Recent advances in polyoxometalate-catalyzed reactions

SS Wang, GY Yang - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Polyoxometalates (POMs) are composed of cations and polyanion clusters 1 with structural
diversity, in which the oxometal polyhedra of MOx (x= 5, 6) are the basic construction units …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial photosynthesis: molecular systems for catalytic water oxidation

MD Karkas, O Verho, EV Johnston… - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
The sustainable production of clean energy constitutes one of the most important scientific
challenges of the 21st century. Currently, the major part of the global energy supply is …

Identifying intermediates in electrocatalytic water oxidation with a manganese corrole complex

X Li, XP Zhang, M Guo, B Lv, K Guo, X Jin… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Water nucleophilic attack (WNA) on high-valent terminal Mn-oxo species is proposed for O–
O bond formation in natural and artificial water oxidation. Herein, we report an …

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 …

Molecular chromophore–catalyst assemblies for solar fuel applications

DL Ashford, MK Gish, AK Vannucci… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
As the world's population increases, the US Department of Energy has estimated that energy
consumption will increase with it, increasing from 5.7× 1020 J in 2012 to 8.1× 1020 J in …

Biochemistry and theory of proton-coupled electron transfer

A Migliore, NF Polizzi, MJ Therien… - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Through incremental change, Nature reworks and repurposes its functional machinery. In
this way, proteins that photochemically repair DNA by moving protons and electrons have a …

Efficient water oxidation catalysts based on readily available iron coordination complexes

JL Fillol, Z Codolà, I Garcia-Bosch, L Gómez, JJ Pla… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Water oxidation catalysis constitutes the bottleneck for the development of energy-
conversion schemes based on sunlight. To date, state-of-the-art homogeneous water …

Proton-coupled electron transfer

DR Weinberg, CJ Gagliardi, JF Hull, CF Murphy… - Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
An initial review (PCET1) on proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) by Huynh and Meyer
appeared in Chemical Reviews in 2007.(1) This is a follow-up on the original. It was …

O–O bond formation mechanisms during the oxygen evolution reaction over synthetic molecular catalysts

XP Zhang, HY Wang, H Zheng, W Zhang… - Chinese Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Water oxidation is one of the most important reactions in natural and artificial energy
conversion schemes. In nature, solar energy is converted to chemical energy via water …

Electrocatalytic water oxidation with a copper (II) polypeptide complex

MT Zhang, Z Chen, P Kang… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - ACS Publications
A self-assembly-formed triglycylglycine macrocyclic ligand (TGG4–) complex of Cu
(II),[(TGG4–) CuII–OH2] 2–, efficiently catalyzes water oxidation in a phosphate buffer at pH …