Publications related to Crown ether

Interfacial engineering through lead binding using crown ethers in perovskite solar cells

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Jovana Milic, Yeonju Kim, Jiyoun Seo

In the domain of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), the imperative to reconcile impressive photovoltaic performance with lead-related issue and environmental stability has driven innovative solutions. This study pioneers an approach that not only rectifies lea ...

Elsevier2024

LiBF4‐Induced Rearrangement and Desymmetrization of a Palladium‐Ligand Assembly

Rosario Scopelliti, Kay Severin, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Sylvain Alexandre Marie Sudan

Thirteen palladium-ligand assemblies with different structures and topologies were investigated for the ability to bind lithium ions. In one case, the addition of LiBF4 resulted in a profound structural rearrangement, converting a dincluclear [Pd2L4]2 comp ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2022

Multimodal host–guest complexation for efficient and stable perovskite photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, David Lyndon Emsley, Ursula Röthlisberger, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Jovana Milic, Marko Mladenovic, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Hong Zhang, Dan Ren, Zaiwei Wang, Michael Allan Hope, Paramvir Ahlawat, Aditya Mishra, Zhaowen Dong, Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi, Anurag Krishna, Jinming Guo, Olivier Ouellette, Zhiwen Zhou, Tzu-Sen Su

Formamidinium lead iodide perovskites are promising light-harvesting materials, yet stabilizing them under operating conditions without compromising optimal optoelectronic properties remains challenging. We report a multimodal host–guest complexation strat ...

Nature Research2021

Radical-Cation Cascade to Aryltetralin Cyclic Ether Lignans Under Visible-Light Photoredox Catalysis

Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu, Jia-Chen Xiang

The development of concise, sustainable, and cost-effective synthesis of aryltetralin lignans, bearing either a fused lactone or cyclic ether, is of significant medicinal importance. Reported is that in the presence of Fukuzumi's acridinium salt under blue ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020

Generalized Synthesis to Produce Transparent Thin Films of Ternary Metal Oxide Photoelectrodes

Kevin Sivula, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Florent Alexandre Boudoire, Charles Roger Jean Lhermitte, Annalisa Polo

Developing facile approaches to prepare non-light-scattering ternary oxide thin film photoelectrodes is an important goal for solar water splitting tandem cells. Herein, a novel synthesis route is reported that employs ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

New composites for extraction of metal or contaminating chemical species

Wendy Lee Queen, Daniel Teav Sun

he present invention relates to a composite for extracting one or more metal or contaminating chemical species from an aerial or aqueous medium by selective binding, said composite comprising at least one porous template functionalized by at least one poly ...

2019

UV and IR Spectroscopy of Transition Metal–Crown Ether Complexes in the Gas Phase: Mn2+(benzo-15-crown-5)(H2O)0–2

Thomas Rizzo, Yoshiya Inokuchi

Ultraviolet photodissociation (UVPD) and IR–UV double-resonance spectroscopy are performed for bare and microhydrated complexes of Mn2+(benzo-15-crown-5), Mn2+(B15C5)(H2O)n (n = 0–2), under cold (∼10 K) gas-phase conditions. Density functional theory (DFT) ...

2019

Incorporation of rubidium cations into perovskite solar cells improves photovoltaic performance

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Michael Saliba, Antonio Abate, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Konrad Domanski, Jiyoun Seo, Amita Ummadisingu, Taisuke Matsui

All of the cations currently used in perovskite solar cells abide by the tolerance factor for incorporation into the lattice. We show that the small and oxidation-stable rubidium cation (Rb+) can be embedded into a "cation cascade" to create perovskite mat ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2016

Laser Spectroscopic Study of Cold Host–Guest Complexes of Crown Ethers in the Gas Phase

Thomas Rizzo, Oleg Boyarkine, Yoshiya Inokuchi

A laser spectroscopic study on the structure and dynamics of cold host–guest inclusion complexes of crown ethers (CEs) with various neutral and ionic species in the gas phase is presented. The complexes with neutral guest species are formed by using supers ...

