Orchestrated photocatalytic hydrogen generation using surface-adsorbing iridium photosensitizers†
Abstract
Novel photosensitizers (PSs) with formyl bipyridyl ligands in different positions were developed to improve the electron transfer from an iridium complex PS to a colloidal platinum catalyst, resulting in much higher turnover numbers than the non-formyl bipyridyl Ir-PS in photocatalytic hydrogen generation.