The researchers deployed a special quantum effect called the two-photon spin-exchange Auger process to produce hot electrons far more efficiently than before. This process allows two low-energy ...

Researchers in the US have looked to biology to develop an anionic organic photocatalyst that can reduce arenes with visible ...

In addition to the reduction half-reaction with hot electrons, also the corresponding oxidation counter-half-reaction must take place since otherwise the overall redox reaction cannot proceed.

Chemists at the School of Science of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have recently made ...

In a reduction process one or more electrons is added to an aton, ion or molecule. This reaction takes place at the cathode of an electrochemical cell (a cathodic reaction). The cathode is the ...

However, photocatalytic reactions through a multielectron transfer process have been less developed, so photocatalytic reduction of esters to form alcohols, which requires four electrons, has ...

Reduction of esters by a novel photocatalyst Date: June 17, 2024 Source: National Institutes of Natural Sciences Summary: ... esters, scientists actually add electrons to the compound.