Frontispiece: Donor-Flexible Nitrogen Ligands for Efficient Iridium-Catalyzed Water Oxidation Catalysis

Water oxidation catalyzed by strong carbene-type donor-ligand complexes of iridium.

Catalysis of water oxidation in acetonitrile by iridium oxide nanoparticles.

Water oxidation catalysed by iridium oxide nanoparticles (IrO2 NPs) in water-acetonitrile mixtures using [RuIII(bpy)3]3+ as oxidant was studied as a function of the water content, the acidity of the reaction media and the catalyst concentration. It was observed that under acidic conditions (HClO4) and at high water contents (80% (v/v)) the reaction is slow, but its rate increases as the water c...

Efficient water oxidation with organometallic iridium complexes as precatalysts.

Catalytic water oxidation has been investigated using five iridium complexes as precatalysts and NaIO4 as an oxidant at various pH conditions. An increase in the activity of all complexes was observed with increasing pH. A detailed analysis of spectroscopic data together with O2-evolution experiments using Cp*Ir(6,6′-dihydroxy-2,2′-bipyridine)(OH2)(2+) as a precatalyst indicate that the high ca...

Iridium-based complexes for water oxidation.

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 su...

The inhibition of iridium-promoted water oxidation catalysis (WOC) by cucurbit[n]urils.

A series of iridacycles bearing π-bonded moieties of variable electron-withdrawing capabilities were tested for their ability to promote water oxidation catalysis (WOC) in the presence of high loading in a sacrificial oxidant, under conditions chosen for optimal dioxygen production. This report shows that none of these complexes performs differently than monometallic iridacycles and that the π-...