Annual Scientific Report 2014

Abstract

Our research team is devoted to the development of new molecule-based materials for applications in the fields of Renewable Energies and Materials Sciences. On the former, we are developing efficient and stable redox catalysts from Earth abundant metals, with special interest in water splitting catalysts for the production of solar fuels. On the later, we target the design of novel multifunctional hybrid materials with co-existence of properties of interest (magnetic, catalytic, electrical, optical,…) with control of the synergy between physical properties in the search for new phenomena.

Topics addressed

• Catalytic water oxidation with Prussian blue analogs
• Catalytic water oxidation with a metal-metal bonded Ru2 dimer
• Spin crossover phenomena in FeII complexes from sulfonate-substituted triazole ligands
• Switchable hybrid organic conductors

Articles

“Synthesis and Structural Features of Co(II) and Co(III) Complexes Supported by Aminotrisphenolate Ligand Scaffolds”
Inorg Chem. (2014)53, page, 11675-11681
C. Martín, C. J. Whiteoak, E. Martin, E. C. Escudero-Adan, J. R. Galan-Mascaros, A. W. Kleij

“Spin Crossover Probes Confer Multistability to Organic Conducting Polymers”
Adv. Mater. (2014) 26, 6785-6789
Y. S. Koo, J. R. Galan-Mascaros

“Single-Molecule-Magnet Behavior in the Family of [Ln(OETAP)2] Double-Decker Complexes (Ln=Lanthanide,
OETAP = Octa(ethyl)tetraaza-porphyrin)”
Chem. Eur. J. (2014) 20, page 12817-12825
N. Gimenez-Agullo, C. Saenz de Pipaon, L. Adriaenssens, M. Filibian, M. Martinez-Belmonte, E. C. Escudero-Adan, P. Carretta, P. Ballester, J. R. Galan-Mascaros

“Cation-directed dimeric versus tetrameric assemblies of lanthanide-stabilized dilacunary Keggin tungstogermanates”
Chem. Eur. J. (2014) 20, page 12144-12156
B. Artetxe, S. Reinoso, L. San Felices, L. Lezama, J. M. Gutierrez-Zorrilla, J. A. Garcia, J. R. Galan-Mascaros, A. Haider, U. Kortz, C. Vicent

“Transition metal complexes with oligopeptides: single crystals and crystal structures”
Dalton Trans. (2014) 43, page 9821–9833
V. Lillo, J. R. Galan-Mascaros

“Architectures in Copper Metal-Organic Frameworks from 4-Substituted Anionic 1,2,4-Triazoles”
Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. (2014) 19, page 3125–3132
V. Gómez, J. Benet-Buchholz, E. Martin, J. R. Galan-Mascaros

“A fast metal-metal bonded water oxidation catalyst”
J. Catal. (2014) 315, page 25–32
S. Goberna-Ferron, B. Peña, J. Soriano-López, J. J. Carbó, H. Zhao, J. M. Poblet, K. R. Dunbar, J. R. Galan-Mascaros

“Light-Driven Water Oxidation with Metal-Hexacyanometallate Heterogeneous Catalysts”
ACS Catal. (2014) 4, page 1637–1641
S. Goberna-Ferron, W. Y. Hernandez, B. Rodriguez-Garcia, J. R. Galan-Mascaros

“Hysteretic Spin Crossover above Room Temperature and Magnetic Coupling in Trinuclear Transition-Metal complexes with Anionic 1,2,4-Triazole Ligands”
Chem. Eur. J. (2014) 20, page 5369-5379
V. Gómez, J. Benet-Buchholz, E. Martin, J. R. Galan-Mascaros