Homogeneous and Microheterogeneous Photochemical Systems

Sugimoto, J. Miyazaki, T. Kokubo, S. Tanimoto, M. Okano, and M. Matsumoto, Tetrahedron Lett., 1981, 22, 1119. 

Borgarello, J. Kiwi, E. Pelizzetti, M. Visca, and M. Gratzel, Nature (London), 1981, 289, 158. 

Several other reports of studies on the [Ru(bpy)3] /MV scheme have appeared in which either platinum or hydrogenase catalysts were used. Giro et al. managed to obtain hydrogen directly by using Ti to quench the excited [Ru(bpy)3] + the reaction of Ti with protons is very rapid and competes favourably with the thermal back-reaction. The work of Miller and McLendon is particularly interesting. They used a series of [Ru(bpy)3] derivatives of the type (1) and (2) and were able to establish a linear relationship between electrode 

Kim-Thuan, and M. Takeuchi, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 1981, 53, L149. 

Photochemistry , ed. D. Bryce-Smith (Specialist Periodical Reports), Royal Society of Chemstry, London, 1981, Vol. 12, p. 537. 

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