Photoelectrochemical oxidation of organic substrates in organic media

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

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00420-y

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

Affiliations

Tengfei Li: Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia
Takahito Kasahara: Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia
Jingfu He: Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia
Kevan E. Dettelbach: Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia
Glenn M. Sammis: Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia
Curtis P. Berlinguette: Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia

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

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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.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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