Efficient water oxidation catalysts based on readily available iron coordination complexes

Efficient water oxidation catalysts based on readily available iron coordination complexes:

Efficient water oxidation catalysts based on readily available iron coordination complexes

Nature Chemistry.
doi:10.1038/nchem.1140

Authors: Julio Lloret Fillol, Zoel Codolà, Isaac Garcia-Bosch, Laura Gómez, Juan José Pla & Miquel Costas

One of the bottlenecks for the development of sustainable artificial photosynthesis is the water oxidation reaction, which too often relies on expensive and toxic metals. Now, coordination complexes of readily available, environmentally benign iron are found to catalyse homogeneous water oxidation to O2 with high efficiency.