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Prof. Krishnan Rangan

Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry

Bioinorganic Chemistry, Catalysis and Solar Energy Conversion, Inorganic Chemistry, Nano-materials
B107, Department of Chemistry,
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Hyderabad Campus,
Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal,
Medchal District, Telangana - 500 078, India

Publications

1.                  Self-assembly of a peptide sequence, EKKE, composed of exclusively charged amino acids: Role of charge on morphology and lead binding, Aishwarya Natarajan, Krishna Rangan, Ramakrishna Vadrevu, Journal of Peptide Science, 29(2), e3451, 1-10 (2023). (Feb, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1002/psc.3451

2.                  Ruthenium(II)-Catalyzed Annulation of 2-Arylimidazoles with Arylglyoxals: Synthesis of 5-Hydroxyimidazo[2,1-a]isoquinolin-6(5H)-ones and Their Photophysical Studies, Sonam, Nitesh K. Nandwana, Vikki N. Shinde, Krishnan Rangan, Anil Kumar, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 26, 71-76 (2023). (Jan 2, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202201065

3.                  Crystal structure of N-(2-hydroxynapthylidene)-L-isoleucinyl-4,6-O-ethylidene-β-D-glucopyranosylamine and an insight from experimental and theoretical calculations, Santosh Kumar Mishra, Anuvasita Parikh, Krishnan Rangan, Ajay Kumar Sah, Crystal Research and Technology, 2200209, 1-11 (2022). (December 18, 2022). DOI: 10.1002/crat.202200209

4.                  Electrochemical Oxidative Addition of Nucleophiles on 2-Arylindoles: Metal-free Synthesis of C2-Heteroquaternary Indolin-3-ones, Yadav Nagare; Imtiyaz Shah; Jyothi Yadav;, Amol Prakash Pawar; Krishnan Rangan; Rahul Choudhary; Eldhose Iype; Indresh Kumar, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 87, 15771-15782 (2022).  (November 17, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.2c01734

5.                  Enantioselective Direct Synthesis of C3-Hydroxyalkylated Pyrrole via Amine Catalyzed Aldol/Paal-Knorr Reaction Sequence, Amol Prakash Pawar, Jyothi Yadav, Atul Dolas, Yadav Nagare, Eldhose Iype, Krishnan Rangan, Indresh Kumar, Organic Letters, 24, 7549-7554 (2022). (October 11, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.2c02922.

6.                  Pyrazinium-based Fluorescent Chemosensor for Selective Detection of 2,4,6-trinitrophenol in Aqueous Medium, PragyaVaishali Saini, Krishnan Rangan and  Bharti KhungarNew J. Chem., 46, 16907-16913 (2022). (Aug 08, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1039/D2NJ02999E

7.                  Catalyst-free direct regiospecific multicomponent synthesis of C3-functionalized pyrroles, Amol Prakash Pawar, Jyothi Yadav, Atul Jankiram Dolas, Eldhose Iype, Krishnan Rangan and Indresh Kumar, Org. Biomol. Chem., 20, 5747—5758 (2022) (June 24, 2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2OB00961G

8.                  Cobalt-catalyzed tandem one-pot synthesis of polysubstituted imidazo[1,5-a]pyridines and imidazo[1,5-a]isoquinolines, Neha Meena, Shiv Dhiman, Krishnan Rangan, and Anil Kumar, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 20, 4215-4223 (2022) (May 4th 2022). https://doi.org/10.1039/D2OB00526C

9.                  Iodine(III)-promoted regioselective and efficient synthesis of β-triazolyl BODIPYs for the selective recognition of nickel ion and bovine serum albumin, Bintu Kumar, Anindita Bhatta, Prakriti Saraf, Krishnan Rangan, Madhushree Sarkar, Sivaprasad Mitra, and Dalip Kumar, Dalton Trans, 51, 8169-8176 (2022) (April 26th 2022). https://doi.org/10.1039/D2DT00946C

10.              Mechanochemical Ruthenium-Catalyzed Ortho-Alkenylation of N‑Heteroaryl Arenes with Alkynes under Ball-Milling Conditions, Bhawani, Vikki N. Shinde, Sonam, Krishnan Rangan, and Anil Kumar, J. Org. Chem. 87, 5994-6005, (2022). (April 26th, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.2c00257.

