Tracking the FeIV(O) intermediate and O-O bond formation of a nonheme iron catalyst for water oxidation

Bing Yang; Qing-Qing Yang; Xin Jiang; Bin Chen; Chen-Ho Tung; Li-Zhu Wu

doi:10.1039/c7cc04814a

Tracking the Fe^IV(O) intermediate and O-O bond formation of a nonheme iron catalyst for water oxidation

Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Aug 10;53(65):9063-9066. doi: 10.1039/c7cc04814a.

Authors

Bing Yang¹, Qing-Qing Yang, Xin Jiang, Bin Chen, Chen-Ho Tung, Li-Zhu Wu

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China. lzwu@mail.ipc.ac.cn.

PMID: 28703231
DOI: 10.1039/c7cc04814a

Abstract

To identify the short-lived, highly-active iron intermediate generated in situ for water oxidation, we describe here a new complex 1 by subtle modulation of the TPA ligand and succeed in capturing the high-valent Fe^IV(O) species, which is responsible for the O-O bond formation and oxygen evolution with higher efficiency.