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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 46, Issue 5, Pages 1817-1824Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ic061625m
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Cobaloximes are effective electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution and thus functional models for hydrogenases. Among them, difluoroboryl-bridged complexes appear both to mediate proton electroreduction with low overpotentials and to be quite stable in acidic conditions. We report here a mechanistic study of [Co(dmgBF(2))(2)L] (dmg(2-) = dimethylglyoximato dianion; L = CH3CN or N,N-dimethylformamide) catalyzed proton electroreduction in organic solvents. Depending on the applied potential and the strength of the acid used, three different pathways for hydrogen production were identified and a unified mechanistic scheme involving cobalt(II) or cobalt(III) hydride species is proposed. As far as working potential and turnover frequency are concerned, [Co(dmgBF(2))(2)(CH3CN)(2)], in the presence of p-cyanoanilinium cation in acetonitrile, is one of the best synthetic catalysts of the first-row transition-metal series for hydrogen evolution.
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