11.              Positional Effects of a Pyridyl Group in Zn(II) Coordination Polymers on the Selective Dye Adsorption Properties, Krishnan Rangan, Sadhika Khullar, Madhushree Sarkar, Polyhedron, 214, 11564 (1-14), (2022).  (March, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2021.115646

12.              Structural analysis of bis(pyridyl)diimines: Factors affecting the molecular geometry and supramolecular packing, Fayaz Baig, Krishnan Rangan, Sadhika Khullar, Madhushree Sarkar, Journal of Molecular Structure, 1250, 131830, 1-14, (2022). (February 15, 2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2021.131830

13.              A Family of [Zn6] Complexes from Carboxylate Bridge Supported Assembly of [Zn2] Building Units: Synthetic, Structural, Spectroscopic and Systematic Biological Studies"
Avishek Majumder, Nityananda Dutta, Sudatta Dey, Priyanka Sow, Asmita Samadder, Gonela Vijaykumar, Krishnan Rangan, and Manindranath Bera, Inorg. Chem. 2021, 60, 17608−17626, (November 11, 2021). DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c02201.

14.              TEMPO-Mediated Synthesis of Indolyl/Imidazo[1,2-a]pyridinyl-Substituted para-Quinone Methides from Butylated Hydroxytoluene, Dhananjay S. Nipate, Sonam, Vikki N. Shinde, Krishnan Rangan, and Anil Kumar, J. Org. Chem. 2021, 86, 23, 17090–17100. (November 11, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.1c02202.

15.              Asymmetric Synthesis of Bridged N-Heterocycles with Tertiary Carbon Center through Barbas Dienamine-Catalysis: Scope and Applications, Jyothi Yadav, Atul Dolas, Eldhose Iype, Krishnan Rangan, Joji Ohshita, Dalip Kumar, Indresh Kumar, J. Org. Chem. 2021, 86, 17213−17225 (November 7, 2021). DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c02295.

16.              Palladium-Catalyzed Weakly Coordinating Lactone-Directed C−H Bond Functionalization of 3‑Arylcoumarins: Synthesis of Bioactive Coumestan Derivatives, Vikki N. Shinde, Krishnan Rangan, Dalip Kumar, and Anil Kumar, J. Org. Chem. Online (June 28, 2021). 86, 9755-9770 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.1c01097

17.              -Glycoconjugates: Selective colorimetric chemosensors for aspartic acid and cysteine, Santosh Kumar Mishra, Vimal Kumar Madduluri, Krishnan Rangan, Ajay K. Sah, J. Molecular Structures, 1241 (130644), 1-7 (2021), (May 12, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2021.130644

18.              Switchable regioselective hydroalkylation of 2-arylindoles with maleimides, Dhananjay S. Nipate, Vikki N. Shinde, Krishnan Rangan, Anil Kumar, Organic Biomolecular Chemistry, 19, 4910-4921 (2021). ( 8 May 2021). DOI: 10.1039/d1ob00690h

19.              TEMPO-Mediated Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling of Indoles and Imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines with Fluorinated Alcohols, Dhananjay S. Nipate, Sonam Jaspal, Vikki N. Shinde, Krishnan Rangan, and Anil Kumar, Org. Lett. 23, 1373-1377 (2021), (February 4, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.1c00031

20.              Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed Dehydrogenative Annulation and Spirocyclization of 2-Arylindoles and 2-(1H-Pyrazol-1-yl)-1H-indoles with Maleimides: A Facile Access to Isogranulatimide Alkaloid Analogues, Vikki N. Shinde, Krishnan Rangan, Dalip Kumar, and Anil Kumar, J. Org. Chem. 86, 2328−2338 (2021). (12 January 2021). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.0c02467 .

21.              Direct catalytic synthesis of β-(C3)-substituted pyrroles: a complementary addition to the Paal–Knorr reaction, Amol Prakash Pawar, Jyothi Yadav, Nisar Ahmad Mir, Eldhose Iype, Krishnan Rangan, Sumati Anthal, Rajni Kant, Indresh Kumar, Chemical Communications, 57, 251-254 (2021). (07 January 2021) https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CC06357F.

