Creation of molecular photocatalysts that promote the production of hydrogen from organic or inorganic protic solutions is of tremendous potential significance in the sense of solar energy conversion. Until now, the most successful photocatalysts for generation of hydrogen are heterogeneous systems involving transition metal complexes chemisorbed on the surface of semiconductors. 1-3 The semiconductor serves as a mediator to couple the 1e− ...
[Webb, Jonathan D.; Laberge, Veronique S.; Geier, Stephen J.; Stephane; Crudden, Cathleen M. Chemistry - A European Journal, 2010 , vol. 16, # 16 p. 4895 - 4902]