Issue 28, 2015

Iridium-based complexes for water oxidation

Abstract

Organometallic Ir precatalysts have been found to yield homogeneous Ir-based water-oxidation catalysts (WOCs) with very high activity. The Cp*Ir catalyst series can operate under a variety of regimes: it can either act as a homogeneous or a heterogeneous catalyst; it can be driven by chemical, photochemical, or electrochemical methods; and the molecular catalyst can either act in solution or supported as a molecular unit on a variety of solid oxides. In addition to optimizing the various reaction conditions, work has continued to elucidate the catalyst activation mechanism and identify water-oxidation intermediates. This Perspective will describe the development of the Cp*Ir series, their many forms as WOCs, and their ongoing characterization.

Graphical abstract: Iridium-based complexes for water oxidation

Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
02 Mar 2015
Accepted
28 Apr 2015
First published
05 May 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Dalton Trans., 2015,44, 12452-12472

Iridium-based complexes for water oxidation

J. M. Thomsen, D. L. Huang, R. H. Crabtree and G. W. Brudvig, Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 12452 DOI: 10.1039/C5DT00863H

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