Electrocatalytic Reduction of Molecular Oxygen by Mononuclear and Binuclear Cobalt Phthalocyanines.

Abstract

Investigations of the electrocatalytic activity of mononuclear and binuclear cobalt phthalocyanines for the reduction of molecular oxygen established that the latter compounds are more effective catalysts than the corresponding mononuclear species. A correlation between the half-bandwidths for the Q band of these species and their catalytic efficiency, expressed as a kinetically-limited current, suggests that the increase in activity may be attributed to electronic coupling between the phthalocyanine rings. Keywords: Phthalocyanine, Electronic spectra, Monolayers cofacial phthalocyanine, Electrochemistry, Electrocatalysis, Oxygen reduction.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA186296

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  • Alfred Beverley Philip Lever
  • Clifford C. Leznoff
  • Michael R. Hempstead

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