Abstract

Redox pairs of transition metal complexes are often involved in small molecule activation in response to modern energy challenges as well as in other areas of electrocatalysis. Within such a family of molecular electrocatalysts, ligand substitution is a means of varying catalytic efficiency, best gauged through catalytic Tafel plots relating overpotential and turnover frequency. In practice, efficient molecular catalysis involves multielectron–multistep processes. It is in this framework that we discuss through-structure inductive substituent effects. What the best choice is for the reference thermodynamic index, how the global substituent effect may be expressed as a function of this index, and how it may be dissected into individual effects assigned to each of the reaction steps are challenging questions that are addressed and resolved here for the first time. The discussion is illustrated by the effect of successive phenyl perfluoration and of o,o′-methoxy substitution of the FeI/0 tetraphenylporphyrin...

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