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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 18, Issue 40, Pages 12749-12758Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201201472
Keywords
heterogeneous catalysis; homogeneous catalysis; iridium; nanoparticles; oxygen; water oxidation
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- BMBF
- Ministry for education, science and culture of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- European Union
- Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI)
- Carl-Zeiss foundation
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Molecularly defined Ir complexes and different samples of supported IrO2 nanoparticles have been tested and compared in the catalytic water oxidation with cerium ammonium nitrate (CAN) as the oxidant. By comparing the activity of nano-scaled supported IrO2 particles to the one of organometallic complexes it is shown that the overall activity of the homogeneous Ir precursors is defined by both the formation of the homogeneous active species and its conversion to Ir-IV-oxo nanoparticles. In the first phase of the reaction the activity is dominated by the homogeneous active species. With increasing reaction time, the influence of nano-sized Ir-oxo particles becomes more evident. Notably, the different conversion rates of the homogeneous precursor into the active species as well as the conversion into Ir-oxo nanoparticles and the different particle sizes have a significant influence on the overall activity. In addition to the homogeneous systems, IrO2@MCM-41 has also been synthesized, which contains stabilized nanoparticles of between 1 and 3 nm in size. This latter system shows a similar activity to IrCl3 center dot xH(2)O and complexes 4 and 5. Mechanistic insights were obtained by in situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy and scanning transmission electron microscopy.
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