A molecular noble metal-free system for efficient visible light-driven reduction of CO2 to CO. Issue 26 (19th February 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chen, Lingjing; Qin, Yanfei; Chen, Gui; Li, Mingya; Cai, Lirong; Qiu, Yongfu; Fan, Hongbo; Robert, Marc; Lau, Tai-Chu
• Is Part Of: Dalton transactions. Volume 48:Issue 26(2019)
• Page Start: 9596
• Page End: 9602
• Publication Date: 2019-02-19
• Subjects: Chemistry, Inorganic -- Periodicals; Chemistry, Physical and theoretical -- Periodicals; Chemistry, Inorganic -- Periodicals; 546.05
• DOI: 10.1039/c9dt00425d
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1477-9226

Abstract

Abstract : A new iron complex bearing a pentadentate quinoline–pyridine ligand exhibits excellent photocatalytic activity towards CO2 -to-CO conversion using the commercially available organic dye purpurin as the photosensitizer and BIH as the electron donor. Abstract : A new pentadentate quinoline–pyridine ligand and its iron (1 ), cobalt (2 ) and nickel (3 ) complexes have been synthesized and characterized. The iron complex exhibits excellent photocatalytic activity towards CO2 -to-CO conversion with a TON(CO) of 544 and a selectivity of 99.3% using the commercially available organic dye purpurin as the photosensitiser and BIH as the electron donor. In contrast, the cobalt and nickel complexes result in very low activity for CO production with a TON of only 8 and 15, respectively. On the other hand, all the three complexes show good electrocatalytic activity for CO2 reduction when using 2, 2, 2-trifluoroethanol as the proton source with the active intermediate of M 0 species. The lack of activity in photocatalytic CO2 reduction by2 and3 can be attributed to the redox potential of M I /M 0 which is significantly more negative than that of PP − /PP 2− while in the case of1 the Fe I /Fe 0 redox potential becomes more positive than that of the PP − /PP 2− couple.