Dr. N. Panneer Selvam
Assistant Professor (Sr.Grade), Department of Chemistry
Sona College of Technology, Salem – 636 005. India
Email: panneerselvam@sonatech.ac.in, selvams7@yahoo.co.in
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
| University Degree |
Subject |
University |
Year |
| Ph.D. |
Synthetic Organic Chemistry- "Synthesis of Diversely Substituted Amides and Heterocycles using Nitriles" |
University of Madras (Research work carried at Central Leather Research Institute,CSIR) |
2009 |
| M.Sc |
Organic Chemistry |
University of Madras |
2003 |
| B.Sc |
Chemistry (Physics & Mathematics as allied subjects) |
Periyar University |
2001 |
Personal Data
| Date of Birth |
: |
5th May 1980 |
| Sex |
: |
Male |
| Nationality |
: |
Indian |
| Marital Status |
: |
Married |
DETAILS OF PREVIOUS AND PRESENT EMPLOYMENT
| Position held |
Organization |
Month and year of Entry |
Month and year of Completion |
Subject of Research |
| Officer (Senior Chemist) |
Dr. Reddy’s Lab, Custom Pharmaceutical Synthesis, Hyderabad, India. |
June 2003 |
October 2004 |
Custom molecule synthesis and Process development for clinical trial drugs |
| Junior Research fellow |
Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai, India. |
November 2004 |
October 2006 |
Green Approach towards the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds |
| Senior Research fellow |
Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai, India. |
November 2006 |
January 2009 |
Synthesis of Diversely substituted Amides and Heterocycles using Nitriles |
| Post doctoral Research Associate |
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, USA. |
February 2009 |
April 2010 |
Association and Functionalization studies on Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes |
| Assistant Professor |
Department of Chemistry
Sona college of Technology, Salem, Tamilnadu, India |
July 2010 |
Till date |
Functionalization and Applications of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes |
EXPERIENCE
- In the field of Synthetic Organic Chemistry – 7 years
- In the field of Nano technology – 1 year and 2 months
- Post doctorate experience (in USA) –1 year and 2 months
Awards/Fellowships
- Received Junior and Senior Research Fellowship award from Council of Science and Industrial Research (CSIR -2003) throughout my PhD course the Government of India.
- Awarded “Post-doctoral Fellowship” by National Science Foundation through University Oklahoma, United States of America (2009)
- Received a “SciMix award” for poster in 239th ACS National meeting at San Francisco, California, USA.
- Received Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering (GATE - 2003) in Chemical Sciences
- Received appreciation awards for producing 100% and more than 95% results in End Semester Examinations.
- Delivered 3 invited talks, 3 special lecture in various meeting /workshop.
- Reached h-index of 10 with i10 index of 10 based on Google scholar, this year (citations – 574)
Membership in Scientific Organization
- Life Member of American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Life Member of Indian Society of Systems for Science and Engineering(ISSE)
Field of Specialization
- Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes
- Green approach towards the synthesis of various heterocycles
- Multi-component reaction methodology
- Custom Molecule synthesis
- Complex molecule construction using nitriles
Technical Skills
- Ability to perform nanomaterial reactions
- Wide range scale reaction performance
- Process development for microscale to pilot scale
- Ability to handle air sensitive, moisture sensitive and pyrophoric reagents
- Structure elucidation of complexed molecules with appropriate analytical techniques
- Technological Entrepreneurship
- Business professional programming and chemical software operations till date.
