Nickel is a Different Pickle: Trends in Water Oxidation Catalysis for Molecular Nickel Complexes.

ABSTRACT: The development of novel water oxidation catalysts is important in the context of renewable fuels production. Ligand design is one of the key tools to improve the activity and stability of molecular catalysts. The establishment of ligand design rules can facilitate the development of improved molecular catalysts. In this paper it is shown that chemical oxidants can be used to probe oxygen evolution activity for nickel-based systems, and trends are reported that can improve future ligand design. Interestingly, different ligand effects were observed in comparison to other first-row transition metal complexes. For example, nickel complexes with secondary amine donors were more active than with tertiary amine donors, which is the opposite for iron complexes. The incorporation of imine donor gr

SUBMITTER: Hessels J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7756549 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature