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Introducing Water-Network-Assisted Proton Transfer for Boosted Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution with Cobalt Corrole
Li, Xialiang,Lv, Bin,Zhang, Xue-Peng,Jin, Xiaotong,Guo, Kai,Zhou, Dexia,Bian, Hongtao,Zhang, Wei,Apfel, Ulf-Peter,Cao, Rui
supporting information, (2022/01/11)
Proton transfer is vital for many biological and chemical reactions. Hydrogen-bonded water-containing networks are often found in enzymes to assist proton transfer, but similar strategy has been rarely presented by synthetic catalysts. We herein report the Co corrole 1 with an appended crown ether unit and its boosted activity for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Crystallographic and 1H NMR studies proved that the crown ether of 1 can grab water via hydrogen bonds. By using protic acids as proton sources, the HER activity of 1 was largely boosted with added water, while the activity of crown-ether-free analogues showed very small enhancement. Inhibition studies by adding 1) external 18-crown-6-ether to extract water molecules and 2) potassium ion or N-benzyl-n-butylamine to block the crown ether of 1 further confirmed its critical role in assisting proton transfer via grabbed water molecules. This work presents a synthetic example to boost HER through water-containing networks.
Activation of Molecular Hydrogen by Inter- and Intramolecular Al?N Lewis Pairs
Bodach, Alexander,N?thling, Nils,Felderhoff, Michael
supporting information, p. 1240 - 1243 (2021/02/26)
The field of frustrated Lewis pair chemistry offers many opportunities to activate molecular hydrogen, but Al?N systems have not been established yet. In this work, we describe several intermolecular classical Al?N Lewis pairs and an intramolecular ortho-
Bis-Imidazole Methane Ligated Ruthenium(II) Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalytic Activity for Hydrogen Production from Formic Acid in Water
Deka, Hemanta,Patra, Soumyadip,Singh, Sanjay K.
supporting information, p. 14275 - 14285 (2021/10/05)
A series of half sandwich arene-ruthenium complexes [(η6-arene)RuCl(κ2-L)]+ ([Ru]-1-[Ru]-10) containing bis-imidazole methane-based ligands {4,4′-(phenylmethylene)bis(2-ethyl-5-methyl-1H-imidazole)} (L1), {4,4′-((4-methoxyphenyl)methylene)bis(2-ethyl-5-methyl-1H-imidazole)} (L2), {4,4′-((2-methoxyphenyl)methylene)bis(2-ethyl-5-methyl-1H-imidazole)} (L3), {4,4′-((4-chlorophenyl)methylene)bis(2-ethyl-5-methyl-1H-imidazole)} (L4), and {4,4′-((2-chlorophenyl)methylene)bis(2-ethyl-5-methyl-1H-imidazole)} (L5) are synthesized. The synthesized and purified complexes ([Ru]-1-[Ru]-10) are further employed for hydrogen production from formic acid in aqueous medium. Among the investigated complexes, [(η6-p-cymene)RuCl(κ2-L2)]+ [Ru]-2, having Ru(II) coordinated 4-methoxy phenyl substituted bis-imidazole methane ligand (L2), outperformed over others, displaying a higher catalytic turnover of 8830 and high efficiency (TOF = 1545 h-1) with appreciably high long-term stability for formic acid dehydrogenation in water.