22.              Synthesis and biological evaluation of new benzo[d][1,2,3] triazol‑1‑yl‑pyrazole‑based dihydro‑[1,2,4]triazolo[4,3‑a] pyrimidines as potent antidiabetic, anticancer and antioxidant agents, Vinay Pogaku, R. Krishnan, Srinivas Basavoju, Research on Chemical Intermediates, 47, 551-571 (2021). (October 17, 2020). (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11164-020-04285-7).

23.              Iodine assisted synthesis of CF3 appended spirodihydrofuryl/cyclopropyl oxindoles by changing the active methylene sources, Thirupathi Reddy Penjarla, Maheshwar Kundarapu, Krishnan Rangan and Anupam Bhattachary, Org. Biomol. Chem., 18, 9623-9631 (2020). (2020 Nov 18). https://doi.org/10.1039/D0OB01903H.

24.              Rhodium(III)‐Catalyzed Annulation of 2‐Arylimidazo[1,2‐a]pyridines with Maleimides: Synthesis of 1H‐Benzo[e]pyrido[1′,2′:1,2]imidazo[4,5‐g]isoindole‐1,3(2H)‐Diones and their Photophysical Studies, Vikki N. Shinde, Tapta Kanchan Roy, Sonam Jaspal, Dhananjay S. Nipate, Neha Meena, Krishnan Rangan, Dalip Kumar, Anil Kumar, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 362, 5751-5764 (2020). (December 22, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1002/adsc.202000960.

25.              Metal-free benzoylation of imidazoheterocycles by oxidative decarboxylation of arylglyoxylic acids, Sonam Jaspal, Vikki N Shinde, Neha Meena, Dhananjay S Nipate, Krishnan Rangan, Anil Kumar, Org Biomol Chem, 18(44):9072-9080 (2020). (Nov 28, 2020). doi: 10.1039/d0ob01842b.

26.              Direct Amine-Catalyzed Enantioselective Synthesis of Pentacyclic Dibenzo[b,f][1,4]oxazepine/Thiazepine-Fused Isoquinuclidines along with DFT Calculations, Jyothi Yadav, Amol Prakash Pawar, Yadav Kacharu Nagare, Eldhose Iype, Krishnan Rangan, Joji Ohshita, Dalip Kumar, and Indresh Kumar, J. Org. Chem. 2020, 85, 14094-14108, (2020), (October 8, 2020). (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.0c02141).

27.              A facile synthesis of 3-(arylthio)imidazo[1,2-a]pyridin-2(3H)-ones from 2-aminopyridinium bromides and sodium arenesulfinates, Saroj Badania, Krishnan Rangan, Anil Kumar, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2020, 7015-7022 (2020) (Sep 15, 2020), https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202000996.

28.              KOH-mediated intramolecular amidation and sulfenylation: A direct approach to access 3-(arylthio)imidazo[1,2-a]pyridin-2-ols, Khima Pandey, Vikki N. Shinde, Krishnan Rangan, Anil Kumar, Tetrahedron, 76 (131499), 1-7 (2020). (August 14, 2020) (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2020.131499).

29.              Phenyliodine(III) Diacetate-Mediated 1,2-ipso-Migration in Mannich Bases of Imidazo[1,2‑a]pyridines: Preparation of N‑Acetoxymethyl / Alkoxymethyl‑N‑arylimidazo[1,2‑a]pyridine-3-amines, Om P. S. Patel, Sonam Jaspal, Vikki N. Shinde, Nitesh K. Nandwana, Krishnan Rangan, and Anil Kumar, J. Org. Chem. 85, 7309−7321 (2020). (https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.0c00674) (May 15, 2020).

30.              Template effect of innocent and coordinating anions on the formation of interpenetrated 2D and 3D networks: methyl orange and iodine sorption studies, Fayaz Baig, Krishnan Rangan, Shibu M. Eappen, Sanjay K. Mandal, Madhushree Sarkar, CrystEngComm, 22, 751-766 (2020). (DOI: 10.1039/c9ce00998a).

31.              Substrate or Solvent-Controlled PdII-Catalyzed Regioselective Arylation of Quinolin-4(1H)-ones Using Diaryliodonium Salts: Facile Access to Benzoxocine and Aaptamine Analogues, Manish K. Mehra, Shivani Sharma, Krishnan Rangan, and Dalip Kumar, Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2409–2413 (2020). (doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202000013).

