Integration of Nobel metal-free Catalysts in Photosensitizer-Catalyst Dyads and functionalized Soft Matter Matrixes to enable light-driven catalysis (A08*)

This project provides a large pool of 3d metal complexes (M = Fe, Co, Ni, Cu) that will be screened in a high-throughput approach to identify active combinations with photosensitizers for the photocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction. Those will be used to realize a series of covalently linked photosensitizer-catalyst dyads. Furthermore, catalytically active complexes for water oxidation already investigated in the Weber group are functionalized with alkyl chains to enable integration into lipid bilayers or for integration into hydrogels.

DFG Programme CRC/Transregios

Subproject of TRR 234:  Light-driven Molecular Catalysts in Hierarchically Structured Materials – Synthesis and Mechanistic Studies

Applicant Institution Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

Project Head Professorin Dr. Birgit Weber