Oxygen reduction catalyzed by a water-soluble binuclear copper(ii) complex from a neutral aqueous solution

Chengyu Liu; Haitao Lei; Zongyao Zhang; Fangfang Chen; Rui Cao

doi:10.1039/c6cc09206c

Oxygen reduction catalyzed by a water-soluble binuclear copper(ii) complex from a neutral aqueous solution

Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Mar 14;53(22):3189-3192. doi: 10.1039/c6cc09206c.

Authors

Chengyu Liu¹, Haitao Lei¹, Zongyao Zhang¹, Fangfang Chen², Rui Cao³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China. [email protected].
² School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China.
³ Department of Chemistry, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China. [email protected] and School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China.

PMID: 28211927
DOI: 10.1039/c6cc09206c

Abstract

A water-soluble binuclear Cu^II complex, synthesized using a polypyridine-polyamide ligand, was able to catalyze oxygen reduction to water from neutral aqueous solutions. Electrocatalytic results suggested that one Cu^II center was first reduced by one electron to form a Cu^IICu^I species, which reacted with O₂ to give a superoxide radical intermediate.