Primavera Pelosin

High-safety lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are one of the greatly ubiquitous power sources for electric vehicles and portable electronics under the circumstances of globalization since their first commercialization in 1991 [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8].

Water oxidation catalysis stands out as one of the most important reactions to design practical devices for artificial photosynthesis. Use of late first-row transition metal (TM) complexes provides an excellent platform for the development of inexpensive catalysts with exquisite control on their electronic and structural features via ligand design. However, the difficult access to their high oxidation states and the general labile character of their metal–ligand bonds pose important challenges.