A Plant Dye for Photocatalytic Methane Conversion

Xuefeng He; Zihan Wang; Xinru He; Huichong Liu; Jiawei Chen; Han Li; Cheng Wang

doi:10.1002/chem.202301796

A Plant Dye for Photocatalytic Methane Conversion

Chemistry. 2023 Nov 16;29(64):e202301796. doi: 10.1002/chem.202301796. Epub 2023 Oct 10.

Authors

Xuefeng He¹, Zihan Wang¹, Xinru He¹, Huichong Liu¹, Jiawei Chen¹, Han Li¹, Cheng Wang¹

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces iChem, Innovation Laboratory for Sciences and Technologies of Energy Materials of Fujian Department of Chemistry College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P. R. China.

PMID: 37503795
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202301796

Abstract

A metal-free natural dye has been developed to selectively convert methane to methyl trifluoroacetate (CH₃ TFA) using visible light, probably due to the formation of a chloride-bridged dimer undergoing fast intra-complex charge transfer.

Keywords: aerobic oxidation; hydrogen atom transfer; methane conversion; photocatalysis.

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