Dirhodium Complexes with Photochemical and Other Applications

Dirhodium Complexes with Photochemical and Other Applications 

1 Dirhodium Complexes as Photocatalytic Mediators for Oj Reduction to HjO Photocatalytic Hj Production, and Potential Mediators in Solar Energy Conversion 

Recently, Wang etal. showed the importance of the diimine groups in improving the photocatalytic production of dirhodium diimine complexes of the type cw-[Rh2(02CCH3)2(N-N)2][02CCH3]2, N-N = bpy or phen [42], and Sakai etal, explored the photocatalytic production with a series of dirhodium tetra- or bis-carboxylate complexes in a multicomponent system in aqueous acetate buffer [41]. 

2 DIrhodlum Metallopeptides In Catalysis and Site-Selective Protein Modifications 

The elaboration of organometallic networks and supramolecular assemblies, assembled via directional dirhodium-x-arene interactions [72,153], is important due to the relevance of alkene coordination to the dirhodium core in cyclopropanation reactions, and thus their applications in catalysis. Also, they are relevant to the Issues of x-arene interactions encountered in fullerene and carbon nanotubes [154], in hydrogen storage and fuel cell technology. 

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