First Study on Phosphonite-Coordinated Ruthenium Sensitizers for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 35, 2015, Pages 19635-19642

  Swetha, T ^a,b   Mondal, Indranil ^b,c   Bhanuprakash, K ^a,b   Pal, Ujjwal ^b,c   Singh, Surya Prakash ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^c CSIR CENTRAL MECHANICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

carboxylate anchor; DFT studies; high TON; hydrogen evolution; phosphonite coordinated ruthenium(II) sensitizers

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLATION; CHARGE TRANSFER; DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; LIGANDS; PLATINUM;

DFT STUDY; HETEROLEPTIC COMPLEXES; HIGH TON; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION RATE; METAL TO LIGAND CHARGE TRANSFERS; PHOTOCATALYTIC HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; RUTHENIUM SENSITIZERS;

RUTHENIUM;

EID: 84941063879     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b04020     Document Type: Article

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