Hands on Sophisticated Instruments
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (300 MHz (Bruker), 400 MHz (Varian), 500 MHz (Varian & JEOL)
- Fourier Transform Infra Red Spectrophotometer (Perkin Elmer & Nicolet)
- Ultraviolet-Visible Spectrophotometer (Perkin Elmer)
- Mass Spectrometer (ESI & APCI (Thermo Fennigan), FAB, MALDI (Perkin Elmer))
- Gas Chromatography-Mass analyzer (Perkin Elmer)
- High Performance Liquid Chromatography-Mass analyzer (Thermo Fennigan)
- Differential Scanning Calorimeter (TA instruments)
- Thermo Gravimetric Analyzer (TA instruments)
- Elemental Analyzer (TA instruments)
- Raman Spectrophotometer (Jobin Yvon-Lab Ram Spectrometer)
- Polarimeter (Rudolph II)
- Horn Sonicator
Experience in characterization technique
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
- Fourier Transform Infra Red Spectroscopy
- Ultraviolet-Visible Spectroscopy
- Mass Spectrometery
- GC-MS/HPLC-MS analysis
- Differential Scanning Calorimetery
- Thermo Gravimetry
- RAMAN spectroscopy
- Polarimetry
- Elemental analysis
Scientific contributions
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Papers published in International Journals |
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17 |
| Papers Published in proceedings of International conference/Technical meeting |
: |
1 |
| Papers presented/accepted in International/National conference |
: |
6 |
Papers Published
International Journals:
- C. Sridevi, N. Panneer Selvam, G. Shanthi, G. Velraj “Tautomeric stability, vibrational, electronic, NBO, and NMR analyses of N-[acetylamino-(3-nitrophenyl)methyl]-acetamide (ANPMA) by ab initio HF and DFT calculations” J. Mol. Struct. 2012, 1030, 46.
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Donna J. Nelson, Panneer Selvam Nagarajan, Christopher N. Brammer, Paramasivan T. Perumal “Effect of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Association upon 1H NMR Spectra of Representative Organonitrogen Compounds” J. Phys. Chem. C 2010, 114, 10140.
- Donna J. Nelson, Paramasivan T. Perumal, Christopher N. Brammer, Panneer Selvam Nagarajan “Effect of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Association upon Representative Amides” J. Phys. Chem. C 2009, 113, 17378.
- Nagarajan Panneer Selvam, Paramasivan T. Perumal “Cerium(IV) sulfate catalyzed simple and convenient synthesis of β-acetamidocarbonyl compounds” ARKIVOC 2009, 10, 265.
13. M. NizamMohideen, A. SubbiahPandi, Nagarajan Panneer Selvam, Paramasivan T. Perumal “N-[(2-Hydroxy-1-naphthyl)-(3-nitrophenyl)methyl]acetamide” Acta Cryst. E. 2009, 65, o714.
- M. NizamMohideen, S. Thenmozhi, A. SubbiahPandi, Nagarajan Panneer Selvam, Paramasivan T. Perumal “N-[(2-Hydroxy-5-methoxyphenyl)-(3-nitrophenyl)methyl]acetamide” Acta Cryst. E. 2009, 65, o829.
- M. NizamMohideen, S. Thenmozhi, A. SubbiahPandi, Nagarajan Panneer Selvam, Paramasivan T. Perumal “N-[(2-Hydroxy-1-naphthyl)(2-hydroxyphenyl)methyl]acetamide” Acta Cryst. E. 2009, 65, o740.
- M. NizamMohideen, A. SubbiahPandi, Nagarajan Panneer Selvam, Paramasivan T. Perumal and M. Damodiran “[1-(3-Nitrophenyl)-2,3-dihydro-1Hnaphtho[1,2-e][1,3]oxazin-3-ylidine]malonaldehyde” Acta Cryst. E. 2009, 65, o582.
- Nagarajan Panneer Selvam, Paramasivan T. Perumal “Cerium(IV) sulfate catalyzed one-pot three-component diastereoselective synthesis of 4-amidotetrahydropyrans” Can. J. Chem. 2009, 87, 698.
- Kuppusamy Sujatha, Gnanamani Shanthi, Nagarajan Panneer Selvam, Seeralan Manoharan, Paramasivan T. Perumal, Melani Rajendran “Synthesis and antiviral activity of 4,4’-(arylmethylene)-bis(1H-pyrazol-5ols) against peste des petits ruminant virus (PPRV)” Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2009, 19, 4501.
