Tuning the Activity of Heterogeneous Cofacial Cobalt Porphyrins for Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis through Self-Assembly.
Amanda N OldacreMatthew R CrawleyAlan E FriedmanTimothy R CookPublished in: Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (2018)
We report a suite of coordination-driven self-assembled prisms for heterogeneous electrocatalytic oxygen reduction (ORR) differing in the molecular clips linking two porphyrin faces in a cofacial arrangement. ORR activities and selectivities of monomeric CoTPyP along with cofacial prisms Ox-Co, Oxa-Co, and Benzo-Co were probed using cyclic voltammetry and rotating ring-disk techniques. All species were immobilized as heterogeneous catalysts on glassy carbon electrodes using a Nafion ink method. The selectivities of Ox-Co, Oxa-Co, and Benzo-Co prisms towards H2 O as determined by RRDE were 87, 97, and 75 %, respectively. The current density of the Oxa-Co plateaus at five times that of Pt/C when normalized per Co/Pt. The high synthetic yield (79 %), competitive overpotential (η ≈800 mV) and high selectivity (%H2 O ≈97 %) of the Oxa-Co highlights how self-assembly can be used to address multi-electron multi-proton transformations using polynuclear catalysts.
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