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Co(III) carboxamide complexes as electrocatalysts for water splitting

Water splitting is a promising approach for storing intermittent renewable energies, such as sunlight in the clean chemical bonds as a hydrogen fuel. Two water-soluble octahedral cobalt (III) complexes, [Co(bpb)(OAc)(H2O)], 1, (bpb(2-) = N,N' -bis[(2-pyrid ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Binding affinity of p-PD-based schiff-bases towards human serum albumin; in-vitro and in-silico assessment

Kurt Schenk

The Schiff-bases [N,N'-Bis(2-hydroxybenzylidene)-benzene-1,4-diamine (L-1), N,N'-Bis(5-bromo-2-hydroxybenzylidene)-benzene-1,4-diamine (L-2), N,N'-Bis(2-hydroxy-3-methoxy-benzylidene)-benzene-1,4-diamine (L-3), and N,N'-Bis(2-hydroxynaphthylidene)-benzene- ...

ELSEVIER2022

Structure-Property Relationships in Bithiophenes with Hydrogen-Bonded Substituents

Rosario Scopelliti, Kurt Schenk, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Holger Frauenrath, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Kun-Han Lin, Bilal Özen

The use of crystal engineering to control the supramolecular arrangement of pi-conjugated molecules in the solid-state is of considerable interest for the development of novel organic electronic materials. In this study, we investigated the effect of combi ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Promising anti-cancer potency of 4,5,6,7-tetrahydrobenzo[d]thiazole-based Schiff-bases

Kurt Schenk, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani

Four new Schiff-bases have been synthesized from the 1:2 M condensation of 4,5,6,7-tetrahydrobenzothiazole-2,6-diamine with 2-hydroxybenzaldehyde (SL3), 5-Bromo-2-hydroxybenzaldehyde (SL2), 2-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzaldehyde (SL3) and 2-hydroxy-1-naphthaldehy ...

ELSEVIER2020

Catalytic and antibacterial properties of 3-dentate carboxamide Pd/Pt complexes obtained via a benign route

Kurt Schenk, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani

The complexes Pd-II(qcq)(OAc) and Pt-II(qcq)Cl have been synthesized using environmentally benign synthesized ligands and characterized by elemental analyses: Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, UV-visible spectroscopy, H-1 NMR spectroscopy, and X-ray ...

WILEY2020

Zero-dimensional hybrid iodobismuthate derivatives: from structure study to photovoltaic application

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Kurt Schenk, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Yi Zhang, Philip Pattison, Peng Gao

The quest for lead-free light-absorbing perovskite materials has long been the target of researchers to make the 'star' material friendly to the commercial market. After a summary of different lead-free solar absorbers, we demonstrate a zero-dimensional io ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Synthesis, Characterisation and Crystal structure of a New Cu(II)-carboxamide Complex and CuO nanoparticles as New Catalysts in the CuAAC reaction and Investigation of their Antibacterial activity

Kurt Schenk, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani

The bidentate carboxamide ligand N-(thiazole-2-yl) picolinamide (LH) was synthesized in the environmentally friendly ionic liquid TBAB, and the five-coordinated Cu-II-complex, [Cu(L)(2)(H2O)]center dot CHCl3 (1) was synthesized from LH and copper(II)acetat ...

2020

Development of a novel carboxamide-based off-on switch fluorescence sensor: Hg2+, Zn(2+)and Cd2+

Kurt Schenk

Here, the carboxamide ligandN-(thiazole-2-yl) picolinamide (L) was synthesized in an ionic liquid tetrabutylammonium bromide (TBAB) as the benign reaction medium. The sensitivity ofLtowards different metal-ions was investigated, and a comprehensive, logica ...

2020

Double bridged mu(2)-Halide Cu (II) complexes for the electrocatalytic reduction of CO2

Kurt Schenk, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Jun Gu

Two dicopper (II) complexes of general formula CuLX2 {L = 2, 5-diphenyl-3, 4(2-pyridyl) cyclopenta-2, 4-dien-1-one, X = Cl (1) or Br (2)} have been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, IR, UV-Vis spectroscopic methods. The crystal stru ...

2019

Efficient Synthesis of Some New Chromenopyrimidine Azo- Dyes Catalyzed by Cu/SBA-15

Kurt Schenk, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani

2018