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Malik DD, Ryu W, Kim Y, Singh G, Kim JH, Sankaralingam M, Lee YM, Seo MS, Sundararajan M, Ocampo D, Roemelt M, Park K, Kim SH, Baik MH, Shearer J, Ray K, Fukuzumi S, Nam W. Identification, Characterization, and Electronic Structures of Interconvertible Cobalt-Oxygen TAML Intermediates. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:13817-13835. [PMID: 38716885 PMCID: PMC11216523 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c14346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2024]
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The reaction of Li[(TAML)CoIII]·3H2O (TAML = tetraamido macrocyclic tetraanionic ligand) with iodosylbenzene at 253 K in acetone in the presence of redox-innocent metal ions (Sc(OTf)3 and Y(OTf)3) or triflic acid affords a blue species 1, which is converted reversibly to a green species 2 upon cooling to 193 K. The electronic structures of 1 and 2 have been determined by combining advanced spectroscopic techniques (X-band electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), electron nuclear double resonance (ENDOR), X-ray absorption spectroscopy/extended X-ray absorption fine structure (XAS/EXAFS), and magnetic circular dichroism (MCD)) with ab initio theoretical studies. Complex 1 is best represented as an S = 1/2 [(Sol)(TAML•+)CoIII---OH(LA)]- species (LA = Lewis/Brønsted acid and Sol = solvent), where an S = 1 Co(III) center is antiferromagnetically coupled to S = 1/2 TAML•+, which represents a one-electron oxidized TAML ligand. In contrast, complex 2, also with an S = 1/2 ground state, is found to be multiconfigurational with contributions of both the resonance forms [(H-TAML)CoIV═O(LA)]- and [(H-TAML•+)CoIII═O(LA)]-; H-TAML and H-TAML•+ represent the protonated forms of TAML and TAML•+ ligands, respectively. Thus, the interconversion of 1 and 2 is associated with a LA-associated tautomerization event, whereby H+ shifts from the terminal -OH group to TAML•+ with the concomitant formation of a terminal cobalt-oxo species possessing both singlet (SCo = 0) Co(III) and doublet (SCo = 1/2) Co(IV) characters. The reactivities of 1 and 2 at different temperatures have been investigated in oxygen atom transfer (OAT) and hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) reactions to compare the activation enthalpies and entropies of 1 and 2.
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- Deesha D Malik
- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Korea
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- Western Seoul Center, Korea Basic Science Institute, Seoul 03759, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Straße 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Korea
- Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalizations, Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon 34141, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Korea
- Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalizations, Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon 34141, Korea
- Theoretical Chemistry Section, Chemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400 085, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212-7200, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Straße 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Korea
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- Western Seoul Center, Korea Basic Science Institute, Seoul 03759, Korea
- Department of Chemistry, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Korea
- Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalizations, Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon 34141, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212-7200, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Straße 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, Korea
- 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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Liu LB, Yi C, Mi HC, Zhang SL, Fu XZ, Luo JL, Liu S. Perovskite Oxides Toward Oxygen Evolution Reaction: Intellectual Design Strategies, Properties and Perspectives. ELECTROCHEM ENERGY R 2024; 7:14. [PMID: 38586610 PMCID: PMC10995061 DOI: 10.1007/s41918-023-00209-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2022] [Revised: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 12/03/2023] [Indexed: 04/09/2024]
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Developing electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices (e.g., water splitting, regenerative fuel cells and rechargeable metal-air batteries) driven by intermittent renewable energy sources holds a great potential to facilitate global energy transition and alleviate the associated environmental issues. However, the involved kinetically sluggish oxygen evolution reaction (OER) severely limits the entire reaction efficiency, thus designing high-performance materials toward efficient OER is of prime significance to remove this obstacle. Among various materials, cost-effective perovskite oxides have drawn particular attention due to their desirable catalytic activity, excellent stability and large reserves. To date, substantial efforts have been dedicated with varying degrees of success to promoting OER on perovskite oxides, which have generated multiple reviews from various perspectives, e.g., electronic structure modulation and heteroatom doping and various applications. Nonetheless, the reviews that comprehensively and systematically focus on the latest intellectual design strategies of perovskite oxides toward efficient OER are quite limited. To bridge the gap, this review thus emphatically concentrates on this very topic with broader coverages, more comparative discussions and deeper insights into the synthetic modulation, doping, surface engineering, structure mutation and hybrids. More specifically, this review elucidates, in details, the underlying causality between the being-tuned physiochemical properties [e.g., electronic structure, metal-oxygen (M-O) bonding configuration, adsorption capacity of oxygenated species and electrical conductivity] of the intellectually designed perovskite oxides and the resulting OER performances, coupled with perspectives and potential challenges on future research. It is our sincere hope for this review to provide the scientific community with more insights for developing advanced perovskite oxides with high OER catalytic efficiency and further stimulate more exciting applications. Graphical Abstract
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- Lin-Bo Liu
- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083 Hunan China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083 Hunan China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083 Hunan China
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- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, 2 Fusionopolis Way, Innovis, #08-03, Singapore, 138634 Singapore
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518000 China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518000 China
- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 1H9 Canada
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083 Hunan China
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Scott JS, Schneider JE, Tewelde EG, Gardner JG, Anferov SW, Filatov AS, Anderson JS. Combining Donor Strength and Oxidative Stability in Scorpionates: A Strongly Donating Fluorinated Mesoionic Tris(imidazol-5-ylidene)borate Ligand. Inorg Chem 2023; 62:21224-21232. [PMID: 38051936 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c03251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/07/2023]
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Strongly donating scorpionate ligands support the study of high-valent transition metal chemistry; however, their use is frequently limited by oxidative degradation. To address this concern, we report the synthesis of a tris(imidazol-5-ylidene)borate ligand featuring trifluoromethyl groups surrounding its coordination pocket. This ligand represents the first example of a chelating poly(imidazol-5-ylidene) mesoionic carbene ligand, a scaffold that is expected to be extremely donating. The {NiNO}10 complex of this ligand, as well as that of a previously reported strongly donating tris(imidazol-2-ylidene)borate, has been synthesized and characterized. This new ligand's strong donor properties, as measured by the υNO of its {NiNO}10 complex and natural bonding orbital second-order perturbative energy analysis, are at par with those of the well-studied alkyl-substituted tris(imidazol-2-ylidene)borates, which are known to effectively stabilize high-valent intermediates. The good donor properties of this ligand, despite the electron-withdrawing trifluoromethyl substituents, arise from the strongly donating imidazol-5-ylidene mesoionic carbene arms. These donor properties, when combined with the robustness of trifluoromethyl groups toward oxidative decomposition, suggest this ligand scaffold will be a useful platform in the study of oxidizing high-valent transition-metal species.
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- Joseph S Scott
- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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Juda CE, Casaday CE, Clarke RM, Litak NP, Campbell BM, Chang T, Zheng SL, Chen YS, Betley TA. Lewis Acid Supported Nickel Nitrenoids. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202313156. [PMID: 37830508 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202313156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2023] [Revised: 10/12/2023] [Accepted: 10/13/2023] [Indexed: 10/14/2023]
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Metalation of the polynucleating ligand F,tbs LH6 (1,3,5-C6 H9 (NC6 H3 -4-F-2-NSiMe2 t Bu)3 ) with two equivalents of Zn(N(SiMe3 )2 )2 affords the dinuclear product (F,tbs LH2 )Zn2 (1), which can be further deprotonated to yield (F,tbs L)Zn2 Li2 (OEt2 )4 (2). Transmetalation of 2 with NiCl2 (py)2 yields the heterometallic, trinuclear cluster (F,tbs L)Zn2 Ni(py) (3). Reduction of 3 with KC8 affords [KC222 ][(F,tbs L)Zn2 Ni] (4) which features a monovalent Ni centre. Addition of 1-adamantyl azide to 4 generates the bridging μ3 -nitrenoid adduct [K(THF)3 ][(F,tbs L)Zn2 Ni(μ3 -NAd)] (5). EPR spectroscopy reveals that the anionic cluster possesses a doublet ground state (S =1 / 2 ${{ 1/2 }}$ ). Cyclic voltammetry of 5 reveals two fully reversible redox events. The dianionic nitrenoid [K2 (THF)9 ][(F,tbs L)Zn2 Ni(μ3 -NAd)] (6) was isolated and characterized while the neutral redox isomer was observed to undergo both intra- and intermolecular H-atom abstraction processes. Ni K-edge XAS studies suggest a divalent oxidation state for the Ni centres in both the monoanionic and dianionic [Zn2 Ni] nitrenoid complexes. However, DFT analysis suggests Ni-borne oxidation for 5.
