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COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS
Volume 256, Issue 11-12, Pages 1115-1136Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2012.01.015
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Water oxidation; Transition metal complexes; Photosynthesis; Energy conversion
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The study of catalytic water oxidation continues to be one of the most active areas of research across many sub-disciplines of chemistry. From efforts toward developing artificial photosynthetic assemblies to the exploration of nanoscale materials to be used as a photoanode for splitting water, a detailed understanding of the mechanistic details of water oxidation in photosystem II (PSII) is paramount for the rational design of an artificial model. In addition, insight into the model's mechanism of molecular-level water-oxidation catalysis will provide us with a unique opportunity to elucidate the mechanistic pathways of water oxidation in the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) of PSII. In this review, the proposed mechanisms, catalytic activities and reaction kinetics of catalytic water oxidation with transition metal complexes in homogeneous systems published from 1979 to 2010, with an emphasis on the last decade, are discussed. These metal complexes include mononuclear, dinuclear and multinuclear manganese, ruthenium, iridium, iron and cobalt complexes. Electrodeposited cobalt complexes are a type of heterogeneous water-oxidation catalyst: however, these complexes are discussed herein because they are topological analogs of the Mn cluster in the OEC. M-V=O species (M = Mn, Ru) as the key active species in homogeneous catalytic evolution of O-2 are common feature in many catalysts, in which formation of the O-O bond can be achieved either by intramolecular elimination of dioxygen from two M-V=O groups or by nucleophilic attack of OH- species on M-V=O groups. Another common feature appears from tetranuclear ruthenium complex 71, manganese complex 10 and cobalt complex, all of these cubane structural complexes have self-repair properties similar to OEC-protein complex in nature. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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