Visible-light induced hydrogen production using a polypeptide-chlorophyll complex with alpha-helix conformation.

Photochem Photobiol Sci

Department of Chemistry and BioScience, Faculty of Science, Kagoshima University, 1-21-35 Korimoto, Kagoshima, 890-0065, Japan.

Published: February 2007

Hydrogen production was accomplished under visible-light irradiation by using a system consisting of a biomolecule (chlorophyll a), methylviologen, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid disodium salt and Pt-loaded poly(l-glutamate) (Poly(Glu)), in aqueous decylammonium chloride (DeAC) solution. Spectroscopic studies revealed that chlorophyll a is solubilized in the hydrophobic clusters of Pt-loaded Poly(Glu)-decylammonium chloride. In the Poly(Glu)-DeAC complex, the electron transfer occurred between chlorophyll a and methylviologen leading to hydrogen production. The most noticeable result is that the rate of hydrogen evolution depends on the change from the random coil to the alpha-helix in conformation of Poly(Glu) induced by the cooperative binding with DeAC.

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