Environmental tuning of the reactivity of molecules confined to polarized interfaces

The heterogenization of molecular catalysts to polarized interfaces provides an appealing approach to the design of more efficient and selective electrochemical devices. The well-defined nature of molecular catalysts renders them amenable to synthetic tuning to unravel structure-function relationships. From these studies, key insight to optimization of their activity is obtained. However, recent work has established that outer-sphere effects such as the surface structure and ligation method can impact reactivity as much as catalyst structure. This thesis explores these environmental contributions to reactivity with a particular focus on exploring the impact of electronic coupling between a molecular site and the band structure of graphitic carbon electrodes or using this coupling as a tool to understand the reactivity of molecules confined to solid-liquid interfaces. Chapters two through four explore environmental contributions to porphyrin electrocatalysis.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2021

Author dc:creator

• Kaminsky, Corey J.(Corey Jarin)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Yogesh Surendranath.

• Chemistry.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130823

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/130823