{"term":{"id":"13993","title":"artificial photosynthesis","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - artificial photosynthesis","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.13993","code":"13993","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Photocatalytic production of substances from simple compounds (e.g., \\(\\ce{H2}\\) and \\(\\ce{O2}\\) from water, \\(\\ce{H2}\\) from hydrogen sulfide, etc.) using ultraviolet, visible, or infrared radiation absorbed by chromophoric systems, often included in microheterogeneous media, mimicking the action of antennae and reaction centres in natural photosynthetic organisms.","notes":{"1":"Antennae (also called light-harvesting centres) are molecular structures enhancing the wavelength range and sensitivity of the photosynthetic units, due to an increase in light absorption."},"links":[{"term":"natural photosynthesis","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/14029"}],"sources":["PAC, 2011, 83, 931. 'Glossary of terms used in photocatalysis and radiation catalysis (IUPAC Recommendations 2011)' on page 940 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/PAC-REC-09-09-36)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13993\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13993\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13993\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'artificial photosynthesis' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.13993","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-05-07T00:06:56+00:00"}}