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NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
Volume 43, Issue 11, Pages 4640-4647Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c8nj06263c
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21601171]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province [ZR2016BB08]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
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To mimic the strategy used by natural photosynthesis in Photosystem II, which adopts the cubic Mn4CaO5 cluster as a natural oxygen-evolving complex, a bio-inspired cubane-like tetranuclear cluster [Cu-4(pdmH)(4)(OAc)(2)](NO3)(2)center dot 3H(2)O (1) has been synthesized successfully with pyridine-2, 6-dimethanol as the ideal ligand, and investigated by X-ray crystallography, PXRD, in situ UV-vis-NIR spectroelectrochemical analysis, and magneto-and electrochemistry. By X-ray analysis, it is shown that the distorted cubane-like core Cu-4(mu(3)-O)(4) is composed of four Cu-II and four mu(3)-O which arrange at the vertices of a slightly distorted cube. Electrochemical studies indicate that complex 1 presents potential properties as an effective molecular catalyst for electrocatalytic water oxidation under aqueous alkaline conditions at a potential of similar to 1.20 V vs. NHE with a relatively low overpotential of similar to 400-665 mV vs. NHE, which may result from the unique covalent metal-oxo bonding. Magnetic susceptibility measurements reveal that complex 1 displays overall antiferromagnetic exchanges between the Cu(II) ions within the clusters. Temperature dependence of in-phase (chi(M)') ac susceptibility signals display frequency-dependence, whereas the out-of-phase (chi(M)) signals show no significant frequency-dependence for complex 1, which indicates that the complex may not be a SMM.
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