Cofacial ruthenium dimers for water oxidation

INOR 829

Montana V. Childress, Yogesh Surendranath, yogeshs@mit.edu, Joel Rosenthal, and Daniel G. Nocera, nocera@mit.edu. Department of Chemistry, Nocera Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
A series of compounds containing ruthenium in a polypyridyl coordination environment separated by either a dibenzofuran or xanthene spacer have been prepared. These complexes contain two coordinated aquo ligands oriented in a cofacial fashion to facilitate water oxidation. The catalytic activity of these complexes toward water oxidation to molecular oxygen will be addressed in detail. Preparation, characterization, and electrochemical studies of these complexes will also be presented.
 

Inorganic Catalysts
8:30 AM-12:10 PM, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 BCEC -- 209, Oral

Division of Inorganic Chemistry

The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007