Diazine bridged dinuclear rhenium complex: New molecular material for the CO2 conversion

作者：Valenti Giovanni; Panigati Monica; Boni Alessandro; D'Alfonso Giuseppe; Paolucci Francesco^*; Prodi Luca

来源：Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2014, 417: 270-273.

DOI：10.1016/j.ica.2013.12.023

• Rhenium complexes
• Carbon dioxide reduction
• Electrochemistry
• Polynuclear complexes
• Electrocatalysis

The conversion of carbon dioxide into chemical fuels is a topic of great interest and recently a lot of different approaches for the electrochemical reduction of this powerful greenhouse gas to more useful products have been reported. We report here for the first time the activity of a dinuclear Re(I) complex [Re-2(mu-Cl)(2)(CO)(6)(mu-diazine)] towards the electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide. It is herein reported its electrochemical characterization in highly aprotic conditions (CH3CN) with a comparison with the analogue mononuclear Re(I) complex, [Re(bpy)(CO)(3)(Cl)]. The dinuclear complex exhibits good performances (TOF0 = 25 h (1)), two times higher than the analogous mononuclear one.

• 出版日期2014-6-1