A covalently linked nickel(II) porphyrin-ruthenium(II) tris(bipyridyl) dyad for efficient photocatalytic water oxidation

Emmanouil Nikoloudakis; Ajyal Z Alsaleh; Georgios Charalambidis; Athanassios G Coutsolelos; Francis D'Souza

doi:10.1039/d2cc03563d

A covalently linked nickel(II) porphyrin-ruthenium(II) tris(bipyridyl) dyad for efficient photocatalytic water oxidation

Chem Commun (Camb). 2022 Oct 27;58(86):12078-12081. doi: 10.1039/d2cc03563d.

Authors

Emmanouil Nikoloudakis¹, Ajyal Z Alsaleh², Georgios Charalambidis¹, Athanassios G Coutsolelos¹, Francis D'Souza²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, and Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Voutes Campus, Heraklion 70013, Crete, Greece. acoutsol@uoc.gr.
² Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, TX 76203-5017, USA. Francis.dsouza@unt.edu.

PMID: 36218333
DOI: 10.1039/d2cc03563d

Abstract

Visible-light-induced oxidation of water to dioxygen, catalyzed by a newly synthesized NiP-Ru dyad consisting of a ruthenium tris(bipyridyl), [Ru(bpy)₃]²⁺ as a photosensitizer, and a low-cost nickel porphyrin, NiP as a water oxidation catalyst is reported.