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 …

Coordination-driven electrocatalysts as an evolving wave of enthusiasm for sustainable hydrogen production

S Diyali, N Diyali, B Biswas - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Hydrogen emerges as one of the cleanest and most renewable energy resources for fossil
fuel alternatives. Commercial-scale hydrogen production through water-splitting …

Recent advances in the mechanisms of the hydrogen evolution reaction by non-innocent sulfur-coordinating metal complexes

M Drosou, F Kamatsos, CA Mitsopoulou - Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Efficient hydrogen generation from aqueous protons through direct conversion of solar
energy is an essential prerequisite of a future hydrogen economy and easily accessible …

Biological concepts for catalysis and reactivity: empowering bioinspiration

A Das, C Hessin, Y Ren… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Biological systems provide attractive reactivity blueprints for the design of challenging
chemical transformations. Emulating the operating mode of natural systems may however …

Recent progress in ligand-centered homogeneous electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction

GG Luo, HL Zhang, YW Tao, QY Wu, D Tian… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is a critical process in a sustainable
energy conversion system. Many metal complexes as small-molecule catalysts for …

Ligand-assisted metal-centered electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution upon reduction of a bis (thiosemicarbazonato) Ni (II) complex

R Jain, AA Mamun, RM Buchanan… - Inorganic …, 2018 - ACS Publications
In this study, we report the electrocatalytic behavior of the neutral, monomeric Ni (II) complex
of diacetyl-bis (N-4-methyl-3-thiosemicarbazonato), NiL1, for ligand-assisted metal-centered …

Redox-Active Ligands in Electroassisted Catalytic H+ and CO2 Reductions: Benefits and Risks

N Queyriaux - ACS Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
In the past decade, the use of redox-active ligands has emerged as a promising strategy to
improve catalyst selectivity, efficiency, and stability in electroassisted H+ and CO2 …

Successes, challenges, and opportunities for quantum chemistry in understanding metalloenzymes for solar fuels research

M Orio, DA Pantazis - Chemical Communications, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Quantum chemical approaches today are a powerful tool to study the properties and
reactivity of metalloenzymes. In the field of solar fuels research these involve predominantly …

Ligand-Centered Hydrogen Evolution with Ni (II) and Pd (II) DMTH

CA Phipps, DT Hofsommer, MJ Toda… - Inorganic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In this study, we report a pair of electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER)
based on the noninnocent ligand diacetyl-2-(4-methyl-3-thiosemicarbazone)-3-(2 …

Electrochemistry, electrocatalysis, and mechanistic details into hydrogen evolution pathways of hexacoordinated iron scaffolds in hydrogenase mimics

IO Shotonwa, O Ejeromedoghene, AO Adesoji… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Iron-sulphur cofactors in the reactive sites of metalloproteins such as Fe-Fe-hydrogenase
have played key roles in biological redox reactions such as the generation and activation of …