Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Photoelectrochemical oxidation of organic substrates in organic media

  • Tengfei Li,
  • Takahito Kasahara,
  • Jingfu He,
  • Kevan E. Dettelbach,
  • Glenn M. Sammis,
  • Curtis P. Berlinguette

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00420-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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Photoelectrochemical water splitting is a promising method for H2 fuel production, but the O2 by-product generated has little economic value. Here, Berlinguette and colleagues demonstrate that BiVO4 photoanodes immersed in organic media can instead perform valuable alcohol oxidation and C–H functionalization reactions.