Multinuclear Transition Metal Complexes for the Photocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide (B09*)

本3MET项目合成和表征了用于人工光合作用的新型双核和三核过渡金属配合物，并评价了它们在光催化还原二氧化碳方面的活性。它专注于以地球上丰富的金属为基础的多核金属络合物，如铜、锌、铁、钴或镍。它通过修饰螯合单元和连接基部分来设计桥联配体，以调节电子相互作用。它研究了金属核之间的协同效应，以设计新的3MET配合物的激发态、光物理和电化学性质。

This 3MET project synthesizes and characterizes new di- and trinuclear transition metal complexes for artificial photosynthesis, and it evaluate their activity in the photocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide. It focusses on multinuclear metal complexes based on earth-abundant metals, such as copper, zinc, iron, cobalt or nickel. It designs bridging ligands by modifying the chelating units and the linker moiety to modulate elec-tronic interactions. It investigates cooperative effects of the metal cores in order to engineer the excited states, the photophysical and the electrochemical properties of the new 3MET complexes.