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Science 11 December 1981:
Vol. 214. no. 4526, pp. 1201 - 1205
DOI: 10.1126/science.214.4526.1201
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Solar Chemistry of Metal Complexes

Harry B. Gray 1 and Andrew W. Maverick 2

1 Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125
2 Assistant professor of chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130

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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