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Metal complex in polymer membrane as a model for photosynthetic oxygen evolving center

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Synthesis and Photosynthesis

Part of the book series: Advances in Polymer Science ((POLYMER,volume 123))

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Photosynthesis is attracting attention as an important model of artificial photochemical conversion system in relevant to solar energy conversion for new energy resources. In the photosynthesis, dioxygen evolution is the most important process which provides electrons to the whole photochemical system. Several proposals have been put forward to elucidate the mechanism in the dioxygen formation from two water molecules and four molecules of one-electron oxidation catalyst. The protein part of the oxygen evolving center plays an important role for the catalysis. However, these mechanisms remain the most obscure part of plant photosynthesis. In order to construct artificial photosynthesis for the future energy source, it is important to utilize heterogeneous system such as polymer aggregates. The present authors have established new and active water oxidation catalysts as models for the photosynthesis especially by using heterogeneous polymer systems.

This review article mainly summarizes the work done on artificial water oxidation processes using polymer membranes, and the mechanism of the dioxygen evolution will be discussed. In the model water oxidation systems studied, the multielectron transfer catalytic metal complexes such as Mn and Ru are oxidized by chemical, electrochemical and photochemical methods to produce reactive higher oxidation states which oxidize two water molecules to liberate dioxygen both in homogeneous and heterogeneous polymer membrane systems. Structural reorganization of the catalytic molecules in the polymer membrane during dioxygen evolution is also described. Visible light splitting of water has been achieved by a system composed of a semiconductor photoanode modified with a polymer membrane incorporating water oxidation catalysts.

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    R. Ramaraj

  2. Department of Chemistry, Ibaraki University, 310, Mito, Ibaraki, Japan

    M. Kaneko

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Ramaraj, R., Kaneko, M. (1995). Metal complex in polymer membrane as a model for photosynthetic oxygen evolving center. In: Synthesis and Photosynthesis. Advances in Polymer Science, vol 123. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58908-2_5

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