Issue 26, 2019

A molecular noble metal-free system for efficient visible light-driven reduction of CO2 to CO

Abstract

A new pentadentate quinoline–pyridine ligand and its iron (1), cobalt (2) and nickel (3) complexes have been synthesized and characterized. The iron complex exhibits excellent photocatalytic activity towards CO2-to-CO conversion with a TON(CO) of 544 and a selectivity of 99.3% using the commercially available organic dye purpurin as the photosensitiser and BIH as the electron donor. In contrast, the cobalt and nickel complexes result in very low activity for CO production with a TON of only 8 and 15, respectively. On the other hand, all the three complexes show good electrocatalytic activity for CO2 reduction when using 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol as the proton source with the active intermediate of M0 species. The lack of activity in photocatalytic CO2 reduction by 2 and 3 can be attributed to the redox potential of MI/M0 which is significantly more negative than that of PP/PP2− while in the case of 1 the FeI/Fe0 redox potential becomes more positive than that of the PP/PP2− couple.

Graphical abstract: A molecular noble metal-free system for efficient visible light-driven reduction of CO2 to CO

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
30 jan 2019
Accepted
07 feb 2019
First published
09 feb 2019

Dalton Trans., 2019,48, 9596-9602

A molecular noble metal-free system for efficient visible light-driven reduction of CO2 to CO

L. Chen, Y. Qin, G. Chen, M. Li, L. Cai, Y. Qiu, H. Fan, M. Robert and T. Lau, Dalton Trans., 2019, 48, 9596 DOI: 10.1039/C9DT00425D

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