Molecular catalysts for water oxidation

JD Blakemore, RH Crabtree, GW Brudvig - Chemical Reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The development of technologies for the production of chemical fuels or useful compounds
with renewable energy (eg, sunlight) and inexpensive feedstocks relies on an abundant …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial photosynthesis: molecular systems for catalytic water oxidation

MD Karkas, O Verho, EV Johnston… - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
The sustainable production of clean energy constitutes one of the most important scientific
challenges of the 21st century. Currently, the major part of the global energy supply is …

Photochemical conversion of solar energy

V Balzani, A Credi, M Venturi - ChemSusChem: Chemistry & …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Energy is the most important issue of the 21st century. About 85% of our energy comes from
fossil fuels, a finite resource unevenly distributed beneath the Earth's surface. Reserves of …

Water oxidation using earth-abundant transition metal catalysts: opportunities and challenges

MD Kärkäs, B Åkermark - Dalton Transactions, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Catalysts for the oxidation of H2O are an integral component of solar energy to fuel
conversion technologies. Although catalysts based on scarce and precious metals have …

Molecular recognition in the selective oxygenation of saturated CH bonds by a dimanganese catalyst

S Das, CD Incarvito, RH Crabtree, GW Brudvig - Science, 2006 - science.org
Although enzymes often incorporate molecular recognition elements to orient substrates
selectively, such strategies are rarely achieved by synthetic catalysts. We combined …

Functional models for the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II

CW Cady, RH Crabtree, GW Brudvig - Coordination chemistry reviews, 2008 - Elsevier
In the last 10 years, a number of advances have been made in the study of the oxygen-
evolving complex (OEC) of photosystem II (PSII). Along with this new understanding of the …

A Highly Stable Rhenium−Cobalt System for Photocatalytic H2 Production: Unraveling the Performance-Limiting Steps

B Probst, A Rodenberg, M Guttentag, P Hamm… - Inorganic …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Increased long-term performance was found for photocatalytic H2 production in a
homogeneous combination of [Re (NCS)(CO) 3bipy](1; bipy= 2, 2′-bipyridine),[Co (dmgH) …

Water oxidation catalysed by manganese compounds: from complexes to 'biomimetic rocks'

M Wiechen, HM Berends, P Kurz - Dalton Transactions, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
One of the most fundamental processes of the natural photosynthetic reaction sequence is
the light-driven oxidation of water to molecular oxygen. In vivo, this reaction takes place in …

Functionalized nanocellulose-integrated heterolayered nanomats toward smart battery separators

JH Kim, M Gu, DH Lee, JH Kim, YS Oh, SH Min… - Nano …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Alternative materials obtained from natural resources have recently garnered considerable
attention as an innovative solution to bring unprecedented advances in various energy …

Fragments of layered manganese oxide are the real water oxidation catalyst after transformation of molecular precursor on clay

MM Najafpour, AN Moghaddam, H Dau… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
A binuclear manganese molecular complex [(OH2)(terpy) Mn (μ-O) 2Mn (terpy)(OH2)] 3+(1)
is the most prominent structural and functional model of the water-oxidizing Mn complex …