Oxygen-Oxygen Bond Cleavage and Formation in Co(II) Mediated Stoichiometric O2 Reduction via the Potential Intermediacy of a Co(IV) Oxyl Radical

09 October 2018, Version 1
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Abstract

Diprotonation of a remarkably stable, toluene soluble cobalt peroxo complex supported by a neutral, dianionic pentadentate ligand leads to facile O-O bond cleavage and production of a highly reactive Co(IV) oxyl cation intermediate that dimerizes and releases O2. These processes are relevant to both O2 reduction and O2 evolution and the mechanism was probed in detail both experimentally and computationally.

Keywords

cobalt-mediated
oxygen reduction reaction
pentadentate ligands
density functional theory

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