“One-Pot” Solar Fuels

Chemists have always taken great pride in simplifying a complex multistep chemical synthesis into a single step process, in just one reactor. The motivation for doing so, apart from demonstrating synthetic competency and elegance, is the pursuit of green and sustainable solutions to chemical problems, as single step strategies have the inherent advantage of being atomically, energetically and economically efficient, as well as environmentally friendly and responsible.