Natural Dyes from Ornamental Plants as Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs): A Review on the Structure-Activity Relationships (SARs) between Power Conversion Efficiencies and Chemical Constituents

Russian Journal of Applied Chemistry - Among the various types of solar cells, the dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are a type of thin-film solar photovoltaic cells that have been the subject of...     

Chiral amide from (1S,2R)-(+)-norephedrine alkaloid in the enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to aryl and heteroaryl aldehydes

Chiral amide synthesized from (1S,2R)-(+)-norephedrine and furoic acid was found to catalyze the enantioselective ethylation of aromatic and heteroaromatic aldehydes to secondary alcohols with 99.8% enantioselectivity at 0 °C without the addition of a promoter such as titanium tetraisopropoxide.