Medium and interfacial effects in the multistep reduction of binuclear complexes with robson-type ligand.
We present a combined experimental and computational approach to the modeling and prediction of reactivity in multistep processes of heterogeneous electron transfer. The approach is illustrated by the study of a Robson-type binuclear complex (-Cu(II)-Cu(II)-) undergoing four-electron reduction in aqueous media and water-acetonitrile mixtures. The observed effects of solvent, pH, buffer capacity, and supporting electrolyte are discussed in the framework of a general reaction scheme involving two main routes; one of them includes protonation of intermediate species. The main three problems are addressed on the basis of modern charge transfer theory: (1) the effect of the nature of reactant and intermediate species (protonated/deprotonated, bare or associated with supporting anion/solvent molecule) on the standard redox potential, the electronic transmission coefficient, and the intramolecular reorganization; (2) possible effect of protonation on the shape of the reaction free energy surfaces which are built using the Anderson Hamiltonian; (3) electron transfer across an adsorbed chloride anion. Quantum chemical calculations were performed at the density functional theory level.
Nazmutdinov
Renat R
RR
Kazan State Technological University, K. Marx Str., 68 420015 Kazan, Russian Federation. nazmutdi@kstu.ru
Roznyatovskaya
Nataliya V
NV
Glukhov
Dmitrii V
DV
Manyurov
Ibragim
I
Mazin
Vladimir M
VM
Tsirlina
Galina A
GA
Probst
Michael
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