Solar energy, photoelectrochemical

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The reductive cleavage of the alkylcobalamine is facilitated by light irradiation and can then proceed at a much more positive potential. A demonstration photoelec-trochemical reactor for the Bij-catalyzed photoelectrochemical synthesis of Michael adduct 17, the alarm pheromone of the ant atta texana (Scheme 9) has been constructed where the complete device is driven solely by solar energy . Hopefully, mediated photoelectrochemical reactions of this type will also be realized at chemically modified electrodes. 

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The band-gap excitation of semiconductor electrodes brings two practical problems for photoelectrochemical solar energy conversion (1) Most of the useful semiconductors have relatively wide band gaps, hence they can be excited only by ultraviolet radiation, whose proportion in the solar spectrum is rather low. (2) the photogenerated minority charge carriers in these semiconductors possess a high oxidative or reductive power to cause a rapid photocorrosion. 

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