Search Results - "Brudvig, Gary W"
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Progress Toward a Molecular Mechanism of Water Oxidation in Photosystem II
Published in Annual review of physical chemistry (05-05-2017)“…The active site of photosynthetic water oxidation is the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) in the photosystem II (PSII) reaction center. The OEC is a Mn 4 CaO 5…”
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The O2‑Evolving Complex of Photosystem II: Recent Insights from Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics (QM/MM), Extended X‑ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS), and Femtosecond X‑ray Crystallography Data
Published in Accounts of chemical research (17-01-2017)“…Efficient photoelectrochemical water oxidation may open a way to produce energy from renewable solar power. In biology, generation of fuel due to water…”
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Active sites of copper-complex catalytic materials for electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction
Published in Nature communications (29-01-2018)“…Restructuring-induced catalytic activity is an intriguing phenomenon of fundamental importance to rational design of high-performance catalyst materials. We…”
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Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to Hydrocarbons on a Heterogeneous Molecular Cu Catalyst in Aqueous Solution
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (06-07-2016)“…Exploration of heterogeneous molecular catalysts combining the atomic-level tunability of molecular structures and the practical handling advantages of…”
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Water-Splitting Chemistry of Photosystem II
Published in Chemical reviews (01-11-2006)“…The water-splitting chemistry of the enzyme photosystem II is discussed. In particular, the "donor side" oxidation pathway is examined…”
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Water oxidation chemistry of photosystem II
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (27-03-2008)“…Photosystem II (PSII) uses light energy to split water into protons, electrons and O…”
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Highly Active and Robust Cp Iridium Complexes for Catalytic Water Oxidation
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (01-07-2009)“…A series of Cp*Ir catalysts are the most active known by over an order of magnitude for water oxidation with Ce(IV). DFT calculations support a Cp*IrO complex…”
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Photosynthetic Water Oxidation: Insights from Manganese Model Chemistry
Published in Accounts of chemical research (17-03-2015)“…Conspectus Catalysts for light-driven water oxidation are a critical component for development of solar fuels technology. The multielectron redox chemistry…”
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Stable iridium dinuclear heterogeneous catalysts supported on metal-oxide substrate for solar water oxidation
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (20-03-2018)“…Atomically dispersed catalysts refer to substrate-supported heterogeneous catalysts featuring one or a few active metal atoms that are separated from one…”
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Synthesis and Reactivity of Paramagnetic Nickel Polypyridyl Complexes Relevant to C(sp2)–C(sp3)Coupling Reactions
Published in Angewandte Chemie (International ed.) (23-04-2019)“…A number of new transition metal catalyzed methods for the formation of C(sp2)–C(sp3) bonds have recently been described. These reactions often utilize…”
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Mechanistic Study of an Improved Ni Precatalyst for Suzuki–Miyaura Reactions of Aryl Sulfamates: Understanding the Role of Ni(I) Species
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (18-01-2017)“…Nickel precatalysts are potentially a more sustainable alternative to traditional palladium precatalysts for the Suzuki–Miyaura coupling reaction. Currently,…”
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Facet-Dependent Photoelectrochemical Performance of TiO2 Nanostructures: An Experimental and Computational Study
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (04-02-2015)“…The behavior of crystalline nanoparticles depends strongly on which facets are exposed. Some facets are more active than others, but it is difficult to…”
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Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation by a Copper(II) Complex of an Oxidation-Resistant Ligand
Published in ACS catalysis (05-05-2017)“…The copper(II) complex Cu(pyalk)2 (pyalk = 2-pyridyl-2-propanoate) is a robust homogeneous water-oxidation electrocatalyst under basic conditions (pH >…”
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Heme biomolecule as redox mediator and oxygen shuttle for efficient charging of lithium-oxygen batteries
Published in Nature communications (19-10-2016)“…One of the greatest challenges with lithium-oxygen batteries involves identifying catalysts that facilitate the growth and evolution of cathode species on an…”
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Functional models for the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II
Published in Coordination chemistry reviews (01-02-2008)“…In the last 10 years, a number of advances have been made in the study of the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) of photosystem II (PSII). Along with this new…”
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Hematite-Based Solar Water Splitting in Acidic Solutions: Functionalization by Mono- and Multilayers of Iridium Oxygen-Evolution Catalysts
Published in Angewandte Chemie (International ed.) (21-09-2015)“…Solar water splitting in acidic solutions has important technological implications, but has not been demonstrated to date in a dual absorber…”
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Comparing Photosynthetic and Photovoltaic Efficiencies and Recognizing the Potential for Improvement
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (13-05-2011)“…Comparing photosynthetic and photovoltaic efficiencies is not a simple issue. Although both processes harvest the energy in sunlight, they operate in…”
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Structure of a monomeric photosystem II core complex from a cyanobacterium acclimated to far-red light reveals the functions of chlorophylls d and f
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (01-01-2022)“…Far-red light (FRL) photoacclimation in cyanobacteria provides a selective growth advantage for some terrestrial cyanobacteria by expanding the range of…”
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Half-Sandwich Iridium Complexes for Homogeneous Water-Oxidation Catalysis
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (17-11-2010)“…Iridium half-sandwich complexes of the types Cp*Ir(N−C)X, [Cp*Ir(N−N)X]X, and [CpIr(N−N)X]X are catalyst precursors for the homogeneous oxidation of water to…”
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Cytochrome b₅₅₉ and cyclic electron transfer within photosystem II
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta (2012)“…Cytochrome b₅₅₉ (Cyt b₅₅₉), β-carotene (Car), and chlorophyll (Chl) cofactors participate in the secondary electron-transfer pathways in photosystem II (PSII),…”
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