Elucidating the origins of enhanced CO reduction in manganese electrocatalysts bearing pendant hydrogen-bond donors

• Published in: Dalton transactions : an international journal of inorganic chemistry Vol. 48; no. 33; pp. 1273 - 12737
• Main Authors: Tignor, Steven E, Shaw, Travis W, Bocarsly, Andrew B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 20.08.2019

Complexes of the general form [Mn(X)(CO) 3 bpy] (X = a variety of monodentate ligands, bpy = 2,2′-bipyridine) have been reported to act as electrocatalysts for the reduction of CO 2 to CO. In this work, a series of phenol and anisole substituted bipyridine ligands were synthesized and ligated to a m...