Crystal phase and vacancies play an important role in regulating photocatalytic activity. In this work, sulfur vacancy-enriched rhombohedral ZnIn 2 S 4 was obtained by calcining hexagonal ZnIn 2 S 4 with poor sulfur vacancies under a nitrogen atmosphere. Based on the results of theoretical calculations and photocatalytic performance, it was found that the synergy of crystal phase and sulfur vacancies resulted in highly efficient photocatalytic overall water splitting under visible light irradiation. The lighter average effective mass of photogenerated electrons and holes in the rhombohedral ZnIn 2 S 4 accelerates the separation of photogenerated carriers, which plays a major role in achieving overall water splitting activity. An appropriate amount of sulfur vacancies can further improve the overall water splitting performance, which plays a supplementary role. More importantly, the solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency of sulfur vacancy-enriched rhombohedral ZnIn 2 S 4 reaches 0.021%, which is the highest reported efficiency for single-phase ZnIn 2 S 4 .

A copper‐catalyzed formal allylboration of terminal alkynes using allyl bromides or sulfonates as electrophiles has been achieved. This method exhibits good regio‐/stereoselectivity and good functional‐group tolerance for various substituents on the aromatic rings of arylethynes. Through this strategy, various trisubstituted vinyl pinacol boronic esters with a 1,4‐diene skeleton have been constructed. In order to demonstrate the utility of this method, the resulting 1,4‐dienes with boron substitution were further used in transformations such as Suzuki coupling, oxidation, halogenation, and so on, leading to various important compounds.

Previous reports have found that surface sulfur vacancies can improve the hydrogen production performance of ZnIn2S4, and oxygen atom doping can improve its water oxidation ability. However, the simultaneous introduction...