title: Facile synthesis of a ruthenium assembly and its application for light-driven oxidation of alcohols in water.
abstract: A supramolecular assembly containing two light harvesting fragments [Ru(tpy)2](2+) and one catalytic unit [Ru(tpy)(bpy)Cl](+) was synthesized in a facile manner in 90% yield, and exhibited high photocatalytic product-selectivity compared with the corresponding bimolecular system in the light-driven oxidation of alcohols using [Co(NH3)5Cl]Cl2 as a sacrificial oxidant in water at room temperature.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, CAS-HKU Joint Laboratory on New Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China.
authors.forename: Duobin
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chao
authors.forename: Wen-Fu
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Fu