Nimal Gunaratne
Queen's University Belfast
Research Fellow, Chemistry
United Kingdom
My co-authors include
Francesca D'Anna
Giuseppe Lazzara
Alvise Perosa
My Publications
3-Methylpiperidinium ionic liquids
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
January 2015
Pro-fragrant ionic liquids with stable hemiacetal motifs: water-triggered release of fr...
Chemical Communications
January 2015
An ionic liquid process for mercury removal from natural gas
Dalton Transactions
January 2015
Carbon dioxide uptake from natural gas by binary ionic liquid–water mixtures
Green Chemistry
January 2015
Correction: Carbon dioxide uptake from natural gas by binary ionic liquid–water mixtures
Green Chemistry
January 2015
Modification of Fluorescent Photoinduced Electron Transfer (PET) Sensors/Switches To Pr...
Angewandte Chemie
February 2014
Novel chiral ionic liquids: physicochemical properties and investigation of the interna...
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
January 2014
Enhanced laccase stability through mediator partitioning into hydrophobic ionic liquids
Green Chemistry
January 2014
Dual functional ionic liquids as antimicrobials and plasticisers for medical grade PVCs
RSC Advances
January 2014
Improved synthesis of tadalafil using dimethyl carbonate and ionic liquids
RSC Advances
January 2014
Ionic liquids for efficient hydrogen sulfide and thiol scavenging
Green Chemistry
January 2014
Tunable thermomorphism and applications of ionic liquid analogues of Girard's reagents
Green Chemistry
January 2014
Solution and thermal behaviour of novel dicationic imidazolium ionic liquids
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
January 2013
Chiral thiouronium salts: synthesis, characterisation and application in NMR enantio-di...
New Journal of Chemistry
January 2013
Production of polyetheretherketone in ionic liquid media
Green Chemistry
January 2013
Ionic Liquids with Solvatochromatic and Charge-Transfer Functionalities Incorporating t...
Australian Journal of Chemistry
January 2013
Controlled fragrance delivery in functionalised ionic liquid-enzyme systems
RSC Advances
January 2013
How Hydrophilic Ionic Liquids Behave in Aqueous Solutions
July 2012
Phosphine oxide functionalised imidazolium ionic liquids as tuneable ligands for lantha...
Chemical Communications
January 2012
Measuring the effect of ionic liquids on laccase activity using a simple, parallel method
Green Chemistry
January 2012
Chiral ionic liquids for catalytic enantioselective sulfide oxidation
Comptes Rendus Chimie
July 2011
Screening ionic liquids for use in biotransformations with whole microbial cells
Green Chemistry
January 2011
Azepanium ionic liquids
Green Chemistry
January 2011
Chloroindate(iii) ionic liquids as catalysts for alkylation of phenols and catechol wit...
New Journal of Chemistry
January 2010
Dissolution of cork biopolymers in biocompatible ionic liquids
Green Chemistry
January 2010
A high throughput screen to test the biocompatibility of water-miscible ionic liquids
Green Chemistry
January 2009
Catalytic activity of laccases in aqueous solutions of ionic liquids
Green Chemistry
January 2008
Analog Parallel Processing of Molecular Sensory Information
Journal of the American Chemical Society
March 2007
Fluorescent PET(Photoinduced Electron Transfer) reagents for thiols
Tetrahedron Letters
July 1998
Molecular Photoionic AND Logic Gates with Bright Fluorescence and “Off−On” Digital Action
Journal of the American Chemical Society
August 1997
Higher Generation Luminescent Pet (Photoinduced Electron Transfer) Sensors
January 1997
Supramolecular photoionic devices
January 1997
Protonengesteuertes Schalten der Lumineszenz von Lanthanoidkomplexen in wäßriger Lösung...
Angewandte Chemie
September 1996
Photoionic devices with receptor-functionalized fluorophores
Pure and Applied Chemistry
January 1996
Direct visual indication of pH windows: ‘off–on–off’ fluorescent PET (photoinduced elec...
Chemical Communications
January 1996
Fluorescent switches with high selectivity towards sodium ions: correlation of ion-indu...
Chemical Communications
January 1996
Fluorescent signalling of the brain neurotransmitter γ-aminobutyric acid and related am...
Chemical Communications
January 1996
Fluorescent PET(Photoinduced Electron Transfer) Sensors for Calcium Ions. Extension to ...
Chemistry Letters
February 1995
A molecular photoionic AND gate based on fluorescent signalling
Nature
July 1993
Fluorescent PET (photoinduced electron transfer) sensors
January 1993
X=Y-ZH Compounds as potential 1,3-dipoles. Part 30. Cycloaddition of arylidene imines o...
Tetrahedron
January 1990
X=Y-ZH systems as potential 1,3-dipoles. Part 26. 1,5-electrocyclisation and tandem 1,5...
Tetrahedron
January 1990
A new benzo-annelated cryptand and a derivative with alkali cation-sensitive fluorescence
Tetrahedron Letters
January 1990
A simple one-step synthesis of N-substituted isoindolin-1-ones. Diastereofacially selec...
Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications
January 1985
XY–ZH systems as potential 1,3-dipoles. Part 1. Background and scope
Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1
January 1984
Observations on the pictet-spengler synthesis of 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-β-carbolines
Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1
January 1983