Dr. G. Prabusankar, M.Sc., Ph.D. (IIT-Bombay)

AC II, Organometallics

Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, NC 2 Universitatsstr. 150

D44801, Germany

Ph No:04287-244422 (R)

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Research Interests

† Organic and Organometallic Synthesis

† N-Heterocyclic Carbene vs N-Heterocyclic Gallylene

† Functional Organotin and Organosilicon Nanoporous Materials

† Application of Chiral Phosphines

Academic Records

Post-Doc 2007- (AvH Fellowship)

Low-valent and Subvalent Group 13 Molecular Aggregates for Nano-Materials at ACII, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany

Post-Doc 2006-2007 (CNRS Fellowship)

Charge Transfer Nano Size Molecular Materials at Chemical Science of Rennes, University of Rennes1, France

Post-Doc 2004 - 2006 (EGID Fellowship)

Hierarchically Ordered Organic Inorganic Tin-oxo hybrid Materials at Laboratry of Organic and Organometallic Chemistry, University of Bordeaux1, France

Ph. D. Oct 2004

Organometallic Chemistry at Department of Chemistry IIT-Bombay, India.

Thesis: "Chemistry of Organosilanetriols and Phosphazanes: Synthesis, Spectroscopic, Structural and Bonding Aspects" (Abstract)

M.Sc. April, 1999

Inorganic Chemistry, University of Madras, Guidny Campus, Chennai (Secured: 72%)

B.Sc. April, 1997

Chemistry, Thiruvalluvar Govt. Arts College (University of Madras), Rasipuram (Secured: 81%)

Research Experience

† 4 years post-doctoral experience in organic & organometallic chemistry

† Practical knowledge of advanced synthetic and characterization methods

† Co-author of 18+ publications in peer-reviewed journals

† Experience in team-oriented work environments

† 1-year teaching experience in inorganic chemistry at under graduate level, IIT-Bombay

Publications

Organic Soluble Silicophosphonate [RSi(OH){OP(O)(H)(OH)}]₂O (R = (2,6-i-Pr₂C₆H₃)NSiMe₃): The First Silicophosphonate Containing Free Si-OH and P-OH Groups. Ramaswamy Murugavel, Ganesan Prabusankar, and Mrinalini G. Walawalkar,

Inorganic Chemistry, 2001, 40(6), 1084-1085.

Synthesis and Structure of a Novel Lithium Gallosiloxane Containing a Ga₄Si₄O₈ Macrocycle Analogous to the S8R Building Unit of Zeolites. Ramaswamy Murugavel, Mrinalini G. Walawalkar, Ganesan Prabusankar, and Paul Davis,

Organometallics 2001, 20(12), 2639-2642.

Metal containing new inorganic ring systems based on siloxane and phosphazane frameworks. Ramaswamy Murugavel, Ganesan Prabusankar, Vivekanand S. Shete, and Kanhayalal Baheti,

Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon and the Related Elements 2001, 168-169, 263-268.

Synthesis, spectral and electrochemical studies of novel porphyrin bound tetranuclear acyclic manganese(III) and copper(II) complexes. Prabusankar, G.; Ashok, G.; Sengottuvelan, N.; Saravanakumar, D.; Narayanan, V.; Kandaswamy, M.

Indian Journal of Chemical Technology 2002, 9(1), 9-15. (M.Sc. Project work)

Stabilization of Organosilanetriols in Amine Matrices: Trapping Intermediates between RSi(OH)₃ and (RSiO₃)^3- Anions, Ganesan Prabusankar, Ramaswamy Murugavel, and Ray J. Butcher,

Organometallics 2004, 23, 2305-2314.

Hexameric Organotincarboxylates with Cyclic and Drum Structures, Ganesan Prabusankar, and Ramaswamy Murugavel,

 ^{Organometallics} 2004, 23, 5644-5647.

Synthesis, Spectral Studies, and Structural Characterization of a New Organosilanetriol, Its Amine Complexes, and a Surface Lewis Basic Cubic Aluminosilicate, Ganesan Prabusankar, and Ramaswamy Murugavel,

Organometallics 2005, 24, 2124-2128.

Sterically Encumbered Acyclic Diphosphazanes: Synthesis, Conformations, and Co-ordination Behavior, Ganesan Prabusankar, Ramaswamy Murugavel, and Ray J. Butcher,

Dalton Transactions 2006, (17), 2140-2146.

Organic-inorganic Sn₁₂ and organic Sn₆ oxide-hydroxide clusters. Ganesan Prabusankar, Bernard Jousseaume, Thierry Toupance, and Hassan Allouchi,

Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2006, 45, 1255-1258.

A novel dimeric copper salicylate with an undissociated COOH group: Synthesis and crystal structure of [Cu₂(HSal)(Sal)(2,2′-bpy)₂](ClO₄), Nallasamy Palanisami, Ganesan Prabusankar, and Ramaswamy Murugavel,

Inorganic Chemistry Communications 2006, 9(10), 1002-1006.

Unusual reactivity of a sterically hindered diphosphazane ligand, EtN{P(OR)2}2, (R = C6H3(Pri)2-2,6) towards (.eta.3-allyl)palladium precursors, Heera Krishna, Setharampattu S. Krishnamurthy, Munirathinam Nethaji, Ramaswamy Murugavel and, Ganesan Prabusankar,

Dalton Transactions 2007, 2908-2914.

Sn3 and Sn10 sulfonate-oxide-hydroxide clusters with two different sulfonate binding modes, Ganesan Prabusankar, Bernard Jousseaume, Thierry Toupance, and Hassan Allouchi

Dalton Transactions 2007, 3121-3123.

