Recently, substantial efforts had been made in the field of synthetic iron compounds as structural and functional models of the hydrogenase enzyme active site for the purpose of developing potential catalysts for effective and inexpensive hydrogen evolution. Amongst the bioinspired mimics, the iron carbonyl compounds bearing aromatic dithiolate bridged ligands featured the robust and tunable reductions at relatively positive potentials, and provided an appealing scaffold for easily molecular engineering, modular variation, functionalized incorporation/encapsulation of the mimetic compounds. This article surveyed and discussed a wide variety of mono-, di-, poly-nuclear iron carbonyl compounds with aromatic dithiolate bridges as synthetic “artificial” mimics of the catalytic site of [FeFe] hydrogenase in terms of structures, syntheses, redox properties, electrocatalytic characteristics in organic and aqueous solutions, and photocatalytic hydrogen evolutions. We hope that the descriptions and discussions in present review will shed light on some helpful aspects for further development of new generations of artificial catalysts for a future hydrogen economy.

近来，在合成铁化合物领域中已作了大量努力，以作为加氢酶活性位点的结构和功能模型，目的是开发潜在的催化剂以有效和廉价地析出氢。在受生物启发的模拟物中，带有芳族二硫醇盐桥接的配体的羰基铁化合物在相对正电势下具有强劲且可调的还原性，并为易于分子工程，模块化变异，功能化掺入/封装模拟化合物提供了诱人的支架。本文就结构上，合成方式，[FeFe]加氢酶催化位点的合成，合成的“人工”模拟物进行了调查，并讨论了各种带有芳香族二硫醇盐桥的单，二，多核羰基铁化合物。氧化还原特性，有机和水溶液中的电催化特性以及光催化氢的释放。我们希望，本综述中的描述和讨论将为进一步发展未来的氢经济的新一代人工催化剂提供一些有益的方面。