Chemistry Letters, Vol.41, No.1, 29-31, 2012
Pentose Acting as a Sacrificial Multielectron Source in Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution from Water by Pt-doped TiO2
Photocatalytic reaction was performed by irradiation of Pt-doped TiO2 in an aqueous solution of xylose acting as a sacrificial reagent to evolve hydrogen, whose amounts reached 8.6 equivalents to the xylose used.