Homogeneous light-driven water oxidation catalyzed by a tetraruthenium complex with all inorganic ligands

Yurii V Geletii; Zhuangqun Huang; Yu Hou; Djamaladdin G Musaev; Tianquan Lian; Craig L Hill

doi:10.1021/ja901373m

Homogeneous light-driven water oxidation catalyzed by a tetraruthenium complex with all inorganic ligands

J Am Chem Soc. 2009 Jun 10;131(22):7522-3. doi: 10.1021/ja901373m.

Authors

Yurii V Geletii¹, Zhuangqun Huang, Yu Hou, Djamaladdin G Musaev, Tianquan Lian, Craig L Hill

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and the Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.

PMID: 19489637
DOI: 10.1021/ja901373m

Abstract

A totally homogeneous, molecular, visible-light-driven water oxidation system is reported. The three system components are (i) a water oxidation catalyst, 1 (a Ru(IV)(4)O(4) cluster stabilized by oxidatively resistant [SiW(10)O(32)](8-) ligands); (ii) a photosensitizer, [Ru(bpy)(3)](2+); and (iii) a sacrificial electron acceptor, S(2)O(8)(2-). Dioxygen is formed rapidly with an initial turnover frequency of approximately 8 x 10(-2) s(-1) and an estimated quantum yield (defined as the number of O(2) molecules formed per two photons absorbed) of approximately 9%.