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Published December 11, 1981 | public
Journal Article

Solar Chemistry of Metal Complexes

Abstract

Electronic excited states of certain transition metal complexes undergo oxidation-reduction reactions that store chemical energy. Such reactions have been extensively explored for mononuclear complexes. Two classes of polynuclear species exhibit similar properties, and these complexes are now being studied as possible homogeneous sensitizer-catalysts for hydrogen production from aqueous solutions.

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© 1981 American Association for the Advancement of Science. For several years our research in inorganic and organometallic photochemistry has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (Chemical Dynamics Program). Collaboration with researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and with Dr. D. S. Kliger and his group at Santa Cruz has been aided by grants from the Continental Group Foundation, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director's Discretionary Fund, and the U.S. Department of Energy. Instrumentation was obtained with grants from the National Science Foundation (CHE78- 10530) and from the Union Oil Company of California Foundation. Certain rhodium and iridium salts used in our research were lent to us by Johnson Matthey, Inc. A.W.M. acknowledges the National Science Foundation (1977 to 1980) and the Standard Oil Co. (Ohio) (1980 and 1981) for graduate fellowships. This is contribution No. 6415 from the Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory.

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