Solar fuels have the potential to be carbon neutral fuels that would require very little change to our current fuel infrastructure.  One way to achieve these solar fuels is through the use of ruthenium polypyridyls which are some of the most studied chromophores in literature.  They have been used for decades to drive a variety of electro catalysts through the photo excited state.  The rate of recombination of the electron and hole in the excited state have a drastic effect on the quantum yield of the product of the catalytic reaction.  Our research is focused on incorporating molecular electronic devices into homogeneous intramolecular photocatalytic systems using ruthenium as the chromophore.  We are focused on ligand modification to improve the rectifying nature of a molecular diode and improve linker catalyst pairing.<br/>

Incorporation of molecular diodes into ruthenium photocatalytic systems

256th National Meeting (2018)

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