Inorganic Chemistry
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CO were produced, together with 46% of THIQ converted
after irradiation for 5 days (Table 1, entry 13). It is obvious
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that MOF-253-Ru(dcbpy) is more active than the doped Ru-
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MOF-253 even though both catalysts contain almost similar
catalytically active Ru moieties and have comparable specific
surface areas. This result is not difficult to understand if we
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
consider that the photocatalytic CO reduction over the bpy-
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containing Ru complexes involves the breaking of one of the
This work was supported by NSFC (21872031 and
U1705251). Z.L. thanks the Award Program for Minjiang
Scholar Professorship for financial support.
Ru−N bonds to create an empty site for CO insertion. In
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comparison with supported MOF-253-Ru(dcbpy) , the stron-
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ger interaction between Ru moieties and the framework in Ru-
MOF-253 leads to a stronger Ru−N bond, which is more
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