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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lin, Hong‐Yu
• Zhou, Le‐Yong
• Xu, Lin

Titel

Photocatalysis in Supramolecular Fluorescent Metallacycles and Metallacages

Ist Teil von

• Chemistry, an Asian journal, 2021-12, Vol.16 (23), p.3805-3816

Ort / Verlag

Germany

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Wiley-Blackwell Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The utilization of photocatalytic techniques for achieving light‐to‐fuel conversion is a promising way to ease the shortage of energy and degradation of the ecological environment. Fluorescent metallacycles and metallacages have drawn considerable attention and have been used in widespread fields due to easy preparation and their abundant functionality including photocatalysis. This review covers recent advances in photocatalysis in discrete supramolecular fluorescent metallacycles and metallacages. The developments in the utilization of the metallacycles skeletons and the effect of fluorescence‐resonance energy transfer for photocatalysis are discussed. Furthermore, the use of the ligands decorated by organic chromophores or redox metal sites in metallacages as photocatalysts and their ability to encapsulate appropriate catalytic cofactors for photocatalysis are summarized. For the sake of brevity, macrocycles and cages with inorganic coordination complexes such as ruthenium complexes and iridium complexes are not included in this minireview. This review introduces recent advances in photocatalysis in discrete supramolecular fluorescent metallacycles and metallacages. The effects of metallacycles skeletons to overcome aggregation‐caused quenching effect and fluorescence‐resonance energy transfer for photocatalysis are discussed. The utilization of confined space in metallacages can accelerate the rate of reaction and improve the selectivity for photocatalysis.