We have developed highly efficient, ambient temperature, solid-state ionic conductors (SSICs) for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) by doping a molecular plastic crystal, succinonitrile (SN), with trialkyl-substituted imidazolium iodide salts. High performance SSICs with enhanced ionic conductivity (2-4 mScm⁻¹) were obtained. High performance solid-state DSSCs with power conversion efficiency ...

An electrochemical version of the Corey-Winter reaction was developed giving excellent results in aqueous methanol media (MeOH/H2O (80:20) with AcOH/AcONa buffer 0.5 M as supporting electrolyte), using a reticulated vitreous carbon as cathode in a divided cell. The electrochemical version is much more environmentally friendly than the classical reaction, where a large excess of trialkyl phosphi...

Thioether-phosphite ligands (SP’s) with axially chiral (S)-H0- or (S)-H8-binaphthyl moiety and their [Rh(COD)(SP)]BF4 complexes have been synthesized to study coordination chemistry catalytic features compare them those of the structurally analogous phosphine-phosphites (PP’s). NMR exchange studies on showed selective 1,5-cyclooctadiene dynamics. Firm evidence has found that this fluxional proc...

The extraction behaviour of zirconium(IV) from sulfuric acid medium has been studied with a binary mixture tri-n-octyl amine (TOA) and Cyanex923 (a four trialkyl phosphine oxides) in kerosene using novel liquid-liquid method. Quantitative TOA was by changing different parameters such as variation, extractant effect chloride ion concentration, temperature, metal concentration diluent effect, pH ...