Scientists at the University of Helsinki offer new insights into the control over reaction selectivity with visible light in plasmonic catalysis.
In their discovery, it was found that by engineering the composition in nanoparticles containing Ag and Pd, visible light irradiation could be employed as a sustainable energy input not only to accelerate molecular transformations but also to enable control over reaction selectivity.
For example, by employing the hydrogenation of phenylacetylene as a model transformation, scientist demonstrated that visible-light irradiation can be employed to steer the reaction pathway from hydrogenation to homocoupling, changing the nature of the products that are generated with and without visible light illumination. The results have been published in the journal Angewandte Chemie.
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