology School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health KTH Royal Institute of Technology 10691 Stockholm Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health KTH Royal Institute of Technology 10044 Stockholm Sweden
- Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels School of Science Westlake University 310024 Hangzhou China
- Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis (IAP) State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals Dalian University of Technology (DUT) Dalian 116024 China
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Ghaderian A, Kazim S, Khaja Nazeeruddin M, Ahmad S. Strategic factors to design the next generation of molecular water oxidation catalysts: Lesson learned from ruthenium complexes. Coord Chem Rev 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2021.214256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Amthor S, Keil P, Nauroozi D, Perleth D, Rau S. A Phosphonate Substituent in a 1,10‐Phenanthroline Ligand Boosts Light‐Driven Catalytic Water Oxidation Performance Sensitized by Ruthenium Chromophores. Eur J Inorg Chem 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.202100656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Sebastian Amthor
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry I Ulm University Albert-Einstein-Allee 11 89081 Ulm Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry I Ulm University Albert-Einstein-Allee 11 89081 Ulm Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry I Ulm University Albert-Einstein-Allee 11 89081 Ulm Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry I Ulm University Albert-Einstein-Allee 11 89081 Ulm Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry I Ulm University Albert-Einstein-Allee 11 89081 Ulm Germany
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Younus HA, Yildiz I, Ahmad N, Mohamed HS, Khabiri G, Zhang S, Verpoort F, Liu P, Zhang Y. Half‐sandwich ruthenium complex with a very low overpotential and excellent activity for water oxidation under acidic conditions. Appl Organomet Chem 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/aoc.6538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Hussein A. Younus
- College of Materials Science and Engineering Hunan University Changsha China
- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science Fayoum University Fayoum Egypt
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- College of Arts and Sciences Khalifa University of Science and Technology Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Chemistry Government College University Lahore Pakistan
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- Physics Department, Faculty of Science Fayoum University Fayoum Egypt
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- Physics Department, Faculty of Science Fayoum University Fayoum Egypt
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering Hunan University Changsha China
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- Laboratory of Organometallics, Catalysis and Ordered Materials, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing Wuhan University of Technology Wuhan China
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- Hunan LEED Electronic Ink Co., Ltd. Zhuzhou China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering Hunan University Changsha China
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Muñoz-García AB, Benesperi I, Boschloo G, Concepcion JJ, Delcamp JH, Gibson EA, Meyer GJ, Pavone M, Pettersson H, Hagfeldt A, Freitag M. Dye-sensitized solar cells strike back. Chem Soc Rev 2021; 50:12450-12550. [PMID: 34590638 PMCID: PMC8591630 DOI: 10.1039/d0cs01336f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) are celebrating their 30th birthday and they are attracting a wealth of research efforts aimed at unleashing their full potential. In recent years, DSCs and dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells (DSPECs) have experienced a renaissance as the best technology for several niche applications that take advantage of DSCs' unique combination of properties: at low cost, they are composed of non-toxic materials, are colorful, transparent, and very efficient in low light conditions. This review summarizes the advancements in the field over the last decade, encompassing all aspects of the DSC technology: theoretical studies, characterization techniques, materials, applications as solar cells and as drivers for the synthesis of solar fuels, and commercialization efforts from various companies.
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- Ana Belén Muñoz-García
- Department of Physics "Ettore Pancini", University of Naples Federico II, 80126 Naples, Italy
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- School of Natural and Environmental Science, Newcastle University, Bedson Building, NE1 7RU Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, P.O. Box 523, 751 20 Uppsala, Sweden.
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- Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA
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- School of Natural and Environmental Science, Newcastle University, Bedson Building, NE1 7RU Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80126 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, P.O. Box 523, 751 20 Uppsala, Sweden.
- University Management and Management Council, Vice Chancellor, Uppsala University, Segerstedthuset, 752 37 Uppsala, Sweden
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- School of Natural and Environmental Science, Newcastle University, Bedson Building, NE1 7RU Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
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Dey A, Guha A, Kumar V, Bawari S, Narayanan TN, Chandrasekhar V. Facile water oxidation by dinuclear mixed-valence Co III/Co II complexes: the role of coordinated water. Dalton Trans 2021; 50:14257-14263. [PMID: 34553710 DOI: 10.1039/d1dt01910d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Rational design of a catalyst using earth abundant transition metals that can facilitate the smooth O-O bond formation is crucial for developing efficient water oxidation catalysts. The coordination environment around the metal ion of the catalyst plays a pivotal role in this context. We have chosen dinuclear mixed-valence CoIIICoII complexes of the general formula of [CoIIICoII(LH2)2(X)(H2O)] (X = OAc or Cl) which bear a coordinated water molecule in the primary coordination sphere. We anticipated that the water molecule in the primary sphere can take part in the proton coupled electron transfer (PCET) mechanism which can accelerate the facile formation of the O-O bond under strong alkaline conditions (1 M NaOH). To understand the role of the coordinated water molecule we have generated an analogous complex, [CoIIICoII(LH2)2(o-vanillin)] (o-vanillin = 2-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzaldehyde), without coordinated water. Interestingly, we have found that the water coordinated complexes show better oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activity and stability.
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- Atanu Dey
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Gopanpally, Hyderabad-500107, India.
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Gopanpally, Hyderabad-500107, India.
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Gopanpally, Hyderabad-500107, India.
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Gopanpally, Hyderabad-500107, India.
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Gopanpally, Hyderabad-500107, India. .,Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur-208016, India.
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Bio-Inspired Molecular Catalysts for Water Oxidation. Catalysts 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/catal11091068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The catalytic tetranuclear manganese-calcium-oxo cluster in the photosynthetic reaction center, photosystem II, provides an excellent blueprint for light-driven water oxidation in nature. The water oxidation reaction has attracted intense interest due to its potential as a renewable, clean, and environmentally benign source of energy production. Inspired by the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II, a large of number of highly innovative synthetic bio-inspired molecular catalysts are being developed that incorporate relatively cheap and abundant metals such as Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu, as well as Ru and Ir, in their design. In this review, we briefly discuss the historic milestones that have been achieved in the development of transition metal catalysts and focus on a detailed description of recent progress in the field.
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Timmer BJJ, Kravchenko O, Liu T, Zhang B, Sun L. Off-Set Interactions of Ruthenium-bda Type Catalysts for Promoting Water-Splitting Performance. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:14504-14511. [PMID: 33861495 PMCID: PMC8251529 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202101931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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O-O bond formation with Ru(bda)L2 -type catalysts is well-known to proceed through a bimolecular reaction pathway, limiting the potential application of these catalysts at low concentrations. Herein, we achieved high efficiencies with mononuclear catalysts, with TOFs of 460±32 s-1 at high catalyst loading and 31±3 s-1 at only 1 μM catalyst concentration, by simple structural considerations on the axial ligands. Kinetic and DFT studies show that introduction of an off-set in the interaction between the two catalytic units reduces the kinetic barrier of the second-order O-O bond formation, maintaining high catalytic activity even at low catalyst concentrations. The results herein furthermore suggest that π-π interactions may only play a minor role in the observed catalytic activity, and that asymmetry can also rationalize high activity observed for Ru(bda)(isoq)2 type catalysts and offer inspiration to overcome the limitations of 2nd order catalysis.
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- Brian J. J. Timmer
- Department of ChemistrySchool of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and HealthKTH Royal Institute of Technology10044StockholmSweden
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- Department of ChemistrySchool of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and HealthKTH Royal Institute of Technology10044StockholmSweden
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- Department of ChemistrySchool of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and HealthKTH Royal Institute of Technology10044StockholmSweden
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- Department of ChemistrySchool of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and HealthKTH Royal Institute of Technology10044StockholmSweden
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- Department of ChemistrySchool of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and HealthKTH Royal Institute of Technology10044StockholmSweden
- State Key Laboratory of Fine ChemicalsInstitute of Artificial PhotosynthesisDUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Centre on Molecular DevicesDalian University of Technology116024DalianChina
- Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar FuelsSchool of ScienceWestlake University310024HangzhouChina
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Timmer BJJ, Kravchenko O, Liu T, Zhang B, Sun L. Off‐Set Interactions of Ruthenium–bda Type Catalysts for Promoting Water‐Splitting Performance. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202101931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Brian J. J. Timmer
- Department of Chemistry School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health KTH Royal Institute of Technology 10044 Stockholm Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health KTH Royal Institute of Technology 10044 Stockholm Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health KTH Royal Institute of Technology 10044 Stockholm Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health KTH Royal Institute of Technology 10044 Stockholm Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health KTH Royal Institute of Technology 10044 Stockholm Sweden
- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Centre on Molecular Devices Dalian University of Technology 116024 Dalian China
- Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels School of Science Westlake University 310024 Hangzhou China
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Vereshchuk N, Holub J, Gil-Sepulcre M, Benet-Buchholz J, Llobet A. Fate of the Molecular Ru–Phosphonate Water Oxidation Catalyst under Turnover Conditions. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c05363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Nataliia Vereshchuk
- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avda. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
- Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Marcel lí Domingo s/n, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avda. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avda. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avda. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avda. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
- Departament de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
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Kandel R, Schatte G, Laverdure L, Mosey N, Jessop PG. Synthesis and coordination of a neutral phosphaguanidine and comparison of its basicity with a guanidine. CAN J CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1139/cjc-2020-0441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A phosphaguanidine [Me2NC(PPh2)=N i Pr], the analogous guanidine [Me2NC(NPh2)=N i Pr], and their hydrochloride (HCl) salts were prepared to study the influence of substituting a phosphorus atom for a nitrogen atom on the basicity of the two compounds and the bonding in their conjugate acids. The pK a values of both HCl salts were measured in acetonitrile by NMR titration. Surprisingly, the substitution of P for N has essentially no effect on basicity even though the geometry at that atom is changed. The presence of phenyl substituents in the protonated guanidine reduces the resonance in the CN3 core, whereas poor orbital overlap between P and C reduces the resonance in the N2CP core of the protonated phosphaguanidine. The neutral phosphaguanidine binds to a Cu(I) halide through both the Nimine and the P, which suggested that the basic N atom on the bound ligand may have little utility as a Brønsted base. Fortunately, however, a Cu(I) halide complex of the protonated phosphaguanidine is stable. Thus, the tendency of the basic N to bind to metals does not proscribe it serving as a metal-proximate Brønsted base.
