Proton transfer kinetics of transition metal hydride complexes and implications for fuel-forming reactions

CL Montgomery, J Amtawong, AM Jordan… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Proton transfer reactions involving transition metal hydride complexes are prevalent in a
number of catalytic fuel-forming reactions, where the proton transfer kinetics to or from the …

Metal porphyrins and metal phthalocyanines as designable molecular model electrocatalysts

YC Feng, X Wang, D Wang - Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal porphyrins (MP) and metal phthalocyanines (MPc) have precisely tailored structural
and electronic properties, and their coordination environment and electronic structure can …

Introducing Water‐Network‐Assisted Proton Transfer for Boosted Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution with Cobalt Corrole

X Li, B Lv, XP Zhang, X Jin, K Guo… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Proton transfer is vital for many biological and chemical reactions. Hydrogen‐bonded water‐
containing networks are often found in enzymes to assist proton transfer, but similar strategy …

Amine Groups in the Second Sphere of Iron Porphyrins Allow for Higher and Selective 4e/4H+ Oxygen Reduction Rates at Lower Overpotentials

S Bhunia, A Ghatak, A Rana, A Dey - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Iron porphyrins with one or four tertiary amine groups in their second sphere are used to
investigate the electrochemical O2 reduction reaction (ORR) in organic (homogeneous) and …

Electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution with a copper porphyrin bearing meso-(o-carborane) substituents

X Peng, J Han, X Li, G Liu, Y Xu, Y Peng… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
A newly designed copper complex of 5, 15-bis (pentafluorophenyl)-10, 20-bis (o-carborane)
porphyrin (1) was synthesized and tested for the electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction …

Enzymatic and bioinspired systems for hydrogen production

L Leone, G Sgueglia, S La Gatta, M Chino… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The extraordinary potential of hydrogen as a clean and sustainable fuel has sparked the
interest of the scientific community to find environmentally friendly methods for its production …

Proton Relays in Molecular Catalysis for Hydrogen Evolution and Oxidation: Lessons From the Mimicry of Hydrogenases and Electrochemical Kinetic Analyses

M Haake, B Reuillard… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The active sites of metalloenzymes involved in small molecules activation often contain
pendant bases that act as proton relay promoting proton‐coupled electron‐transfer …

Through‐Space Electrostatic Effects of Positively Charged Substituents on the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

Q Zhang, H Lei, H Guo, Y Wang, Y Gao… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Elucidating the effects of various structural components on energy‐related small molecule
activation is of fundamental and practical significance. Herein the inhibition effect of …

Substituent effects in iron porphyrin catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction

N Heppe, C Gallenkamp, S Paul… - … A European Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
For a future hydrogen economy, non‐precious metal catalysts for the water splitting
reactions are needed that can be implemented on a global scale. Metal‐nitrogen‐carbon …

Bioinspired Diiron Complex with Proton Shuttling and Redox-Active Ligand for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

P Kumar, A Rasool, S Demeshko… - Inorganic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
A μ-oxo diiron complex, featuring the pyridine-2, 6-dicarboxamide-based thiazoline-derived
redox-active ligand, H2L (H2L= N2, N6-bis (4, 5-dihydrothiazol-2-yl) pyridine-2, 6 …