Facets in metal halide perovskite nanocrystals for the photoinduced electron transfer annulation reaction

Abstract

Facet engineering has been confirmed as a feasible method to regulate the performance of photocatalysts. Here we take photoinduced decarboxylative cyclization of N-aryl glycine and N-aryl maleimide as a model reaction to explore the influence of metal halide perovskite nanocrystal facets on the photocatalytic performance of organic synthesis. In terms of promoted charge-carrier dynamics and the suitable adsorption potentials for the substrate and intermediate, cubes with four (110) and two (002) facets exhibited higher activity for photocatalytic cascade cyclization than polyhedra.