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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Interfacial Self-Assembly of Water-Soluble Cationic Porphyrins for the Reduction of Oxygen to Water

Hai-jun XuDelphine SchamingHirohisa NagataniMichel MeyerPierre-françois BrevetHubert H. GiraultAstrid J. Olaya

subject

Inorganic chemistrySupramolecular chemistry2Nd-Harmonic Generationchemistry.chemical_element010402 general chemistryporphyrinsOxygen01 natural sciencesCatalysisMolecular ElectrocatalysisCatalysisinterfacesPolarized Interfacechemistry.chemical_compound[SPI]Engineering Sciences [physics]AggregationPolymer chemistry[CHIM]Chemical Sciencesliquid-liquid interfacesComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS[PHYS]Physics [physics]oxygen reduction reactionDioxygen010405 organic chemistryCationic polymerizationGeneral ChemistryGeneral Medicineself-assemblyPorphyrin3. Good health0104 chemical scienceschemistryTetrathiafulvaleneSelf-assemblyImmiscible Electrolyte-SolutionsCobaltTetrathiafulvalene

description

Meet at the border: Assembly of the water-soluble cobalt tetrakis(N-methylpyridinium-4-yl)porphyrin [CoTMPyP]4+ at soft interfaces is enhanced and stabilized by its interfacial interaction with the lipophilic anion (C6F5)4B−. The supramolecular structure thus formed (see picture) provides excellent catalytic activity in the four-electron reduction of oxygen.

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/180017