Efficient molecular ruthenium catalysts containing anionic ligands for water oxidation.

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State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Center on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), Dalian 116024, China. and Department of Chemistry, School of Chemical Science and Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden.

Published: November 2016

Two new mononuclear Ru complexes Ru(bipa)(pic) (1; Hbipa = 6-(1H-benzo[d]imidazol-2-yl)picolinic acid, pic = 4-picoline) and Ru(pbic)(pic) (2; Hpbic = 2-(pyridin-2-yl)-1H-benzo[d]imidazole-7-carboxylic acid, pic = 4-picoline) based on anionic ligands were successfully synthesized, and characterized using NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and X-ray crystallography. These catalysts showed high activities and stabilities in water oxidation in homogeneous systems with a high turnover number of 2100 and a turnover frequency of 0.21 s for complex 1. The O-O band formation mechanism involved water nucleophilic attack. An active catalytic intermediate, i.e., Ru-OH, was detected using high-resolution mass spectrometry.

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