@inbook{a61019d283844f0c8032a3da07176f76,
title = "Plausible roles of carbonate in catalytic water oxidation",
abstract = "Bicarbonate/carbonate are efficient co-catalysts in a variety of water oxidation processes. Their role in these processes is due to one or more of the following: the redox potential of the couple CO3 ⋅−/CO3 2– is considerably lower than that of OH[rad]/H2O or that of OH[rad]/OH−. The CO3 ⋅− thus formed is transformed into HCO4 −/H2O2. The latter are easily oxidized to form O2. Furthermore CO3 2– as a ligand stabilizes transition metal complexes at high-oxidation states that are essential intermediates in the catalytic processes. Finally, the carbonate facilitates proton transfer near the anode that is often an essential step.",
keywords = "Carbonate anion radical, Carbonate complexes, Electrocatalysis, Peroxide formation, Photocatalysis",
author = "Amir Mizrahi and Dan Meyerstein",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 Elsevier Inc.",
year = "2019",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/bs.adioch.2019.03.005",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780128160824",
series = "Advances in Inorganic Chemistry",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
pages = "343--360",
editor = "{van Eldik}, Rudi and Hubbard, {Colin D.}",
booktitle = "Water Oxidation Catalysts",
address = "United States",
}