Department of Materials Science and Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University, Niigata 950-2181, Japan.
Photon Factory, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Institute of Materials Structure Science, Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Dec 28;118(52). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2113910118.
The understanding of O-O bond formation is of great importance for revealing the mechanism of water oxidation in photosynthesis and for developing efficient catalysts for water oxidation in artificial photosynthesis. The chemical oxidation of the Ru(OH)(OH) core with the vicinal OH and OH ligands was spectroscopically and theoretically investigated to provide a mechanistic insight into the O-O bond formation in the core. We demonstrate O-O bond formation at the low-valent Ru(OH) core with the vicinal OH ligands to form the Ru(μ-OOH) core with a μ-OOH bridge. The O-O bond formation is induced by deprotonation of one of the OH ligands of Ru(OH) via intramolecular coupling of the OH and deprotonated O ligands, conjugated with two-electron transfer from two Ru centers to their ligands. The intersystem crossing between singlet and triple states of Ru(μ-OOH) is easily switched by exchange of H between the μ-OOH bridge and the auxiliary backbone ligand.
O-O 键形成的理解对于揭示光合作用中水氧化的机制以及开发人工光合作用中水氧化的高效催化剂具有重要意义。本研究通过光谱和理论研究考察了偕位 OH 和 OH 配体对 Ru(OH)(OH)核的化学氧化,以深入了解核心中 O-O 键的形成机制。我们证明了偕位 OH 配体的低氧化态 Ru(OH)核中 O-O 键的形成,形成了具有 μ-OOH 桥的 Ru(μ-OOH)核。O-O 键的形成是通过 Ru(OH)的一个 OH 配体的去质子化诱导的,其中 OH 和去质子化的 O 配体通过分子内偶联,伴随着两个 Ru 中心到其配体的两个电子转移。Ru(μ-OOH)的单重态和三重态之间的系间交叉可以通过 μ-OOH 桥和辅助骨架配体之间的 H 交换轻松切换。