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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Volume 48, Issue 30, Pages 11345-11351Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c9dt02339a
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- CREST-IISER, Bhopal
- IISER, Bhopal
- DST-INSPIRE
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Catalytic water splitting is a highly promising area of research for the development of a hydrogen-based society. Herein, the synthesis of the bifunctional A(2)B-type cobalt(iii) corrole Co(BAPC)Py-2 having the electron-withdrawing meso-pentafluorophenyl and the basic meso-p-aminophenyl substituents is reported. Cyclic voltammetric studies reveal that Co(BAPC)Py-2 has two oxidation waves at 0.97 V and 1.42 V associated with the Co(iii) -> Co(iv) and Co(iv) -> Co(v) redox couples, respectively, and two reduction waves at 0.45 and -0.21 V corresponding to the Co(iii) -> Co(ii) and Co(ii) -> Co(i) redox couples. The as-synthesized Co(BAPC)Py-2 corrole has been demonstrated to be an efficient catalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in homogeneous (acetonitrile) as well as heterogeneous media. In a homogeneous solution, Co(BAPC)Py-2 showed excellent activity towards both the HER, with the first-order rate constant (k(cat)) of 952.0 s(-1), and the OER with the first-order rate constant of 0.2 s(-1). The strong electron -withdrawing pentafluorophenyl group present on the corrole ring shifts the redox process towards the anodic direction and facilitates the HER performance, whereas the aminophenyl group increases the basicity of the catalyst that improves the OER activity.
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