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

• Subject Area: Inorganic Molecular Chemistry - Synthesis and Characterisation
• Term: since 2025
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 364549901

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