- M. Damodiran, Nagarajan Panneer Selvam, Paramasivan T. Perumal “Synthesis of highly functionalized oxazines by Vilsmeier cyclization of amidoalkyl naphthols” Tetrahedron Lett. 2009, 50, 5474.
- Nagarajan Panneer Selvam, Thelagathoti Hari Babu, Paramasivan T. Perumal “A simple and convenient approach to the Friedlander synthesis of pyrano[2,3-b]pyridines” Tetrahedron 2009, 65, 8524.
- Nagarajan Panneer Selvam and Paramasivan T. Perumal “A simple and efficient method for the synthesis of amidophenols using iodine as catalyst under neat condition” Tetrahedron 2008, 64, 2972.
- Nagarajan Panneer Selvam, Saranya Sundar and Paramasivan T. Perumal “A convenient and efficient protocol for the synthesis of symmetrical N, N’- alkylidine bisamides by sulfamic acid under solvent–free conditions” Can. J. Chem. 2008, 86, 32.
- Nagarajan Panneer Selvam, G. Shanthi and P. T. Perumal, “Ceric-sulfatecatalyzed synthesis of 14-aryl- or 14-alkyl-14H-dibenzo[a j]xanthene under conventional heating and microwave irradiation”, Can. J. Chem. 2007, 84, 989.
- Nagarajan Panneer Selvam and Paramasivan T. Perumal A new synthesis of acetamido phenols promoted by Ce(SO4)2” Tetrahedron Lett. 2006, 47, 7481.
- Nagarajan Panneer Selvam, C. Saravanan, D. Muralidharan and P. T. Perumal, “Water mediated synthesis of quinolines – A new green approach to the Friedländer annulation” J. Heterocylic Chem. 2006, 43, 1379.
Paper published in the Proceedings of National conference/Technical meeting
- ‘Effects of NaHCO3 Washing and Change in Reagent Order upon the Reaction of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Thionyl Chloride and PMMA’ Organic Chemistry Division, 239th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, March 2010, page 475-477.
Papers Presented/Accepted in International/National Conference
- ‘Effect of single-walled carbon nanotube association upon representative organonitrogen compounds’, 55th Annual Pentasectional Meeting of the American Chemical Society,Norman, OK, USA, April 2010.
- ‘Effects of NaHCO3 Washing and Change in Reagent Order upon the Reaction of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Thionyl Chloride and PMMA’ Organic Chemistry Division, 239th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, March 2010
- ‘Effect of single-walled carbon nanotube association upon representative organonitrogen compounds’, SCIMIX & Organic Chemistry Division, 239th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, March 2010.
- ‘A simple and efficient method for the synthesis of amidophenols using iodine as catalyst under neat condition’ National seminar on "Emerging trends in Chemistry" at CPA College, Bodinayakkanur, July 2008.
- ‘Synthesis, Antibacterial and antifungal activity of substituted acetamidophenols and symmetrical N,N-alkylidine bisamides’ Seminar on “Recent trends in Medicinal Chemistry” at Stella Maris College, Chennai, January 2008.
- ‘Recent methods in the synthesis of Heterocyclic compounds’ National seminar on "Recent trends in Chemistry" at Banarus Hindu University, Varanasi, March 2007.
REFERENCES
1) Dr. P. T. Perumal
Head & Director Grade Scientist,
Organic Chemistry Division,
Central Leather Research Institute,
Adyar, Chennai – 600 020.
Ph: 044 24911329,
Email: ptperumal@gmail.com
2) Prof. P.C. Srinivasan
Former Head of the Department,
Department of Organic Chemistry,
University of Madras,
Guindy campus (A.C. Tech building)
Chennai – 600 025.
Email: pancol2000@yahoo.com
3) Prof. Donna J. Nelson
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Oklahoma,
Oklahoma, USA
Zip 73019
Email: djnelson@ou.edu
4) Prof. R. Raghunathan
Former Head of the Department,
Department of Organic Chemistry,
University of Madras,
Guindy campus (A.C. Tech building)
Chennai – 600 025.
Email: ragharaghunathan@yahoo.com