1932-08-7Relevant academic research and scientific papers
High-Throughput Screening of Earth-Abundant Water Reduction Catalysts toward Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution
Motz, Rachel N.,Lopato, Eric M.,Connell, Timothy U.,Bernhard, Stefan
supporting information, p. 774 - 781 (2021/02/05)
Noble-metal photosensitizers and water reduction co-catalysts (WRCs) still present the highest activity in homogeneous photocatalytic hydrogen production. The search for earth-abundant alternatives is usually limited by the time required to screen new catalyst combinations; however, here, we utilize newly designed and developed high-throughput photoreactors for the parallel synthesis of novel WRCs and colorimetric screening of hydrogen evolution. This unique approach allowed rapid optimization of photocatalytic water reduction using the organic photosensitizer Eosin Y and the archetypal cobaloxime WRC [Co(GL1)2pyCl], where GL1 is dimethylglyoxime and py is pyridine. Subsequent combinatorial synthesis generated 646 unique cobalt complexes of the type [Co(LL)2pyCl], where LL is a bidentate ligand, that identified promising new WRC candidates for hydrogen production. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations performed on such cobaloxime derivative complexes demonstrated that reactivity depends on hydride affinity. Alkyl-substituted glyoximes were necessary for hydrogen production and showed increased activity when paired with ligands containing strong hydrogen-bond donors.
Potential photoacid generators based on oxime sulfonates
Plater, M. John,Harrison, William T. A.,Killah, Ross
, p. 26 - 33 (2019/06/03)
The bis-oxime of acenaphthenequinone and the mono-oxime of benzil have been sulfonated by reaction with 4-methylbenzenesulfonyl chloride and propylsulfonyl chloride. The four sulfonated oximes were characterised by X-ray single-crystal structure determinations. Some photochemical decompositions were studied using a 6-W 254-nm immersion well lamp in dichloromethane. The 4-methylbenzenesulfonate bis-oxime of acenaphthenequinone and the 4-methylbenzenesulfonate mono-oxime of benzil both give 4-methylbenzenesulfonic acid upon irradiation but not 4-methylbenzenesulfinic acid. Fragmentation pathways are discussed. The possible use of these compounds as photoacid generators in polymer resists and the role of secondary reactions to liberate acid is discussed.
Structural and electronic characterization of multi-electron reduced naphthalene (BIAN) cobaloximes
Williams, Owen M.,Cowley, Alan H.,Rose, Michael J.
, p. 13017 - 13029 (2016/01/09)
Reported here are the syntheses and characterization of cobaloximes that feature a bis(imino)acenaphthene (BIAN) appended ligand. The X-ray crystal structures and spectroscopy (1H NMR or EPR) of the complexes within the series [Co(aqdBF2/
