A Mechanistic Dichotomy in Two‐Electron Reduction of Dioxygen Catalyzed by N,N’‐Dimethylated Porphyrin Isomers
A Mechanistic Dichotomy in Two‐Electron Reduction of Dioxygen Catalyzed by N,N’‐Dimethylated Porphyrin Isomers
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N,N-二甲基化卟啉异构体催化双氧双电子还原的机理二分法
DOI:
10.1002/chem.202000942
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发表时间:
2020
影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
Takahiko Kojima
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作者:
Wataru Suzuki;Hiroaki Kotani;Tomoya Ishizuka;Takahiko Kojima
Selective two‐electron reduction of dioxygen (O2) to hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) has been achieved by two saddle‐distortedN,N’‐dimethylated porphyrin isomers, anN21,N’22‐dimethylated porphyrin (anti‐Me2P) and anN21,N’23‐dimethylated porphyrin (syn‐Me2P) as catalysts and ferrocene derivatives as electron donors in the presence of protic acids in acetonitrile. The higher catalytic performance in an oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) was achieved byanti‐Me2Pwith higher turnover number (TON=250 for 30 min) than that bysyn‐Me2P(TON=218 for 60 min). The reactive intermediates in the catalytic ORR were confirmed to be the corresponding isophlorins (anti‐Me2Iphorsyn‐Me2Iph) by spectroscopic measurements. The rate‐determining step in the catalytic ORRs was concluded to be proton‐coupled electron‐transfer reduction of O2with isophlorins based on kinetic analysis. The ORR rate byanti‐Me2Iphwas accelerated by external protons, judging from the dependence of the observed initial rates on acid concentrations. In contrast, no acceleration of the ORR rate withsyn‐Me2Iphby external protons was observed. The different mechanisms in the O2reduction by the two isomers should be derived from that of the arrangement of hydrogen bonding of a O2with inner NHprotons of the isophlorins.