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- Title
Fast Oxygen Reduction Catalyzed by a Copper(II) Tris(2‐pyridylmethyl)amine Complex through a Stepwise Mechanism.
- Authors
Langerman, Michiel; Hetterscheid, Dennis G. H.
- Abstract
Catalytic pathways for the reduction of dioxygen can either lead to the formation of water or peroxide as the reaction product. We demonstrate that the electrocatalytic reduction of O2 by the pyridylalkylamine copper complex [Cu(tmpa)(L)]2+ in a neutral aqueous solution follows a stepwise 4 e−/4 H+ pathway, in which H2O2 is formed as a detectable intermediate and subsequently reduced to H2O in two separate catalytic reactions. These homogeneous catalytic reactions are shown to be first order in catalyst. Coordination of O2 to CuI was found to be the rate‐determining step in the formation of the peroxide intermediate. Furthermore, electrochemical studies of the reaction kinetics revealed a high turnover frequency of 1.5×105 s−1, the highest reported for any molecular copper catalyst.
- Subjects
OXYGEN reduction; COPPER catalysts; COPPER; CHEMICAL kinetics; LEAD in water
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie, 2019, Vol 131, Issue 37, p13108
- ISSN
0044-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ange.201904075