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- Ramjee Kandel
- Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
- Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
- Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
- Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
- Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
- Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
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Nash AG, Breyer CJ, Vincenzini BD, Elliott GI, Niklas J, Poluektov OG, Rheingold AL, Smith DK, Musaev DG, Grotjahn DB. An Active‐Site Sulfonate Group Creates a Fast Water Oxidation Electrocatalyst That Exhibits High Activity in Acid. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202008896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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- Aaron G. Nash
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego CA 92182-1030 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego CA 92182-1030 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego CA 92182-1030 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego CA 92182-1030 USA
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- Solar Energy Conversion Group Argonne National Laboratory 9700 S. Cass Ave. Lemont IL 60439 USA
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- Solar Energy Conversion Group Argonne National Laboratory 9700 S. Cass Ave. Lemont IL 60439 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla CA 92093 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego CA 92182-1030 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego CA 92182-1030 USA
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From Ru-bda to Ru-bds: a step forward to highly efficient molecular water oxidation electrocatalysts under acidic and neutral conditions. Nat Commun 2021; 12:373. [PMID: 33446649 PMCID: PMC7809030 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20637-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2020] [Accepted: 12/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Significant advances during the past decades in the design and studies of Ru complexes with polypyridine ligands have led to the great development of molecular water oxidation catalysts and understanding on the O−O bond formation mechanisms. Here we report a Ru-based molecular water oxidation catalyst [Ru(bds)(pic)2] (Ru-bds; bds2− = 2,2′-bipyridine-6,6′-disulfonate) containing a tetradentate, dianionic sulfonate ligand at the equatorial position and two 4-picoline ligands at the axial positions. This Ru-bds catalyst electrochemically catalyzes water oxidation with turnover frequencies (TOF) of 160 and 12,900 s−1 under acidic and neutral conditions respectively, showing much better performance than the state-of-art Ru-bda catalyst. Density functional theory calculations reveal that (i) under acidic conditions, the high valent Ru intermediate RuV=O featuring the 7-coordination configuration is involved in the O−O bond formation step; (ii) under neutral conditions, the seven-coordinate RuIV=O triggers the O−O bond formation; (iii) in both cases, the I2M (interaction of two M−O units) pathway is dominant over the WNA (water nucleophilic attack) pathway. Developing efficient molecular water oxidation catalysts for artificial photosynthesis is a challenging task. Here the authors introduce a ruthenium based complex with negatively charged sulfonate groups to effectively drive water oxidation under both acidic and neutral conditions.
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Noll N, Würthner F. A Calix[4]arene-Based Cyclic Dinuclear Ruthenium Complex for Light-Driven Catalytic Water Oxidation. Chemistry 2021; 27:444-450. [PMID: 33241573 PMCID: PMC7839772 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202004486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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A cyclic dinuclear ruthenium(bda) (bda: 2,2'-bipyridine-6,6'-dicarboxylate) complex equipped with oligo(ethylene glycol)-functionalized axial calix[4]arene ligands has been synthesized for homogenous catalytic water oxidation. This novel Ru(bda) macrocycle showed significantly increased catalytic activity in chemical and photocatalytic water oxidation compared to the archetype mononuclear reference [Ru(bda)(pic)2 ]. Kinetic investigations, including kinetic isotope effect studies, disclosed a unimolecular water nucleophilic attack mechanism of this novel dinuclear water oxidation catalyst (WOC) under the involvement of the second coordination sphere. Photocatalytic water oxidation with this cyclic dinuclear Ru complex using [Ru(bpy)3 ]Cl2 as a standard photosensitizer revealed a turnover frequency of 15.5 s-1 and a turnover number of 460. This so far highest photocatalytic performance reported for a Ru(bda) complex underlines the potential of this water-soluble WOC for artificial photosynthesis.
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- Niklas Noll
- Institut für Organische ChemieUniversität WürzburgAm Hubland97074WürzburgGermany
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- Institut für Organische ChemieUniversität WürzburgAm Hubland97074WürzburgGermany
- Center for Nanosystems Chemistry (CNC)Universität WürzburgTheodor-Boveri-Weg97074WürzburgGermany
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Cingolani A, Gualandi I, Scavetta E, Cesari C, Zacchini S, Tonelli D, Zanotti V, Franchi P, Lucarini M, Sicilia E, Mazzone G, Nanni D, Mazzoni R. Cyclopentadienone–NHC iron(0) complexes as low valent electrocatalysts for water oxidation. Catal Sci Technol 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cy02329a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Design and application of earth abundant iron based molecular electrocatalysts for water oxidation, an essential challenge for sustainable energy applications.
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Timmer BJJ, Kravchenko O, Zhang B, Liu T, Sun L. Electronic Influence of the 2,2'-Bipyridine-6,6'-dicarboxylate Ligand in Ru-Based Molecular Water Oxidation Catalysts. Inorg Chem 2020; 60:1202-1207. [PMID: 33382240 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c03339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Water provides an ideal source for the production of protons and electrons required for generation of renewable fuels. Among the most-prominent electrocatalysts capable of water oxidation at low overpotentials are Ru(bda)L2-type catalysts. Although many studies were dedicated to the investigation of the influence of structural variations, the true implication of the bda backbone on catalysis remains mostly unclarified. In this work, we further investigated if electronic effects are contributing to catalysis by Ru(bda)(pic)2 or if the intrinsic catalytic activity mainly originates from the structural features of the ligand. Through introduction of pyrazines in the bda backbone, forming Ru(N1-bda)(pic)2 and Ru(N2-bda)(pic)2, electronic differences were maximized while minimizing changes in the geometry and other intermolecular interactions. Through a combination of electrochemical analysis, chemical oxygen evolution, and density functional theory calculations, we reveal that the catalytic activity is unaffected by the electronic features of the backbone and that the unique bimolecular reactivity of the Ru(bda)L2 family of catalysts thus purely depends on the spatial geometry of the ligand.
