Ramaraj Ayyappan

About

Currently, I am a faculty in the school of chemistry, IISER-TVM, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. I have completed Ph D In Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore in the area of Organometallic chemistry. My research work focuses on the activation and functionalization of small molecules such as H2, N2, and CO2. Among these, CO2 is a greenhouse gas largely responsible for global warming in recent years. In this context, I am actively engaged to make appropriate catalysts for the transformation of some of these abundant yet inert (N2, CO2) into useful value added chemicals like NH3 and its derivatives, HCOOH, CH3OH etc. This study is directly relevant to industrial homogeneous catalytic processes, because the current practices for using these molecules needs to be improved and new pathway to be discovered for the efficient utility of these molecules.

Employment

• Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  2022 - Present
• University of South Wales Research fellow in Organometallic Chemistry
  2021 - 2022
• CNRS Delegation Occitanie Ouest Post-Doc
  2019 - 2021
• Indian Institute of Science Project Assistan
  2017 - 2018

Education

• Indian Institute of Science Ph D
  2010 - 2017

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (8)

• A new recipe for the isolation of a cationic Mn-pentane σ-complex
  Journal of Chemical Sciences 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s12039-025-02411-9
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• Recent developments on the transformation of CO2 utilising ligand cooperation and related strategies
  Dalton Transactions 2022 DOI: 10.1039/D2DT01609E
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• Impact of the Alkali Metal on the Structural and Dynamic Properties of the Anionic Pentahydride Ruthenium Complexes [M(THF)x][RuH5(PCy3)2] (M = Li, Na, K)
  Organometallics 2021 DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.1c00384
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• Synthesis and reactivity of phosphine borohydride compounds
  Chemical Communications 2021 DOI: 10.1039/D0CC07072F
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• Hydrogenation of CO<inf>2</inf>, carbonyl and imine substrates catalyzed by [IrH<inf>3</inf>(PhPNHP)] complex
  Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2018.12.017
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• Approaches to Sigma Complexes via Displacement of Agostic Interactions: An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation
  Organometallics 2017 DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00210
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• Small molecule binding and activation on a cationic ruthenium center of a pincer complex
  Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2016 DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2016.10.030
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• Contrasting reactivity behaviour of the [RuHCl(CO)(PNP)] complex with electrophilic reagents XOTf (X = H, CH<inf>3</inf>, Me<inf>3</inf>Si)
  Dalton Transactions 2014 DOI: 10.1039/c4dt01570c
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