Photosensitizing Metal-Organic Layers for Efficient Sunlight-Driven Carbon Dioxide Reduction

Guangxu Lan; Zhe Li; Samuel S Veroneau; Yuan-Yuan Zhu; Ziwan Xu; Cheng Wang; Wenbin Lin

doi:10.1021/jacs.8b08357

Photosensitizing Metal-Organic Layers for Efficient Sunlight-Driven Carbon Dioxide Reduction

J Am Chem Soc. 2018 Oct 3;140(39):12369-12373. doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b08357. Epub 2018 Sep 19.

Authors

Guangxu Lan¹, Zhe Li^{1

2}, Samuel S Veroneau¹, Yuan-Yuan Zhu¹, Ziwan Xu¹, Cheng Wang², Wenbin Lin^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry , The University of Chicago , 929 E 57th Street , Chicago , Illinois 60637 , United States.
² College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, iCHEM, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surface , Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005 , People's Republic of China.

PMID: 30220196
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b08357

Abstract

Metal-organic layers (MOLs), a free-standing monolayer version of two-dimensional metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), have emerged as a new class of 2D materials for many potential applications. Here we report the design of a new photosensitizing MOL, Hf₁₂-Ru, based on Hf₁₂ secondary building units (SBUs) and [Ru(bpy)₃]²⁺ (bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine) derived dicarboxylate ligands. After modifying the SBU surface of Hf₁₂-Ru with M(bpy)(CO)₃X (M = Re and X = Cl or M = Mn and X = Br) derived capping molecules through carboxylate exchange reactions, the resultant Hf₁₂-Ru-Re and Hf₁₂-Ru-Mn MOLs possess both [Ru(bpy)₃]²⁺ photosensitizers and M(bpy)(CO)₃X catalysts for efficient photocatalytic CO₂ reduction. The proximity of the MOL skeleton to the capping ligands (1-2 nm) facilitates electron transfer from the reduced photosensitizer [Ru(bpy)₃]⁺ to M^I(bpy)(CO)₃X (M = Re, Mn) catalytic centers, resulting in CO₂ reduction turnover numbers of 8613 under artificial visible light and of 670 under sunlight. MOLs thus represent a novel platform to assemble multifunctional materials for studying artificial photosynthesis.