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Donor-π-acceptor cobalt porphyrins for electrocatalytic oxygen reduction reaction in acidic medium
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Donor-π bridge-acceptor (D-π-A) design principle has been widely employed to build functionalized materials with excellent optical properties, whereas its feasibility in electrocatalytic reactions is seldom investigated. We demonstrate the primary study of D-π-A rule in constructing electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) purpose by rationally designing three cobalt porphyrins EGZ1–3 with 9H-carbazole, triphenylamine and N,N-diphenyl-[1,1′-biphenyl]-4-amine as the donor substituents, respectively, cobalt porphyrin as the π bridge, and cyanoacrylic acid as the acceptor unit. The electronic properties of the molecules are calculated using the density functional theory and the composite catalysts EGZs/C are characterized by a series of spectroscopic approaches. The electrochemical measurements show that EGZ3/C attains a more positive reduction potential and a greater response current density than EGZ1/C and EGZ2/C, which is possibly due to the optimized electronic structure and the substituent effect. The electron transfer number as well as hydrogen peroxide generation yield values suggest slightly better selectivity of EGZ3/C and EGZ2/C than those of EGZ1/C (i.e., ~ 2.9, ~ 2.9 vs. ~ 2.7 and ~ 54%, ~ 53% vs. ~ 62%, respectively) towards full oxygen reduction. Our result reveals the feasibility of the D-π-A design rule and the importance of molecular electronic state and the substituent feature in constructing ORR electrocatalysts.
Chen Y.、Zhao L.、Yuan R.、Xue Z.、Wang A.、Zhang J.、Xu H.、Cheng M.
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School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Jiangsu University
Jiangsu Co-innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources College of Chemical Engineering Jiangsu Key Lab of Biomass-based Green Fuels and Chemicals Nanjing Forestry University
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