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- Cristin E Juda
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- ChemMatCARS Beamline, The University of Chicago, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne, IL 60429, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- ChemMatCARS Beamline, The University of Chicago, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne, IL 60429, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Park S, Jang T, Choi S, Lee YH, Cho KH, Lee MY, Seo H, Lim HK, Kim Y, Ryu J, Im SW, Kim MG, Park JS, Kim M, Jin K, Kim SH, Park GS, Kim H, Nam KT. Iridium-Cooperated, Symmetry-Broken Manganese Oxide Nanocatalyst for Water Oxidation. J Am Chem Soc 2023. [PMID: 38047734 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c07411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2023]
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The water oxidation reaction, the most important reaction for hydrogen production and other sustainable chemistry, is efficiently catalyzed by the Mn4CaO5 cluster in biological photosystem II. However, synthetic Mn-based heterogeneous electrocatalysts exhibit inferior catalytic activity at neutral pH under mild conditions. Symmetry-broken Mn atoms and their cooperative mechanism through efficient oxidative charge accumulation in biological clusters are important lessons but synthesis strategies for heterogeneous electrocatalysts have not been successfully developed. Here, we report a crystallographically distorted Mn-oxide nanocatalyst, in which Ir atoms break the space group symmetry from I41/amd to P1. Tetrahedral Mn(II) in spinel is partially replaced by Ir, surprisingly resulting in an unprecedented crystal structure. We analyzed the distorted crystal structure of manganese oxide using TEM and investigated how the charge accumulation of Mn atoms is facilitated by the presence of a small amount of Ir.
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- Sunghak Park
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
- Soft Foundry, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 24341, Republic of Korea
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- Western Seoul Center, Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI), Seoul 03759, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea
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- SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT) and Department of Nano Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
- Department of Chemistry, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Western Seoul Center, Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI), Seoul 03759, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
- Soft Foundry, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
- Institute of Next-Generation Semiconductor Convergence Technology, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
- Soft Foundry, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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den Boer D, Hetterscheid DGH. Correlations between the Electronic Structure and Energetics of the Catalytic Steps in Homogeneous Water Oxidation Catalysis. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:23057-23067. [PMID: 37815483 PMCID: PMC10603781 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c05741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2023] [Indexed: 10/11/2023]
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The development of an efficient electrocatalyst for the water oxidation reaction is limited by unfavorable scaling relations between catalytic intermediates, resulting in an overpotential. In contrast to heterogeneous catalysts, the electronic structure of homogeneous catalysts can be modified to a great extent due to a tailored ligand design. However, studies utilizing the tunability of organic ligands have rarely been conducted in a systematic manner and, as of yet, have not produced catalytic paths that avoid the aforementioned unfavorable scaling relations. To investigate the influence of electron-donating groups (EDGs) or electron-withdrawing groups (EWGs) on elementary steps in electrochemical water oxidation catalysis, cis-[Ru(bpy)2(H2O)]2+ (bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine) was selected as the scaffold that was modified with methyl, methoxy, chloro, and trifluoromethyl groups. This catalyst can undergo several electron transfer (ET), proton transfer (PT), and proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) steps that were all probed experimentally. In this systematic study, it was found that PCET steps are relatively insensitive with respect to the presence of EDGs or EWGs, while the decoupled ET and PT steps are more heavily affected. However, the influence of the substituents decreases with an increasing oxidation state of Ru due to a lack of d-electrons available at the Ru center for π-backbonding to the bipyridine ligand. Therefore, the RuV/VI redox couple appears to be relatively unaffected by the substituent. Nevertheless, the implementation of EWGs can shift all oxidation events to a very narrow potential window. Not only do our findings illustrate how electronic substituents affect the entire potential energy landscape of the catalytic water oxidation reaction, but they also show that the cis-[Ru(bpy)2(H2O)]2+ compounds follow different design rules and scaling relations, as has been reported for every other oxygen evolution catalyst thus far.
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- Daan den Boer
- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, 2300RA, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Monika, Kumar M, Somi, Sarkar A, Gupta MK, Ansari A. Theoretical study of the formation of metal-oxo species of the first transition series with the ligand 14-TMC: driving factors of the "Oxo Wall". Dalton Trans 2023; 52:14160-14169. [PMID: 37750348 DOI: 10.1039/d3dt02109b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/27/2023]
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Terminal metal-oxo species of the early transition metal series are well known, whereas those for the late transition series are rare, and this is related to the "Oxo Wall". Here, we have undertaken a theoretical study on the formation of metal-oxo species from the metal hydroperoxo species of the 3d series (Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu) with the ligand 14-TMC (1,4,8,11-tetramethyl-1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane) via O⋯O bond cleavage. DFT calculations reveal that the barrier for O⋯O bond cleavage is higher with the late transition metals (Co, Ni, and Cu) than the early transition metals (Cr, Mn, and Fe), and the formed late metal-oxo species are also thermodynamically less stable. The higher barrier may be due to electronic repulsion because of the pairing of d electrons. In the late transition metal series, the electron goes into an antibonding orbital, which decreases the bond order and hence decreases the possibility of metal-oxo formation. Computed structural parameters and spin densities suggest that valence tautomerism occurs in the late transition metal-oxo species which remain as a metal-oxyl. Our findings support the concept of the "Oxo Wall".
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- Monika
- Department of Chemistry, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh-123031, Haryana, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh-123031, Haryana, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh-123031, Haryana, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago 5735 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh-123031, Haryana, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh-123031, Haryana, India.
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Zhang X, Fu X, Tian W, Bai Y, Zhu L, Si J. Electrolyte modification method induced atomic arrangement in FeO x/NF nanosheets for efficient overall water splitting. NANOSCALE 2023; 15:15328-15333. [PMID: 37694717 DOI: 10.1039/d3nr02859c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/12/2023]
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To explore transition metal-based electrocatalysts with remarkable energy storage and conversion performance, the rational design and synthesis of electrodes with rich active sites and favorable electrical conductivity are crucial. Herein, using fluoroethylene carbonate (FEC) additive in electrochemical conversion reaction (electrolyte modification method) is proposed as an effective strategy to enhance the catalytic activity of FeOx/NF. The optimal sample FeOx/NF-Li-FEC1 shows optimized HER activity with remarkably low overpotential of 222 mV at a current density of 200 mA cm-2. By employing FeOx/NF-Li-FEC1 as bifunctional electrocatalysts, the overall water-splitting device reaches a current density of 10 mA cm-2 at a low cell voltage of 1.56 V. The outstanding performance is mainly attributed to the atomic arrangement to offer rich active sites as well as the evolved electronic structure and the thin SEI layer to accelerate charge transfer process. This study opens up a novel avenue to rationally design and synthesize low-cost and high-performance electrode materials for electrochemical energy conversion and storage devices.
