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Keisuke Wada1, Miharu Eguchi2, Osamu Ishitani1
1Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1-NE-2 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan.
Abstract:
Photocatalytic reduction of CO2 to CO proceeded by visible light (λ>400 nm) using mesoporous graphitic carbon nitride (C3 N4 ) coupled with a RuII -ReI binuclear complex (RuRe) containing a photosensitizer and catalytic units. The selectivity to CO exceeded 90 % during the initial stage. Photocatalytic reactions (including isotope tracer experiments) and electrochemical measurements revealed that the reaction proceeded according to a two-step photoexcitation of C3 N4 and the RuII photosensitizer unit, that is, it followed the Z-Scheme mechanism. Modification of C3 N4 with highly dispersed silica was found to improve the ability of C3 N4 to accommodate RuRe, which enhanced the photocatalytic activity for CO production.
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