Publications by Basile Curchod

Synthesis of Organic Super-Electron-Donors by Reaction of Nitrous Oxide with N-Heterocyclic Olefins

Rosario Scopelliti, Kay Severin, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Andrzej Sienkiewicz, Basile Curchod, Léonard Yannick Maurice Eymann, Ophélie Marie Planes, Paul Varava, Yizhu Liu, Andrei Shved

The reaction of nitrous oxide (N2O) with N-heterocyclic olefins (NHOs) results in cleavage of the N–O bond and formation of azo-bridged NHO dimers. The latter represent very electron-rich compounds with a low ionization energy. Cyclic voltammetry studies s ...

2019

Azo-MICs: Redox-Active Mesoionic Carbene Ligands Derived from Azoimidazolium Dyes

Rosario Scopelliti, Kay Severin, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Euro Solari, Basile Curchod, Frederick Mark Chadwick

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2019

Characterization of the Photochemical Properties of 5-Benzyluracil via Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory

Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Basile Curchod, Sara Bonella, Mohammadhassan Valadan

We present a detailed study of the excited state properties of 5-benzyluracil (5BU) in the gas phase and in implicit solvent using different electronic structure approaches ranging from time-dependent density functional theory in the linear response regime ...

2017

Synthesis, characterization and ab initio investigation of a panchromatic ullazine–porphyrin photosensitizer for dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Basile Curchod, Magdalena Anna Marszalek, Negar Ashari Astani, Julien Edouard Frey, Simon Mathew

An ullazine unit was employed as a donor moiety in a donor-pi-acceptor (D-p-A) motif, employing the porphyrin macrocycle as a pi-system. Synthesis of this ullazine-porphyrin dyad containing sensitizer (SM63) was achieved and an investigation of the electro ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Qualitatively Incorrect Features in the TDDFT Spectrum of Thiophene-Based Compounds

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Basile Curchod, Alberto Fabrizio, Antonio Prlj, Leonard Floryan

Ab initio molecular electronic structure computations of thiophene-based compounds constitute an active field of research prompted by the growing interest in low-cost materials for organic electronic devices. In particular, the modeling of electronically e ...

2015

Local Control Theory in Trajectory Surface Hopping Dynamics Applied to the Excited-State Proton Transfer of 4-Hydroxyacridine

Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Basile Curchod, Thomas James Penfold

The application of local control theory combined with nonadiabatic ab initio molecular dynamics to study the photoinduced intramolecular proton transfer reaction in 4-hydroxyacridine was investigated. All calculations were performed within the framework of ...

2015

Excited State Dynamics of Thiophene and Bithiophene: New Insights into Theoretically Challenging Systems

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Basile Curchod, Antonio Prlj

The computational elucidation and proper description of the ultrafast deactivation mechanisms of simple organic electronic units, such as thiophene and its oligomers, is as challenging as it is contentious. A comprehensive excited state dynamics analysis o ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

Structure-property relationships based on Hammett constants in cyclometalated iridium(III) complexes: their application to the design of a fluorine-free FIrPic-like emitter

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Rosario Scopelliti, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Basile Curchod, Julien Edouard Frey

While phosphorescent cyclometalated iridium(III) complexes have been widely studied, only correlations between oxidation potential EOX and Hammett constant sigma, and between the redox gap (Delta E-REDOX = E-OX-E-RED) and emission or absorption wavelength ...

2014

Dye-sensitized solar cells with 13% efficiency achieved through the molecular engineering of porphyrin sensitizers

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Robin Humphry-Baker, Peng Gao, Basile Curchod, Aswani Yella, Negar Ashari Astani, Simon Mathew

Dye-sensitized solar cells have gained widespread attention in recent years because of their low production costs, ease of fabrication and tunable optical properties, such as colour and transparency. Here, we report a molecularly engineered porphyrin dye, ...

2014

Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics Based on Trajectories

Ivano Tavernelli, Basile Curchod, Marine Eva Fedora Bouduban

Performing molecular dynamics in electronically excited states requires the inclusion of nonadiabatic effects to properly describe phenomena beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. This article provides a survey of selected nonadiabatic methods based on ...

MDPI AG2014