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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Volume 43, Issue 5, Pages 2772-2780Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2017.12.120
Keywords
Multinuclear complexes; Photocatalysis; Electrocatalysis; Molecular catalysis; Hydrogen evolution
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21641011]
- Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province [2015J01053]
- Fujian Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Applications (Xiamen University of Technology) [fma2017107]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of Fujian Province [ZA14228]
- Project of science and technology plan of Fujian Province [2016H0037]
- Science and Technology Plan of Xiamen City [3502Z20151236, 3502Z20153018]
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Increasing interest has been paid to the development of earth-abundant metal complexes as promising surrogates of noble-metal platinum and biological catalysts hydrogenases for catalyzing the hydrogen evolution reaction. In this study, we report on a molecular H-2 evolving catalyst based on a linear trimeric thiolato complex of nickel Ni-3(L-N2S2)(2) (L-N2S2 = N,N'-dimethyl-N-N'-bis(2-mecaptoethyl)-ethylenediaminato). Electrochemical studies showed that the trinuclear nickel complex Ni-3(L-N2S2)(2) can electrocatalyze hydrogen evolution from weakly acidic solutions with remarkable turnover frequencies (3495 s(-1) at -1.98 V and 715 s(-1) at -1.58 V vs SCE). An efficient noble-metal-free homogeneous photocatalytic system for hydrogen generation from water working under visible light irradiation was further constructed by using the target nickel complex as photocatalyst, fluorescein (Fl) as photosensitizer (PS), and triethylamine (TEA) as sacrificial electron donor. Our studies showed that Ni-3(L-N2S2)(2) can be used in purely aqueous solution and gave a turnover number (TON, vs catalyst) for H-2 evolution of 790, corresponding to a TOF 60 h(-1). The results show that multinuclear nickel(II) complexes are a promising new direction for molecular catalysts for the electro- and photoreduction of protons. (C) 2017 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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