Microporous Macroligands for Everlasting CO2 Conversion

The team of J. Canivet and F. Wisser at IRCELYON has started 2020 by publishing in Angewandte Chemie International Edition an unprecedented heterogeneous photosystem fully integrated into a single porous matrix able to convert atmospheric carbon dioxide into formate, as a green fuel, without any loss of productivity after 4 days of continuous visible light illumination. This can only be achieved thank to the rational design of multifunctional porous macroligands. J. Canivet and F. Wisser shared a vision of the continuum between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis with the concept of microporous macroligands inChemCatChem.