Pt(II)-bis(quinolinyl) complexes for photocatalytic hydrogen production

Rahat Gupta1, Olivier Schott2, Arindam Saha2

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, Nagrota Bypass Road, Jammu and Kashmir - 181221, India. amlan.pal@iitjammu.ac.in.

Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|December 19, 2023
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