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Electrocatalytic water oxidation by copper(ii) complexes containing a tetra- or pentadentate amine-pyridine ligand
Junyu Shen1, Mei Wang1, Peili Zhang1
1State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Centre on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), Dalian 116024, China. symbueno@dlut.edu.cn.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 6, 2017
Abstract:
Two water soluble copper(ii) complexes containing amine-pyridine ligands were found to be catalytically active for water oxidation reactions in basic solutions, with observed rate constants of 13.1-18.7 s-1. These complexes are robust in basic solutions and displayed good stability over 5 h of electrolysis in pH 11.5 phosphate buffer at 1.4 V vs. NHE.