Citation: Yang Zhao, Yongheng Wang, Qiaoyu Wu, Jinqing Lin, Shenghui Wu, Wenjuan Hou, Ruibo Wu, Genggeng Luo. New tricks for an old dog:Visible light-driven hydrogen production from water catalyzed by fac-and mer-geometrical isomers of tris(thiosemicarbazide) cobalt(III)[J]. Chinese Journal of Catalysis, ;2018, 39(3): 517-526. doi: 10.1016/S1872-2067(17)62940-1 shu

New tricks for an old dog:Visible light-driven hydrogen production from water catalyzed by fac-and mer-geometrical isomers of tris(thiosemicarbazide) cobalt(III)

a College of Materials Science and Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen 361021, Fujian, China;
b Instrumental Analysis Center, Huaqiao University, Xiamen 361021, Fujian, China;
c School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, East Campus, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, Guangdon, China

Received Date: 28 September 2017
Revised Date: 19 October 2017

Fund Project: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21641011, 21773313), the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (2015J01053, 2016J01060), Program for New Century Excellent Talents in Fujian Province University, and Promotion Program for Young and Middle-aged Teacher in Science, Technology Research of Huaqiao University (ZQN-PY104).

Increasing interest has been paid to the development of earth-abundant metal complexes as promising surrogates of platinum for the electrocatalytically and photocatalytically driven hydrogen evolution reaction. In this work, we report on molecular H₂-evolving catalysts based on two octahedral complexes of cobalt thiosemicarbazide, fac-[Co(Htsc)₃]Cl₃·3H₂O (C1, Htsc=thiosemicarbazide) and mer-[Co(Htsc)₃]Cl₃·4H₂O (C2), which have facial (fac) and meridional (mer) geometry, respectively. Electrochemical studies confirmed that both C1 and C2 are active electrocatalysts in MeOH solution using acetic acid as the proton source, with the same overpotential of~640 mV and TOF of~210 s^-1. The complex C1 also exhibits electrocatalytic activity for hydrogen evolution reaction in aqueous media free of organic solvent with a moderate overpotential (560 mV). Visible light-driven hydrogen evolution experiments were carried out in combination with fluorescein as photosensitizer and triethylamine as sacrificial reductant in homogeneous environments. Our studies showed that both C1 and C2 can be used as efficient proton-reduction catalysts in purely aqueous solution and have the same photocatalytic activities. A TOF of 125 h^-1 with a TON of 900 for photocatalytic H₂ generation using C1 and C2 in water were achieved for the noble-metal-free homogeneous system. It should be noted that this is the first reported study investigating the effect on the catalytic hydrogen production performance of using fac-and mer-isomers of molecular catalysts.
- Thiosemicarbazide,
- Cobalt complexes,
- Molecular catalysis,
- Geometric isomers,
- Photocatalysis
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