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Title: Access to Ru(IV)–Ru(V) and Ru(V)–Ru(VI) Redox in Layered Li 7 RuO 6 via Intercalation Reactions
Award ID(s):
1809372
NSF-PAR ID:
10383299
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Chemistry of Materials
Volume:
34
Issue:
8
ISSN:
0897-4756
Page Range / eLocation ID:
3724 to 3735
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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  1. Abstract

    A series of ruthenium(V)−oxo compounds, LRu(V)O(n)[L=bipyridinedicarboxylate (BDA), alpha‐hydroxycarboxylate (AHA), porphyrin (POR), dimethylglyoximate (DMG), and nitrilotriacetate (NTA); n=+1,0, −1] are evaluated by Density Functional Theory for their ability to produce dioxygen through coupling of Ru(V)−oxo species, bimetallic peroxides (LRu(IV)‐O−O−Ru(IV)L), and dioxygen (LRu(IV)‐O2) complexes. Anionic Ru−oxo complexes (AHA)2RuO(2) and (NTA)Ru(O)Cl(5e) have prohibitively large free energies of coupling, while neutral and monocationic species (1b,35 ad) show small to moderate free energies of coupling. Transition states for O−O coupling were found for (NTA)RuO (5a), (NTA)RuO(NH3) (5c), (NTA)RuO(Pyr) (5d), (DMG)2ClRu(O) (8) and (POR)RuO(Cl) (9), yielding moderate activation energies in the range of 18–22 kcal/mol. The overall oxygen evolution reaction (OER) free energies decrease in favourability as the coordination number of LRuO decreases, i. e. 7>6>5. The modest activation energies and free energies along the reaction coordinate for (NTA)(L)RuO and (POR)ClRu(O) suggest that these species would undergo kinetically and thermodynamically favorable oxygen evolution.

     
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