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- Brian J J Timmer
- Department of Chemistry, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden.,Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels, School of Science, Westlake University, 310024 Hangzhou, China.,State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Center on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), 116024 Dalian, China
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Domestici C, Tensi L, Boccalon E, Zaccaria F, Costantino F, Zuccaccia C, Macchioni A. Molecular and Heterogenized Cp*Ir Water Oxidation Catalysts Bearing Glyphosate and Glyphosine as Ancillary and Anchoring Ligands. Eur J Inorg Chem 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.202001003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Chiara Domestici
- Department of Chemistry Biology and Biotechnology University of Perugia and CIRCC Via Elce di Sotto, 8 06123 Perugia Italy
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- Department of Chemistry Biology and Biotechnology University of Perugia and CIRCC Via Elce di Sotto, 8 06123 Perugia Italy
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- Department of Industrial Engineering University of Salerno Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132 84084 Fisciano SA Italy
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- Department of Chemistry Biology and Biotechnology University of Perugia and CIRCC Via Elce di Sotto, 8 06123 Perugia Italy
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- Department of Chemistry Biology and Biotechnology University of Perugia and CIRCC Via Elce di Sotto, 8 06123 Perugia Italy
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- Department of Chemistry Biology and Biotechnology University of Perugia and CIRCC Via Elce di Sotto, 8 06123 Perugia Italy
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- Department of Chemistry Biology and Biotechnology University of Perugia and CIRCC Via Elce di Sotto, 8 06123 Perugia Italy
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Lashgari A, Williams CK, Glover JL, Wu Y, Chai J, Jiang JJ. Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activity of a Zinc Porphyrin for CO 2 Reduction: Cooperative Effects of Triazole Units in the Second Coordination Sphere. Chemistry 2020; 26:16774-16781. [PMID: 32701198 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202002813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The control of the second coordination sphere in a coordination complex plays an important role in improving catalytic efficiency. Herein, we report a zinc porphyrin complex ZnPor8T with multiple flexible triazole units comprising the second coordination sphere, as an electrocatalyst for the highly selective electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2 ) to carbon monoxide (CO). This electrocatalyst converted CO2 to CO with a Faradaic efficiency of 99 % and a current density of -6.2 mA cm-2 at -2.4 V vs. Fc/Fc+ in N,N-dimethylformamide using water as the proton source. Structure-function relationship studies were carried out on ZnPor8T analogs containing different numbers of triazole units and distinct triazole geometries; these unveiled that the triazole units function cooperatively to stabilize the CO2 -catalyst adduct in order to facilitate intramolecular proton transfer. Our findings demonstrate that incorporating triazole units that function in a cooperative manner is a versatile strategy to enhance the activity of electrocatalytic CO2 conversion.
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- Amir Lashgari
- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210172, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210172, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210172, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 06520, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210172, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210172, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, United States
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Nash AG, Breyer CJ, Vincenzini BD, Elliott GI, Niklas J, Poluektov OG, Rheingold AL, Smith DK, Musaev DG, Grotjahn DB. An Active-Site Sulfonate Group Creates a Fast Water Oxidation Electrocatalyst That Exhibits High Activity in Acid. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 60:1540-1545. [PMID: 32966708 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202008896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2020] [Revised: 09/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The storage of solar energy in chemical bonds will depend on pH-universal catalysts that are not only impervious to acid, but actually thrive in it. Whereas other homogeneous water oxidation catalysts are less active in acid, we report a catalyst that maintained high electrocatalytic turnover frequency at pH values as low as 1.1 and 0.43 (kcat =1501±608 s-1 and 831±254 s-1 , respectively). Moreover, current densities, related to catalytic reaction rates, ranged from 15 to 50 mA cm-2 mM-1 comparable to those reported for state-of-the-art heterogeneous catalysts and 30 to 100 times greater than those measured for two prominent literature homogeneous catalysts at pH 1.1 and 0.43. The catalyst also exhibited excellent durability when a chemical oxidant was used (CeIV , 7400 turnovers, TOF 0.88 s-1 ). Preliminary computational studies suggest that the unusual active-site sulfonate group acts a proton relay even in strong acid, as intended.
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- Aaron G Nash
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA, 92182-1030, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA, 92182-1030, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA, 92182-1030, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA, 92182-1030, USA
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- Solar Energy Conversion Group, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- Solar Energy Conversion Group, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA, 92182-1030, USA
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- Emerson Center for Scientific Computation, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA, 92182-1030, USA
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Zhan S, Zhang B, Sun L, Ahlquist MSG. Hydrophobic/Hydrophilic Directionality Affects the Mechanism of Ru-Catalyzed Water Oxidation Reaction. ACS Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c02852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Shaoqi Zhan
- Department of Theoretical Chemistry & Biology, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry & Biology, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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Domestici C, Tensi L, Zaccaria F, Kissimina N, Valentini M, D'Amato R, Costantino F, Zuccaccia C, Macchioni A. Molecular and heterogenized dinuclear Ir-Cp* water oxidation catalysts bearing EDTA or EDTMP as bridging and anchoring ligands. Sci Bull (Beijing) 2020; 65:1614-1625. [PMID: 36659037 DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2020.06.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2020] [Revised: 05/16/2020] [Accepted: 06/01/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The development of efficient water oxidation catalysts (WOCs) is of key importance in order to drive sustainable reductive processes aimed at producing renewable fuels. Herein, two novel dinuclear complexes, [(Cp*Ir)2(μ-κ3-O,N,O-H4-EDTMP)] (Ir-H4-EDTMP, H4-EDTMP4- = ethylenediamine tetra(methylene phosphonate)) and [(Cp*Ir)2(μ-κ3-O,N,O-EDTA)] (Ir-EDTA, EDTA4- = ethylenediaminetetraacetate), were synthesized and completely characterized in solution, by multinuclear and multidimensional NMR spectroscopy, and in the solid state, by single crystal X-Ray diffraction. They were supported onto rutile TiO2 nanocrystals obtaining Ir-H4-EDTMP@TiO2 and Ir-EDTA@TiO2 hybrid materials. Both molecular complexes and hybrid materials were found to be efficient catalysts for WO driven by NaIO4, providing almost quantitative yields, and TON values only limited by the amount of NaIO4 used. As for the molecular catalysts, Ir-H4-EDTMP (TOF up to 184 min-1) exhibited much higher activity than Ir-EDTA (TOF up to 19 min-1), likely owing to the higher propensity of the former to generate a coordination vacancy through the dissociation of a Ir-OP bond (2.123 Å, significantly longer than Ir-OC, 2.0913 Å), which is a necessary step to activate these saturated complexes. Ir-H4-EDTMP@TiO2 (up to 33 min-1) and Ir-EDTA@TiO2 (up to 41 min-1) hybrid materials showed similar activity that was only marginally reduced in the second and third catalytic runs carried out after having separated the supernatant, which did not show any sign of activity, instead. The observed TOF values for hybrid materials are higher than those reported for analogous systems deriving from heterogenized mononuclear complexes. This suggests that supporting dinuclear molecular precursors could be a successful strategy to obtain efficient heterogenized water oxidation catalysts.
