Issue 43, 2018, Issue in Progress

Electroactive Co(iii) salen metal complexes and the electrophoretic deposition of their porous organic polymers onto glassy carbon

Abstract

This paper reports the CO2 electroreduction properties of three bis-bromo Co(III) salen metal complexes and their Porous Organic Polymers (POPs) as a platform for using the salen core as a multi-electron reducing agent. Although Co(III) salen metal complexes have been studied extensively for their chemical catalysis with CO2, their electrochemical behaviour, particularly their reduction, in the presence of CO2 is much less explored. The discrete Co(III) complexes enabled the reduction of CO2 to CO in faradaic efficiencies of up to 20%. The reductive electrochemical processes of Co(III) salen complexes are relatively unknown; therefore, the mechanism of reduction for the complexes was investigated using IR and UV-Vis-NIR spectroelectrochemical (SEC) techniques. The discrete bis-bromo salen complexes were incorporated into POPs with tris-(p-ethynyl)-triphenylamine as a co-ligand and were characterised using solid state NMR, IR, UV-Vis-NIR and Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FE-SEM). The POP materials were electrophoretically deposited onto glassy carbon under milder conditions than those previously reported in the literature. Direct attachment of the POP materials to glassy carbon enabled improved solid state electrochemical analysis of the samples. The POP materials were also analysed via SEC techniques, where a Co(II/I) process could be observed, but further reductions associated with the imine reduction compromised the stability of the POPs.

Graphical abstract: Electroactive Co(iii) salen metal complexes and the electrophoretic deposition of their porous organic polymers onto glassy carbon

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
23 May 2018
Accepted
20 Jun 2018
First published
03 Jul 2018
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

RSC Adv., 2018,8, 24128-24142

Electroactive Co(III) salen metal complexes and the electrophoretic deposition of their porous organic polymers onto glassy carbon

M. B. Solomon, A. Rawal, James M. Hook, S. M. Cohen, C. P. Kubiak, K. A. Jolliffe and D. M. D'Alessandro, RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 24128 DOI: 10.1039/C8RA04385J

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