Visible light enables catalytic formation of weak chemical bonds with molecular hydrogen

Y Park, S Kim, L Tian, H Zhong, GD Scholes… - Nature chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
The synthesis of weak chemical bonds at or near thermodynamic potential is a fundamental
challenge in chemistry, with applications ranging from catalysis to biology to energy science …

Bimolecular Excited-State Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer within Encounter Complexes

K Martinez, SM Koehne, K Benson… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Bimolecular excited-state proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET*) was observed for
reaction of the triplet MLCT state of [(dpab) 2Ru (4, 4′-dhbpy)] 2+(dpab= 4, 4′-di (n …

Multiple molecular logic gate arrays in one system of (2-(2′-pyridyl) imidazole) Ru (ii) complexes and trimeric cyclophanes in water

CY Yao, HY Lin, P Morgenfurt, TE Keyes… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Shape-switchable cyclophane hosts allow the controlled capture and release of reactive
polypyridineRu (II) complexes in water. This gives rise to a network of host–guest binding …

Platinum@Hexaniobate Nanopeapods: A Directed Photocatalytic Architecture for Dye-Sensitized Semiconductor H2 Production under Visible Light Irradiation

C Davis-Wheeler Chin, P Fontenot… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Platinum@ hexaniobate nanopeapods (Pt@ HNB NPPs) are a nanocomposite photocatalyst
that was selectively engineered to increase the efficiency of hydrogen production from …

Exploring Excited‐State Intramolecular Proton‐Coupled Electron Transfer in Dinuclear Ir (III)‐Complex via Covalently Tagged Hydroquinone: Phototherapy Through …

M Shee, J Schleisiek, N Maity, G Das, N Montesdeoca… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Anticipating intramolecular excited‐state proton‐coupled electron transfer (PCET) process
within dinuclear Ir2‐photocatalytic system via the covalent linkage is seminal, yet …

Ruthenium complexes with asymmetric hydroxy-and methoxy-substituted bipyridine ligands

KR Benson, J Stash, KL Moffa, RH Schmehl, TJ Dudley… - Polyhedron, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of metal complexes with ligands capable of proton transfer can result in
significant advances in Proton Coupled Electron Transfer (PCET) chemistry, specifically …

Photo-induced electron transfer or proton-coupled electron transfer in methylbipyridine/phenol complexes: a time-dependent density functional theory investigation

T Hossen, K Sahu - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2019 - ACS Publications
It is often difficult to assign the nature of an excited-state process unambiguously based on a
limited number of experimental evidence. The methylbipyridine/phenol complex is a classic …

Photophysics of Ru (II) complexes with hydroxylated diimine ligands: Photoinduced electron/proton transfer to anthraquinone

K Martinez, K Benson, J Paul, RH Schmehl - Polyhedron, 2021 - Elsevier
This manuscript reports the reaction of the 3 MLCT excited states of two luminescent
chromophores,[(bpy) 2 Ru (OHbpy)] 2+ and [(bpy) 2 Ru (OMebpy)] 2+(bpy= 2, 2 …

Effect of Excited State Localization on Excited State Proton Transfer and Energy Transfer Reactions

F Zhang - 2023 - search.proquest.com
The goal of this research is to study the excited state proton transfer reactions in ruthenium
(II) complexes with pyrenyl bipyridine ligands and the intramolecular energy transfer in …

[PDF][PDF] Towards molecular communication between hydrogels

E Pattyn - 2020 - libstore.ugent.be
For a long time, chemists tried to understand nature on a purely molecular level, considering
only structures and functions involving the strong covalent bonds. However biological …