Academic Record

 Post-Doc 2007 -

Organic Chemistry at Ruhr University Bochum

            Ph. D. Sept 2007

Physical Chemistry with Dr K. S. Viswanathan, Analytical Chemistry & Spectroscopy Section, Materials Chemistry Division, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, TN

            Thesis: "Matrix Isolation Infrared and Ab Initio Studies on the Conformations of Methoxysilanes"

 M.Sc. April, 2002

Chemistry, Pondicherry Central University, Pondicherry (CGPA: 8.06/10)

 B.Sc. April, 2000

Chemistry, Bharathidasan University, Trichy (Secured: 81 %)

 Award and Fellowship

Dec 2004-Sep 2007	Senior Research Fellowship (SRF), awarded by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India
Nov 2002-Nov 2004	Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), awarded by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India
April 2002	Qualified the national level Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering GATE (93.95 percentile)

Research Field

Matrix Isolation

Laser ablation

Infrared Spectroscopy

Ab Initio Computations

Molecular Conformations

Intramolecular Interactions

 Summary

Experience in team-oriented work environments

Guided 4 master projects and several summer projects

Co-author of 6+ publications in peer-reviewed journals

Experience in designing multi-step synthesis

 Research Experience

            Experience in handling:

FT-IR spectrometer

UV-vis spectrophotometer

Spectrofluorimeter

HPLC

Supercritical Fluid Extraction

SEM

XRD

Vacuum systems

            Working knowledge in chemistry related software’s:

Gaussian

GENNBO

NBO view

MOLEKEL

PRAX

MOLDA

UNIVIS 2000

Windows operating system

 Publications

Conformations of Trimethoxymethylsilane: Matrix Isolation Infrared and Ab Initio Studies. V. Kavitha; K. Sundararajan; K. S. Viswanathan

            J. Phys. Chem. A., 2005, 109, 9259-9264.

Conformations of Dimethoxymethylsilane: A Matrix Isolation and Ab Initio Study V. Kavitha; K. Sankaran; K. S. Viswanathan

            J. Mol. Struct., 2006, 791, 165-171.

Conformations of Dimethoxydimethylsilane: Matrix Isolation Infrared and ab Initio Studies V. Kavitha; K. S. Viswanathan

            J. Phys. Chem. A., 2007, 111, 1879-1886.

Reactions of Laser-ablated Tellurium Atoms with Oxygen Molecules: Matrix Isolation Infrared and DFT Studies K. Sundararajan; K. Sankaran; V. Kavitha

            J. Mol. Struct., 2008, 876 (1-3), 240-249.

Characterization of rust phases formed on low carbon steel exposed to natural marine environment of Chennai harbour - South India K. V. S. Ramana; S. Kaliappan; N. Ramanathan; V. Kavitha

Materials and Corrosion, 2007, 58 (11), 873-880.

 

Conformations of dimethoxymethylphenylsilane: A matrix isolation infrared and ab initio study V. Kavitha; K. S. Viswanathan

            J. Mol. Struct., 2009, 920 (1-3), 355-362.

Conference/Workshop

Attended summer school conducted by SERC on "Methods in Materials Characterization", Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam, Feb. 9-28, 2004.

V. Kavitha, K. S.Viswanathan, Matrix isolation infrared and ab initio studies on the conformations of methoxymethylsilanes; Discussion Meeting on Advances in Spectroscopy (DMAS 2005), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Feb. 21-24, 2005.

V. Kavitha, K. S.Viswanathan, Conformations of Methoxysilanes: Matrix Isolation Infrared and Ab Initio Studies; Annual IIT Madras Chemistry Symposium and First Mid-Year Meeting of the Chemical Research Society of India, IIT Madras, Chennai, July 12-13, 2006.

Attended workshop on thermodynamics - CHEMTHERM 2006, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam, Aug. 22-26, 2006.