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Water oxidation through a seven-coordinated Ruthenium(V)–oxo Complex

kclawaf - Posted on 09 September 2015

Project Description: 

Water oxidation is a fundamental process in our world. We are now interested in the artificial water oxidation catalyst(WOC) design especially through a seven-coordinated Ruthenium(V)-oxo intermediate. This Project will focus on mechanism studies and ligand designs of this seven-coordinated platform. The outcomes would be a understanding of the mechanism behind and using it to create better artificial WOCs.

Researcher name: 
LAW KWOK CHUNG
Researcher position: 
Graduate student
Researcher department: 
Department of Chemistry
Researcher email: 
kclawaf@hku.hk
Research Project Details
Project Duration: 
09/2015 to 08/2019
Project Significance: 
1) To have Mechanism study of this system using different oxidant. 2) To have a screening of axial ligands for improving the efficiency and the robusticity. 3) To find other possible transition-metals that can generate seven-coordinated oxo system.
Remarks: 
Computational method is useful to predict thermodynamic and kinetic properties of the systems ,especially identifications of the transition-states. This tools can also perform a screening of different ligand design before doing real experiments ,that can reduce a lot of synthesis work. The mechanism study will provide a further direction of catalytic system design.