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Oral Presentation 2

3:30 PM to 5:15 PM
Using Cobalt Selenide Clusters as Redox-Active Inorganic Ligands  
Presenter
  • Andrew Colbert Boggiano, Senior, Chemistry Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Alexandra Velian, Chemistry
Session
    Session 2P: Chemistry and Materials for Energy
  • 3:30 PM to 5:15 PM

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Using Cobalt Selenide Clusters as Redox-Active Inorganic Ligands  close

Crucial processes in clean energy research, such as the splitting of water into H2 and O2 and the reduction of CO2, require multi-electron redox events throughout a catalytic cycle. Noble metals such as iridium and platinum prefer such events, while more abundant and consequently cheaper base metals prefer single-electron events. Redox-active ligands offer the potential of enabling noble metal behavior in base metals by combining a single-electron transformation at both the metal and the ligand to create an overall two-electron process. While redox non-innocent ligands are typically comprised of organic components, cobalt selenide clusters offer an attractive alternative given their wide variety of accessible oxidation states. Here, I present the synthesis of heteroleptic cobalt selenide clusters [cis-Co6Se8(PEt3)4(RNHP(C6H5)2)2 Et = ethyl, R = alkyl, aryl] containing ditopic aminophosphine ligands. The cluster was then metallated using copper(II) triflate and the product was fully characterized by multi-nuclear nuclear magnetic resonance, ultraviolet-visible, and infrared spectroscopies. Further analysis was performed using cyclic voltammetry and the solid-state structure has been solved via single-crystal X-ray crystallography. Upon spectroscopic analysis, it appears that copper(II) is reduced to copper(I) by the cluster. This result is encouraging, as using clusters as redox-active ligands would require facile electron transfer between the metal atom and the cluster core.


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