1. Water‐Assisted Concerted Proton‐Electron Transfer at Co(II)‐Aquo Sites in Polyoxotungstates With Photogenerated Ru III (bpy) 3 3+ Oxidant
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Nadia Marino, Marcella Bonchio, Mirco Natali, Antonio Marcomini, Andrea Sartorel, Alessandro Bonetto, and Francesco Rigodanza
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chemistry.chemical_element ,02 engineering and technology ,010402 general chemistry ,Photochemistry ,01 natural sciences ,Electron transfer ,Reaction rate constant ,flash photolysis ,Co-aquo moiety ,Reactivity (chemistry) ,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry ,cobalt polyoxometalate ,Aqueous solution ,Hydrogen bond ,hydrogen bonding ,proton coupled electron transfer ,Ambientale ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,0104 chemical sciences ,chemistry ,Flash photolysis ,Proton-coupled electron transfer ,0210 nano-technology ,Cobalt - Abstract
The cobalt substituted polyoxotungstate [Co6 (H2 O)2 (α-B-PW9 O34 )2 (PW6 O26 )]17- (Co6) displays fast electron transfer (ET) kinetics to photogenerated RuIII (bpy)33+ , 4 to 5 orders of magnitude faster than the corresponding ET observed for cobalt oxide nanoparticles. Mechanistic evidence has been acquired indicating that: (i) the one-electron oxidation of Co6 involves Co(II) aquo or Co(II) hydroxo groups (abbreviated as Co6(II)-OH2 and Co6(II)-OH, respectively, whose speciation in aqueous solution is associated to a pKa of 7.6), and generates a Co(III)-OH moiety (Co6(III)-OH), as proven by transient absorption spectroscopy; (ii) at pH>pKa , the Co6(II)-OH→RuIII (bpy)33+ ET occurs via bimolecular kinetics, with a rate constant k close to the diffusion limit and dependent on the ionic strength of the medium, consistent with reaction between charged species; (iii) at pH
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- 2021
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