Journal
JOURNAL OF ENERGY CHEMISTRY
Volume 54, Issue -, Pages 815-821Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jechem.2020.06.036
Keywords
Water oxidation; Oxygen evolution; Ruthenium; O-O bond formation
Funding
- Swedish Research Council [2017-00935]
- Swedish Energy Agency
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21120102036]
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 program) [2014CB239402]
- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
- Swedish National Infrastructure for Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science (UPPMAX) [SNIC2017-1-339]
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This study provides insights into the structure-activity relationship of water-oxidation catalysts based on Ru-bnda and related catalysts, emphasizing the importance of seven coordination for the reaction pathway and conditions necessary for O-O bond formation.
Understanding the seven coordination and O-O coupling pathway of the distinguished Ru-bda catalysts is essential for the development of next generation efficient water-oxidation catalysts based on earth-abundant metals. This work reports the synthesis, characterization and catalytic properties of a monomeric ruthenium catalyst Ru-bnda (H-2 bnda = 2,2'-bi(nicotinic acid)-6,6'-dicarboxylic acid) featuring steric hindrance and enhanced hydrophilicity on the backbone. Combining experimental evidence with systematic density functional theory calculations on the Ru-bnda and related catalysts Ru-bda (H(2)bda = 2,2'-bipyridine-6,6'-dicarboxylic acid), Ru-pda (H(2)pda = 1,10-phenanthroline-2,9-dicarboxylic acid), and Ru-biqa (H(2)biqa = (1,1'-biisoquinoline)-3,3'-dicarboxylic acid), we emphasized that seven coordination clearly determines presence of Ru-v =O with high spin density on the O-RuV=o atom, i.e. oxo with radical properties, which is one of the necessary conditions for reacting through the O-O coupling pathway. However, an additional factor to make the condition sufficient is the favorable intermolecular face-to-face interaction for the generation of the pre-reactive [Ru-V=O center dot center dot center dot O=Ru-V], which may be significantly influenced by the secondary coordination environments. This work provides a new understanding of the structure-activity relationship of water-oxidation catalysts and their potential to adopt I2M pathway for O-O bond formation. (C) 2020 The Authors. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. and Science Press on behalf of Science Press and Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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