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Two Excited State Collaboration of Heteroleptic Ir(III)-Coumarin Complexes for H 2 Evolution Dye-Sensitized Photocatalysts

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  • Atsushi Kobayashi

    (Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, North-10 West-8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan)

  • Eiichirou Muramatsu

    (Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, North-10 West-8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan)

  • Masaki Yoshida

    (Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, North-10 West-8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan)

  • Masako Kato

    (Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, North-10 West-8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan)

Abstract

Interfacial electron injection from a photoexcited surface-immobilized dye to a semiconductor substrate is a key reaction for dye-sensitized photocatalysts. We previously reported that the molecular orientation of heteroleptic Ir(III) photosensitizer on the TiO 2 nanoparticle surface was important for efficient interfacial electron injection. In this work, to overcome the weak light absorption ability of heteroleptic Ir(III) photosensitizer and to improve the photoinduced charge-separation efficiency at the dye–semiconductor interface, we synthesized two heteroleptic Ir(III) complexes with different coumarin dyes, [Ir(C6) 2 (H 4 CPbpy)]Cl and [Ir(C30) 2 (H 4 CPbpy)]Cl [Ir-CX; X = 6 or 30; HC6 = 3-(2-enzothiazolyl)-7-(diethylamino)coumarin, HC30 = 3-(2- N -methylbenzimidazolyl)-7- N , N -diethylaminocoumarin, H 4 CPbpy = 4,4′-bis(methylphosphonic acid)-2,2′-bipyridine], as the cyclometalated ligands and immobilized them on the surface of Pt-cocatalyst-loaded TiO 2 nanoparticles. Ultraviolet-visible absorption and emission spectroscopy revealed that the singlet ligand-centered ( 1 LC) absorption and triplet 3 LC emission bands of Ir-C30 occurred at shorter wavelengths than those of Ir-C6, while time-dependent density-functional-theory data suggested that the ligand-to-ligand charge transfer (LLCT) excited states of the two complexes were comparable. The photocatalytic H 2 evolution activity of the Ir-C6-sensitized Pt-TiO 2 nanoparticles (Ir-C6@Pt-TiO 2 ) under visible light irradiation (λ > 420 nm) was higher than that of Ir-C30@Pt-TiO 2 . In contrast, their activities were comparable under irradiation with monochromatic light (λ = 450 ± 10 nm), which is absorbed comparably by both Ir-CX complexes. These results suggest that the internal conversion from the higher-lying LC state to the LLCT state effectively occurs in both Ir-CX complexes to trigger electron injection to TiO 2 .

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  • Atsushi Kobayashi & Eiichirou Muramatsu & Masaki Yoshida & Masako Kato, 2021. "Two Excited State Collaboration of Heteroleptic Ir(III)-Coumarin Complexes for H 2 Evolution Dye-Sensitized Photocatalysts," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(9), pages 1-15, April.
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