Electrochemistry of N4 Macrocyclic Metal Complexes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Oxygen Electroreduction on M-N4 Macrocyclic Complexes

   • Kexi Liu, Yinkai Lei, Rongrong Chen, Guofeng Wang

   Pages 1-39

3. Heat-Treated Non-precious Metal Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction

   • Hoon Chung, Gang Wu, Drew Higgins, Pouyan Zamani, Zhongwei Chen, Piotr Zelenay

   Pages 41-68

4. Non-noble Metal (NNM) Catalysts for Fuel Cells: Tuning the Activity by a Rational Step-by-Step Single Variable Evolution

   • Alessandro H. A. Monteverde Videla, Luigi Osmieri, Stefania Specchia

   Pages 69-101

5. Application of Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy (SECM) to Study Electrocatalysis of Oxygen Reduction by MN4-Macrocyclic Complexes

   • Justus Masa, Edgar Ventosa, Wolfgang Schuhmann

   Pages 103-141

6. Theoretical Aspects of the Reactivity of MN4 Macrocyclics in Electrochemical Reactions

   • Sebastián Miranda-Rojas, Alvaro Muñoz-Castro, Ramiro Arratia-Pérez, Fernando Mendizábal

   Pages 143-170

7. Metalloporphyrins in Solar Energy Conversion

   • Ievgen Obraztsov, Wlodzimierz Kutner, Francis D’Souza

   Pages 171-262

8. Photoelectrochemical Reactions at Phthalocyanine Electrodes

   • Derck Schlettwein

   Pages 263-314

9. Back Matter

   Pages 315-316

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This new edition describes the state of the art regarding molecular catalysts such as MN4 metal complexes, like porphyrins and phthalocyanines. This volume focuses on the particular case of the electrocatalysis of the reduction of O₂ for practical applications in fuel cells and air batteries. Indeed, active and stable materials have been developed in the last 5 years where MN4 catalytic systems can be obtained by the pyrolysis of starting materials that do not necessarily involve MN4 complexes. These latter systems constitute a new class of stable and highly active non-precious metal catalysts for ORR that can replace expensive Platinum containing electrodes. The book also offers future projections and points out new fields of research and development of these non-precious metal catalysts.

• Electrocatalysis
• MNx Catalysts
• Macrocyclic Metal Complexes
• Metallophthalocyanines
• Metalloporphyrins
• Oxygen Reduction Reaction
• Photoelectrochemistry
• Solar Cells

• Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile

  Jose H. Zagal

• CNRS-Chimie ParisTech, Paris CX 05, France

  Fethi Bedioui

Fethi Bedioui is currently at Chimie Paris Tech. Jose Zagal is currently at Universidad de Santiago de Chile.

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