TY - JOUR
T1 - Revisiting O-O Bond Formation through Outer-Sphere Water Molecules versus Bimolecular Mechanisms in Water-Oxidation Catalysis (WOC) by Cp*Ir Based Complexes
AU - Pasha, Farhan A.
AU - Poater, Albert
AU - Vummaleti, Sai V. C.
AU - de Bruin, Theodorus
AU - Basset, Jean-Marie
AU - Cavallo, Luigi
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: The OCRF of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) KSA is acknowledged for the award of the CADENCED project under special academic partner IFP-France and KAUST KSA. We thank Dr. Takanabe and Dr. Joya for helpful comments. A. P. thanks the Spanish MINECO for a project CTQ2014-59832-JIN.
PY - 2018/8/28
Y1 - 2018/8/28
N2 - Herein, we present a detailed computational investigation of the mechanistic aspects of the water-oxidation catalysis (WOC) for iridium-based catalysts, Cp*Ir–Lx = 1–4, (where Cp* = pentamethylcyclopentadiene; L1 = bph = bi-phenyl; L2 = phpy = 2-phenylpyridine; L3 = bpy = 2,2′-bipyridyl; and L4 = bnql = benzo[n]quinoline). Our density functional theory (DFT) calculations not only confirm that the O–O coupling step is the rate-limiting step, as expected, but also provide useful insights about the number of water molecules involved in the catalytic cycle, which is under immense debate from a kinetic stand point. To test the effect of the metal environment, we tune the ligands, choosing four ligands (L1–L4) holding four kinds of chelation: C–C, N–C, N–N, and C–N′, respectively. A screening analysis of the potential-energy surface reveals the water-oxidation mechanism, together with the optimum number of water molecules, concluding that three water molecules are optimal, and that a highly positive iridium oxo center with a predicted high oxidation state (IrV) pulls the electron density from the lone pair of the oxo oxygen and the O center shows positive density. Moreover, the bimolecular mechanism for the O–O bond step is also calculated, for comparison. This study reveals that high cationic character of the metal is helpful for O···O coupling.
AB - Herein, we present a detailed computational investigation of the mechanistic aspects of the water-oxidation catalysis (WOC) for iridium-based catalysts, Cp*Ir–Lx = 1–4, (where Cp* = pentamethylcyclopentadiene; L1 = bph = bi-phenyl; L2 = phpy = 2-phenylpyridine; L3 = bpy = 2,2′-bipyridyl; and L4 = bnql = benzo[n]quinoline). Our density functional theory (DFT) calculations not only confirm that the O–O coupling step is the rate-limiting step, as expected, but also provide useful insights about the number of water molecules involved in the catalytic cycle, which is under immense debate from a kinetic stand point. To test the effect of the metal environment, we tune the ligands, choosing four ligands (L1–L4) holding four kinds of chelation: C–C, N–C, N–N, and C–N′, respectively. A screening analysis of the potential-energy surface reveals the water-oxidation mechanism, together with the optimum number of water molecules, concluding that three water molecules are optimal, and that a highly positive iridium oxo center with a predicted high oxidation state (IrV) pulls the electron density from the lone pair of the oxo oxygen and the O center shows positive density. Moreover, the bimolecular mechanism for the O–O bond step is also calculated, for comparison. This study reveals that high cationic character of the metal is helpful for O···O coupling.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/628346
UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ejic.201800500
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U2 - 10.1002/ejic.201800500
DO - 10.1002/ejic.201800500
M3 - Article
SN - 1434-1948
VL - 2019
SP - 2093
EP - 2100
JO - European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
JF - European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
IS - 15
ER -