Abstract
A series of novel copper(II) phenolate selenoether complexes have been synthesized and structurally characterized for the first time from copper(I) phenanthroline and various substituted ortho-bisphenylselenide-phenol chelating ligands. The synthesized complexes exhibit Jahn-Teller distortion in their geometry and varied from distorted square planar to distorted octahedral by varying the substituent in the bis-selenophenolate ligand. The synthesized complexes electrocatalyze the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) with a faradaic efficiency of up to 89%, and it was observed that the distorted square pyramidal geometry is the optimum geometry for the maximum efficiency of these copper complexes.
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