P. Mathur

    Professor

    Department of Chemistry

    Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

    Powai, Mumbai 400076

    Ph:   022-2576 7180

    Fax:  022-2576 7152

    Email: mathur[at]chem.iitb.ac.in

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Research Interests

  • Metal mediated transformations of acetylenes

  • Metal-acetylide and metal-oxo chemistry

  • Alkynyl Fischer carbene complexes in metal cluster chemistry

  • Synthesis of mixed-metal clusters

  • Ferrocenyl-incorporated metal carbonyl complexes

 

Representative Publications:

  1. Mathur, P.; Chatterjee, S.; Das, A.; Lahiri, G. K.; Maji, S.; Mobin, S. M. Synthesis, structure and electrochemistry of CO incorporated diruthenium metallacyclic compounds [Ru2(CO)6{μ-η1:η1:η2:η2-1,4-Fc2C5H2O}] and [Ru2(CO)6{μ-η1:η1:η2:η2-1,5-Fc2C5H2O}]. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2007 (In press). Click to view online…

  2. Mathur, P.; Chatterjee, S.; Das, A.; Mobin, S. M. Photochemical route to unusual tri-tungsten ferrocenylacetylene cluster [W3{μ-η2,η2- (H)CCFc}2(CO)12] and a dimetallacyclodecatetraene [W2{μ-η2,η2,η2,η2- (Fc)C=C(H)C(H) =C(Fc)C(Fc)= C(H)C(H)= C(Fc)}(CO)6]. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2007, 692(4), 819-823. Click to view online…

  3. Mathur, P.; Singh, V. K.; Singh, A. K.; Mobin, S. M.; Thöene, C.  Photochemical reactions of Fe(CO)5 with FcCCH in the presence of S-powder and CS2: Synthesis and characterization of [{m-SC(H)C(Fc)S}(CO)6Fe2], [m-SC(O)C(H)C(Fc)S}(CO) 6Fe2]; cis-[m-h1:h2:h1:h1-{C(Fc)C(H)CS2C(H)C(Fc)}(CO)6Fe2] and trans -[m-h1:h2:h1:h1-{C(Fc)C(H)CS2C(Fc)C(H)}(CO)6Fe2]. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2006, 691(15), 3336-3342. Click to view online…

  4. Mathur, P.; Singh, A. K.; Singh, V. K.; Singh, P.; Rahul, R.; Mobin, S. M.; Thöene, C.  Coupling Reactions of Ferrocenylacetylene with Mononuclear Metal Carbonyls Fe(CO)5 and M(CO)6 (M = Mo, W): Synthesis and Characterization of [Fe(CO)2{h5-2,5-Fc2C5H2CO}C(Fc):CH], [Fe(CO)2{h2:h2-2,5-Fc2C4H2Fe(CO)3}-m-CO], [Fe(CO)3{h2:h2-2,5-Fc2C4H2CO}], 1,2,4-Triferrocenylbenzene, 2,5-Diferrocenylthiophene, and 2,5-Diferrocenylselenophene. Organometallics 2005, 24(20), 4793-4798. Click to view online…

  5. Mathur, P.; Bhunia, A. K.; Mobin, S. M.; Singh, V. K.; Srinivasu, C.  Photochemical Reactions of Fe(CO)5 with Monometal Alkynyls and Free Alkynes: Synthesis and Characterization of [(h5-C5Me5)Fe2Mo(CO)7{m3-h1:h4:h2-C(H)C(Ph)C(Ph)C}] and Diferrocenylquinones. Organometallics 2004, 23(15), 3694-3700. Click to view online…