title: Photoinduced water splitting with oxotitanium tetraphenylporphyrin.
abstract: Photocatalytic splitting of water was investigated in a heterogeneous system consisting of micro-crystallites of oxotitanium tetraphenylporphyrin deposited on fused silica plates, immersed in water and excited within the visible range of their absorption spectra. The water photolysis was evidenced by the spectroscopic detection of hydroxyl radicals generated in the reaction. The experimental results confirm the mechanism of water splitting and generation of OH˙ radicals proposed theoretically by Sobolewski and Domcke [Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 12807] for the oxotitaniumporphyrin-water complex. It is shown that photocatalytic water splitting occurs in pure water, and neither pH-bias nor external voltage is required to promote the reaction.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland. sobola@ifpan.edu.pl.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Morawski
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Izdebska
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Karpiuk
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nowacki
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Suchocki
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Sobolewski