In this hot article the authors describe the synthesis and the characterizations of two new ruthenium complexes exhibiting proton coupled four- or six-electron photoreduction in solution in presence of a sacrificial electron donor.
These complexes are among very few systems where stepwise multi-photon absorption are accompanied by multi-reducing equivalents storage and could be useful to convert solar energy into fuels:
Photoinduced four- and six-electron reduction of mononuclear ruthenium complexes having NAD+ analogous ligands
Takashi Fukushima, Tohru Wada, Hideki Ohtsu and Koji Tanaka
Dalton Trans., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00504E, Paper
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