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Novel homogeneous photocatalyst for oxygen to hydrogen peroxide reduction in aqueous media

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An isoquinolinium-pyrrole donor–acceptor dyad was found to exhibit photocatalytic activity in oxygento-peroxide photoreduction with oxalate as a sacrificial electron donor. The concentration of hydrogen peroxide was shown to reach a plateau of 0.57 mM. The screening of related pyridinium-pyrrole dyads showed the importance of the isoquinoline moiety in securing the photocatalytic activity.

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    Daniil A. Lukyanov, Liya D. Funt, Alexander S. Konev, Alexey V. Povolotskiy, Anatoliy A. Vereshchagin, Oleg V. Levin & Alexander F. Khlebnikov

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Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Calibration curve for titanyl oxalate photometric analysis, UV-Vis spectra of compounds I–III, other data on electrochemical and photophysical study of IIa. See DOI: 10.1039/c9pp00206e

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Lukyanov, D.A., Funt, L.D., Konev, A.S. et al. Novel homogeneous photocatalyst for oxygen to hydrogen peroxide reduction in aqueous media. Photochem Photobiol Sci 18, 1982–1989 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1039/c9pp00206e

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