Premium
Copper(II) Catalysis of Water Oxidation
Author(s) -
Chen Zuofeng,
Meyer Thomas J.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201207215
Subject(s) - copper , aqueous solution , precipitation , chemistry , catalysis , inorganic chemistry , breakup , organic chemistry , psychology , physics , meteorology , psychoanalysis
Copper leads to a breakup : Simple Cu II salts are shown to be highly reactive as water oxidation electrocatalysts in neutral to weakly basic aqueous buffer solutions of CO 2 /HCO 3 − /CO 3 2− or HPO 4 2− /PO 4 3− . Coordination to the buffer anions under these conditions prevents the precipitation of Cu(OH) 2 , CuCO 3 , or Cu 3 (PO 4 ) 2 and appears to stabilize higher oxidation states of copper.