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- Chiara Domestici
- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia and CIRCC, Perugia 06123, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia and CIRCC, Perugia 06123, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia and CIRCC, Perugia 06123, Italy.
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia and CIRCC, Perugia 06123, Italy; École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Rennes, University of Rennes 1, Rennes 35042, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia and CIRCC, Perugia 06123, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia and CIRCC, Perugia 06123, Italy.
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia and CIRCC, Perugia 06123, Italy.
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia and CIRCC, Perugia 06123, Italy.
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Layer by layer assembly of a bio-inspired manganese cluster for electrocatalytic water oxidation. J Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2020.05.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Hoque MA, Gil-Sepulcre M, Benet-Buchholz J, Llobet A, Gimbert-Suriñach C. Synthesis, Electrochemical Characterization, and Water Oxidation Chemistry of Ru Complexes Containing the 2,6-Pyridinedicarboxylato Ligand. Inorg Chem 2020; 59:11432-11441. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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- Md Asmaul Hoque
- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Av. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
- Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Campus Sescelades, C/Marcel·lí Domingo, s/n, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Av. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Av. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament de Química, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Av. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
- Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Campus Sescelades, C/Marcel·lí Domingo, s/n, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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Yang Y, Yang J, Li F, Liao R, Duan L. Water Oxidation Catalyzed by Ruthenium Complexes with 4‐Hydroxypyridine‐2,6‐dicarboxylate as a Negatively Charged Tridentate Ligand. Eur J Inorg Chem 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.202000184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Yang Yang
- Department of Chemistry Shenzhen Grubbs Institute and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Materials for Electric Power Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) 518055 Shenzhen P. R. China
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Harbin Institute of Technology 92 west Da‐Zhi Street 150001 Harbin P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry Shenzhen Grubbs Institute and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Materials for Electric Power Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) 518055 Shenzhen P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals Dalian University of Technology 116024 Dalian P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Huazhong University of Science and Technology 430074 Wuhan P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry Shenzhen Grubbs Institute and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Materials for Electric Power Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) 518055 Shenzhen P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals Dalian University of Technology 116024 Dalian P. R. China
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Ertem MZ, Concepcion JJ. Oxygen Atom Transfer as an Alternative Pathway for Oxygen–Oxygen Bond Formation. Inorg Chem 2020; 59:5966-5974. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b03751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Mehmed Z. Ertem
- Chemistry Division, Energy & Photon Sciences Directorate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, United States
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- Chemistry Division, Energy & Photon Sciences Directorate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, United States
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Yang J, Liu B, Duan L. Structural evolution of the Ru-bms complex to the real water oxidation catalyst of Ru-bda: the bite angle matters. Dalton Trans 2020; 49:4369-4375. [PMID: 32167105 DOI: 10.1039/c9dt04693c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Ru-Based complexes have advanced the study of molecular water oxidation catalysts (WOCs) both in catalysis and mechanism. The electronic effect has always been considered as an essential factor for the catalyst properties while less attention has been focused on the bite angle effect on water oxidation catalysis. The Ru-bda ([Ru(bda)(pic)2]; bda2- = 2,2'-bipyridine-6,6'-dicarboxylate; pic = 4-picoline) catalyst is one of the most active WOCs and it has a largely distorted octahedral configuration with an O-Ru-O bite angle of 123°. Herein, we replaced the carboxylate (-COO-) groups of bda2- with two methylenesulfonate (-CH2SO3-) groups and prepared a negatively charged ligand, bms2- (2,2'-bipyridine-6,6'-dimethanesulfonate), and the Ru-bms complex [Ru(bms)(pic)2]. The O-Ru-O bite angle changed from 123° in Ru-bda to 84° in Ru-bms, leading to a dramatic influence on the catalytic behavior. Systematic analysis of the reaction intermediates suggested that Ru-bms transformed all the way to Ru-bdavia oxidative decomposition under CeIV-driven water oxidation conditions.
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- Jing Yang
- Department of Chemistry, Shenzhen Grubbs Institute and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Materials for Electric Power, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, 518055, P. R. China.
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- Department of Chemistry, Shenzhen Grubbs Institute and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Materials for Electric Power, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, 518055, P. R. China.
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- Department of Chemistry, Shenzhen Grubbs Institute and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Materials for Electric Power, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, 518055, P. R. China.
