Riente, Paola published the artcileShedding light on the nature of the catalytically active species in photocatalytic reactions using Bi2O3 semiconductor, COA of Formula: C4H6BrFO2, the publication is Nature Communications (2021), 12(1), 625, database is CAplus and MEDLINE.
The importance of discovering the true catalytically active species involved in photocatalytic systems allows for a better and more general understanding of photocatalytic processes, which eventually may help to improve their efficiency. Bi2O3 has been used as a heterogeneous photocatalyst and is able to catalyze several synthetically important visible-light-driven organic transformations. However, insight into the operative catalyst involved in the photocatalytic process is hitherto missing. Herein, we show through a combination of theor. and exptl. studies that the perceived heterogeneous photocatalysis with Bi2O3 in the presence of alkyl bromides involves a homogeneous BinBrm species, which is the true photocatalyst operative in the reaction. Hence, Bi2O3 can be regarded as a precatalyst which is slowly converted in an active homogeneous photocatalyst. This work can also be of importance to mechanistic studies involving other semiconductor-based photocatalytic processes.
Nature Communications published new progress about 401-55-8. 401-55-8 belongs to bromides-buliding-blocks, auxiliary class Fluoride,Bromide,Aliphatic hydrocarbon chain,Ester, name is Ethylbromofluoroacetate, and the molecular formula is C4H6BrFO2, COA of Formula: C4H6BrFO2.
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