32.              Exploration of fluorescence behavior of an imidazolium-based chemosensor in solution and in the solid state and its turn-on response to Al3+ in pure aqueous medium, Vaishali Saini, Rangan Krishnan and Bharti Khungar, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 19, 931-942 (2020). (DOI: 10.1039/c9pp00477g) (April 17, 2020).

33.              A selective turn-off fluorescence detection of nitroexplosive 2,4,6-trinitrophenol by pyridinium-based chemosensor in pure aqueous medium, Vaishali Saini, Aman Gupta, Krishnan Rangan, Bharti Khungar, Dyes and Pigments 180, 108447, 1-9 (2020). (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2020.108447) (April 16, 2020).

34.              Mononuclear Co(II), Ni(II) and Cu(II) complexes of the Schiff base, 2-(((4-trifluoromethoxy)phenylimino)methyl)-6-tert-butylphenol: Synthesis, spectroscopic characterization, X-ray study and biological evaluation, Aveli Rambabu, Nirmala Ganji, Sreenu Daravath, Kadtala Venkateswarlu, Krishnan Rangan, Shivaraj, Journal of Molecular Structure 1199, 127006, 1-10 (2020). (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2019.127006).

35.              The design and green synthesis of novel benzotriazoloquinolinyl spirooxindolopyrrolizidines: antimycobacterial and antiproliferative studies, Vinay Pogaku, Vagolu Siva Krishna, Chandrasekar Balachandran, Krishnan Rangan, Dharmarajan Sriram, Shin Aoki and Srinivas Basavoju, New J. Chem. 43, 17511-17520 (2019). (DOI: 10.1039/c9nj03802g) (October 16, 2019).

36.              Fused Chromeno‐Thieno/Furo‐Pyridines as Potential Analogs of Lamellarin D and their Anticancer Activity Evaluation, T. Uday Kumar, Yamini Bobde, Sravani Pulya, Krishnan Rangan, Balaram Ghosh, Anupam Bhattacharya, ChemistrySelect, 4, 10726-10730 (2019). (https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.201902946) (September 24, 2019).

37.              Metal-free synthesis of pyridin-2-yl ureas from 2-aminopyridinium salts, Saroj, Om P.S. Patel, Krishnan Rangan, Anil Kumar, Tetrahedron Letters, 60, 150939 (2019). (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2019.07.030) (August 15, 2019).

38.              Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of 2-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-6(1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridin-4-yl)imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine analogues as antiproliferative agents, Surendar Chitti, SrinivasaRao Singireddi, Pochana Santosh Kumar Reddy, Prakruti Trivedi, Yamini Bobde, Chandan Kumar, Krishnan Rangan, Balaram Ghosh, Kondapalli Venkata Gowri Chandra Sekhar, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 29, 2551–2558 (2019). (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmcl.2019.08.013) (August 7, 2019).

39.              Synthesis of C2-tetrasubstituted indolin-3-ones via Cu-catalyzed oxidative dimerization of 2-aryl indoles and cross-addition with indoles, Anoop Singh, Satheeshvarma Vanaparthi, Sachin Choudhary, Rangan Krishnan, Indresh Kumar, RSC Adv., 9, 24050-24056 (2019). (DOI: 10.1039/c9ra04741g) (July 23, 2019). 

40.              Crystal structure, DNA interactions, antioxidant and antitumor activity of thermally stable Cu(II), Ni(II) and Co(III) complexes of an N,O donor Schiff base ligand, Kadtala Venkateswarlu, Nirmala Ganji, Sreenu Daravath, Kumar Kanneboina, Krishnan Rangan, Shivaraj, Polyhedron 171, 86–97 (2019). (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2019.06.048)   (July 3, 2019)

41.              Ultrasonication-ionic liquid synergy for the synthesis of new potent anti-tuberculosis 1,2,4-triazol-1-yl-pyrazole based spirooxindolopyrrolizidines, Vinay Pogaku, Vagolu Siva Krishna, Dharmarajan Sriram, Krishnan Rangan, Srinivas Basavoju, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 29(13), 1682-1687 (2019). (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmcl.2019.04.026) (April 17, 2019)

42.              Copper and palladium-catalyzed sequential reactions: one-pot synthesis of isoindolo[2,1-b]isoquinolin-7(5H)-ones, Hitesh Kumar Saini, Shiv Dhiman, Nitesh Kumar Nandwana, Rangan Krishnan and Anil Kumar, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 17, 4281-4290 (2019). (https://doi.org/10.1039/C9OB00440H). (March 26, 2019)

43.              Application of Polyphosphoric Acid-Mediated Acyl Migration for Regiospecific Synthesis of Diverse 2-Acylpyrroles from Chalcones, Togiti Uday Kumar, Yadagiri Thigulla, Krishnan Rangan, Anupam Bhattacharya, Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry, 56(4), 1283-1290 (2019). (https://doi.org/10.1002/jhet.3494) (February 27, 2019).

