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  1. 3-Methylpiperidinium ionic liquids

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  2. Pro-fragrant ionic liquids with stable hemiacetal motifs: water-triggered release of fragrances

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  3. An ionic liquid process for mercury removal from natural gas

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  4. Carbon dioxide uptake from natural gas by binary ionic liquid–water mixtures

    Article • Green Chemistry, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  5. Correction: Carbon dioxide uptake from natural gas by binary ionic liquid–water mixtures

    Article • Green Chemistry, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  6. Modification of Fluorescent Photoinduced Electron Transfer (PET) Sensors/Switches To Produce Molecular Photo‐Ionic Triode Action

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, February 2014, Wiley

    Nimal Gunaratne

  7. Novel chiral ionic liquids: physicochemical properties and investigation of the internal rotameric behaviour in the neat system

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  8. Enhanced laccase stability through mediator partitioning into hydrophobic ionic liquids

    Article • Green Chemistry, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  9. Dual functional ionic liquids as antimicrobials and plasticisers for medical grade PVCs

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  10. Improved synthesis of tadalafil using dimethyl carbonate and ionic liquids

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Alvise Perosa, Nimal Gunaratne

  11. Ionic liquids for efficient hydrogen sulfide and thiol scavenging

    Article • Green Chemistry, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  12. Tunable thermomorphism and applications of ionic liquid analogues of Girard's reagents

    Article • Green Chemistry, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  13. Solution and thermal behaviour of novel dicationic imidazolium ionic liquids

    Article • Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Francesca D'Anna, Nimal Gunaratne, Giuseppe Lazzara

  14. Chiral thiouronium salts: synthesis, characterisation and application in NMR enantio-discrimination of chiral oxoanions

    Article • New Journal of Chemistry, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  15. Production of polyetheretherketone in ionic liquid media

    Article • Green Chemistry, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  16. Ionic Liquids with Solvatochromatic and Charge-Transfer Functionalities Incorporating the Viologen Moiety*

    Article • Australian Journal of Chemistry, January 2013, CSIRO Publishing

    Nimal Gunaratne

  17. Controlled fragrance delivery in functionalised ionic liquid-enzyme systems

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  18. Phosphine oxide functionalised imidazolium ionic liquids as tuneable ligands for lanthanide complexation

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  19. Measuring the effect of ionic liquids on laccase activity using a simple, parallel method

    Article • Green Chemistry, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  20. Chiral ionic liquids for catalytic enantioselective sulfide oxidation

    Article • Comptes Rendus Chimie, July 2011, Cellule MathDoc/CEDRAM

    Nimal Gunaratne

  21. Screening ionic liquids for use in biotransformations with whole microbial cells

    Article • Green Chemistry, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  22. Azepanium ionic liquids

    Article • Green Chemistry, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  23. How Hydrophilic Ionic Liquids Behave in Aqueous Solutions

    Article • March 2010, Wiley

    Nimal Gunaratne

  24. Chloroindate(iii) ionic liquids as catalysts for alkylation of phenols and catechol with alkenes

    Article • New Journal of Chemistry, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  25. Dissolution of cork biopolymers in biocompatible ionic liquids

    Article • Green Chemistry, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  26. A high throughput screen to test the biocompatibility of water-miscible ionic liquids

    Article • Green Chemistry, January 2009, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  27. Catalytic activity of laccases in aqueous solutions of ionic liquids

    Article • Green Chemistry, January 2008, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  28. Analog Parallel Processing of Molecular Sensory Information

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, February 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Nimal Gunaratne

  29. Fluorescent PET(Photoinduced Electron Transfer) reagents for thiols

    Article • Tetrahedron Letters, July 1998, Elsevier

    Nimal Gunaratne

  30. Molecular Photoionic AND Logic Gates with Bright Fluorescence and “Off−On” Digital Action

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, August 1997, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Nimal Gunaratne

  31. Higher Generation Luminescent Pet (Photoinduced Electron Transfer) Sensors

    Article • January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nimal Gunaratne

  32. Supramolecular photoionic devices

    Article • January 1997, Elsevier

    Nimal Gunaratne

  33. Protonengesteuertes Schalten der Lumineszenz von Lanthanoidkomplexen in wäßriger Lösung: pH‐Sensoren auf der Basis langlebiger Emission

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, September 1996, Wiley

    Nimal Gunaratne

  34. Photoionic devices with receptor-functionalized fluorophores

    Article • Pure and Applied Chemistry, January 1996, De Gruyter

    Nimal Gunaratne

  35. Direct visual indication of pH windows: ‘off–on–off’ fluorescent PET (photoinduced electron transfer) sensors/switches

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 1996, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  36. Fluorescent switches with high selectivity towards sodium ions: correlation of ion-induced conformation switching with fluorescence function

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 1996, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  37. Fluorescent signalling of the brain neurotransmitter γ-aminobutyric acid and related amino acid zwitterions

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 1996, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  38. Fluorescent PET(Photoinduced Electron Transfer) Sensors for Calcium Ions. Extension to Multiple Fluorophores and Virtual Spacers

    Article • Chemistry Letters, February 1995, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Nimal Gunaratne

  39. A molecular photoionic AND gate based on fluorescent signalling

    Article • Nature, July 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nimal Gunaratne

  40. Fluorescent PET (photoinduced electron transfer) sensors

    Article • January 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nimal Gunaratne

  41. X=Y-ZH Compounds as potential 1,3-dipoles. Part 30. Cycloaddition of arylidene imines of α-amino esters to acetylenic dipolarophiles and pyrrole forming rearrangements

    Article • Tetrahedron, January 1990, Elsevier

    Nimal Gunaratne

  42. X=Y-ZH systems as potential 1,3-dipoles. Part 26. 1,5-electrocyclisation and tandem 1,5-electrocyclisationAldol type condensation processes in imines.

    Article • Tetrahedron, January 1990, Elsevier

    Nimal Gunaratne

  43. A new benzo-annelated cryptand and a derivative with alkali cation-sensitive fluorescence

    Article • Tetrahedron Letters, January 1990, Elsevier

    Nimal Gunaratne

  44. A simple one-step synthesis of N-substituted isoindolin-1-ones. Diastereofacially selective protonation of an intermediate isoindolinol

    Article • Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications, January 1985, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  45. XY–ZH systems as potential 1,3-dipoles. Part 1. Background and scope

    Article • Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1, January 1984, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne

  46. Observations on the pictet-spengler synthesis of 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-β-carbolines

    Article • Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1, January 1983, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Nimal Gunaratne