Citation: Xie An, Pan Zhonghua, Luo Genggeng. Synthesis of Six Bio-Inspired Nickel-Based Complexes Ligated with Diselenolate Derivatives and Diphosphine Ligands, and Application to Electrocatalytic H₂ Evolution[J]. Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica, ;2021, 37(3): 191005. doi: 10.3866/PKU.WHXB201910058 shu

Synthesis of Six Bio-Inspired Nickel-Based Complexes Ligated with Diselenolate Derivatives and Diphosphine Ligands, and Application to Electrocatalytic H₂ Evolution

Xie An ¹ ,
Pan Zhonghua ² ,
Luo Genggeng ^2,3,,

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Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Applications of Fujian Province, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen 361024, Fujian Province, China
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College of Materials Science and Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen 361021, Fujian Province, China
3.
State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China

Corresponding author: Luo Genggeng, ggluo@hqu.edu.cn
Received Date: 28 October 2019
Revised Date: 8 December 2019
Accepted Date: 26 December 2019
Available Online: 31 December 2019
Fund Project: The project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21641011) and the Fujian Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Applications, China (fma2017107)the Fujian Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Applications, China fma2017107the National Natural Science Foundation of China 21641011

In recent years, there has been an intense effort to develop renewable alternatives to fossil fuels for meeting the ever-increasing global energy need. Molecular dihydrogen (H₂) is the ideal energy carrier for the 21st century because it has high energy density and its combustion releases only water, and electrocatalysis is a powerful tool for its wide use. Developing new H₂-evolving molecular electrocatalysts with cheap and earth-abundant elements is highly desirable. Among all kinds of H₂-generating catalysts, [NiFe]-hydrogenases (H₂ases) have the active site featuring a redox-active {Ni(cysteinate)₄} center bridged through two of its cysteine residues to a redox-inactive {Fe(CN₂)(CO)} moiety. As a class of known natural enzymes, [NiFe]-H₂ases are promising candidates because they have inexpensive nickel and/or iron atoms at the active sites and can catalyze the reversible reduction of H⁺ to H₂ with high efficiency comparable to the noble-metal platinum. However, the catalytic behaviors of most artificial H₂ases-like active sites are usually inhibited by the existence of a small amount of O₂, which strongly limit their practical application. As such, it is attractive to develop new analogues of enzyme active sites to address this issue. On the other hand, [NiFeSe]-H₂ases, which are obtained by the introduction of Se into [NiFe]-H₂ases, have exceptional properties conducive for H₂ production, such as high H₂ generation performance, marginal inhibition by H₂, and high tolerance to O₂. The mechanistic understanding of [NiFeSe]-H₂ases function guides the design and synthesis of Se-substituted Ni-based molecular catalysts, and selection of suitable bio-inspired catalysts enables applications in catalysis for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). In this contribution, six bio-inspired neutral nickel-based complexes (2a–2c, 3a–3b, 4) with diselenolate derivatives and diphosphine ligands have been prepared and structurally characterized. These complexes are important in the function of [NiFeSe]-hydrogenase models toward their application as electrocatalysts for the HER. The substituent effects of diselenolate and diphosphine ligands on the catalytic activities of hydrogen production by these nickel(Ⅱ) complexes are studied experimentally. When using a glassy carbon electrode, all the complexes are efficient electrocatalysts for H₂ production with different turnover frequencies (TOFs) of 12182 s^-1 (2a), 15385 s^-1 (2b), 20359 s^-1 (2c), 106 s^-1 (3a), 794 s^-1 (3b), 13580 s^-1 (4). The present results indicate that the nickel(Ⅱ) complex 2c ligated by a 4, 5-dimethyl-1, 2-benzenediselenolate and 1, 1'-bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene ligand, shows the highest efficiency, which surpasses the activity of a previously dppf-supported nickel(Ⅱ) 1, 2-benzenediselenolate with a TOF of 7838 s^-1. We believe that our results will encourage the development of the design of highly efficient Ni-based selenolate molecular catalysts.
- Electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution,
- Nickel-based complex,
- Molecular catalysis,
- Diselenolate derivative,
- Diphosphine ligand
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