Efficient Photochemical Water Oxidation by a Molecular Catalyst Immobilized onto Metal Oxides
Photocatalytic water oxidation with a sacrifical electron acceptor has been studied using a ruthenium complexes adsorbed onto metal oxides as an active water oxidation catalyst. The amount of the O2 evolved with the complex incorporated into RuO2 was five to fourteen times as large as that with RuO2.