2013

Atomic Oxygen Chemisorption on Carbon Nanotubes Revisited with Theory and Experiment

Wanda Andreoni, Fabio Pietrucci, Alessandro Curioni

Density-functional-theory based calculations of two single-walled carbon nanotubes of different chirality settle open issues on the sidewall chemisorption of atomic oxygen at low concentrations. Ether groups are the thermodynamically favored configurations ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

UV Spectroscopic Studies of Cold Alkali Metal Ion–Crown Ether Complexes in the Gas Phase

Thomas Rizzo, Oleg Boyarkine, Yoshiya Inokuchi

We report UV photodissociation (UVPD) spectra of dibenzo-18-crown-6 (DB18C6) complexes with alkali metal ions (Li+, Na+, K+, Rb+, and Cs+) in a cold, 22-pole ion trap. All the complexes show a number of vibronically resolved bands, but the vibronic structu ...

American Chemical Society2011

Four-electron oxygen reduction by Tetrathiafulvalene

Hubert Girault, Astrid Johana Olaya Avendano, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Péter Kalman Péchy, Jérôme Florian Gonthier, Peiyu Ge

The four-electron reduction of oxygen by tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) in acidified 1,2-dichloroethane and at the acidified water/1,2-dichloroethane interface has been observed. Spectroscopy and ion transfer voltammetry results suggest that the reaction proceed ...

2011

Crystallisation of inorganic salts containing 18-crown-6 from ionic liquids

Paul Joseph Dyson, Rosario Scopelliti, Gabor Laurenczy, Zhaofu Fei, Ning Yan

Reaction of the zwitterionic imidazolium salt [(CH2COOH)(CH2COO)i.m.] with K2CO3 or BaO in the presence of 18-crown-6 affords the salts [(CH2COO)2i.m.][K(18-crown-6)] and [(CH2COO)2i.m.]2[Ba(18-crown-6)]. Recrystn. of these crown complexes from the ionic l ...

Elsevier2010

Grafting Crown Ether Alkali Host-Guest Complexes at Surfaces by Electrospray Ion Beam Deposition

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Nicha Thontasen

The functionalization of surfaces with host guest compounds is promising for many applications, yet often limited by constraints such as the volatility of the functional compound or the lack of binding to the surface. We use electrospray ion beam depositio ...

2010

Suzuki Coupling Reactions in Ether-Functionalized Ionic Liquids: The Importance of Weakly Interacting Cations

Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Andrew Douglas Phillips, Christian Hartinger, Yuehui Li, Xuemei Yang

Imidazolium- and pyridinium-based ionic liqs. with ether/polyether substituents have been evaluated as solvents for palladium-catalyzed Suzuki C-C coupling reactions. In general, reactions proceed more efficiently in these solvents compared to other ionic ...

2008

Self-assembly of boron-based supramolecular structures

Nicolas Christinat

This work describes the synthesis and characterization of boronic acid-based supramolecular structures. Macrocycles, dendritic structures, polymers, rotaxanes, and cages were assembled using four types of reversible reactions. The key point of the strategy ...

EPFL2008

Supramolecular chemistry of 12-Metallacrown-3 complexes

Zacharias Immanuel Grote

12-Metallacrown-3 complexes were formed by self-assembly of organometallic half-sandwich complexes [(π-ligand)MCl2]2 (M = Ru, Rh, Ir) and 3-hydroxy-2-pyridone ligands in the presence of Cs2CO3 as base. Upon mixing of different macrocycles, reversible metal ...

EPFL2006

NMR, PGSE diffusion, and X-ray diffraction studies of lithium and potassium salts derived from diphenylphosphino(o-cyanophenyl)aniline and their crown ether complexes

Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei

H-1, P-31, and Li-7 pulsed-gradient spin-echo (PGSE) diffusion and variable-temperature NMR results for THF solutions of the lithium and potassium salts derived from diphenylphosphino(o-cyanophenyl)aniline are reported and compared to the solid-state resul ...

2005