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- Xiaoping Zhang
- School of Sciences, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
- Institute of Physical Properties for Quantum Functional Materials, School of Sciences, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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- School of Sciences, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
- Institute of Physical Properties for Quantum Functional Materials, School of Sciences, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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- School of Sciences, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
- Institute of Physical Properties for Quantum Functional Materials, School of Sciences, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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- School of Sciences, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
- Institute of Physical Properties for Quantum Functional Materials, School of Sciences, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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- School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
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- School of Sciences, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
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Wang Z, Goddard WA, Xiao H. Potential-dependent transition of reaction mechanisms for oxygen evolution on layered double hydroxides. Nat Commun 2023; 14:4228. [PMID: 37454140 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40011-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2022] [Accepted: 07/08/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023] Open
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Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is of crucial importance to sustainable energy and environmental engineering, and layered double hydroxides (LDHs) are among the most active catalysts for OER in alkaline conditions, but the reaction mechanism for OER on LDHs remains controversial. Distinctive types of reaction mechanisms have been proposed for the O-O coupling in OER, yet they compose a coupled reaction network with competing kinetics dependent on applied potentials. Herein, we combine grand-canonical methods and micro-kinetic modeling to unravel that the nature of dominant mechanism for OER on LDHs transitions among distinctive types as a function of applied potential, and this arises from the interplay among applied potential and competing kinetics in the coupled reaction network. The theory-predicted overpotentials, Tafel slopes, and findings are in agreement with the observations of experiments including isotope labelling. Thus, we establish a computational methodology to identify and elucidate the potential-dependent mechanisms for electrochemical reactions.
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- Zeyu Wang
- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Materials and Process Simulation Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
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Schwiedrzik L, Rajkovic T, González L. Regeneration and Degradation in a Biomimetic Polyoxometalate Water Oxidation Catalyst. ACS Catal 2023; 13:3007-3019. [PMID: 36910868 PMCID: PMC9990072 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c06301] [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: 12/21/2022] [Revised: 01/30/2023] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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Complete understanding of catalytic cycles is required to advance the design of water oxidation catalysts, but it is difficult to attain, due to the complex factors governing their reactivity and stability. In this study, we investigate the regeneration and degradation pathways of the highly active biomimetic water oxidation catalyst [Mn3+ 2Mn4+ 2V4O17(OAc)3]3-, thereby completing its catalytic cycle. Beginning with the deactivated species [Mn3+ 4V4O17(OAc)2]4- left over after O2 evolution, we scrutinize a network of reaction intermediates belonging to two alternative water oxidation cycles. We find that catalyst regeneration to the activated species [Mn4+ 4V4O17(OAc)2(OH)(H2O)]- proceeds via oxidation of each Mn center, with one water ligand being bound during the first oxidation step and a second water ligand being bound and deprotonated during the final oxidation step. ΔΔG values for this last oxidation are consistent with previous experimental results, while regeneration within an alternative catalytic cycle was found to be thermodynamically unfavorable. Extensive in silico sampling of catalyst structures also revealed two degradation processes: cubane opening and ligand dissociation, both of which have low barriers at highly reduced states of the catalyst due to the presence of Jahn-Teller effects. These mechanistic insights are expected to spur the development of more efficient and stable Mn cubane water oxidation catalysts.
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- Ludwig Schwiedrzik
- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Straße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria.,Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem), University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 42, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Straße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Straße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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Hong YH, Lee YM, Nam W, Fukuzumi S. Reaction Intermediates in Artificial Photosynthesis with Molecular Catalysts. ACS Catal 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c05033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- Young Hyun Hong
- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul03760, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul03760, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul03760, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul03760, Korea
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Zhao LJ, Xu HG, Xu XL, Zheng WJ. Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Theoretical Studies of Ge 6MnO – Cluster with a Mn V≡O Unit Interacting with a Double Aromatic Ge 64– Ligand. Inorg Chem 2022; 61:20524-20530. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c03353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Li-Juan Zhao
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Fosshat S, Siddhiaratchi SDM, Baumberger CL, Ortiz VR, Fronczek FR, Chambers MB. Light-Initiated C–H Activation via Net Hydrogen Atom Transfer to a Molybdenum(VI) Dioxo. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:20472-20483. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c09235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Saeed Fosshat
- Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-1804, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-1804, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-1804, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-1804, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-1804, United States
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Transition metal atom anchored by defective WSSe monolayer as bifunctional single atom catalyst for ORR and OER. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2022.116731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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da Silva Santos M, Stüker T, Flach M, Ablyasova OS, Timm M, von Issendorff B, Hirsch K, Zamudio‐Bayer V, Riedel S, Lau JT. The Highest Oxidation State of Rhodium: Rhodium(VII) in [RhO 3 ] . Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022; 61:e202207688. [PMID: 35818987 PMCID: PMC9544489 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202207688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
Abstract
Although the highest possible oxidation states of all transition elements are rare, they are not only of fundamental interest but also relevant as potentially strong oxidizing agents. In general, the highest oxidation states are found in the electron-rich late transition elements of groups 7-9 of the periodic table. Rhodium is the first element of the 4d transition metal series for which the highest known oxidation state does not equal its group number of 9, but reaches only a significantly lower value of +6 in exceptional cases. Higher oxidation states of rhodium have remained elusive so far. In a combined mass spectrometry, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, and quantum-chemical study of gas-phaseR h O n + (n=1-4), we identifyR h O 3 + as the1 A 1 ' trioxidorhodium(VII) cation, the first chemical species to contain rhodium in the +7 oxidation state, which is the third-highest oxidation state experimentally verified among all elements in the periodic table.
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- Mayara da Silva Santos
- Physikalisches InstitutAlbert-Ludwigs-Universität FreiburgHermann-Herder-Straße 379104FreiburgGermany
- Abteilung für Hochempfindliche RöntgenspektroskopieHelmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und EnergieAlbert-Einstein-Straße 1512489BerlinGermany
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- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie–Anorganische ChemieFreie Universität BerlinFabeckstraße 34/3614195BerlinGermany
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- Physikalisches InstitutAlbert-Ludwigs-Universität FreiburgHermann-Herder-Straße 379104FreiburgGermany
- Abteilung für Hochempfindliche RöntgenspektroskopieHelmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und EnergieAlbert-Einstein-Straße 1512489BerlinGermany
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- Physikalisches InstitutAlbert-Ludwigs-Universität FreiburgHermann-Herder-Straße 379104FreiburgGermany
- Abteilung für Hochempfindliche RöntgenspektroskopieHelmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und EnergieAlbert-Einstein-Straße 1512489BerlinGermany
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- Abteilung für Hochempfindliche RöntgenspektroskopieHelmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und EnergieAlbert-Einstein-Straße 1512489BerlinGermany
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- Physikalisches InstitutAlbert-Ludwigs-Universität FreiburgHermann-Herder-Straße 379104FreiburgGermany
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- Abteilung für Hochempfindliche RöntgenspektroskopieHelmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und EnergieAlbert-Einstein-Straße 1512489BerlinGermany
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- Abteilung für Hochempfindliche RöntgenspektroskopieHelmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und EnergieAlbert-Einstein-Straße 1512489BerlinGermany