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Matsubara Y, Shimojima M, Takagi S. A Bi-functional Second Coordination Sphere for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction: The Concerted Improvement by a Local Proton Source and Local Coulombic Interactions. CHEM LETT 2020. [DOI: 10.1246/cl.190853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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- Yasuo Matsubara
- Department of Material and Life Chemistry, Kanagawa University, Rokkakubashi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 221-8686, Japan
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- Department of Material and Life Chemistry, Kanagawa University, Rokkakubashi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 221-8686, Japan
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- Department of Material and Life Chemistry, Kanagawa University, Rokkakubashi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 221-8686, Japan
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Vereshchuk N, Matheu R, Benet-Buchholz J, Pipelier M, Lebreton J, Dubreuil D, Tessier A, Gimbert-Suriñach C, Ertem MZ, Llobet A. Second Coordination Sphere Effects in an Evolved Ru Complex Based on Highly Adaptable Ligand Results in Rapid Water Oxidation Catalysis. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:5068-5077. [PMID: 32045521 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b11935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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A new Ru complex containing the deprotonated 2,2':6',2''-terpyridine-6,6''-diphosphonic acid (H4tPa) and pyridine (py) of general formula [RuII(H3tPa-κ-N3O)(py)2]+, 2+, has been prepared and thoroughly characterized by means of spectroscopic and electrochemical techniques, X-ray diffraction analysis, and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Complex 2+ presents a dynamic behavior in the solution that involves the synchronous coordination and the decoordination of the dangling phosphonic groups of the tPa4- ligand. However, at oxidation state IV, complex 2+ becomes seven coordinated with the two phosphonic groups now bonded to the metal center. Further, at this oxidation state at neutral and basic pH, the Ru complex undergoes the coordination of an exogenous OH- group from the solvent that leads to an intramolecular aromatic O atom insertion into the CH bond of one of the pyridyl groups, forming the corresponding phenoxo-phosphonate Ru complex [RuIII(tPaO-κ-N2OPOC)(py)2]2-, 42-, where tPaO5- is the 3-(hydroxo-[2,2':6',2''-terpyridine]-6,6''-diyl)bis(phosphonate) ligand. This new in situ generated Ru complex, 42-, has been isolated and spectroscopically and electrochemically characterized. In addition, a crystal structure has been also obtained using single-crystal X-ray diffraction techniques. Complex 42- turns out to be an exceptional water oxidation catalyst achieving record maximum turnover frequencies (TOFmax) on the order of 16 000 s-1. A mechanistic analysis complemented with DFT calculations has also been carried out, showing the critical role of intramolecular second coordination sphere effects exerted by the phosphonate groups in lowering the activation energy at the rate-determining step.
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- Nataliia Vereshchuk
- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avda. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain.,Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Marcel·lí Domingo s/n, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avda. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avda. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Université de Nantes, CNRS, CEISAM, UMR 6230, Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, 2 rue de la Houssinière, BP 92208, 44322 Nantes, France
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- Université de Nantes, CNRS, CEISAM, UMR 6230, Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, 2 rue de la Houssinière, BP 92208, 44322 Nantes, France
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- Université de Nantes, CNRS, CEISAM, UMR 6230, Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, 2 rue de la Houssinière, BP 92208, 44322 Nantes, France
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- Université de Nantes, CNRS, CEISAM, UMR 6230, Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, 2 rue de la Houssinière, BP 92208, 44322 Nantes, France
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avda. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Chemistry Division, Energy & Photon Sciences Directorate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, United States
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avda. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain.,Departament de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
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Matias TA, Keppler AF, Bartoloni FH. In need of a second-hand? The second coordination sphere of ruthenium complexes enables water oxidation with improved catalytic activity. Dalton Trans 2020; 49:16034-16046. [DOI: 10.1039/d0dt02958k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A ligand dangling arm, acting as an intramolecular proton acceptor, drastically increasing the catalytic activity of Ru-complexes for water oxidation.
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- Tiago A. Matias
- Center for Natural and Human Sciences (CCNH)
- Federal University of ABC (UFABC)
- Santo André
- Brazil
- Institute of Chemistry
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- Center for Natural and Human Sciences (CCNH)
- Federal University of ABC (UFABC)
- Santo André
- Brazil
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- Center for Natural and Human Sciences (CCNH)
- Federal University of ABC (UFABC)
- Santo André
- Brazil
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Li G, Zhu D, Wang X, Su Z, Bryce MR. Dinuclear metal complexes: multifunctional properties and applications. Chem Soc Rev 2020; 49:765-838. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cs00660a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Dinuclear metal complexes have enabled breakthroughs in OLEDs, photocatalytic water splitting and CO2reduction, DSPEC, chemosensors, biosensors, PDT and smart materials.
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- Guangfu Li
- Department of Chemistry
- Northeast Normal University
- Changchun
- P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry
- Northeast Normal University
- Changchun
- P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry
- Northeast Normal University
- Changchun
- P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry
- Northeast Normal University
- Changchun
- P. R. China
- School of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering
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Karim S, Chakraborty A, Samanta D, Zangrando E, Ghosh T, Das D. A dinuclear iron complex as an efficient electrocatalyst for homogeneous water oxidation reaction. Catal Sci Technol 2020. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cy00011f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A novel dinuclear iron complex of a Schiff base ligand has been exploited as a homogeneous water splitting electrocatalyst having possible real life application in renewable energy.
