Abstract
The recent development of a functional model of photosystem II (PSII) has paved a new way to connect the PSII model with a functional model of photosystem I (PSI). However, PSI functional models have yet to be reported. We report herein the first potential functional model of PSI, in which plastoquinol (PQH2) analogues were oxidized to plastoquinone (PQ) analogues, accompanied by hydrogen (H2) evolution. Photoirradiation of a deaerated acetonitrile (MeCN) solution containing hydroquinone derivatives (X-QH2) as a hydrogen source, 9-mesityl-10-methylacridinium ion (Acr+-Mes) as a photoredox catalyst, and a cobalt(III) complex, CoIII(dmgH)2pyCl (dmgH = dimethylglyoximate monoanion; py = pyridine) as a redox catalyst resulted in the evolution of H2 and formation of the corresponding p-benzoquinone derivatives (X-Q) quantitatively. The maximum quantum yield for photocatalytic H2 evolution from tetrachlorohydroquinone (Cl4QH2) with Acr+-Mes and CoIII(dmgH)2pyCl and H2O in deaerated MeCN was determined to be 10%. Photocatalytic H2 evolution is started by electron transfer (ET) from Cl4QH2 to the triplet ET state of Acr+-Mes to produce Cl4QH2¢+ and Acr+-Mes with a rate constant of 7.2 × 107 M-1 s-1, followed by ET from Acr+-Mes to CoIII(dmgH)2pyCl to produce [CoII(dmgH)2pyCl]-, accompanied by the regeneration of Acr+-Mes. On the other hand, Cl4QH2++ is deprotonated to produce Cl4QH+, which transfers either a hydrogen-atom transfer or a proton-coupled electron transfer to [CoII(dmgH)2pyCl]- to produce a cobalt(III) hydride complex, [CoIII(H)(dmgH)2pyCl]-, which reacts with H+ to evolve H2, accompanied by the regeneration of CoIII(dmgH)2pyCl. The formation of [CoII(dmgH)2pyCl]- was detected by electron paramagnetic resonance measurements.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 14838-14846 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Inorganic Chemistry |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue number | 20 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 19 Oct 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea through the Creative Research Initiative (Grant NRF-2012R1A3A2048842 to W.N.) and Basic Science Research Program (Grant 2020R1I1A1A01074630 to Y.-M.L. and Grant 2020R1A6A3A13072451 to Y.H.H.). This work was also supported by Grant-in-Aid 16H02268 (to S.F.) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.
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