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Palani Elumalai
Postdoctoral Researcher
Educational Qualifications
Ph.D., Synthetic Chemistry
M.S., Chemical Sciences
Entity
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute
Biography
Dr. Palani Elumalai received his PhD (2013) in Synthetic Functionalized Organometallic and Supramolecular Chemistry from the University of Delhi, India. He worked as a Post Doc in various organizations including the University of Delhi, and University of Ulsan, South Korea, Texas A&M University at Qatar and Texas A&M University, College Station, U.S.A.
Dr. Elumalai joined Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in March 2021 in the QNRF funded National Priorities Research Program - NPRP - Cluster grant to develop highly effective porous materials for selective CO2 capture and conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into high-value chemicals.
Ph.D., Synthetic Chemistry
Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
2007 - 2009
M.S., Chemical Sciences
School of Chemistry, Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu, India
2005 - 2007
B.S., Chemistry
AAGA-College, University of Madras, India
2001 - 2005
- Functionalized porous materials
- Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Covalent Organic-Frameworks (COFs)
- Supramolecular Self-assembled Porous Cages and coordination polymeric materials
- Synthetic organic, organic-inorganic/organometallics
- High pressure and high temperature hydrothermal or solvothermal syntheses
- Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) and Hydrogen Storage in Liquid Organic
- Hydrogen Carriers (LOHC)
Postdoctoral Researcher (QNRF, NPRP - cluster grant)
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation, Qatar
2021 - Present
Postdoctoral Research Associate (QNRF grant)
Department of Chemistry, Science Program, Texas A&M University, Qatar
2016 - 2021
Senior Researcher (National Research Fellow of Korea, NRF-Fellow)
Department of Chemistry & Biology, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea
2014 - 2016
Post-Doctoral Fellow (Senior Researcher, BK21-Korea grant)
Department of Chemistry & Biology, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea
2013 - 2014
Post-doctoral Research Associate (CSIR-India grant)
Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
2012 - 2013
- “Site-Isolated Azobenzene-Containing Metal-Organic Framework for Cyclopalladated Catalyzed Suzuki-Miyuara Coupling in Flow”. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2021,13 (44), 51849–51854
- “Testing Metal–Organic Framework Catalysts in a Microreactor for Ethyl Paraoxon Hydrolysis”. Catalysts, 2020, 10 (10), 1159
- “In Situ Solution-State Characterization of MOF-Immobilized Transition-Metal Complexes by Infrared Spectroscopy”. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 3171-3178.
- “Recyclable and Reusable Heteroleptic Nickel Catalyst Immobilized on MOF for Suzuki–Miyaura Coupling”. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2018, 10, 41431– 41438.
- “Expose Equatorial Positions of Metal Centers via Sequential Ligand Elimination and Installation in MOFs”. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 10814-10819.
- “Flexible ligated ruthenium(II) self-assemblies sensitizes glioma tumor-initiating cells in vitro”. Oncotarget, 2017, 8, 60188-60200
- “Antitumor and biological investigation of doubly cyclometalated ruthenium(II) organometallics derived from benzimidazolyl derivatives”. Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 6667-6673.
- “Selective Synthesis of Ruthenium(II) Metalla[2]Catenane via Solvent and Guest-Dependent Self-Assembly”. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 4674-4677.
- Sathiyendiran, M. “Rhenium(I)-based Bridgeless Double Metallocalix[4]arenes”. Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 11274-11277
- “The Dual Role of Acetate as a Nucleophile and as an Internal Base in Cycloplatination Reaction of sym N,N,N-Triarylguanidines”. Inorg. Chem. 2013, 52, 1883‒1894.
- National Research Fellow of Korea (NRF-Fellow)
- Individual Basic Science & Engineering Research Program Project Grant (2014-2017): entitled “Functionalized Supramolecular Self-assemblies of Metallaladderanes: Synthesis, Characterization and Their Applications in Materials and Biomedicines” Granted by National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-Korea)