Dye‐Sensitized Photocatalysis: Hydrogen Evolution and Alcohol‐to‐Aldehyde Oxidation without Sacrifical Electron Donor
Deborah Romito, Chinju Govind, Vasilis Nikolaou, Ricardo Fernández‐Terán, Aspasia Stoumpidi, Eleni Agapaki, Georgios Charalambidis, Stéphane Diring, Eric Vauthey, Athanassios G. Coutsolelos, Fabrice Odobel
Abstract
Abstract There is a growing interest in developing dye‐sensitized photocatalytic systems (DSPs) to produce molecular hydrogen (H 2 ) as alternative energy source. To improve the sustainability of this technology, we replaced the sacrificial electron donor (SED), typically an expensive and polluting chemical, with an alcohol oxidation catalyst. This study demonstrates the first dye‐sensitized system using a diketopyrrolopyrrole dye covalently linked to 2,2,6,6‐tetramethyl‐1‐piperidine‐ N ‐oxyl (TEMPO) based catalyst for simultaneous H 2 evolution and alcohol‐to‐aldehyde transformation operating in water with visible irradiation.