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Electronic Supplementary Information (ESI) Synthesis, characterization and photocatalytic studies of mesoporous silica grafted Ni(II) and Cu(II) Complexes. G. RamanjaneyaReddy, a and S. Balasubramanian a * a Department of Inorganic Chemistry, School of Chemical Sciences, University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai-600 025, India. E-mail:[email protected]; Tel: +91 9444016707, 044 22202794, Fax: +91 4422300488. Fig. S1: I H-NMR spectrum of SL Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for RSC Advances. This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2015

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Electronic Supplementary Information (ESI)

Synthesis, characterization and photocatalytic studies of mesoporous silica

grafted Ni(II) and Cu(II) Complexes. G. RamanjaneyaReddy,a and S. Balasubramaniana*

aDepartment of Inorganic Chemistry, School of Chemical Sciences, University of Madras,

Guindy Campus, Chennai-600 025, India.

E-mail:[email protected]; Tel: +91 9444016707, 044 22202794, Fax: +91 4422300488.

Fig. S1: IH-NMR spectrum of SL

Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for RSC Advances.This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2015

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Fig.S2:13C-NMR spectrum of SL

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Fig. S3: FTIR spectra of the (a) SL, (b) SLTES, (c) MCM41, (d) SiOF, (e) NiOF and (d)

CuOF.

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Fig. S4: The absorption plots for the photo degradation of MO in the presence of (a) Si-

MCM41, (b) SiOF, (c) NiOF and (d) CuOF.

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Fig.S5: The absorption plots for the photo degradation of RR in the presence of (e) Si-

MCM41, (f) SiOF, (g) NiOF and (f) CuOF

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Fig.S6: The overall percentage of conversion in the methyl orange (a) reactive red 198 (b) in

five cycles.

Fig. S7: FTIR spectra of the recovered (a) NiOF and (b) CuOF.

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Fig.S8: XRD patternsof the recovered (a) NiOF and (b) CuOF.