Ultrafast laser spectroscopy uncovers mechanisms of light energy conversion in photosynthesis and sustainable energy materials

D Zigmantas, T Polívka, P Persson… - Chemical Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The invention of the laser in 1960 gave us the ruby laser, which generally produced chaotic
pulses of light. Six years later, in 1966, a concept called passive mode-locking applied to …

Recent findings and future directions in photosynthetic hydrogen evolution using polypyridine cobalt complexes

F Droghetti, F Lucarini, A Molinari, A Ruggi… - Dalton …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The production of hydrogen gas using water as the molecular substrate currently represents
one of the most challenging and appealing reaction schemes in the field of artificial …

Water‐soluble polymers with appending porphyrins as bioinspired catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction

L **e, J Tian, Y Ouyang, X Guo… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular design to improve catalyst performance is significant but challenging. In enzymes,
residue groups that are close to reaction centers play critical roles in regulating activities …

Understanding Ir (III) photocatalyst structure–activity relationships: a highly parallelized study of light-driven metal reduction processes

S DiLuzio, TU Connell, V Mdluli… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
High-throughput synthesis and screening methods were used to measure the
photochemical activity of 1440 distinct heteroleptic [Ir (C^ N) 2 (N^ N)]+ complexes for the …

A Unified Electro- and Photocatalytic CO2 to CO Reduction Mechanism with Aminopyridine Cobalt Complexes

S Fernández, F Franco, C Casadevall… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A mechanistic understanding of electro-and photocatalytic CO2 reduction is crucial to
develop strategies to overcome catalytic bottlenecks. In this regard, for a new CO2-to-CO …

Electronic and Steric Tuning of Catalytic H2 Evolution by Cobalt Complexes with Pentadentate Polypyridyl-Amine Ligands

P Wang, G Liang, MR Reddy, M Long… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Structural modifications of molecular cobalt catalysts have provided important insights into
the structure–function relationship for the hydrogen evolution reaction. We have shown that …

Introducing nonstructural ligands to zirconia-like metal–organic framework nodes to tune the activity of node-supported nickel catalysts for ethylene hydrogenation

J Liu, Z Li, X Zhang, K Otake, L Zhang, AW Peters… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Previous work has shown that introduction of hexafluoroacetylacetone (Facac) units as
nonstructural ligands for the zirconia-like nodes of the eight-connected metal–organic …

Exploring the Photophysics and Photocatalytic Activity of Heteroleptic Rh (III) Transition-Metal Complexes Using High-Throughput Experimentation

S DiLuzio, M Baumer, R Guzman… - Inorganic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
High-throughput synthesis and screening (HTSS) methods were used to investigate the
photophysical properties of 576 heteroleptic Rh (III) transition-metal complexes through …

Reductive Cyclization of Unactivated Alkyl Chlorides with Tethered Alkenes under Visible‐Light Photoredox Catalysis

M Claros, F Ungeheuer, F Franco… - Angewandte …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The chemical inertness of abundant and commercially available alkyl chlorides precludes
their widespread use as reactants in chemical transformations. Presented in this work is a …

Light-driven reduction of aromatic olefins in aqueous media catalysed by aminopyridine cobalt complexes

C Casadevall, D Pascual, J Aragón, A Call… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
A catalytic system based on earth-abundant elements that efficiently hydrogenates aryl
olefins using visible light as the driving-force and H2O as the sole hydrogen atom source is …