Recently,
significant progress has been made in the area of polyoxometalate-based nickel
clusters as visible light-driven water oxidation catalysts through the
cooperation between a research team led by Professor Li Yangguang and another
research team led by Professor Wang Enbo, Key Laboratory of Polyoxometalate
Science of the Ministry of Education of Faculty of Chemistry. Relevant research
results, “Polyoxometalate-Based Nickel Clusters as Visible Light-Driven Water
Oxidation Catalysts”, has been reported in Journal of The American Chemical Society (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137,
5486). The three reported new polyoxometalate (POM)-based polynuclear nickel
clusters contain quasi-cubane or cubane units, which are similar to the natural
oxygen-evolving center {Mn4O5Ca}. All three compounds show good photocatalytic
activities.
Before this achievement, progress has been made in
polyoxometalate-based light-driven water oxidation, a study carried out by the
team of Associate Professor Zhang Zhiming, Professor Li Yangguang, and
Professor Wang Enbo in the Key Laboratory of Polyoxometalate Science of the
Ministry of Education of Faculty of Chemistry in NENU. Relevant research results,
“Polyoxometalate-Based Cobalt−Phosphate Molecular Catalysts for Visible
Light-Driven Water Oxidation”, have been reported in Journal of the American Chemical Society. A series of
all-inorganic, abundant-metal-based, high-nuclearity cobalt-phosphate molecular
catalysts were synthesized in the study.
The research faculties of NENU are the first to put
forward and carry out this research on Polyoxometalate-Based Nickel Clusters as
Visible Light-Driven Water Oxidation Catalysts. The serial publications of the
above-mentioned research in an internationally important and comprehensive
journal of chemistry, Journal of the
American Chemistry Society, indicate that the research system has been accepted
and concerned by international peers.
(From News Center, translated by Zheng Songxiao,
revised by Zhang Huiping)
