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ACS CATALYSIS
Volume 8, Issue 9, Pages 8406-8419Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b01479
Keywords
iron phthalocyanines; pyridiniums; pull effect; axial ligand; electrocatalytic activity; oxygen reaction reduction; Fe-O-2 binding energy; volcano correlations
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- PAI-CONICYT [79150041]
- CONICYT
- Fondecyt [1140192, 1181037, 1171408]
- Dicyt-USACH [021842ZM]
- Fondecyt Iniciacion [11170879]
- supercomputing infrastructure of the NLHPC [ECM-02]
- Millennium Project [RC120001]
- Dicyt-USACH
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We have been able to tune the electrocatalytic activity of iron phthalocyanine (FePc) and iron hexadodeca-chlorophthalocyanine (16(Cl)FePc) for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) by manipulating the pull effect of pyridinium molecules axially bounded to the phthalocyanine complexes (FePcs). These axial ligands play both the role of molecular anchors and also of molecular wires. The axial ligands also affect the reactivity of the Fe metal center in the phthalocyanine. The pull effect originates from the positive charge located on the pyridinium core. We have explored the influence of the core positions (Up or Down), in two structural pyridiniums isomers on the activity of FePc and 16(Cl)FePc for the ORR. Of all self-assembled catalysts tested, the highest catalytic activity was exhibited by the Au(111)/Up/FePc system. XPS measurements and DFT calculations showed that it is possible to tailor the FePc-N(pyridiniums) Fe-O-2 binding energies, by changing the core positions and affecting the pull effect of pyridiniums. This affects directly the catalytic activity of FePcs. The plot of activity as (log I)(E) versus the calculated Fe-O-2 binding energies gives an activity volcano correlation, indicating that an optimum binding energy of O-2 with the Fe center provides the highest activity.
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