Machine‐Learning‐Assisted Discovery of Mechanosynthesized Lead‐Free Metal Halide Perovskites for the Oxidative Photocatalytic Cleavage of Alkenes

作者：Yonghao Xiao, Khokan Choudhuri, Adisak Thanetchaiyakup, Wei Xin Chan, Xinwen Hu, Mansour Sadek, Ying Hern Tam, Ryan Guanying Loh, Sharifah Nadhirah Binte Shaik Mohammed, Kendric Jian Ying Lim, Ju Zheng Ten, Felipe Garcı́a, Vijila Chellappan, Tej S. Choksi, Yee‐Fun Lim, Han Sen Soo · 发表于：Advanced Science · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1002/advs.202309714 · 被引用次数：21 · 研究领域：Perovskite Materials and Applications、Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques、Machine Learning in Materials Science

Abstract Lead‐free metal halide perovskites can potentially be air‐ and water‐stable photocatalysts for organic synthesis, but there are limited studies on them for this application. Separately, machine learning (ML), a critical subfield of artificial intelligence, has played a pivotal role in identifying correlations and formulating predictions based on extensive datasets. Herein, an iterative workflow by incorporating high‐throughput experimental data with ML to discover new lead‐free metal halide perovskite photocatalysts for the aerobic oxidation of styrene is described. Through six rounds of ML optimization guided by SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) analysis, BA 2 CsAg 0.95 Na 0.05 BiBr 7 as a photocatalyst that afforded an 80% yield of benzoic acid under the standard conditions is identified, which is a 13‐fold improvement compared to the 6% with when using Cs 2 AgBiBr 6 as the initial photocatalyst benchmark that is started. BA 2 CsAg 0.95 Na 0.05 BiBr 7 can tolerate various functional groups with 22 styrene derivatives, highlighting the generality of the photocatalytic properties demonstrated. Radical scavenging studies and density functional theory calculations revealed that the formation of the reactive oxygen species superoxide and singlet oxygen in the presence of BA 2 CsAg 0.95 Na 0.05 BiBr 7 are critical for photocatalysis.