Electrochemical data of polypyridine complexes of Ru(II)

Deidré van der Westhuizen; Karel G von Eschwege; Jeanet Conradie

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.104759

Electrochemical data of polypyridine complexes of Ru(II)

Data Brief. 2019 Nov 6:27:104759. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.104759. eCollection 2019 Dec.

Authors

Deidré van der Westhuizen¹, Karel G von Eschwege¹, Jeanet Conradie¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, PO Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa.

Abstract

The data here-in presented is associated to the research article, Electrochemistry and spectroscopy of substituted [Ru(phen)₃]²⁺ and [Ru(bpy)3]²⁺ complexes [1]. Redox data obtained from cyclic voltammetry experiments of the oxidation of Ru(II) to Ru(III) of thirteen Ru(II)-polypyridine complexes is presented in this data in brief article. Data is obtained from the cyclic voltammograms at scan rates of two orders of magnitude (0.05-5.00 Vs^-1) under similar experimental conditions, namely in acetonitrile as solvent and tetrabutylammonium hexafluorophosphate as supporting electrolyte, and reported versus the redox couple of Fe(II) of ferrocene.

Keywords: DSSC dye; Photocatalyst; Redox potential prediction; Ruthenium bipyridyl; Ruthenium phenanthroline.