Publications related to Photocatalysis with organic dyes: facile access to reactive intermediates for synthesis

Development of remote C-H bond functionalization of redox-active alcohol derivatives and oxidative transformations under photoredox catalysis

The development of radical-based remote C(sp3)-H functionalizations of redox-active alcohol derivatives, oxidative cycloaddition and rearrangement transformations under visible light photocatalysis constitute the basis of this thesis. The first chapter des ...

EPFL2021

Coupled As and Mn Redox Transformations in an Fe(0) Electrocoagulation System: Competition for Reactive Oxidants and Sorption Sites

Sachiko Hirosue, Victor Carle Adrien Boureau, Jasquelin Peña, Nathalie Manetti

Iron electrocoagulation (EC) can be used for the decentralized treatment of arsenic(As)-contaminated groundwater. Iron EC involves the electrolytic dissolution of an Fe(0) electrode to Fe(II). This process produces reactive oxidants, which oxidize As(III) ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Investigations of the Chemistry of 1-Alkynyltriazenes

Florian Gérald Abela

The chemistry of aromatic triazenes is well known, and has been explored for more than a century. These compounds have emerged as very useful intermediates, because of their unique reactivity. This functionality can notably be used to access many other fun ...

EPFL2018

Significance of pi-bridge contribution in pyrido[3,4-b]pyrazine featured D-A-pi-A organic dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Yelin Hu, Fabrizio Giordano, Xiaoyu Zhang, Zhongjin Shen

The 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) pi-bridge is one of the most commonly used building blocks for sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). We investigated its influence on the molecular structure, the photophysical and electrochemical properti ...

Chinese Chemical Soc2017

Novel Blue Organic Dye for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Achieving High Efficiency in Cobalt-Based Electrolytes and by Co-Sensitization

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jiahuan Zhang, Kazuteru Nonomura, Yan Hao, Yasemin Saygili, Anna Eriksson, Enrico Polanski

Blue and green dyes as well as NIR-absorbing dyes have attracted great interest because of their excellent ability of absorbing the incident photons in the red and near-infrared range region. A novel blue D-pi-A dye (Dyenamo Blue), based on the diketopyrro ...

2016

A study of oligothiophene-acceptor dyes in p-type dye-sensitized solar cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Lei Zhang, Peng Liu

Two new dyes, E1 and E2, equipped with triphenylamine as the electron donor, oligothiophene as the linker and different electron acceptor groups, have been designed and synthesized as photosensitizers for p-type dye-sensitized solar cells (p-DSCs). A syste ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Unraveling the Dual Character of Sulfur Atoms on Sensitizers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Thomas Moehl, Peng Gao, Aswani Yella, Joël Teuscher, Sadig Aghazada

Cyclometalated ruthenium sensitizers have been synthesized that differ with number of thiophene units on the auxiliary ligands. Sensitizers possessing four (SA25, SA246, and SA285) or none (SA282) sulfur atoms in their structures, were tested in solar cell ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Synthetic chemistry with nitrous oxide

Kay Severin

This review article summarizes efforts to use nitrous oxide (N2O, ‘laughing gas’) as a reagent in synthetic chemistry. The focus will be on reactions which are carried out in homogeneous solution under (relatively) mild conditions. First, the utilization o ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

Influence of Dye Architecture of Triphenylamine Based Organic Dyes on the Kinetics in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Gunther Wittstock

The impact of the dye architecture on the kinetics in the dyesensitized solar cell (DSC) was investigated for two structurally similar organic dyes, adsorbed adsorbed to a mesoporous TiO2 film. Differences in the HOMO and LUMO levels of the triphenylamine ...

American Chemical Society2015

Molecular Engineering of Pyrido[3,4-b]pyrazine-Based Donor-Acceptor-pi- Acceptor Organic Sensitizers: Effect of Auxiliary Acceptor in Cobalt- and Iodine-Based Electrolytes

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jean-David Décoppet, Fabrizio Giordano, Bo Liu

Due to the ease of tuning its redox potential, the cobalt-based redox couple has been extensively applied for highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) with extraordinarily high photovoltages. However, a cobalt electrolyte needs particular struct ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015