R. Murugavel

    Professor and Head

    Department of Chemistry

    Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

    Powai, Mumbai 400076

    Ph:   022-2576 7163

    Fax:  022-2576 7152

    Email: rmv[at]chem.iitb.ac.in

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Academic Background

M.Sc. University of Madras (1987)
Ph.D. IISc, Bangalore (1993)

Professional Experience

Research Associate, IISc, Bangalore (July 1993 - July 1994)
AvH Research Fellow, University of Goettingen, Germany (1994 - 1996)
Research Scientist, Univ of Goettingen (Feb. 1996 - Dec. 1997)
Visiting Faculty (Asst. Prof.), Chemistry Dept., IIT-Bombay (1997 - 1998)
Assistant Professor, Chemistry Dept., IIT-Bombay (1998 - 2001)
Associate Professor, Chemistry Dept., IIT-Bombay (2001 - 2005)
Professor, Chemistry Dept., IIT-Bombay, 2005 onwards

 

Research Interests

  • Synthetic Main Group Chemistry (including structure and bonding aspects)

  • Metallasilicates, Metallaphosphates and Inorganic Polymers

  • Organometallic Chemistry of Early Transition Metals

  • Coordination-Polymer Based Supramolecular Assemblies

  • Coordination Chemistry of s-Block Elements

 

Representative Publications

  • R. Murugavel, P. Kumar, M. G. Walawalkar, R. Mathialagan, A Double Helix Is the Repeating Unit in a Luminescent Calcium 5-Aminoisophthalate Supramolecular Edifice with Water-Filled Hexagonal Channels.Inorganic Chemistry 2007, 6, 6828-6830.

  • R. Murugavel, R. Pothiraja, N. Gogoi, R. Clerac, L. Lecren, R. J. Butcher, M. Nethaji. Synthesis, magnetic behaviour, and X-ray structures of dinuclear copper complexes with multiple bridges. Efficient and selective catalysts for polymerization of 2,6-dimethylphenol. Dalton Transactions 2007, 2405-2410.

  • R. Murugavel, S. Shanmugan, Seeking tetrameric transition metal phosphonate with a D4R core and organizing it into a 3-D supramolecular assembly. Chemical Communications 2007, 1257-1259.

  • R. Murugavel, S. Kuppuswamy, Octameric and decameric aluminophosphates. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition 2006, 45, 7022-7026.

  • R. Murugavel, S. Kuppuswamy, R. Boomishankar, A. Steiner, Hierarchical structures built form a molecular zinc phosphate core. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition 2006, 45, 5536-5540

  • R. Murugavel, M. P. Singh, Novel Layered Copper Phosphoramidate, Which Contains Six-Membered Rings Made of Five Different Elements. Inorganic Chemistry 2006, 45, 9154-9156.

  • G. Prabusankar, N. Palanisami, R. Murugavel, R. J. Butcher, Sterically encumbered acyclic diphosphazanes: synthesis, conformations and coordination behavior. Dalton Transactions 2006, 17, 2140-2146.

  • G. Prabusankar, R. Murugavel, R. J. Butcher, Synthesis, Spectral Studies, and Structural Characterization of a New Organosilanetriol, Its Amine Complexes, and a Surface Lewis Basic Cubic Aluminosilicate. Organometallics 2005, 24, 2124-2128.

  • R. Pothiraja, M. Sathiyendiran, R. J. Butcher, R. Murugavel, Non-Interpenetrating Transition Metal Diorganophosphate 2-Dimensional Rectangular Grids from Their 1-Dimensional Wires: Structural Transformations under Mild Conditions. Inorganic Chemistry 2005, 44, 6314-6323.