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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 140, Issue 30, Pages 9444-9457Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b02983
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- department of science and technology, India [EMR/2016/008063]
- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
- IACS
- Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis, and Energy Frontier Research Center - U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences
- National Science Foundation
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Facile and selective 4e(-)/4H(+) electrochemical reduction of O-2 to H2O in aqueous medium has been a sought-after goal for several decades. Elegant but synthetically demanding cytochrome c oxidase mimics have demonstrated selective 4e(-)/4H(+) electrochemical O-2 reduction to H2O is possible with rate constants as fast as 10(5)M(-1) s(-1) under heterogeneous conditions in aqueous media. Over the past few years, in situ mechanistic investigations on iron porphyrin complexes adsorbed on electrodes have revealed that the rate and selectivity of this multielectron and multiproton process is governed by the reactivity of a ferric hydroperoxide intermediate. The barrier of O-O bond cleavage determines the overall rate of O-2 reduction and the site of protonation determines the selectivity. In this report, a series of mononuclear iron porphyrin complexes are rationally designed to achieve efficient O-O bond activation and site-selective proton transfer to effect facile and selective electrochemical reduction of O-2 to water. Indeed, these crystallographically characterized complexes accomplish facile and selective reduction of O-2 with rate constants >10(7) M(-1)s(-1) while retaining >95% selectivity when adsorbed on electrode surfaces (EPG) in water. These oxygen reduction reaction rate constants are 2 orders of magnitude faster than all known heme/Cu complexes and these complexes retain >90% selectivity even under rate determining electron transfer conditions that generally can only be achieved by installing additional redox active groups in the catalyst.
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