Tamaki Yusuke, Koike Kazuhide, Ishitani Osamu
Department of Chemistry , Graduate School of Science and Engineering , Tokyo Institute of Technology , 2-12-1-NE-1 O-okayama , Meguro-ku , Tokyo 152-8550 , Japan . Email:
CREST , Japan Science and Technology Agency , 4-1-8 Honcho , Kawaguchi-city , Saitama 322-0012 , Japan.
Chem Sci. 2015 Dec 1;6(12):7213-7221. doi: 10.1039/c5sc02018b. Epub 2015 Sep 29.
We discovered an extremely suitable sacrificial electron donor, 1,3-dimethyl-2-(-hydroxyphenyl)-2,3-dihydro-1-benzo[]imidazole, for the selective photocatalytic reduction of CO to formic acid using a Ru(ii)-Ru(ii) supramolecular photocatalyst. The efficiency, durability, and rate of photocatalysis are significantly increased ( = 0.46, TON = 2766, TOF = 44.9 min) in comparison with those using 1,3-dimethyl-2-phenyl-2,3-dihydro-1-benzo[]imidazole or 1-benzyl-1,4-dihydronicotinamide.
我们发现了一种极其合适的牺牲电子供体,即1,3-二甲基-2-(-羟基苯基)-2,3-二氢-1-苯并咪唑,用于使用Ru(ii)-Ru(ii)超分子光催化剂将CO选择性光催化还原为甲酸。与使用1,3-二甲基-2-苯基-2,3-二氢-1-苯并咪唑或1-苄基-1,4-二氢烟酰胺相比,光催化的效率、耐久性和速率显著提高(=0.46,TON=2766,TOF=44.9分钟)。