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Heterogeneous Removal of Water-Soluble Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalyst from Aqueous Media Via Host-Guest Interaction
Published on: August 23, 2018
Single Site Isomeric Ru WOCs with an Electron-Withdrawing Group: Synthesis, Electrochemical Characterization, and
Lorenzo Mognon1, Jordi Benet-Buchholz1, Antoni Llobet1,2
1Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) , Avinguda Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain.
Abstract:
The synthetic intermediate cis(out),cis-[Ru(Cl)2(HL)(DMSO)2], 1 (DMSO = dimethyl sulfoxide), and four new mononuclear ruthenium complexes with general formula out/in-[Ru(HL)(trpy)(X)](m+) (trpy = 4-tert-butylpyridine; X = Cl(-), m = 1, 2a(+) and 2b(+); X = H2O, m = 2, 3a(2+) and 3b(2+)) based on the ligand 1H-pyrazole-3-carboxylic acid, 5-(2-pyridinil)-, ethyl ester (HL), are synthesized and characterized by analytical, spectroscopic, and electrochemical methods. A linkage isomerism is observed for a DMSO moiety of 1, and relevant thermodynamics and kinetics values are obtained through electrochemical experiments and compared to literature. Different synthetic routes are developed to obtain isomeric 2a(+) and 2b(+), with different relative yields. Water oxidation activity of 3a(2+) and 3b(2+) is analyzed by means of electrochemical methods, through foot of the wave analysis, yielding kobs values of 1.00 and 2.23 s(-1), respectively. Chemically driven water oxidation activity is tested using [(NH4)2Ce(NO3)6] as sacrificial electron acceptor, and turnover number (TON) and turnover frequency (TOF) values of TON = 10.8 and TOFi = 58.2 × 10(-3) s(-1) for 3a(2+) and TON = 4.2 and TOFi = 15.4 × 10(-3) s(-1) for 3b(2+) are obtained.
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