New connection formulae for the q-orthogonal polynomials via a series   expansion of the q-exponential
  Using a realization of the q-exponential function as an infinite multiplicative sereis of the ordinary exponential functions we obtain new nonlinear connection formulae of the q-orthogonal polynomials such as q-Hermite, q-Laguerre and q-Gegenbauer polynomials in terms of their respective classical analogs. 
R. Chakrabarti, R. Jagannathan and S. S. Naina Mohammed