Noncovalent Immobilization of a Pyrene-Modified Cobalt Corrole on Carbon Supports for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction and Oxygen Evolution in Aqueous Solutions

Efficient oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) are the determinants of the realization of a hydrogen-based society, as sluggish OER and ORR are the bottlenecks for the production and utilization of H2, respectively. A Co complex of 5,15-bis(pentafluorophenyl)-10-(4)-(1-pyrenyl)phenylcorrole (1) bearing a pyrene substituent was synthesized. When it was immobilized on multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), the 1/MWCNT composite displayed very high electrocatalytic activity and durability for both OER and ORR in aqueous solutions: it catalyzed a direct four-electron reduction of O2 to H2O in 0.5 M H2SO4 with an onset potential of 0.75 V vs normal hydrogen electrode (NHE), and it catalyzed the oxidation of water to O2 in neutral aqueous solution with an onset potential of 1.15 V (vs NHE, η = 330 mV). Control studies using a Co complex of 5,10,15-tris(pentafluorophenyl)corrole (2) demonstrated that the enhanced catalytic performance of 1 was due to the strong noncovalent π–π inte...

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