Issue 59, 2014
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Chemical Communications

Chloride-assisted catalytic water oxidation†

Zuofeng Chen,ab   Javier J. Concepcion,‡b   Na Songb  and  Thomas J. Meyer*b  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, PR China

b Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
E-mail: tjmeyer@unc.edu
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Abstract

Rates of electrocatalytic water oxidation to oxygen by Ru(II) polypyridyl complexes are enhanced by added NaCl. Observations based on the single-site catalyst [RuII(Mebimpy)(bpy)(OH2)]2+ (Mebimpy is 2,6-bis(1-methylbenzimidazol-2-yl)pyridine; bpy is 2,2′-bipyridine) at pH 7.0 in a phosphate buffer suggest a mechanism involving initial oxidation of the catalyst to RuV(O)3+ followed by Cl− oxidation to HOCl. Once formed, HOCl is oxidized to O2.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC04071F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
28 May 2014
Accepted
08 Jun 2014
First published
09 Jun 2014

Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 8053-8056

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Chloride-assisted catalytic water oxidation

Z. Chen, J. J. Concepcion, N. Song and T. J. Meyer, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 8053 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC04071F

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