Transition metal tetraphenyl porphyrins

Irngartinger et al. 1977), and the hydro-bis(squarate) anion (Lin et al. 1994). Even in the deformation density maps of the five-membered pyrrole rings in transition metal tetraphenyl porphyrins (chapter 10), bond bending is visible. 

Fig. 15.17. Current in milliamperes cm-2 for CO production from C02 using C02+ tetraphenyl porphyrins modified with various pyridyl derivatives. (Reprinted with permission from T. Atoguchi, A. Aramata, and M. Engo, C02 Reduction by Macrocyclic Transition Metal Complex-Modified Electrodes," in Proc. International Symposium on Chemical Fixation of Carbon Dioxide, p. 338, Fig. 5,1991.)...

For molecular electrocatalysts otherwise, and especially transition metal macrocycles, the electrocatalytic activity is often modified by subtle structural and electronic factors spanning the entire mechanistic spectrum, that is, from strict four-electron reduction, as for the much publicized cofacial di-cobalt porphyrin, in which the distance between the Co centers was set at about 4 A [12], to strict two-electron reduction, as in the monomeric (single ring) Co(II) 4,4, 4",4" -tetrasulfophthalo-cyanine (CoTsPc) [20] and Co(II) 5,10,15,20-tetraphenyl porphyrin (CoTPP) [21]. Not surprisingly, nature has evolved highly specific enzymes for oxygen transport, oxygen reduction to water, superoxide dismutation and peroxide decomposition. 

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