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  • Electron Injection from Pho...
    Lan, Guangxu; Zhu, Yuan-Yuan; Veroneau, Samuel S; Xu, Ziwan; Micheroni, Daniel; Lin, Wenbin

    Journal of the American Chemical Society, 04/2018, Letnik: 140, Številka: 16
    Journal Article

    We report the design of two new metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), Ru-TBP and Ru-TBP-Zn, based on Ru2 secondary building units (SBUs) and porphyrin-derived tetracarboxylate ligands. The proximity of Ru2 SBUs to porphyrin ligands (∼1.1 nm) facilitates multielectron transfer from excited porphyrins to Ru2 SBUs to enable efficient visible-light-driven hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in neutral water. Photophysical and electrochemical studies revealed oxidative quenching of excited porphyrin by Ru2 SBUs as the initial step of the HER process and the energetics of key intermediates in the catalytic cycle. Our work provides a new strategy to building multifunctional MOFs with synergistic ligands and SBUs for efficient photocatalysis.