Title: Near-Infrared Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution from Water using a Polypyridyl Triruthenium Photosensitizer
Abstract: In order to realize the artificial photosynthetic devices splitting water to H2 and O2 (2H2O + hν → 2H2 + O2), it is desirable to utilize a wider wavelength range of light that extends to a lower energy region of solar spectrum. Here we report a triruthenium photosensitizer [Ru3(dmbpy)6(μ-HAT)]6+ (dmbpy = 4,4’-dimethyl-2,2’-bipyridine, HAT = 1,4,5,8,9,12-hexaazatriphenylene), which absorbs near-infrared light up to 800 nm based on its MLCT transition. Importantly, [Ru3(dmbpy)6(μ-HAT)]6+ is found to be the first example of a photosensitizer which can drive H2 evolution under the illumination of near-infrared light above 700 nm. The electrochemical and photochemical studies reveal that the reductive quenching within the ion-pair adducts of [Ru3(dmbpy)6(μ-HAT)]6+ and ascorbate anions affords a singly reduced form of [Ru3(dmbpy)6(μ-HAT)]6+, which is used as a reducing equivalent in the subsequent water reduction process.
Title: Near-Infrared Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution from Water using a Polypyridyl Triruthenium Photosensitizer
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201708996
Published online: 16 October 2017