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- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie–Anorganische ChemieFreie Universität BerlinFabeckstraße 34/3614195BerlinGermany
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- Physikalisches InstitutAlbert-Ludwigs-Universität FreiburgHermann-Herder-Straße 379104FreiburgGermany
- Abteilung für Hochempfindliche RöntgenspektroskopieHelmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und EnergieAlbert-Einstein-Straße 1512489BerlinGermany
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Bag J, Pal K. The access of {NiIV(OH)2} intermediate in Ni(II) mediated oxygen atom transfer to coordinated Phosphine: Combined experimental and computational studies. Polyhedron 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2022.116030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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da Silva Santos M, Stüker T, Flach M, Ablyasova OS, Timm M, von Issendorff B, Hirsch K, Zamudio-Bayer V, Riedel S, Lau JT. The Highest Oxidation State of Rhodium: Rhodium(VII) in [RhO3]+. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202207688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Mayara da Silva Santos
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie Physics Albert-Eistein-Str. 15 12489 Berlin GERMANY
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- Freie Universitat Berlin Institut für Chemie und Biochemie – Anorganische Chemie Fabeckstraße 34/36 14195 Berlin GERMANY
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin fur Materialien und Energie GmbH Abteilung für Hochempfindliche Röntgenspektroskopie Albert-Einstein-Straße 15 12489 Berlin GERMANY
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin fur Materialien und Energie GmbH Abteilung für Hochempfindliche Röntgenspektroskopie Albert-Einstein-Straße 15 12489 Berlin GERMANY
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin fur Materialien und Energie GmbH Abteilung für Hochempfindliche Röntgenspektroskopie Albert-Einstein-Straße 15 12489 Berlin GERMANY
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- Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg Physikalisches Institut Hermann-Herder-Straße 3 79104 Freiburg GERMANY
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin fur Materialien und Energie GmbH Abteilung für Hochempfindliche Röntgenspektroskopie Albert-Einstein-Straße 15 12489 Berlin GERMANY
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin fur Materialien und Energie GmbH Abteilung für Hochempfindliche Röntgenspektroskopie 12489 Berlin GERMANY
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- Freie Universitat Berlin Institut für Chemie und Biochemie – Anorganische Chemie Fabeckstraße 34/36 14195 Berlin GERMANY
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin fur Materialien und Energie GmbH Abteilung für Hochempfindliche Röntgenspektroskopie Albert-Einstein-Straße 15 12489 Berlin GERMANY
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Babu SP, Falch A. Recent developments on Cr‐based electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction in alkaline media. ChemCatChem 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202200364] [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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- Sreejith P Babu
- North-West University Potchefstroom Campus: North-West University Chemical Resource Beneficiation, School of Physical and Chemical Sciencesi SOUTH AFRICA
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- North-West University Chemistry 11 Hoffman street 2531 Potchefstroom SOUTH AFRICA
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Harper DR, Kulik HJ. Computational Scaling Relationships Predict Experimental Activity and Rate-Limiting Behavior in Homogeneous Water Oxidation. Inorg Chem 2022; 61:2186-2197. [PMID: 35037756 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c03376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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While computational screening with first-principles density functional theory (DFT) is essential for evaluating candidate catalysts, limitations in accuracy typically prevent the prediction of experimentally relevant activities. Exemplary of these challenges are homogeneous water oxidation catalysts (WOCs) where differences in experimental conditions or small changes in ligand structure can alter rate constants by over an order of magnitude. Here, we compute mechanistically relevant electronic and energetic properties for 19 mononuclear Ru transition-metal complexes (TMCs) from three experimental water oxidation catalysis studies. We discover that 15 of these TMCs have experimental activities that correlate with a single property, the ionization potential of the Ru(II)-O2 catalytic intermediate. This scaling parameter allows the quantitative understanding of activity trends and provides insight into the rate-limiting behavior. We use this approach to rationalize differences in activity with different experimental conditions, and we qualitatively analyze the source of distinct behavior for different electronic states in the other four catalysts. Comparison to closely related single-atom catalysts and modified WOCs enables rationalization of the source of rate enhancement in these WOCs.
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- Daniel R Harper
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.,Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Delcey MG, Lindblad R, Timm M, Bülow C, Zamudio-Bayer V, von Issendorff B, Lau JT, Lundberg M. Soft x-ray signatures of ionic manganese-oxo systems, including a high-spin manganese(V) complex. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:3598-3610. [DOI: 10.1039/d1cp03667j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [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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Manganese-oxo species catalyze key reactions, including C–H bond activation or dioxygen formation in natural photosynthesis. To better understand relevant reaction intermediates, we characterize electronic states and geometric structures of [MnOn]+...
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Monika, Aman, Ansari A. Theoretical insights for generation of terminal metal-oxo species and involvement of the “oxo wall”. NEW J CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d2nj03098e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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This work is based on a deep insight on the formation of high-valent metal-oxo by the O⋯O bond cleavage of metal hydroperoxo species and our theoretical findings also illustrate the concept “oxo wall”.
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- Monika
- Department of Chemistry Central University of Haryana, 123031, India
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- Department of Chemistry Central University of Haryana, 123031, India
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- Department of Chemistry Central University of Haryana, 123031, India
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Phelan BT, Mara MW, Chen LX. Excited-state structural dynamics of nickel complexes probed by optical and X-ray transient absorption spectroscopies: insights and implications. Chem Commun (Camb) 2021; 57:11904-11921. [PMID: 34695174 DOI: 10.1039/d1cc03875c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Excited states of nickel complexes undergo a variety of photochemical processes, such as charge transfer, ligation/deligation, and redox reactions, relevant to solar energy conversion and photocatalysis. The efficiencies of the aforementioned processes are closely coupled to the molecular structures in the ground and excited states. The conventional optical transient absorption spectroscopy has revealed important excited-state pathways and kinetics, but information regarding the metal center, in particular transient structural and electronic properties, remains limited. These deficiencies are addressed by X-ray transient absorption (XTA) spectroscopy, a detailed probe of 3d orbital occupancy, oxidation state and coordination geometry. The examples of excited-state structural dynamics of nickel porphyrin and nickel phthalocyanine have been described from our previous studies with highlights on the unique structural information obtained by XTA spectroscopy. We close by surveying prospective applications of XTA spectroscopy to active areas of Ni-based photocatalysis based on the knowledge gained from our previous studies.
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- Brian T Phelan
- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA.
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA. .,Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA. .,Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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Schwiedrzik L, Brieskorn V, González L. Flexibility Enhances Reactivity: Redox Isomerism and Jahn-Teller Effects in a Bioinspired Mn 4O 4 Cubane Water Oxidation Catalyst. ACS Catal 2021; 11:13320-13329. [PMID: 34777908 PMCID: PMC8576808 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c03566] [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: 08/07/2021] [Revised: 09/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Understanding how water oxidation to molecular oxygen proceeds in molecular metal-oxo catalysts is a challenging endeavor due to their structural complexity. In this report, we unravel the water oxidation mechanism of the highly active water oxidation catalyst [Mn4V4O17(OAc)3]3-, a polyoxometalate catalyst with a [Mn4O4]6+ cubane core reminiscent of the natural oxygen-evolving complex. Starting from the activated species [Mn4 4+V4O17(OAc)2(H2O)(OH)]1-, we scrutinized multiple pathways to find that water oxidation proceeds via a sequential proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET), O-O bond formation, another PCET, an intramolecular electron transfer, and another PCET resulting in O2 evolution, with a predicted thermodynamic overpotential of 0.71 V. An in-depth investigation of the O-O bond formation process revealed an essential interplay between redox isomerism and Jahn-Teller effects, responsible for enhancing reactivity in the catalytic cycle. This is achieved by redistributing electrons between metal centers and weakening relevant bonds through Jahn-Teller distortions, introducing flexibility to the otherwise rigid cubane core of the catalyst. These mechanistic insights are expected to advance the design of efficient bioinspired Mn cubane water-splitting catalysts.
