SHOTONWA IBUKUN OLUWASEUN

Chemistry

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Topic: UNDER REVIEW: Proton Reduction Electrocatalysis And Crystal Structure Description

Description: Mechanism of the electrocatalytic reduction of protons with bis N-alkyl substituted-N-phenyldithiocarbamato - 1,10-phenanthroline cobalt II complexes: Experimental and computational investigations Under Review, Chemistry; A European Journal .Electrocatalytic reduction of protons with bis N-para-carboxyphenyldithiocarbamato - 1,10-phenanthroline cobalt II and manganese II complexes Under Review, Electrochimica Acta. Single and mixed dithiocarbamate metal I-V complexes M = Mn, Tc and Re . A review on crystal and molecular structure descriptions and dynamics Under Review, Crystallography Reviews .Google Scholar: Ibukun Shotonwa h-index = 3 Orcid: 0000-0002-5364-717X

#	Certificate	School	Year
1.	Ph.D (Inorganic Chemistry)	Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria	2023

Hydrogen evolution via proton reduction catalyzed by earth-abundant metal adduct complexes of imino-dithiocarbamates.

Introduction and Background Information: The rising concerns over energy challenges and environmental pollution have engendered the need to replace fossil fuels with clean and sustainable energy carriers through the conversion of electricity to chemical fuels. Wind and solar power technologies have been successfully considered as sustainable energy sources but their major drawbacks lie in storage for mobile applications and on-demand utilization. Robust heterogeneous catalysts based on platinum has been investigated and established as efficient catalysts in water splitting applications. Yet, their practical usage is limited by low abundance, poor scalability and high cost. So are natural catalysts in the form of hydrogenases which use earth-abundant iron and/or nickel cofactors but whose relatively prolonged instability in ambient conditions and the low ratio of active metal sites to the overall size of the complex macromolecule militate against their ability to catalyze the water splitting cycles. A very reliable means of storing electricity in chemical bonds is by electrolysis of water. The most reliable and promising novel chemical fuel that is produced by the combination of two electrons and two protons reduction and favoured for its high energy density, non-carbon energy source and non-polluting characteristics is molecular hydrogen.Aim and Objectives: My current research focuses on the investigation of the proton-reduction electrocatalytic properties of earth-abundant transition metal M = MnII, FeIII, CoII, NiII, CuII adducts complexes based on 1,10-phenanthroline-dithiocarbamates via electrochemical, spectroelectrochemical and computational modelling. Expected Outcomes and Contribution to Knowledge: The essence of this work is to harness cheap, ecofriendly and readily-available starting materials to develop inexpensive, efficient and robust catalysts that would 1 attract more attention and stimulate further work by others to make much more efficient catalysts and 2 make them pivotal in economically viable energy conversion in laboratories and industries at the local Nigeria , Sub-Saharan Africa and the International scenes.

SHOTONWA IBUKUN is a Lecturer I at the Department of Chemistry

SHOTONWA has a Ph.D in Inorganic Chemistry from Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria