1 Supporting Information Remarkably Enhanced Direct Dissolution of Plutonium Oxide in Task Specific Ionic Liquid: Insights from Electrochemical and Theoretical Investigations Kavitha Jayachandran †$ Ruma Gupta *† , KRS Chandrakumar *#$ , Dibakar Goswami ## , D.M Noronha † Sumana Paul † and S. Kannan †$ † Fuel Chemistry Division, # Theoretical Chemistry Section, ## Bio Organic Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai-400085, India, $ Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai 400094, India * Corresponding author. Tel: +91-22-25594188; E-mail: rumac@barc.gov.in, ruma.chandra@gmail.com (RG), and Fax: +91-22-25505151; Tel: +91-22-25595015; E-mail: krschandrakumar@gmail.com (KRSC). Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for ChemComm. This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2019