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- Ludwig Schwiedrzik
- Institute of Theoretical
Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University
of Vienna, Währinger Straße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Theoretical
Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University
of Vienna, Währinger Straße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Theoretical
Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University
of Vienna, Währinger Straße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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Yang J, Dong HT, Seo MS, Larson VA, Lee YM, Shearer J, Lehnert N, Nam W. The Oxo-Wall Remains Intact: A Tetrahedrally Distorted Co(IV)-Oxo Complex. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:16943-16959. [PMID: 34609879 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c04919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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In this paper, we report the preparation, spectroscopic and theoretical characterization, and reactivity studies of a Co(IV)-oxo complex bearing an N4-macrocyclic coligand, 12-TBC (12-TBC = 1,4,7,10-tetrabenzyl-1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane). On the basis of the ligand and the structure of the Co(II) precursor, [CoII(12-TBC)(CF3SO3)2], one would assume that this species corresponds to a tetragonal Co(IV)-oxo complex, but the spectroscopic data do not support this notion. Co K-edge XAS data show that the treatment of the Co(II) precursor with iodosylbenzene (PhIO) as an oxidant at -40 °C in the presence of a proton source leads to a distinct shift in the Co K-edge, in agreement with the formation of a Co(IV) intermediate. The presence of the oxo group is further demonstrated by resonance Raman (rRaman) spectroscopy. Interestingly, the EPR data of this complex show a high degree of rhombicity, indicating structural distortion. This is further supported by the EXAFS data. Using DFT calculations, a structural model is developed for this complex with a ligand-protonated structure that features a Co═O···HN hydrogen bond and a four-coordinate Co center in a seesaw-shaped coordination geometry. Magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectroscopy further supports this finding. The hydrogen bond leads to an interesting polarization of the Co-oxo π-bonds, where one O(p) lone-pair is stabilized and leads to a regular Co(d) interaction, whereas the other π-bond shows an inverted ligand field. The reactivity of this complex in hydrogen atom and oxygen atom transfer reactions is discussed as well.
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- Jindou Yang
- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212-7200, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, Korea.,School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Jinan, Jinan 250022, China
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Heim P, Twamley B, O'Brien J, McDonald AR. Unexpected Intramolecular Phosphite‐Mediated Amide Coupling To Yield 3,5‐Dioxo‐1‐Piperazines. ChemistrySelect 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.202102576] [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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- Philipp Heim
- School of Chemistry and CRANN/AMBER Nanoscience Institute Trinity College Dublin The University of Dublin College Green Dublin 2 Ireland
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- School of Chemistry and CRANN/AMBER Nanoscience Institute Trinity College Dublin The University of Dublin College Green Dublin 2 Ireland
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- School of Chemistry and CRANN/AMBER Nanoscience Institute Trinity College Dublin The University of Dublin College Green Dublin 2 Ireland
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- School of Chemistry and CRANN/AMBER Nanoscience Institute Trinity College Dublin The University of Dublin College Green Dublin 2 Ireland
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Zhang XP, Wang HY, Zheng H, Zhang W, Cao R. O–O bond formation mechanisms during the oxygen evolution reaction over synthetic molecular catalysts. CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/s1872-2067(20)63681-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Kondo M, Tatewaki H, Masaoka S. Design of molecular water oxidation catalysts with earth-abundant metal ions. Chem Soc Rev 2021; 50:6790-6831. [PMID: 33977932 DOI: 10.1039/d0cs01442g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The four-electron oxidation of water (2H2O → O2 + 4H+ + 4e-) is considered the main bottleneck in artificial photosynthesis. In nature, this reaction is catalysed by a Mn4CaO5 cluster embedded in the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II. Ruthenium-based complexes have been successful artificial molecular catalysts for mimicking this reaction. However, for practical and large-scale applications in the future, molecular catalysts that contain earth-abundant first-row transition metal ions are preferred owing to their high natural abundance, low risk of depletion, and low costs. In this review, the frontier of water oxidation reactions mediated by first-row transition metal complexes is described. Special attention is paid towards the design of molecular structures of the catalysts and their reaction mechanisms, and these factors are expected to serve as guiding principles for creating efficient and robust molecular catalysts for water oxidation using ubiquitous elements.
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- Mio Kondo
- Division of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. and Innovative Catalysis Science Division, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives (ICS-OTRI), Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan and JST, PRESTO, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, 332-0012, Japan
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- Division of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
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- Division of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. and Innovative Catalysis Science Division, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives (ICS-OTRI), Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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Geer AM, Musgrave III C, Webber C, Nielsen RJ, McKeown BA, Liu C, Schleker PPM, Jakes P, Jia X, Dickie DA, Granwehr J, Zhang S, Machan CW, Goddard WA, Gunnoe TB. Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation by a Trinuclear Copper(II) Complex. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c01395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Ana M. Geer
- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Materials and Process Simulation Center, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Materials and Process Simulation Center, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Department of Heterogeneous Reactions, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
- Institute of Energy and Climate Research - Fundamental Electrochemistry (IEK-9), Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Energy and Climate Research - Fundamental Electrochemistry (IEK-9), Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Institute of Energy and Climate Research - Fundamental Electrochemistry (IEK-9), Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany
- Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Materials and Process Simulation Center, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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Zhang H, Su X, Xie F, Liao R, Zhang M. Iron‐Catalyzed Water Oxidation: O–O Bond Formation via Intramolecular Oxo–Oxo Interaction. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202100060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Hong‐Tao Zhang
- Center of Basic Molecular Science (CBMS) Department of Chemistry Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China
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- Center of Basic Molecular Science (CBMS) Department of Chemistry Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China
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- Center of Basic Molecular Science (CBMS) Department of Chemistry Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China
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- Key Laboratory for Large-Format Battery Materials and System School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074 China
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- Center of Basic Molecular Science (CBMS) Department of Chemistry Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China
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Zhang HT, Su XJ, Xie F, Liao RZ, Zhang MT. Iron-Catalyzed Water Oxidation: O-O Bond Formation via Intramolecular Oxo-Oxo Interaction. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:12467-12474. [PMID: 33769654 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202100060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Herein, we report the importance of structure regulation on the O-O bond formation process in binuclear iron catalysts. Three complexes, [Fe2 (μ-O)(OH2 )2 (TPA)2 ]4+ (1), [Fe2 (μ-O)(OH2 )2 (6-HPA)]4+ (2) and [Fe2 (μ-O)(OH2 )2 (BPMAN)]4+ (3), have been designed as electrocatalysts for water oxidation in 0.1 M NaHCO3 solution (pH 8.4). We found that 1 and 2 are molecular catalysts and that O-O bond formation proceeds via oxo-oxo coupling rather than by the water nucleophilic attack (WNA) pathway. In contrast, complex 3 displays negligible catalytic activity. DFT calculations suggested that the anti to syn isomerization of the two high-valent Fe=O moieties in these catalysts takes place via the axial rotation of one Fe=O unit around the Fe-O-Fe center. This is followed by the O-O bond formation via an oxo-oxo coupling pathway at the FeIV FeIV state or via oxo-oxyl coupling pathway at the FeIV FeV state. Importantly, the rigid BPMAN ligand in complex 3 limits the anti to syn isomerization and axial rotation of the Fe=O moiety, which accounts for the negligible catalytic activity.
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- Hong-Tao Zhang
- Center of Basic Molecular Science (CBMS), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Center of Basic Molecular Science (CBMS), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Center of Basic Molecular Science (CBMS), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Key Laboratory for Large-Format Battery Materials and System, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China
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- Center of Basic Molecular Science (CBMS), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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Wen Y, Chen P, Wang L, Li S, Wang Z, Abed J, Mao X, Min Y, Dinh CT, Luna PD, Huang R, Zhang L, Wang L, Wang L, Nielsen RJ, Li H, Zhuang T, Ke C, Voznyy O, Hu Y, Li Y, Goddard WA, Zhang B, Peng H, Sargent EH. Stabilizing Highly Active Ru Sites by Suppressing Lattice Oxygen Participation in Acidic Water Oxidation. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:6482-6490. [PMID: 33891414 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c00384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In hydrogen production, the anodic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) limits the energy conversion efficiency and also impacts stability in proton-exchange membrane water electrolyzers. Widely used Ir-based catalysts suffer from insufficient activity, while more active Ru-based catalysts tend to dissolve under OER conditions. This has been associated with the participation of lattice oxygen (lattice oxygen oxidation mechanism (LOM)), which may lead to the collapse of the crystal structure and accelerate the leaching of active Ru species, leading to low operating stability. Here we develop Sr-Ru-Ir ternary oxide electrocatalysts that achieve high OER activity and stability in acidic electrolyte. The catalysts achieve an overpotential of 190 mV at 10 mA cm-2 and the overpotential remains below 225 mV following 1,500 h of operation. X-ray absorption spectroscopy and 18O isotope-labeled online mass spectroscopy studies reveal that the participation of lattice oxygen during OER was suppressed by interactions in the Ru-O-Ir local structure, offering a picture of how stability was improved. The electronic structure of active Ru sites was modulated by Sr and Ir, optimizing the binding energetics of OER oxo-intermediates.
