Artificial photosynthesis: opportunities and challenges of molecular catalysts

B Zhang, L Sun - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular catalysis plays an essential role in both natural and artificial photosynthesis (AP).
However, the field of molecular catalysis for AP has gradually declined in recent years …

Design of molecular water oxidation catalysts with earth-abundant metal ions

M Kondo, H Tatewaki, S Masaoka - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The four-electron oxidation of water (2H2O→ O2+ 4H++ 4e−) is considered the main
bottleneck in artificial photosynthesis. In nature, this reaction is catalysed by a Mn4CaO5 …

Ru-bda: Unique molecular water-oxidation catalysts with distortion induced open site and negatively charged ligands

B Zhang, L Sun - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019 - ACS Publications
A water-oxidation catalyst with high intrinsic activity is the foundation for develo** any type
of water-splitting device. To celebrate its 10 years anniversary, in this Perspective we focus …

O–O bond formation mechanisms during the oxygen evolution reaction over synthetic molecular catalysts

XP Zhang, HY Wang, H Zheng, W Zhang… - Chinese Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Water oxidation is one of the most important reactions in natural and artificial energy
conversion schemes. In nature, solar energy is converted to chemical energy via water …

Low overpotential water oxidation at neutral pH catalyzed by a copper (II) porphyrin

Y Liu, Y Han, Z Zhang, W Zhang, W Lai, Y Wang… - Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Low overpotential water oxidation under mild conditions is required for new energy
conversion technologies with potential application prospects. Extensive studies on …

Seven coordinated molecular ruthenium–water oxidation catalysts: a coordination chemistry journey: focus review

R Matheu, MZ Ertem, C Gimbert-Suriñach… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Molecular water oxidation catalysis is a field that has experienced an impressive
development over the past decade mainly fueled by the promise of generation of a …

Second coordination sphere effects in an evolved Ru complex based on highly adaptable ligand results in rapid water oxidation catalysis

N Vereshchuk, R Matheu… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
A new Ru complex containing the deprotonated 2, 2′: 6′, 2′′-terpyridine-6, 6′′-
diphosphonic acid (H4tPa) and pyridine (py) of general formula [RuII (H3tPa-κ-N3O)(py) 2]+ …

From Ru-bda to Ru-bds: a step forward to highly efficient molecular water oxidation electrocatalysts under acidic and neutral conditions

J Yang, L Wang, S Zhan, H Zou, H Chen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Significant advances during the past decades in the design and studies of Ru complexes
with polypyridine ligands have led to the great development of molecular water oxidation …

Pentanuclear iron catalysts for water oxidation: substituents provide two routes to control onset potentials

VKK Praneeth, M Kondo, M Okamura, T Akai, H Izu… - Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of robust and efficient molecular catalysts based on earth-abundant
transition metals for water oxidation reactions is a challenging research target. Our group …

Electrocatalytic water oxidation activity of molecular copper complexes: effect of redox-active ligands

M Bera, K Keshari, A Bhardwaj, G Gupta… - Inorganic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Two molecular copper (II) complexes,(NMe4) 2 [CuII (L1)](1) and (NMe4) 2 [CuII (L2)](2),
ligated by a N2O2 donor set of ligands [L1= N, N′-(1, 2-phenylene) bis (2-hydroxy-2 …