A family of molecular nickel hydrogen evolution catalysts providing tunable overpotentials using ligand-centered proton-coupled electron transfer pathsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Experimental and calculation details, Fig. S1-S14, and Tables S1-S15. See DOI: 10.1039/c8cc07467d

Two new nickel dithiolate derivatives have been examined for their electrocatalytic activity for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in attempts to clarify whether the overpotential for the HER can be tuned upon varying the ligand-centered reduction potential that triggers the HER by the catalysts...

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Main Authors Aimoto, Yutaro, Koshiba, Keita, Yamauchi, Kosei, Sakai, Ken
Format Journal Article
Published 13.11.2018
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Summary:Two new nickel dithiolate derivatives have been examined for their electrocatalytic activity for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in attempts to clarify whether the overpotential for the HER can be tuned upon varying the ligand-centered reduction potential that triggers the HER by the catalysts. We demonstrate the validity of this approach to achieve desirable tunability in the overpotential for the HER. The overpotential for H 2 evolution from water can be rationally controlled by tuning the ligand-centered proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) processes.
Bibliography:Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Experimental and calculation details, Fig. S1-S14, and Tables S1-S15. See DOI
10.1039/c8cc07467d
ISSN:1359-7345
1364-548X
DOI:10.1039/c8cc07467d