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- Yunzhou Wen
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China.,Materials and Process Simulation Center (MSC) and Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada.,Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Toronto, 27 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1, Canada
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- Materials and Process Simulation Center (MSC) and Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada
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- Institute of Fuel Cell, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada
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- Canadian Light Source Inc., Saskatoon, SK S7N 2 V3 Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
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- Materials and Process Simulation Center (MSC) and Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada
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Zong Y, Guan X, Xu J, Feng Y, Mao Y, Xu L, Chu H, Wu D. Unraveling the Overlooked Involvement of High-Valent Cobalt-Oxo Species Generated from the Cobalt(II)-Activated Peroxymonosulfate Process. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2020; 54:16231-16239. [PMID: 33225681 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c06808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Sulfate radical (SO4•-) is widely recognized as the predominant species generated from the cobalt(II)-activated peroxymonosulfate (PMS) process. However, in this study, it was surprisingly found that methyl phenyl sulfoxide (PMSO) was readily oxidized to the corresponding sulfone (PMSO2) with a transformation ratio of ∼100% under acidic conditions, which strongly implied the generation of high-valent cobalt-oxo species [Co(IV)] instead of SO4•- in the Co(II)/PMS process. Scavenging experiments using methanol (MeOH), tert-butyl alcohol, and dimethyl sulfoxide further suggested the negligible role of SO4•- and hydroxyl radical (•OH) but favored the generation of Co(IV). By employing 18O isotope-labeling technique, the formation of Co(IV) was conclusively verified and the oxygen atom exchange reaction between Co(IV) and H2O was revealed. Density functional theory calculation determined that the formation of Co(IV) was thermodynamically favorable than that of SO4•- and •OH in the Co(II)/PMS process. The generated Co(IV) species was indicated to be highly reactive due to the existence of oxo-wall and capable of oxidizing the organic pollutant that is rather recalcitrant to SO4•- attack, for example, nitrobenzene. Additionally, the degradation intermediates of sulfamethoxazole (SMX) in the Co(II)/PMS process under acidic conditions were identified to further understand the interaction between Co(IV) and the representative contaminant. The developed kinetic model successfully simulated PMSO loss, PMSO2 production, SMX degradation, and/or PMS decomposition under varying conditions, which further supported the proposed mechanism. This study might shed new light on the Co(II)/PMS process.
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- Yang Zong
- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science & Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science & Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China
- Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science & Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China
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- School of Environment, South China Normal University, University Town, Guangzhou 510631, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science & Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science & Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science & Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China
- Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science & Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China
- Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China
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Sachse R, Pflüger M, Velasco-Vélez JJ, Sahre M, Radnik J, Bernicke M, Bernsmeier D, Hodoroaba VD, Krumrey M, Strasser P, Kraehnert R, Hertwig A. Assessing Optical and Electrical Properties of Highly Active IrO x Catalysts for the Electrochemical Oxygen Evolution Reaction via Spectroscopic Ellipsometry. ACS Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c03800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- René Sachse
- Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Unter den Eichen 44-46, 12203 Berlin, Germany
- Faculty II Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Abbestraße 2-12, 10587 Berlin, Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Department of Heterogenous Reactions, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim and der Ruhr 45470, Germany
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- Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Unter den Eichen 44-46, 12203 Berlin, Germany
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- Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Unter den Eichen 44-46, 12203 Berlin, Germany
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- Faculty II Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Faculty II Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Unter den Eichen 44-46, 12203 Berlin, Germany
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Abbestraße 2-12, 10587 Berlin, Germany
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- Faculty II Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Technical University Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Faculty II Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Unter den Eichen 44-46, 12203 Berlin, Germany
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Zhang H, Hatzis GP, Dickie DA, Moore CE, Thomas CM. Redox chemistry and H-atom abstraction reactivity of a terminal zirconium(iv) oxo compound mediated by an appended cobalt(i) center. Chem Sci 2020; 11:10729-10736. [PMID: 34094325 PMCID: PMC8162367 DOI: 10.1039/d0sc04229c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The reactivity of the terminal zirconium(iv) oxo complex, O
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Zr(MesNPiPr2)3CoCNtBu (2), is explored, revealing unique redox activity imparted by the pendent redox active cobalt(i) center. Oxo complex 2 can be chemically reduced using Na/Hg or Ph3C• to afford the ZrIV/Co0 complexes [(μ-Na)OZr(MesNPiPr2)3CoCNtBu]2 (3) and Ph3COZr(MesNPiPr2)3CoCNtBu (4), respectively. Based on the cyclic voltammogram of 2, Ph3˙ should not be sufficiently reducing to achieve the chemical reduction of 2, but sufficient driving force for the reaction is provided by the nucleophilicity of the terminal oxo fragment and its affinity to bind Ph3C+. Accordingly, 2 reacts readily with [Ph3C][BPh4] and Ph3CCl to afford [Ph3COZr(MesNPiPr2)3CoCNtBu][BPh4] ([5][BPh4]) and Ph3COZr(MesNPiPr2)3CoCl (6), respectively. The chemical oxidation of 2 is also investigated, revealing that oxidation of 2 is accompanied by immediate hydrogen atom abstraction to afford the hydroxide complex [HOZr(MesNPiPr2)3CoCNtBu]+ ([9]+). Thus it is posited that the transient [OZr(MesNPiPr2)3CoCNtBu]+ [2]+ cation generated upon oxidation combines the basicity of a nucleophilic early metal oxo fragment with the oxidizing power of the appended cobalt center to facilitate H-atom abstraction. Bimetallic cooperativity is demonstrated with a Co/Zr complex featuring both nucleophilic Zr(iv) oxo and redox active Co sites.![]()
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- Hongtu Zhang
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University 100 W. 18th Ave Columbus OH 43210 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University 100 W. 18th Ave Columbus OH 43210 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia 409 McCormick Road, PO Box 400319 Charlottesville VA 22904 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University 100 W. 18th Ave Columbus OH 43210 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University 100 W. 18th Ave Columbus OH 43210 USA
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Wang Q, Xu CQ, Liu W, Hung SF, Bin Yang H, Gao J, Cai W, Chen HM, Li J, Liu B. Coordination engineering of iridium nanocluster bifunctional electrocatalyst for highly efficient and pH-universal overall water splitting. Nat Commun 2020; 11:4246. [PMID: 32843622 PMCID: PMC7447631 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18064-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2020] [Accepted: 07/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Water electrolysis offers a promising energy conversion and storage technology for mitigating the global energy and environmental crisis, but there still lack highly efficient and pH-universal electrocatalysts to boost the sluggish kinetics for both cathodic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and anodic oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Herein, we report uniformly dispersed iridium nanoclusters embedded on nitrogen and sulfur co-doped graphene as an efficient and robust electrocatalyst for both HER and OER at all pH conditions, reaching a current density of 10 mA cm-2 with only 300, 190 and 220 mV overpotential for overall water splitting in neutral, acidic and alkaline electrolyte, respectively. Based on probing experiments, operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy and theoretical calculations, we attribute the high catalytic activities to the optimum bindings to hydrogen (for HER) and oxygenated intermediate species (for OER) derived from the tunable and favorable electronic state of the iridium sites coordinated with both nitrogen and sulfur.
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- Qilun Wang
- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637459, Singapore
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- Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
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- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China
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- Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan
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- Institute for Materials Science and Devices, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, 215009, China.
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637459, Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637459, Singapore
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- Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China
- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637459, Singapore.
