This work reports homoconjugated norbornylogous spacers to supress agglomeration of dye molecules with improved efficiency of dye sensitized solar cells.

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A monoprotected amino acid Bz-Gly-OH assists in the allylic alkylation of a variety of ketones, β-keto esters, aldehydes, etc., during enamine− palladium catalysis. Density functional theory calculations reveal that Bz-Gly-OH assists in the formation of an enamine that attacks the π-allylpalladium complex via an outer sphere mechanism. The preliminary result points to an asymmetric allylic alkylation under a new mode of bifunctional catalysis.