Non-heme oxoiron complexes as active intermediates in the water oxidation process with hydrogen/oxygen atom transfer reactions

Gorantla, Koteswara Rao and Mallik, Bhabani Shankar (2022) Non-heme oxoiron complexes as active intermediates in the water oxidation process with hydrogen/oxygen atom transfer reactions. Dalton Transactions. pp. 1-10. ISSN 1477-9226

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Abstract

In this study, we explore the water oxidation process with the help of density functional theory. The formation of an oxygen-oxygen bond is crucial in the water oxidation process. Here, we report the formation of the oxygen-oxygen bond by the N5-coordinate oxoiron species with a higher oxidation state of Fe-IV and Fe-V. This bond formation is studied through the nucleophilic addition of water molecules and the transfer of the oxygen atom from meta-chloroperbenzoic acid (mCPBA). Our study reveals that the oxygen-oxygen bond formation by reacting mCPBA with Fe-V=O requires less activation barrier (13.7 kcal mol(-1)) than the other three pathways. This bond formation by the oxygen atom transfer (OAT) pathway is more favorable than that achieved by the hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) pathway. In both cases, the oxygen-oxygen bond formation occurs by interacting the sigma*d(z2)-2p(z) molecular orbital of the iron-oxo intermediate with the 2p(x) orbital of the oxygen atom. From this study, we understand that the oxygen-oxygen bond formation by Fe-IV=O with the OAT process is also feasible (16 kcal mol(-1)), suggesting that Fe-V=O may not always be required for the water oxidation process by non-heme N5-oxoiron. After the oxygen-oxygen bond formation, the release of the dioxygen molecule occurs with the addition of the water molecule. The release of dioxygen requires a barrier of 7.0 kcal mol(-1). The oxygen-oxygen bond formation is found to be the rate-determining step.

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IITH Creators:

IITH Creators	ORCiD
Mallik, Bhabani Shankar	http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9657-1497

Item Type:

Article

Additional Information:

G. Koteswara Rao likes to thank the UGC, India, for his Ph.D. fellowship.

Uncontrolled Keywords:

QUANTUM-CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION,SOLVATION FREE-ENERGIESSET MODEL CHEMISTRY,ELECTRON-TRANSFER,OXYGEN EVOLUTION,MECHANISM,CATALYSTS,EFFICIENT,ROBUST, NICKEL

Subjects:

Chemistry

Divisions:

Department of Chemistry

Depositing User:

. LibTrainee 2021

Date Deposited:

01 Aug 2022 09:43

Last Modified:

01 Aug 2022 09:43

URI:

http://raiithold.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/10040