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Inside Back Cover: Selective Reduction of Aqueous Protons to Hydrogen with a Synthetic Cobaloxime Catalyst in the Presence of Atmospheric Oxygen (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 37/2012)
Author(s) -
Lakadamyali Fezile,
Kato Masaru,
Muresan Nicoleta M.,
Reisner Erwin
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201206125
Subject(s) - catalysis , aqueous solution , cobalt , chemistry , hydrogen , cover (algebra) , oxygen , water splitting , photochemistry , inorganic chemistry , chemical engineering , photocatalysis , organic chemistry , mechanical engineering , engineering
The economical splitting of water into the fuel H 2 and the by‐product O 2 requires inexpensive catalysts that operate in aqueous solution and in the presence of O 2 . In their Communication on page 9381 ff., E. Reisner et al. show that a synthetic cobalt catalyst evolves H 2 electro‐ and photocatalytically under the highly demanding conditions of pH‐neutral water and under atmospheric O 2 . The picture shows the preference of the cobalt catalyst for aqueous protons, and the evolution of H 2 bubbles upon irradiation with visible light in air.