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- Suhana Karim
- Department of Chemistry
- University of Calcutta
- Kolkata-700009
- India
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- Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
- University of Trieste
- Italy
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- Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology
- Patna
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Calcutta
- Kolkata-700009
- India
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Shao Y, de Groot HJ, Buda F. Proton Acceptor near the Active Site Lowers Dramatically the O-O Bond Formation Energy Barrier in Photocatalytic Water Splitting. J Phys Chem Lett 2019; 10:7690-7697. [PMID: 31763842 PMCID: PMC6926955 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2019] [Accepted: 11/25/2019] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The O-O bond formation process via water nucleophilic attack represents a thermodynamic and kinetic bottleneck in photocatalytic water oxidation because of the considerably high activation free energy barrier. It is therefore of fundamental significance and yet challenging to find strategies to facilitate this reaction. The microscopic details of the photocatalytic water oxidation step involving the O-O bond formation in a catalyst-dye supramolecular complex are here elucidated by density functional theory-based Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics simulations in the presence of an extra proton acceptor. Introducing a proton acceptor group (OH-) in the hydration shell near the catalytic active site accelerates the rate-limiting O-O bond formation by inducing a cooperative event proceeding via a concerted proton-coupled electron-transfer mechanism and thus significantly lowering the activation free energy barrier. The in-depth insight provides a strategy for facilitating the photocatalytic water oxidation and for improving the efficiency of dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells.
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- Yang Shao
- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 55, 2300
RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 55, 2300
RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 55, 2300
RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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Zhang B, Sun L. Across the Board: Licheng Sun on the Mechanism of O-O Bond Formation in Photosystem II. CHEMSUSCHEM 2019; 12:3401-3404. [PMID: 31240851 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201901438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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In this series of articles, the board members of ChemSusChem discuss recent research articles that they consider of exceptional quality and importance for sustainability. This entry features Prof. L. Sun, who proposes a special mechanism for O-O bond formation in photosystem II with involvement of an MnVII -oxo species induced by charge- and structural rearrangements. In this viewpoint, Proton transfer is involved in changes of the first coordination spheres around the MnVII -oxo site on the dangling Mn4 with de- and re-coordination of carboxylates (Glu333 and Asp170).
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- BiaoBiao Zhang
- Department of Chemistry, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SE-10044, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SE-10044, Sweden
- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Centre on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P.R. China
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Zhang Q, Guan J. Mono-/Multinuclear Water Oxidation Catalysts. CHEMSUSCHEM 2019; 12:3209-3235. [PMID: 31077565 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201900704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2019] [Revised: 04/23/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Water splitting, in which water molecules can be transformed into hydrogen and oxygen, is an appealing energy conversion and transformation strategy to address the environmental and energy crisis. The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is dynamically slow, which limits energy conversion efficiency during the water-splitting process and requires high-efficiency water oxidation catalysts (WOCs) to overcome the OER energy barrier. It is generally accepted that multinuclear WOCs possess superior OER performances, as demonstrated by the CaMn4 O5 cluster in photosystem II (PSII), which can catalyze the OER efficiently with a very low overpotential. Inspired by the CaMn4 O5 cluster in PSII, some multinuclear WOCs were synthesized that could catalyze water oxidation. In addition, some mononuclear molecular WOCs also show high water oxidation activity. However, it cannot be excluded that the high activity arises from the formation of dimeric species. Recently, some mononuclear heterogeneous WOCs showed a high water oxidation activity, which testified that mononuclear active sites with suitable coordination surroundings could also catalyze water oxidation efficiently. This Review focuses on recent progress in the development of mono-/multinuclear homo- and heterogeneous catalysts for water oxidation. The active sites and possible catalytic mechanisms for water oxidation on the mono-/multinuclear WOCs are provided.
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- Qiaoqiao Zhang
- College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, PR China
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- College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, PR China
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Wang J, Liu Y, Mao X, Shi N, Zhang X, Wang H, Fan Y, Wang M. Two Trinuclear Cu
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Complexes: Effect of Phosphonate Ligand on the Magnetic Property and Electrocatalytic Reactivity for Water Oxidation. Chem Asian J 2019; 14:2685-2693. [DOI: 10.1002/asia.201900531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2019] [Revised: 05/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- Jin‐Miao Wang
- Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of EducationCollege of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringOcean University of China Qingdao Shandong 266100 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of EducationCollege of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringOcean University of China Qingdao Shandong 266100 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of EducationCollege of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringOcean University of China Qingdao Shandong 266100 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of EducationCollege of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringOcean University of China Qingdao Shandong 266100 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of EducationCollege of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringOcean University of China Qingdao Shandong 266100 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory for Green Chemical Process of Ministry of EducationSchool of Chemistry and Environmental EngineeringWuhan Institute of Technology Wuhan 430074 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of EducationCollege of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringOcean University of China Qingdao Shandong 266100 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of EducationCollege of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringOcean University of China Qingdao Shandong 266100 P. R. China
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Zhang B, Sun L. Artificial photosynthesis: opportunities and challenges of molecular catalysts. Chem Soc Rev 2019; 48:2216-2264. [PMID: 30895997 DOI: 10.1039/c8cs00897c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 380] [Impact Index Per Article: 76.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Molecular catalysis plays an essential role in both natural and artificial photosynthesis (AP). However, the field of molecular catalysis for AP has gradually declined in recent years because of doubt about the long-term stability of molecular-catalyst-based devices. This review summarizes the development history of molecular-catalyst-based AP, including the fundamentals of AP, molecular catalysts for water oxidation, proton reduction and CO2 reduction, and molecular-catalyst-based AP devices, and it provides an analysis of the advantages, challenges, and stability of molecular catalysts. With this review, we aim to highlight the following points: (i) an investigation on molecular catalysis is one of the most promising ways to obtain atom-efficient catalysts with outstanding intrinsic activities; (ii) effective heterogenization of molecular catalysts is currently the primary challenge for the application of molecular catalysis in AP devices; (iii) development of molecular catalysts is a promising way to solve the problems of catalysis involved in practical solar fuel production. In molecular-catalysis-based AP, much has been attained, but more challenges remain with regard to long-term stability and heterogenization techniques.