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Vandichel M, Laasonen K, Kondov I. Oxygen Evolution and Reduction on Fe-doped NiOOH: Influence of Solvent, Dopant Position and Reaction Mechanism. Top Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s11244-020-01334-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Larson VA, Battistella B, Ray K, Lehnert N, Nam W. Iron and manganese oxo complexes, oxo wall and beyond. Nat Rev Chem 2020; 4:404-419. [PMID: 37127969 DOI: 10.1038/s41570-020-0197-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 34.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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High-valent metal-oxo species with multiply-bonded M-O groups have been proposed as key intermediates in many biological and abiological catalytic oxidation reactions. These intermediates are implicated as active oxidants in alkane hydroxylation, olefin epoxidation and other oxidation reactions. For example, [FeivO(porphyrinato•-)]+ cofactors bearing π-radical porphyrinato•- ligands oxidize organic substrates in cytochrome P450 enzymes, which are common to many life forms. Likewise, high-valent Mn-oxo species are active for H2O oxidation in photosystem II. The chemistry of these native reactive species has inspired chemists to prepare highly oxidized transition-metal complexes as functional mimics. Although many synthetic Fe-O and Mn-O complexes now exist, the analogous oxo complexes of the late transition metals (groups 9-11) are rare. Indeed, late-transition-metal-oxo complexes of tetragonal (fourfold) symmetry should be electronically unstable, a rule commonly referred to as the 'oxo wall'. A few late metal-oxos have been prepared by targeting other symmetries or unusual spin states. These complexes have been studied using spectroscopic and theoretical methods. This Review describes mononuclear non-haem Fe-O and Mn-O species, the nature of the oxo wall and recent advances in the preparation of oxo complexes of Co, Ni and Cu beyond the oxo wall.
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Tiede DM, Kwon G, He X, Mulfort KL, Martinson ABF. Characterizing electronic and atomic structures for amorphous and molecular metal oxide catalysts at functional interfaces by combining soft X-ray spectroscopy and high-energy X-ray scattering. NANOSCALE 2020; 12:13276-13296. [PMID: 32567636 DOI: 10.1039/d0nr02350g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Amorphous thin film materials and heterogenized molecular catalysts supported on electrode and other functional interfaces are widely investigated as promising catalyst formats for applications in solar and electrochemical fuels catalysis. However the amorphous character of these catalysts and the complexity of the interfacial architectures that merge charge transport properties of electrode and semiconductor supports with discrete sites for multi-step catalysis poses challenges for probing mechanisms that activate and tune sites for catalysis. This minireview discusses advances in soft X-ray spectroscopy and high-energy X-ray scattering that provide opportunities to resolve interfacial electronic and atomic structures, respectively, that are linked to catalysis. This review discusses how these techniques can be partnered with advances in nanostructured interface synthesis for combined soft X-ray spectroscopy and high-energy X-ray scattering analyses of thin film and heterogenized molecular catalysts. These combined approaches enable opportunities for the characterization of both electronic and atomic structures underlying fundamental catalytic function, and that can be applied under conditions relevant to device applications.
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, USA.
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Dey A, Kumar V, Pal S, Guha A, Bawari S, Narayanan TN, Chandrasekhar V. A tetranuclear cobalt(ii) phosphate possessing a D4R core: an efficient water oxidation catalyst. Dalton Trans 2020; 49:4878-4886. [PMID: 32219286 DOI: 10.1039/d0dt00010h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The reaction of Co(OAc)2·4H2O with a sterically hindered phosphate ester, LH2, afforded a tetranuclear complex, [CoII(L)(CH3CN)]4·5CH3CN (1) [LH2 = 2,6-(diphenylmethyl)-4-isopropyl-phenyl phosphate]. The molecular structure of 1 reveals that it is a tetranuclear assembly where the Co(ii) centers are present in the alternate corners of a cube. The four Co(ii) centers are held together by four di-anionic [L]2- ligands. The fourth coordination site on Co(ii) is taken by an acetonitrile ligand. Changing the Co(ii) precursor from Co(OAc)2·4H2O to Co(NO3)2·6H2O afforded a mononuclear complex [CoII(LH)2(CH3CN)2(MeOH)2](MeOH)2 (2). In 2, the Co(ii) centre is surrounded by two monoanionic [LH]- ligands and a pair of methanol and acetonitrile solvents in a six-coordinate arrangement. 1 has been found to be an efficient catalyst for electrochemical water oxidation under highly basic conditions while the mononuclear analogue, 2, does not respond to electrochemical water oxidation. The tetranuclear catalyst has excellent electrochemical stability and longevity, as established by chronoamperometry and >1000 cycle durability tests under highly alkaline conditions. Excellent current densities of 1 and 10 mA cm-2 were achieved with overpotentials of 354 and 452 mV respectively. The turnover frequency of this catalyst was calculated to be 5.23 s-1 with an excellent faradaic efficiency of 97%, indicating the selective oxygen evolution reaction (OER) occurring with the aid of this catalyst. A mechanistic insight into the higher activity of complex 1 towards the OER compared to that of complex 2 is also provided using density functional theory based calculations.
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- Atanu Dey
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Gopanpally, Hyderabad-500107, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur-208016, 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. and Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur-208016, India.
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- Anuvab Das
- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
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Zhang X, Li YY, Jiang J, Zhang R, Liao RZ, Wang M. A Dinuclear Copper Complex Featuring a Flexible Linker as Water Oxidation Catalyst with an Activity Far Superior to Its Mononuclear Counterpart. Inorg Chem 2020; 59:5424-5432. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b03783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Xiongfei Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, PR China
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Dong Y, Clarke RM, Zheng SL, Betley TA. Synthesis and electronic structure studies of a Cr-imido redox series. Chem Commun (Camb) 2020; 56:3163-3166. [PMID: 32065193 PMCID: PMC7132162 DOI: 10.1039/d0cc00108b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The effect of metal identity, d-electron count, and coordination geometry on the electronic structure of a metal-ligand multiple bond (MLMB) is an area of active exploration. Although high oxidation state Cr imidos have been extensively studied, very few reports on low-valent Cr imidos or the interconversion of redox isomers exist. Herein, we report the synthesis and characterization of a family of dipyrrinato Cr imido complexes in oxidation states ranging from CrIII to CrV, showcasing the influence of the weak-field dipyrromethene scaffold on the electronic structure and coordination geometries of these Cr imides.
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- Yuyang Dong
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
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Winter A, Schubert US. Metal‐Terpyridine Complexes in Catalytic Application – A Spotlight on the Last Decade. ChemCatChem 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201902290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Andreas Winter
- Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC)Friedrich Schiller University Jena Humboldtstr. 10 07743 Jena Germany
- Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry Jena (CEEC Jena) Philosophenweg 7a 07743 Jena Germany
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- Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC)Friedrich Schiller University Jena Humboldtstr. 10 07743 Jena Germany
- Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry Jena (CEEC Jena) Philosophenweg 7a 07743 Jena Germany
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Dong C, Zhang X, Xu J, Si R, Sheng J, Luo J, Zhang S, Dong W, Li G, Wang W, Huang F. Ruthenium-Doped Cobalt-Chromium Layered Double Hydroxides for Enhancing Oxygen Evolution through Regulating Charge Transfer. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2020; 16:e1905328. [PMID: 31922697 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201905328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2019] [Revised: 11/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Exploring the origin of transition metal (TM) lattice-doped layered double hydroxides (LDHs) toward the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) plays a crucial role in engineering efficient electrocatalysts. Without understanding the physics behind the TM-induced catalytic enhancements, it would be challenging to design the next generation of electrocatalysts. Herein, single Ru atoms are introduced into a CoCr LDHs lattice to improve activity. In 0.1 m KOH, CoCrRu LDHs require only 290 mV overpotential to drive to 10 mA cm-2 and show a Tafel slope of 56.12 mV dec-1 . Electronic structure analyses based on density functional theory confirm that promoted OER activity originates from synergetic charge transfer among Ru, Cr, and Co elements. Specifically, Ru dopants can downshift d states of Co and enhance electron donation of Cr to oxygenates, which essentially breaks the scaling relation and achieves higher activity. This work provides insights into how single atomic Ru dopant tunes the electronic structures of its neighbor's active site Co and thus increases OER activities.
