Hosseinmardi S, Scheurer A, Heinemann FW, Kuepper K, Senft L, Waldschmidt P, Ivanovic-Burmazovic I, Meyer K (2021)
Publication Type: Journal article, Original article
Publication year: 2021
With a view to developing multimetallic molecular catalysts that mimic the oxygen-evolving catalyst (OEC) in Nature's photosystem II, the synthesis of various dicubanoid manganese clusters is described and their catalytic activity investigated for water oxidation in basic, aqueous solution. Pyridinemethanol-based ligands are known to support polynuclear and cubanoid structures in manganese coordination chemistry. The chelators 2,6-pyridinedimethanol (H2L1) and 6-methyl-2-pyridinemethanol (HL2) were chosen to yield polynuclear manganese complexes; namely, the tetranuclear defective dicubanes [MnII2MnIII2(HL1)4(OAc)4(OMe)2] and [MnII2MnIII2(HL1)6(OAc)2] (OAc)2⋅2 H2O, as well as the octanuclear-dicubanoid [MnII6MnIII2(L2)4(O)2(OAc)10(HOMe/OH2)2]⋅3MeOH⋅MeCN. In freshly prepared solutions, polynuclear species were detected by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry, whereas X-band electron paramagnetic resonance studies in dilute, liquid solution suggested the presence of divalent mononuclear Mn species with g values of 2. However, the magnetochemical investigation of the complexes’ solutions by the Evans technique confirmed a haphazard combination of manganese coordination complexes, from mononuclear to polynuclear species. Subsequently, the newly synthesized and characterized manganese molecular complexes were employed as precursors to prepare electrode-deposited films in a buffer-free solution to evaluate and compare their stability and catalytic activity for water oxidation electrocatalysis.
APA:
Hosseinmardi, S., Scheurer, A., Heinemann, F.W., Kuepper, K., Senft, L., Waldschmidt, P.,... Meyer, K. (2021). Evaluation of Manganese Cubanoid Clusters for Water Oxidation Catalysis: From Well-Defined Molecular Coordination Complexes to Catalytically Active Amorphous Films. Chemsuschem. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202101451
MLA:
Hosseinmardi, Soosan, et al. "Evaluation of Manganese Cubanoid Clusters for Water Oxidation Catalysis: From Well-Defined Molecular Coordination Complexes to Catalytically Active Amorphous Films." Chemsuschem (2021).
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