44.              Photophysical studies of pyrenyl cyanostyrenes:effect of trifluoromethyl substitution on gelation, Jagadish Katla, Abhijeet Ojha, Akshay J. M. Nair, Krishnan Rangan and Sriram Kanvah, New Journal of Chemistry, 42, 18297-18304 (2018). (DOI: 10.1039/c8nj04146f) (October 9, 2018)

45.              Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Triazole-Containing 2-Phenylindole and Salicylic Acid as Quorum Sensing Inhibitors Against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Singireddi Srinivasarao, Shashidhar Nizalapur, Tsz Tin Yu, Daniel Stanley Wenholz, Prakruti Trivedi, Balaram Ghosh, Krishnan Rangan, Naresh Kumar, and Kondapalli Venkata Gowri Chandra Sekhar, ChemistrySelect, 3, 1970-1980 (2018). (DOI: 10.1002/slct.201801622) (August 8, 2018)

46.              Synthesis of imidazopyridine-fused indoles via one-pot sequential Knoevenagel condensation and cross dehydrogenative coupling, Vikki N. Shinde, Shiv Dhiman, Rangan Krishnan, Dalip Kumar and Anil Kumar, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 16, 6123-6132 (2018). (https://doi.org/10.1039/C8OB01449C). (August 3, 2018)

47.              One-Pot Tandem Amidation, Knoevenagel Condensation, and Palladium-Catalyzed Wacker Type Oxidation/C-O Coupling: Synthesis of Chromeno-Annulated Imidazopyridines, Khima Pandey, Krishnan Rangan, and Anil Kumar, Journal of Organic Chemistry83, 8026-2035 (2018). (DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b00884) (June 8, 2018)

48.              Iodine-​mediated one-​pot intramolecular decarboxylation domino reaction for accessing functionalized 2-​(1,​3,​4-​oxadiazol-​2-​yl)​anilines with carbonic anhydrase inhibitory action, Srinivas Angapelly, Sri Ramya, P. V., Rohini Sodhi, Andrea Angeli, Krishnan Rangan, Narayana Nagesh, Claudiu T. Supuran, Mohammed Arifuddin, Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry, 33(1), 615-628 (2018). (DOI: 10.1080/14756366.2018.1443447)   (March 14, 2018)

49.              Nickel‐Catalyzed Tandem Knoevenagel Condensation and Intramolecular Direct Arylation: Synthesis of Pyrazolo[5,1‐a]‐isoquinoline Derivatives, Shiv Dhiman, Nitesh Kumar Nandwana, Hitesh Kumar Saini, Dalip Kumar, Krishnan Rangan, Katherine N. Robertson, Mukund Jhad and Anil Kumar, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 360, 1973-1983 (2018).  (https://doi.org/10.1002/adsc.201701519) (March 5, 2018)

50.              Crystal structure, DNA binding, cleavage, antioxidant and antibacterial studies of Cu(II), Ni(II) and Co(III) complexes with 2-((furan-2-yl)methylimino)methyl)-6-ethoxyphenol Schiff base, Kadtala Venkateswarlu, Marri Pradeep Kumar, Aveli Rambabu, NarendrulaVamsikrishna, Sreenu Daravath, Krishnan Rangan, Shivaraj, Journal of Molecular Structure, 1160, 198-207 (2018). (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2018.02.004)   (February 1, 2018)

51.              Crystal structure of a new molecular salt:4-aminobenzenaminium 5-carboxypentanoate, Risha Mishra, Krishnan Rangan and Raghavaiah Pallepogu, Acta Cryst. E, 74, 201-205 (2018). (https://doi.org/10.1107/S2056989018000737)   (January 11, 2018)

52.              Sequential Copper-Catalyzed Sonogashira Coupling, Hydroamination and Palladium-Catalyzed Intramolecular Direct Arylation: Synthesis of Azepino-fused Isoindolinones, Hitesh K Saini, Nitesh K Nandwana, Shiv Dhiman, Krishnan Rangan, and Anil Kumar, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 7277-7282 (2017).

