Photoelectrochemical dimethoxylation of furan via a bromide redox mediator using a BiVO4/WO3 photoanode

H Tateno; Y Miseki; K Sayama

doi:10.1039/c7cc01190c

Photoelectrochemical dimethoxylation of furan via a bromide redox mediator using a BiVO₄/WO₃ photoanode

Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Apr 13;53(31):4378-4381. doi: 10.1039/c7cc01190c.

Authors

H Tateno¹, Y Miseki, K Sayama

Affiliation

¹ Advanced Functional Materials Team, Research Center for Photovoltaics (RCPV), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan. k.sayama@aist.go.jp.

PMID: 28378862
DOI: 10.1039/c7cc01190c

Abstract

Photoelectrochemical dimethoxylation of furan with methanol using a BiVO₄/WO₃ photoanode and Br⁺/Br^- as a mediator was demonstrated with low applied potential. The faradaic efficiency for the dimethoxylation with a Et₄NBF₄ co-supporting electrolyte at +0.1 V vs. SHE was almost quantitative up to 99%.