- Title
- Highly efficient CCl bond cleavage and unprecedented CC bond cleavage of environmentally toxic DDT through molecular electrochemical catalysis
- Creator
- Liang, Xu, Huang, Tingting, Li, Minzhi, Mack, John, Wildervanck, Martijn, Nyokong, Tebello, Zhu, Weihua
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188921
- Identifier
- vital:44798
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcata.2017.07.026"
- Description
- The electrocatalytic properties of a Co(II)octaalkoxyphthalocyanine complex (Co(II)Pc) with eight strongly electron-donating substituents provide the first example of the complete dechlorination of DDT through molecular electrocatalysis, rather than the use of metal electrodes which had been achieved previously. Interaction with a highly nucleophilic [Co(I)Pc]2− species results in rapid cleavage of the C(sp3) Cl, C(sp2) Cl and aromatic C(sp2) Cl bonds. Bis(p-chlorophenyl)methanone (BPCl2) is detected in high yield along with its full dechlorination product, diphenylmethanone (BP) and the conventional C Cl bond cleavage products, due to an unprecedented C C bond cleavage reaction that is followed by the formation of a C−O bond. Theoretical calculations are used to analyze trends in the electronic structure of the Co(II)octaalkoxyphthalocyanine complex that account for the efficiency of the C Cl bond cleavage reactions, and the reaction process and mechanism are analyzed in depth.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (10 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Applied Catalysis A: General, Liang, X., Huang, T., Li, M., Mack, J., Wildervanck, M., Nyokong, T. and Zhu, W., 2017. Highly efficient C-Cl bond cleavage and unprecedented C-C bond cleavage of environmentally toxic DDT through molecular electrochemical catalysis. Applied Catalysis A: General, 545, pp.44-53, Applied Catalysis A: General volume 545 p. 44 2017 0926-860X
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RU DST/NRF SARChI for Medicinal Chemistry and Nanotechnology
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RU Department of Chemistry
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