A tutorial review outlining a general conceptual framework, based on superexchange, to discuss the role of chemical bridges in photoinduced electron transfer processes.
20 June 2012 in Journal of the American Chemical Society
Efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution is obtained from 1 M phosphate buffer at pH 7 in the presence of a Ru(bpy)32+ sensitizer, an ascorbic acid sacrificial donor, and a water-soluble Co(II) porphyrin catalyst. Spectroscopic investigation of the system by stationary and time-resolved techniques enables a complete characterization of the photoinduced dynamics.