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- Chenlong Dong
- State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R. China
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- School of Physics, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, 453007, P. R. China
- Department of Electronics, National Institute for Advanced Materials, Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Photo-Electronic Thin Film Device and Technology, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, P. R. China
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- Center for Electron Microscopy and Tianjin Key Lab of Advanced Functional Porous Materials, Institute for New Energy Materials & Low-Carbon Technologies, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, 300384, P. R. China
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- Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201204, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R. China
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- Center for Electron Microscopy and Tianjin Key Lab of Advanced Functional Porous Materials, Institute for New Energy Materials & Low-Carbon Technologies, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, 300384, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion and State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion and State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R. China
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- School of Physics, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, 453007, P. R. China
- Department of Electronics, National Institute for Advanced Materials, Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Photo-Electronic Thin Film Device and Technology, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R. China
- CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion and State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China
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Vandichel M, Busch M, Laasonen K. Oxygen Evolution on Metal‐oxy‐hydroxides: Beneficial Role of Mixing Fe, Co, Ni Explained via Bifunctional Edge/acceptor Route. ChemCatChem 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201901951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Matthias Vandichel
- Department of chemistry and material science School of chemical engineeringAalto University Kemistintie 1 02150 Espoo Finland
- Department of Chemical Sciences and Bernal InstituteUniversity of Limerick Limerick Ireland
- Department of applied physicsAalto University Otakaari 1 02150 Espoo Finland
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- Department of chemistry and material science School of chemical engineeringAalto University Kemistintie 1 02150 Espoo Finland
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- Department of chemistry and material science School of chemical engineeringAalto University Kemistintie 1 02150 Espoo Finland
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Zhang HT, Zhang MT. The Application of Pincer Ligand in Catalytic Water Splitting. TOP ORGANOMETAL CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/3418_2020_71] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Fukuzumi S, Cho KB, Lee YM, Hong S, Nam W. Mechanistic dichotomies in redox reactions of mononuclear metal–oxygen intermediates. Chem Soc Rev 2020; 49:8988-9027. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cs01251c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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This review article focuses on various mechanistic dichotomies in redox reactions of metal–oxygen intermediates with the emphasis on understanding and controlling their redox reactivity from experimental and theoretical points of view.
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- Shunichi Fukuzumi
- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science
- Ewha Womans University
- Seoul 03760
- Korea
- Graduate School of Science and Engineering
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- Department of Chemistry
- Jeonbuk National University
- Jeonju 54896
- Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science
- Ewha Womans University
- Seoul 03760
- Korea
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- Department of Chemistry
- Sookmyung Women's University
- Seoul 04310
- Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science
- Ewha Womans University
- Seoul 03760
- Korea
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
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Kojima T. Development of functionality of metal complexes based on proton-coupled electron transfer. Dalton Trans 2020; 49:7284-7293. [DOI: 10.1039/d0dt00898b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) is ubiquitous and fundamental in many kinds of redox reactions. In this paper, are described PCET reactions in metal complexes to highlight their useful and unique properties and functionalities.
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- Takahiko Kojima
- Department of Chemistry
- Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences
- University of Tsukuba
- Tsukuba
- Japan
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Song J, Wei C, Huang ZF, Liu C, Zeng L, Wang X, Xu ZJ. A review on fundamentals for designing oxygen evolution electrocatalysts. Chem Soc Rev 2020; 49:2196-2214. [PMID: 32133479 DOI: 10.1039/c9cs00607a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 572] [Impact Index Per Article: 143.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Electricity-driven water splitting can facilitate the storage of electrical energy in the form of hydrogen gas. As a half-reaction of electricity-driven water splitting, the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is the major bottleneck due to the sluggish kinetics of this four-electron transfer reaction. Developing low-cost and robust OER catalysts is critical to solving this efficiency problem in water splitting. The catalyst design has to be built based on the fundamental understanding of the OER mechanism and the origin of the reaction overpotential. In this article, we summarize the recent progress in understanding OER mechanisms, which include the conventional adsorbate evolution mechanism (AEM) and lattice-oxygen-mediated mechanism (LOM) from both theoretical and experimental aspects. We start with the discussion on the AEM and its linked scaling relations among various reaction intermediates. The strategies to reduce overpotential based on the AEM and its derived descriptors are then introduced. To further reduce the OER overpotential, it is necessary to break the scaling relation of HOO* and HO* intermediates in conventional AEM to go beyond the activity limitation of the volcano relationship. Strategies such as stabilization of HOO*, proton acceptor functionality, and switching the OER pathway to LOM are discussed. The remaining questions on the OER and related perspectives are also presented at the end.
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- Jiajia Song
- Institute of Molecular Aggregation Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, P. R. China and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 639798, Singapore. and Singapore-HUJ Alliance for Research and Enterprise, NEW-CREATE Phase II, Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE), 138602 Singapore, Singapore
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 639798, Singapore. and The Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore, 1 CREATE way, Singapore 138602, Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 62 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637459, Singapore
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- Key Laboratory of Materials Processing & Mold (Zhengzhou University), Ministry of Education, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China
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- Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 62 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637459, Singapore
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 639798, Singapore. and Energy Research Institute@NTU, ERI@N, Interdisciplinary Graduate School, Nanyang Technological University, 639798 Singapore, Singapore
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Mugheri AQ, Tahira A, Aftab U, Bhatti AL, Memon NN, Memon JUR, Abro MI, Shah AA, Willander M, Hullio AA, Ibupoto ZH. Efficient tri-metallic oxides NiCo 2O 4/CuO for the oxygen evolution reaction. RSC Adv 2019; 9:42387-42394. [PMID: 35542865 PMCID: PMC9076628 DOI: 10.1039/c9ra09351f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2019] [Accepted: 12/11/2019] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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In this study, a simple approach was used to produce nonprecious, earth abundant, stable and environmentally friendly NiCo2O4/CuO composites for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in alkaline media. The nanocomposites were prepared by a low temperature aqueous chemical growth method. The morphology of the nanostructures was changed from nanowires to porous structures with the addition of CuO. The NiCo2O4/CuO composite was loaded onto a glassy carbon electrode by the drop casting method. The addition of CuO into NiCo2O4 led to reduction in the onset potential of the OER. Among the composites, 0.5 grams of CuO anchored with NiCo2O4 (sample 2) demonstrated a low onset potential of 1.46 V vs. a reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE). A current density of 10 mA cm-2 was achieved at an over-potential of 230 mV and sample 2 was found to be durable for 35 hours in alkaline media. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) indicated a small charge transfer resistance of 77.46 ohms for sample 2, which further strengthened the OER polarization curves and indicates the favorable OER kinetics. All of the obtained results could encourage the application of sample 2 in water splitting batteries and other energy related applications.
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- Abdul Qayoom Mugheri
- Dr M. A. Kazi Institute of Chemistry, University of Sindh Jamshoro 76080 Sindh Pakistan
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- Department of Science and Technology, Campus Norrkoping, Linkoping University SE-60174 Norrkoping Sweden
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- Mehran University of Engineering and Technology 7680 Jamshoro Sindh Pakistan
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- Dr M. A. Kazi Institute of Chemistry, University of Sindh Jamshoro 76080 Sindh Pakistan
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- Dr M. A. Kazi Institute of Chemistry, University of Sindh Jamshoro 76080 Sindh Pakistan
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- NED University of Engineering Science and Technology Karachi Sindh Pakistan
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- Department of Science and Technology, Campus Norrkoping, Linkoping University SE-60174 Norrkoping Sweden
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- Dr M. A. Kazi Institute of Chemistry, University of Sindh Jamshoro 76080 Sindh Pakistan
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- Dr M. A. Kazi Institute of Chemistry, University of Sindh Jamshoro 76080 Sindh Pakistan
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