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NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
Volume 40, Issue 2, Pages 994-1003Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5nj01099c
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- IISER-Kolkata, India
- DST-fast track
- BRNS-DAE grant
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Development of efficient and oxidatively stable molecular catalysts having abundant transition metals at the active site is an immediate challenge to synthetic chemists in order to photochemically split water into clean fuels oxygen and hydrogen to serve the ever-increasing energy demand. Herein we report a soft-oxometalate (SOM)-based heterogeneous photocatalytic system which effectively performs water oxidation giving oxygen. In the present work we placed a double sandwich type manganese -based polyoxometalate (POM), Na-17(Mn6P3W24O94(H2O)(2)]center dot 43H(2)O, on an electroactive graphene oxide matrix and synthesized a new SOM [Na-17[M(n)6P(3)W(24)O(94)(H2O)(2)].43H(2)O@graphene oxide] 1 and performed water oxidation with it. The efficiency of photocatalytic water oxidation by SOM 1 is almost double than in the case of NavIMn P W (H2O)(2)]center dot 43H(2)O alone. The rationale behind this lies in the electron accepting reaction nature of the graphene sheets which effectively relay the electrons generated in the water oxidation reaction, thus facilitating the forward reaction and increasing the oxygen yield. Variation of catalyst loading, pH-dependent and time -dependent experiments are performed to study their effects on photocatalytic water-splitting. The reaction kinetics is sigmoidal in nature, suggesting the heterogeneous nature of catalysis. The composite catalyst system is observed to be stable towards the reaction conditions.
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