TY - GEN
T1 - Structural and mechanistic studies of tunable, stable, fast multi-cobalt water oxidation catalysts
AU - Zhu, Guibo
AU - Lv, Hongjin
AU - Vickers, James W.
AU - Geletii, Yurii V.
AU - Luo, Zhen
AU - Song, Jie
AU - Huang, Zhuangqun
AU - Musaev, Djamaladdin G.
AU - Hill, Craig L.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - New multi-cobalt-containing polyoxometalates (POMs) are soluble, fast and tunable water oxidation catalysts (WOCs). We report additional studies of [Co4(H2O)2(PW9O34) 2]10- (1), a very fast, soluble and oxidative stable WOC: new kinetics data further indicate that Co2+ is not kinetically important in water oxidations catalyzed by 1. Second, we report a new WOC, [{Co4(μ-OH)(H2O)3}(Si2W 19O70)]11- that coexists in a 1:1 ratio in the solid state (2a and 2b), and while it is oxidatively stable, it is not hydrolytically stable, rearranging to [Co(H2O)SiW11O 39]6- in aqueous solution. All these studies provide insights relating structural, electronic and other features of these WOCs to their reactivity and stability.
AB - New multi-cobalt-containing polyoxometalates (POMs) are soluble, fast and tunable water oxidation catalysts (WOCs). We report additional studies of [Co4(H2O)2(PW9O34) 2]10- (1), a very fast, soluble and oxidative stable WOC: new kinetics data further indicate that Co2+ is not kinetically important in water oxidations catalyzed by 1. Second, we report a new WOC, [{Co4(μ-OH)(H2O)3}(Si2W 19O70)]11- that coexists in a 1:1 ratio in the solid state (2a and 2b), and while it is oxidatively stable, it is not hydrolytically stable, rearranging to [Co(H2O)SiW11O 39]6- in aqueous solution. All these studies provide insights relating structural, electronic and other features of these WOCs to their reactivity and stability.
KW - artificial photosynthesis
KW - water oxidation catalysts
KW - water splitting
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80053507483&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1117/12.894024
DO - 10.1117/12.894024
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80053507483
SN - 9780819487193
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Solar Hydrogen and Nanotechnology VI
T2 - Solar Hydrogen and Nanotechnology VI
Y2 - 23 August 2011 through 25 August 2011
ER -