Water oxidation powered by sunlight, preferably at ambient temperature and fairly neutral pH, is the main bottleneck for direct conversion of solar energy into molecular hydrogen as a solar fuel through photochemical water splitting. In our recent paper, we report a robust iron clathrochelate complex acting as an efficient catalyst for homogeneous photochemical water oxidation with TON = 365. An Fe(V) intermediate generated under catalytic conditions is trapped and characterized using EPR and Mössbauer spectroscopy.
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https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/cc/c9cc00229d
S. I. Shylin, M. V. Pavliuk, L. D'Amario, F. Mamedov, J. Sa, G. Berggren, I. O. Fritsky. Chem. Commun. 2019, doi: 10.1039/C9CC00229D.
