Two-Photon Water Splitting as an Enabling Approach for Coupled Photocatalysis (A07*)

• Subject Area: Organic Molecular Chemistry - Synthesis and Characterisation
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 364549901

Two-photon water splitting is a unique mechanistic approach which allows for overall water splitting with one type of metal complex via the consecutive absorption of two photons with different wavelengths by two reaction intermediates. The project aims to build a toolkit for the general application of this approach, to transfer the reactivity from ruthenium to non-noble metal complexes and to explore synergies with soft matter matrices that provide preorganization and charge transfer capabilities.

• 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: Dr. Jacob Schneidewind