Artificial photosynthesis: opportunities and challenges of molecular catalysts

B Zhang, L Sun - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular catalysis plays an essential role in both natural and artificial photosynthesis (AP).
However, the field of molecular catalysis for AP has gradually declined in recent years …

Operando characterization techniques for electrocatalysis

J Li, J Gong - Energy & Environmental Science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The energy crisis and climate change are growing threats to human society. Fuel cells and
electrolyzers using solar and wind as energy sources provide a promising carbon-free and …

Mechanism of oxygen evolution catalyzed by cobalt oxyhydroxide: cobalt superoxide species as a key intermediate and dioxygen release as a rate-determining step

A Moysiadou, S Lee, CS Hsu, HM Chen… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is the performance-limiting half reaction of water
splitting, which can be used to produce hydrogen fuel using renewable energies. Whereas a …

Molecular electrocatalysts can mediate fast, selective CO2 reduction in a flow cell

S Ren, D Joulié, D Salvatore, K Torbensen, M Wang… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Practical electrochemical carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion requires a catalyst capable of
mediating the efficient formation of a single product with high selectivity at high current …

The development of molecular water oxidation catalysts

R Matheu, P Garrido-Barros, M Gil-Sepulcre… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
There is an urgent need to transition from fossil fuels to solar fuels—not only to lower CO2
emissions that cause global warming but also to ration fossil resources. Splitting H2O with …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial photosynthesis: molecular systems for catalytic water oxidation

MD Karkas, O Verho, EV Johnston… - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
The sustainable production of clean energy constitutes one of the most important scientific
challenges of the 21st century. Currently, the major part of the global energy supply is …

O–O bond formation in ruthenium-catalyzed water oxidation: single-site nucleophilic attack vs. O–O radical coupling

DW Shaffer, Y Xie, JJ Concepcion - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review we discuss at the mechanistic level the different steps involved in water
oxidation catalysis with ruthenium-based molecular catalysts. We have chosen to focus on …

Heterobimetallic NiFe cooperative molecular water oxidation catalyst

HT Zhang, YH Guo, Y Xiao, HY Du… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We reported herein the development of heterobimetallic NiFe molecular platform to
understand NiFe synergistic effect in water oxidation catalysis. Compared to homonuclear …

Electrochemical CO 2-to-CO conversion: electrocatalysts, electrolytes, and electrolyzers

FY Gao, RC Bao, MR Gao, SH Yu - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) to value-added chemicals and fuels
offers a potential platform to store renewable energy in chemical bonds and thus a route to …

Intramolecular proton transfer boosts water oxidation catalyzed by a Ru complex

R Matheu, MZ Ertem, J Benet-Buchholz… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We introduce a new family of complexes with the general formula [Ru n (tda)(py) 2] m+(n= 2,
m= 0, 1; n= 3, m= 1, 2+; n= 4, m= 2, 3 2+), with tda2–being [2, 2′: 6′, 2 ″-terpyridine]-6, 6 …