Parallelization of photocatalytic gas-producing reactions

Rony S Khnayzer; Douglas R Martin; Charles L Codding; Felix N Castellano

doi:10.1063/1.4915349

Parallelization of photocatalytic gas-producing reactions

Rev Sci Instrum. 2015 Mar;86(3):034101. doi: 10.1063/1.4915349.

Authors

Rony S Khnayzer¹, Douglas R Martin², Charles L Codding², Felix N Castellano³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Natural Sciences, Lebanese American University, P.O. Box 13-1503, Chouran, Beirut 1102-2801, Lebanon.
² Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, USA.
³ Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8204, USA.

PMID: 25832247
DOI: 10.1063/1.4915349

Abstract

High-throughput screening has been widely utilized in the pharmaceutical and manufacturing industry targeting the development of new molecules and materials for numerous applications. To enable more rapid progress in photocatalytic water-splitting reactions, the construction of high-throughput combinatorial photoreactors enabling the parallel optimization of relevant compositions under varieties of experimental conditions seems appropriate. This contribution describes a 16-photoreactor apparatus permitting the kinetic evaluation of photocatalytic gas-producing reactions using head-space pressure, gas chromatography, and mass spectrometry operating in parallel, illustrated with molecular-based homogeneous photocatalytic H2-generating compositions.