Immobilization of an Amphiphilic Molecular Cobalt Catalyst on Carbon Black for Ligand-Assisted Water Oxidation
Author(s) -
Habib Baydoun,
Jordyn Burdick,
Bishnu Thapa,
Lanka D. Wickramasinghe,
Da Li,
Jens Niklas,
Oleg G. Poluektov,
H. Bernhard Schlegel,
Cláudio N. Verani
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
inorganic chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.348
H-Index - 233
eISSN - 1520-510X
pISSN - 0020-1669
DOI - 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b03252
Subject(s) - chemistry , overpotential , catalysis , amphiphile , carbon black , yield (engineering) , cobalt , deprotonation , density functional theory , carbon fibers , polymer chemistry , inorganic chemistry , organic chemistry , electrochemistry , computational chemistry , copolymer , polymer , thermodynamics , electrode , ion , natural rubber , physics , materials science , composite material , composite number
We have prepared the amphiphilic molecular catalyst [Co III (L OC 18 )(pyrr) 2 ]ClO 4 (1), where L OC 18 is the deprotonated form of N, N'-[4,5-bis(octadecyloxy)-1,2-phenylene]dipicolinamide. Species 1 can be anchored onto a carbon black support to yield the assembly 1@CB, which can catalyze water oxidation at an affordable onset overpotential of 0.32 V, with a current density of 10 mA/cm 2 at 0.37 V. Moreover, 1@CB displays TOF = 3850 h -1 . A mechanism is proposed based on the experimental and density-functional-theory-calculated data.
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