Self-assembled nickel cubanes as oxygen evolution catalysts.

Ni4O4 cubanes [(μ3-L1O)NiCl(MeOH)]4 (1) and [(μ3-L2O)NiCl(H2O)]4 (2) (L1OH = 1-H-2-benzimidazolylmethanol, L2OH = 1-methyl-2-benzimidazolylmethanol) self-assemble from commercially available 1-H- and 1-methyl-2-benzimidazolylmethanol and NiCl2·6H2O in high yields under mild conditions. Both complexes were characterised spectroscopically and by X-ray crystallography. The cubanes oxidise water electrocatalytically to dioxygen at neutral pH in aqueous potassium phosphate buffer solutions.

• Publication year

  2021

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  Chemical Communications

• Publication date

  2021-08-09

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Materials Science, Chemistry

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  DOI 10.1039/d1cc03227ePMID 34369500
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