Gadolinium porphyrinate double-deckers for visible light driven H2 evolution

Porphyrins and phthalocyanines as biomimetic tools for photocatalytic H2production and CO2reduction

“…Another report from the same team concerned the photocatalytic H 2 production of a series of modified Gd-porphyrins in the presence of Pt NPs. 90 The Gd bisporphyrinate double decker with pyridyl peripheral groups (GdH(TPyP) 2 ) exhibited the highest activity reaching 13.8 mmol g −1 h −1 (Table 3, entry 25), while the corresponding Gd monoporphyrinate with the same peripheral substitution (Gd(TPyP)acac) was totally inactive. In this study, the authors were able to obtain different supramolecular architectures by altering the solvent mixture and the peripheral substitution, however, the different nanostructures had no effect on the photocatalytic performance of the complexes.…”