Dinuclear manganese complexes for water oxidation: evaluation of electronic effects and catalytic activity
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Wael A. A. Arafa, Markus D. Kärkäs, Bao-Lin Lee, Torbjörn Åkermark, Rong-Zhen Liao, Hans-Martin Berends, Johannes Messinger, Per E. M. Siegbahn, Björn Åkermark
During recent years significant progress has been made towards the realization of a sustainable and carbon-neutral energy economy. One promising approach is photochemical splitting of H2O into O2 and solar fuels, such as H2. However, the bottleneck in such artificial photosynthetic schemes is the H2O oxidation half reaction where more efficient catalysts are required that lower the kinetic barrier for this process. In particular catalysts based on earth-abundant metals are highly attractive compared to catalysts comprised of noble metals. We have now synthesized a library of dinuclear Mn2II,III catalysts for H2O oxidation and studied how the incorporation of different substituents affected the electronics and catalytic efficiency. It was found that the incorporation of a distal carboxyl group into the ligand scaffold resulted in a catalyst with increased catalytic activity, most likely because of the fact that the distal group is able to promote proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) from the high-valent Mn species, thus facilitating O–O bond formation.
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