A discrete unsymmetrically substituted dihydrodioxadistannetane with both η¹ and intramolecular η²μ² sulfonate bondings, Ganesan Prabusankar, Bernard Jousseaume, Thierry Toupance, and Hassan Allouchi

Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2008, 693(21-22), 3383-3386.

 [Sn₁₇{GaCl(DDP)}₄]: A High-Nuclearity Metalloid Tin Cluster Trapped by Electrophilic Gallium Ligands, Ganesan Prabusankar, Andreas Kempter, Christian Gemel, Marie-Katrin Schroter and Roland A. Fischer

Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2008, 47(38), 7234-7237.

(Highlighted in Nachrichten Auf Der Chemie 2008, 56(11), 1105)

(Highlighted in Nachrichten Auf Der Chemie 2009, 57(03), 221.)  

Electronic Effects in Supramolecular Assemblies Based on TTF-CH=CH-Py Ligand coordinated to Mo₆Xi₈⁴⁺ Cluster Cores (X = Cl, Br, I)., Ganesan Prabusankar, Yann Molard, Stehane Cordier, Stehane Golhen, Yann Le Gal, Christiane Perrin, Lahcene Ouahab, Samia Kahlal, and Jean-Francis Halet

European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2009, (14), 2153-2161.

Chemistry of Cyclotriphosph(III)azane [EtNPCl]₃ with a Sterically Encumbered Organosilanetriol and Bulky Phenols. Conformational and Isomeric Preferences of the Chalcogenide Derivatives of Cyclotriphosphazanes. , Ganesan Prabusankar, Ramaswamy Murugavel, Ashish Sharma, Raghavan B. Sunoj, and Ray J. Butcher

Inorganic Chememistry, 2009, 48(5), 2048-2059.

 A Short Bi=Bi Double Bond Supported by a Metalloid Group 13 Ligand., Ganesan Prabusankar, Christian Gemel, Pattiyil Parameswaran, Charity Flener, Gernot Frenking and Roland A. Fischer

Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2009, 48(30), 5526-5529.

(HOT PAPER-2009)

(Highlighted in NATURE CHEMISTRY)

 Structure and Bonding of Metal Rich Coordination Compouds Containing Low Valent Ga(I) and Zn(I) Ligands., Sandra Gonzalez-Gallardo, Ganesan Prabusankar, Thomas Cadenbach, Christian Gemel, Gernot Frenking and Roland A. Fischer

Topics in Current Chemistry- Structural and Bondings 2009, P.000-000.

(Invited Review)

Conference Papers/Posters

     Ramaswamy Murugavel, Ganesan Prabusankar, Vivekanand S. Shete and Kanhayalal Baheti, Metal containing new inorganic ring systems based on siloxane and phosphazane framework; Ninth International Conference on Inorganic Ring Systems (IRIS-IX), Saarbruecken, Germany, Jul 23-28, 2000.

     Ganesan Prabusankar, Mirinalini G. Walawalkar and Ramaswamy Murugavel Synthesis of organic soluble silicophosphate with abundant hydroxyl groups; Third National Symposium in Chemistry (NSC-III), Chandigarh, India, Feb. 2-4, 2001.

      Ganesan Prabusankar, Kanhayalal Baheti and Ramaswamy Murugavel, [EtN{P(OAr)₂}₂] (Ar = 2,6-Prⁱ₂C₆H₃): An acyclic diphosphazane that relents oxidation and ligation reactions; Fourth National Symposium in Chemistry (NSC-IV), Pune, India, Feb. 1-3, 2002.

     Ganesan Prabusankar and Ramaswamy Murugavel, Reactions of halophosphazanes with sterically encumbered organosilanetriols and other acidic hydrogen containing compounds; Second In-house Symposium, Department of Chemistry, IIT-Bombay, India, 2003.

     Ganesan Prabusankar, Ramaswamy Murugavel and Ray J. Butcher, Toward Solubilizing Silica: Trapping Intermediates between RSi(OH)₃ and (RSiO₃)^3-; Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry-IX (MTIC-IX), IIT-Bombay, Dec 15-17, 2003.

      Ganesan Prabusankar and Ramaswamy Murugavel, First examples of Heavier Chalcogenides (S and Se) of Cyclotriphosphazanes; 9^th International Conference on the Chemistry of Selenium and Tellurium (ICCST-9), IIT-Bombay, Feb 23-27, 2004.

      Ganesan Prabusankar, Bernard Jousseaume, Thierry Toupance and Hassan Allouchi, Unique Organic-Inorganic Mixed Tin Twelve and Organic Tin Six Oxide/Hydroxides; Journee Chimie Grand Sud-Ouest (GSO-2005), French Chemical Society Symposium, University of Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, Nov. 25, 2005.

      Ganesan Prabusankar, Bernard Jousseaume, Thierry Toupance and Hassan Allouchi, Unique Organic-Inorganic Mixed Sn12 and Sn10 Oxide/Hydroxides; International Conference on the Coordination and Organometallic Chemistry of Germanium, Tin and lead, ICCOC-GTL-12, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, July 9-13, 2007. (Oral)

      Ganesan Prabusankar, Ramaswamy Murugavel,, Bernard Jousseaume, and Thierry Toupance, Hexameric Organotincarboxylates with Cyclic and Drum Structures; International Conference on the Coordination and Organometallic Chemistry of Germanium, Tin and lead, ICCOC-GTL-12, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, July 9-13, 2007. (Poster)

Ganesan Prabusankar, Christian Gemel, and Roland A. Fischer, Chemistry of the Metalloid N-Heterocyclic Carbene Analogues [E^I(DDP)] (E=Al, Ga): Ligand Substitution, Bond Activation, and Cluster Formation, Network Meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Munster, November 18-21, 2008. (Poster)