Montserrat Rodríguez

TL;DR: The established basis for the oxidation of water to dioxygen is given as well as the new developments in the field, together with the new questions they pose, especially from a mechanistic perspective.

TL;DR: The measured pseudo-first-order rate constant for the O2-evolving process is more than 3 times larger than the higher one previously reported for Ru-O-Ru type catalysts.

TL;DR: Theoretical modeling at density functional and multireference second-order perturbation theory levels provides a microscopic mechanism for key steps in intermediate formation and oxygen evolution that are consistent with experimental kinetic data and also oxygen labeling experiments, monitored via mass spectrometry (MS), that unambiguously establish that oxygen-oxygen bond formation proceeds intramolecularly.

TL;DR: The main objective of this review is to give a general overview of the structure, electrochemistry, and catalytic performance of the Ru complexes, which are capable of oxidizing water to molecular dioxygen, and to highlight their more relevant features.

TL;DR: The crystal structure of complex 1 has been solved in this paper, where the three N-atoms of the dpt ligand and one of the Cl bridging ligands form the base of the pyramid while the other chloro bridging l ligand occupies the axial site.