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Three molecular photosensitizers (PSs) with carboxylic acid anchors for attachment to platinized titanium dioxide nanoparticles were studied for light-driven hydrogen production from a fully aqueous medium with ascorbic acid (AA) as the sacrificial electron donor. Two zinc(II) porphyrin (ZnP)-based PSs were used to examine the effect of panchromatic sensitization on the photocatalytic H-2 generation. A dyad molecular design was used to construct a difluoro boron-dipyrromethene (bodipy)-conjugated ZnP PS (ZnP-dyad), whereas the other one featured an electron-donating diarylamino moiety (YD2-o-C8). To probe the use of the ZnP scaffold in this particular energy conversion process, an organic PS without the ZnP moiety (Bodipy-dye) was also synthesized for comparison. Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy was adopted to map out the energy transfer processes occurring in the dyad and to establish the bodipy-based antenna effect. In particular, the systems with YD2-o-C8 and ZnP-dyad achieved a remarkable initial activity for the production of H-2 with an initial turnover frequency (TOFi) higher than 300 h(-1) under white light irradiation. The use of ZnP PSs in dye-sensitized photocatalysis for the H-2 evolution reaction in this study indicated the importance of the panchromatic sensitization capability for the development of light absorbing PSs.
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CHEMSUSCHEM
ISSN: 1864-5631
Year: 2018
Issue: 15
Volume: 11
Page: 2517-2528
7 . 8 0 4
JCR@2018
7 . 5 0 0
JCR@2023
ESI Discipline: CHEMISTRY;
ESI HC Threshold:209
JCR Journal Grade:1
CAS Journal Grade:1
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