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Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for Journal of Materials Chemistry A. This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2015 Supplementary information for Artificial Photosynthesis Dendrimers Integrating Light- Harvesting, Electron Delivery and Hydrogen Production Zhiqing Xun,a Tianjun Yu,a Yi Zeng,*a Jinping Chen,a Xiaohui Zhang,a Guoqiang Yang,*b and Yi Li* a a Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China. E-mail: zengyi@mail.ipc.ac.cn; yili@mail.ipc.ac.cn; b Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Photochemistry Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P.R. China. E-mail: gqyang@iccas.ac.cn Synthesis and characterization of dendritic compounds General Procedure for the Synthesis of Gn-Hy: A solution of [Fe (μ-S) (CO) ] (1.0 equiv.) in dry THF (20 mL) was cooled to -78 °C, and 2 2 6 then treated with LiBHEt3 (2.1 equiv., 1 M in THF). After stirring the mixture for 10 min Gn- Br (2.0 equiv.) was added, and the mixture was warmed to room temperature for additional 2 h. A crude product was obtained by removal of the solvent, which was purified by column chromatography to give a red product. Scheme S1. Synthetic route to dendritic hydrogenase mimic G4-Hy.