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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 52, Issue 15, Pages 8845-8850Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ic401023w
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) [DE-AC02-98CH10886]
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-FG0207-ER15888]
- Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, & Biosciences, Office of Basic Energy Sciences
- U.S. Department of Energy for funding under the BES Hydrogen Fuel Initiative
- Robert A. Welch Foundation [E-621]
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The catalytic water oxidation mechanism proposed for many single-site ruthenium complexes proceeds via the nucleophilic attack of a water molecule on the Ru-V=O species. In contrast, Ru(II) complexes containing 4-t-buty1-2,6-di- 1',8'-(naphthyrid-2'-y1)-pyridine (and its bisbenzo-derivafive), an equatorial water, and two axial 4-picolines follow the thermodynamically more favorable direct pathway via [Ru-IV=O](2+), which avoids the higher oxidation state [Ru-V=O](3+) in neutral and basic media. Our experimental and theoretical results that focus on the pH dependent onset catalytic potentials indicative of a PCET driven low energy pathway for the formation of products with an O-O bond (such as [Ru-III-OOH](2+) and [Ru-IV-OO](2+) at an applied potential below the Ru-V=O/Ru-IV=O couple clearly support such a mechanism. However, in the cases of [Ru(tpy)(bpy)(OH2))(2+) and [Ru(tpy)(bpm)(OH2))(2+), the formation of the Ru-V=O species appears to be required before O-O bond formation. The complexes under discussion provide a unique functional model for water oxidation that proceeds by four consecutive PCET steps in neutral and alkaline media.
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