Developing Photosensitizer-Cobaloxime Hybrids for Solar-Driven H2 Production in Aqueous Aerobic ConditionsAb Qayoom Mir 1, Dependu Dolui 1, Shikha Khandelwal 1, Harshil Bhatt 2, Beena Kumari 1, Sanmitra Barman 3, Sriram Kanvah 1, Arnab Dutta 1
1Chemistry Discipline, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, 2Chemistry Department, Uka Tarsadia University, 3Applied Sciences Department, BML Munjal University
We have directly incorporated a stilbene-based organic dye into a cobaloxime core to generate a photosensitizer-catalyst dyad for photocatalytic H2 production. We have also developed a simple experimental setup for evaluating the light-driven H2 production by photocatalytic assemblies.