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Published on: February 11, 2016
Photoinduced water oxidation sensitized by a tetranuclear Ru(II) dendrimer
Giuseppina La Ganga1, Francesco Nastasi, Sebastiano Campagna
1Dipartimento di Chimica Inorganica, Chimica Analitica e Chimica Fisica, Università di Messina, and Centro Interuniversitario per la Conversione Chimica dell' Energia Solare (sezione di Messina), Via Sperone 31, 98166, Messina, Italy.
Abstract:
A multimetallic ruthenium(II) dendrimer is used for the first time to photosensitize dioxygen production from water by IrO2 nanoparticles; the system is more efficient than an analogous system based on the more commonly used [Ru(bpy)3]2+-type photosensitizers, in particular for the ability of the dendrimer to take advantage of the red portion of the solar spectrum.
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