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

XY–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