Journal of Fundamentals of Renewable Energy and Applications
Open Access
ISSN: 2090-4541
+44 1300 500008
ISSN: 2090-4541
+44 1300 500008
Soressa Abera Chala, V J T Raju, Ahmed Mustefa, Yonas Chebude and Tilahun Ayane
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Fundam Renewable Energy Appl
Theoretical calculations using DFT/B3LYP methods and experimental results were undertaken to evaluate the structural and spectral characteristics chelating ligand 1,10-phenanthroline 5,6- dionedihydrozone (PDDH) in order to assess its potentiality towards metal complex formation, a precursor of synthesized metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Encouraged by the conclusions from these studies, attempts were made to prepare this material and its Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II) complexes and prompted by the failure to synthesize the ligand PDDH, by the reaction between 1,10-phenanthroline 5, 6-dione (PD) and hydrazine; preparation of Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II) complexes of PDDH was successfully achieved through template synthesis in which each metal complex of PD (in 2:1 mole ratio) in alcoholic solution was treated with hydrazine (in one mole ratio) and characterization of the PDDH and its metal complexes by physical, analytical (C, H. N, Cl and metal), conductance, spectral (IR, 1HNMR, 13CNMR, UV-Vis-NIR), XRD, TGA, SEM and magnetic susceptibility studies was done. The performance and stability of synthesized electrocatalysts were evaluated using cyclic voltammetry (CV) in alkaline condition. Adequate and promising correlations of theoretical and experimental studies were achieved.
Email: soressaabera@yahoo.com