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Anna Carissa M San Esteban¹, Naoto Kuwamura¹, Nobuto Yoshinari¹

¹Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan. konno@chem.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp.

Dalton Transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)

|September 29, 2021

Abstract:

Here, we present a heterometallic coordination polymer that exhibits heterogeneous electrocatalytic activities for both water reduction and water oxidation. Treatment of the PtII2PdII2 tetranuclear complex [Pd₂{Pt(NH₃)₂(D-pen)₂}₂] ([1]; D-H₂pen = D-penicillamine) with CoX₂ (X = Cl, Br) provided (PtII2PdII2CoII2) coordination polymers [Co₂(H₂O)₆(1)]X₄ ([2]X₄), in which the PtII2PdII2 units of [1] are linked by [Co₂(μ-H₂O)(H₂O)₅]⁴⁺ moieties in a 3D network structure. [2]X₄ showed a colour change from orange to dark green upon dehydration, reflecting the geometrical conversion of the Co^II centres in [Co₂(μ-H₂O)(H₂O)₅]⁴⁺ from an octahedron to a tetrahedron by the removal of aqua ligands. While both [2]Cl₄ and [2]Br₄ electrochemically catalysed water reduction to H₂ in the solid state due to the presence of Pd^II active centres, water oxidation to O₂ was catalysed only by [2]Br₄, which is ascribed to the presence of Br^- ions that mediate the catalytic reactions that occurred at Co^II active centres.

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