Uncovering the Role of Oxygen Atom Transfer in Ru-Based Catalytic Water Oxidation.

The realization of artificial photosynthesis carries the promise of cheap and abundant energy, however, significant advances in the rational design of water oxidation catalysts are required. Detailed information on the structure of the catalyst under reaction conditions and mechanisms of O-O bond fo...

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Publicado en:Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 138; no. 48; pp. 15605 - 15617
Autores principales: Moonshiram, Dooshaye, Pineda-Galvan, Yuliana, Erdman, Darren, Palenik, Mark, Zong, Ruifa, Thummel, Randolph, Pushkar, Yulia
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Publicado: American Chemical Society 12/7/2016
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          Moonshiram, Dooshaye
          Pineda-Galvan, Yuliana
          Erdman, Darren
          Palenik, Mark
          Zong, Ruifa
          Thummel, Randolph
          Pushkar, Yulia
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          Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, 525 Northwestern Avenue, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
          Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
          Code 6189, Chemistry Division, Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20375, United States
          Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204-5003, United States
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        Artificial photosynthesis
        Oxidation of water
        Density functional theory
        Electron paramagnetic resonance
        X-ray absorption
        Raman spectroscopy
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          Artificial photosynthesis
          Oxidation of water
          Density functional theory
          Electron paramagnetic resonance
          X-ray absorption
          Raman spectroscopy
      ab: The realization of artificial photosynthesis carries the promise of cheap and abundant energy, however, significant advances in the rational design of water oxidation catalysts are required. Detailed information on the structure of the catalyst under reaction conditions and mechanisms of O-O bond formation should be obtained. Here, we used a combination of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), stopped flow freeze quench on a millisecond-second time scale, X-ray absorption (XAS), resonance Raman (RR) spectroscopy, and density functional theory (DFT) to follow the dynamics of the Ru-based single site catalyst, [Ru(NPM)(4-pic)(HO)] (NPM = 4-t-butyl-2,6-di(1',8'-naphthyrid-2'-yl)pyridine, pic = 4-picoline), under the water oxidation conditions. We report a unique EPR signal with g-tensor, g = 2.30, g = 2.18, and g = 1.83 which allowed us to observe fast dynamics of oxygen atom transfer from the Ru═O oxo species to the uncoordinated nitrogen of the NPM ligand. In few seconds, the NPM ligand modification results in [Ru(NPM-NO)(4-pic)(HO)] and [Ru(NPM-NO,NO)(4-pic)] complexes. A proposed [Ru(NPM)(4-pic)═O] intermediate was not detected under the tested conditions. We demonstrate that while the proximal base might be beneficial in O-O bond formation via nucleophilic water attack on an oxo species as shown by DFT, the noncoordinating nitrogen is impractical as a base in water oxidation catalysts due to its facile conversion to the N-O group. This study opens new horizons for understanding the real structure of Ru catalysts under water oxidation conditions and points toward the need to further investigate the role of the N-O ligand in promoting water oxidation catalysis.
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