A molecular ruthenium catalyst with water-oxidation activity comparable to that of photosystem II
Nature Chemistry.
doi:10.1038/nchem.1301
Authors: Lele Duan, Fernando Bozoglian, Sukanta Mandal, Beverly Stewart, Timofei Privalov, Antoni Llobet & Licheng Sun
Increasing the efficiency and speed of the water-oxidation reaction is crucial to realizing light-driven water splitting. Now, a mononuclear ruthenium complex achieves fast water-oxidation catalysis with a high reaction rate of more than 300 turnovers per second, comparable to the activity of the oxygen-evolving complex in Photosystem II.
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