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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 53, Issue 10, Pages 4980-4988Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ic403122j
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- Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-SC0004993]
- National Institutes of Health [F32GM106726]
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The cobalt complex [(CoN4H)-N-III(Br)(2)](+) (N4H = 2,12-dimethyl-3,7,11,17 -tetraazabicyclo-[11.3.1]-heptadeca-1(7),2,11,13,15-pentaene) was used for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction in wet MeCN with a glassy carbon working electrode. When water was employed as the proton source (10 M in MeCN), CO was produced (f(CO) = 45% +/- 6.4) near the Co-1/0 redox couple for [(CoN4H)-N-III(Br)(2)](+) (E-1/2 = -1.88 V FeCp2+/0) with simultaneous H-2 evolution (f(H2) = 30% +/- 7.8). Moreover, we successfully demonstrated that the catalytically active species is homogeneous through the use of control experiments and XPS studies of the working glassy-carbon electrodes. As determined by cyclic voltammetry, CO2 catalysis occurred near the formal Co-1/0 redox couple, and attempts were made to isolate the triply reduced compound ([(CoN4H)-N-0]). Instead, the doubly reduced (Co-1) compounds [CoN4] and [CoN4H(MeCN)](+) were isolated and characterized by X-ray crystallography. Their molecular structures prompted DFT studies to illuminate details regarding their electronic structure. The results indicate that reducing equivalents are stored on the ligand, implicating redox noninnocence in the ligands for H-2 evolution and CO2 reduction electrocatalysis.
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