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ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages 167-174Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b805309j
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- Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the Department of Energy
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The cobalt analogue of a highly active nickel electrocatalyst for hydrogen production has been synthesized and characterized as [Co((P2N2Ph)-N-Ph)(2)(CH3CN)](BF4)(2). In the presence of triflic acid in acetonitrile solution, the complex loses one cyclic diphosphine ligand to form [Co((P2N2Ph)-N-Ph)(CH3CN)(3)](BF4)(2), which has been synthesized independently and stucturally characterized. The latter complex serves as an electrocatalyst for hydrogen formation with a turnover frequency of 90 s(-1) and an overpotential of 285 mV using bromoanilinium tetrafluoroborate as the acid. A similar cobalt complex with a related diphosphine ligand that does not contain a pendant base is not catalytically active, confirming an important role for the pendant amine in the catalytic reaction.
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