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- Biaobiao Zhang
- Department of Chemistry, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden.
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Zhang B, Sun L. Ru-bda: Unique Molecular Water-Oxidation Catalysts with Distortion Induced Open Site and Negatively Charged Ligands. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:5565-5580. [PMID: 30889353 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b12862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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A water-oxidation catalyst with high intrinsic activity is the foundation for developing any type of water-splitting device. To celebrate its 10 years anniversary, in this Perspective we focus on the state-of-the-art molecular water-oxidation catalysts (MWOCs), the Ru-bda series (bda = 2,2'-bipyridine-6,6'-dicarboxylate), to offer strategies for the design and synthesis of more advanced MWOCs. The O-O bond formation mechanisms, derivatives, applications, and reasons behind the outstanding catalytic activities of Ru-bda catalysts are summarized and discussed. The excellent performance of the Ru-bda catalyst is owing to its unique structural features: the distortion induced 7-coordination and the carboxylate ligands with coordination flexibility, proton-transfer function as well as small steric hindrance. Inspired by the Ru-bda catalysts, we emphasize that the introduction of negatively charged groups, such as the carboxylate group, into ligands is an effective strategy to lower the onset potential of MWOCs. Moreover, distortion of the regular configuration of a transition metal complex by ligand design to generate a wide open site as the catalytic site for binding the substrate as an extra-coordination is proposed as a new concept for the design of efficient molecular catalysts. These inspirations can be expected to play a great role in not only water-oxidation catalysis but also other small molecule activation and conversion reactions involving artificial photosynthesis, such as CO2 reduction and N2 fixation reactions.
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- Biaobiao Zhang
- Department of Chemistry , KTH Royal Institute of Technology , 10044 Stockholm , Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry , KTH Royal Institute of Technology , 10044 Stockholm , Sweden.,State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Center on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology (DUT) , 116024 Dalian , China
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Li YY, Gimbert C, Llobet A, Siegbahn PEM, Liao RZ. Quantum Chemical Study of the Mechanism of Water Oxidation Catalyzed by a Heterotrinuclear Ru 2 Mn Complex. CHEMSUSCHEM 2019; 12:1101-1110. [PMID: 30604589 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201802395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2018] [Revised: 12/11/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The heterotrinuclear complex A {[RuII (H2 O)(tpy)]2 (μ-[MnII (H2 O)2 (bpp)2 ])}4+ [tpy=2,2':6',2''-terpyridine, bpp=3,5-bis(2-pyridyl)pyrazolate] was found to catalyze water oxidation both electrochemically and photochemically with [Ru(bpy)3 ]3+ (bpy=2,2'-bipyridine) as the photosensitizer and Na2 S2 O8 as the electron acceptor in neutral phosphate buffer. The mechanism of water oxidation catalyzed by this unprecedented trinuclear complex was studied by density functional calculations. The calculations showed that a series of oxidation and deprotonation events take place from A, leading to the formation of complex 1 (formal oxidation state of Ru1IV MnIII Ru2III ), which is the starting species for the catalytic cycle. Three sequential oxidations of 1 result in the generation of the catalytically competing species 4 (formal oxidation state of Ru1IV MnV Ru2IV ), which triggers the O-O bond formation. The direct coupling of two adjacent oxo ligands bound to Ru and Mn leads to the production of a superoxide intermediate Int1. This step was calculated to have a barrier of 7.2 kcal mol-1 at the B3LYP*-D3 level. Subsequent O2 release from Int1 turns out to be quite facile. Other possible pathways were found to be much less favorable, including water nucleophilic attack, the coupling of an oxo and a hydroxide, and the direct coupling pathway at a lower oxidation state (RuIV MnIV RuIV ).
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- Ying-Ying Li
- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry and Materia Medica, Hubei Key Laboratory of Materials Chemistry and Service Failure, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, P.R. China
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ-BIST), Avinguda Països Catalans 16, 43007, Tarragona, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ-BIST), Avinguda Països Catalans 16, 43007, Tarragona, Spain
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 10691, Sweden
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry and Materia Medica, Hubei Key Laboratory of Materials Chemistry and Service Failure, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, P.R. China
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Su XF, Zhu B, Liu L, Yan LK, Su ZM. DFT characterization on the effect of redox-inactive cation Ca2+ on water oxidation by CoII-based cuboidal catalyst. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2019.01.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Matheu R, Ertem MZ, Gimbert-Suriñach C, Sala X, Llobet A. Seven Coordinated Molecular Ruthenium–Water Oxidation Catalysts: A Coordination Chemistry Journey. Chem Rev 2019; 119:3453-3471. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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- Roc Matheu
- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avinguda Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
- Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Marcel·lí Domingo s/n, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Chemistry Division, Energy & Photon Sciences Directorate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, United States
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avinguda Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Departament de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avinguda Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
- Departament de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
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Ghosh T, Maayan G. Efficient Homogeneous Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation by a Manganese Cluster with an Overpotential of Only 74 mV. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019; 58:2785-2790. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201813895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2018] [Revised: 01/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Totan Ghosh
- Schulich Faculty of ChemistryTechnion-Israel Institute of Technology Technion City Haifa 3200008 Israel
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- Schulich Faculty of ChemistryTechnion-Israel Institute of Technology Technion City Haifa 3200008 Israel
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