53.              Synthesis, characterization, crystal structure of bis(phenanthroline)oxalatonickel(II) pentahydrate, Krishnan Rangan, Acta Cryst. 73, A73, C960-960 (2017).

54.              Metal-Free C‒C Bond Cleavage: One-Pot Access to 1,4-Benzoquinone linked N-Formyl Amides/Sulfonamides/Carbamates using Oxone, P.V. Sri Ramya, Srinivas Angapelly, Bathini Nagendra Babu, Chander Singh Digwal, Atulya Nagarsenkar, Gannoju Srinivasulu, B Prasanth, Mohammed Arifuddin, Kumar Kanneboina, Krishnan Rangan, and Ahmed Kamal, Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, 6, 1008-1013 (2017).

55.              Identification and development of pyrazolo[4,3-c]pyridine carboxamides as Mycobacterium tuberculosis pantothenate synthetase inhibitors, Suresh Amaroju, Mahalakshmi Naidu Kalaga Singireddi Srinivasarao, Agnieszka Napiórkowska, Ewa Augustynowicz-Kopec, Sankaranarayanan Murugesan, Subhash Chander, Rangan Krishnan and Kondapalli Venkata Gowri Chandra Sekhar, New Journal of Chemistry, 41, 347-357 (2017).

56.              Controlled synthesis and characterization of (µ-oxalato)dimetal(II) complex of nickel. V. R. Pooja, Krishnan Rangan, Journal of Advances in Sciences and Technology, 14, 1-5, (2014).

57.              Electrochemical, spectroscopic, and photophysical properties of structurally diverse polyazine-bridged Ru(II),Pt(II) and Os(II),Ru(II),Pt(II) supramolecular motifs, Jessica D. Knoll, Shamindri M. Arachchige, Guangbin Wang, Krishnan Rangan, Ran Miao, Samantha L. H. Higgins, Benjamin Okyere, Meihua Zhao, Paul Croasdale, Katherine Magruder, Brian Sinclair, Candace Wall, Karen J. Brewer, Inorganic Chemistry, 50, 8850-8860, (2011).

58.              Synthesis, characterization, and study of the photophysics and photocatalytic properties of the photoinitiated electron collector [{(phen)2Ru(dpp)}2RhBr2](PF6)5, Travis A. White, Krishnan Rangan and Karen J. Brewer, Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology, A: Chemistry, 209, 203-209, (2010).

59.              Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation by Heterometallic Polyazines From Water, Krishnan Rangan, Shamindri M. Arachchige, Jared R. Brown and Karen J. Brewer, Energy and Environmental Science, 2, 410-419 (2009).

60.              Design Considerations for a System for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production from Water Employing Mixed-Metal Photochemical Molecular Devices for Photoinitiated Electron Collection, Shamindri M. Arachchige, Jared R. Brown, Eric Chang, Avijita Jain, David F. Zigler, Krishnan Rangan and Karen J. Brewer,  Inorganic Chemistry, 48, 1989-2000 (2009).

61.              Silver(I) Complexes of Fluorinated Scorpionates: Ligand Effects in Silver Catalyzed Carbene Insertion into C-H Bonds of Alkanes, Krishnan Rangan, Mauro Fianchini, Shreeyukta Singh and H. V. Rasika Dias, Inorganica Chimica Acta, 362, 4347-4352 (2009).

62.              Binuclear Complexes Containing a Methylnickel Moiety: Relevance to Organonickel Intermediates in Acetyl Coenzyme A Synthase Catalysis, William G. Dougherty, Krishnan Rangan, Molly J. O'Hagan, Glenn P. A. Yap and Charles G. Riordan, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130, 13510-13511 (2008).

63.              Structural Variations of Silver Ethylene Complexes Supported by Boron-Protected Fluorinated Scorpionates and the Isolation of a Ligand-Directed Silver Helix, H. V. Rasika Dias, Jiang Wu, Xiaoyu Wang and Krishnan Rangan, Inorganic Chemistry, 46, 1960-1962 (2007).

64.              Comparing the Electronic Properties of the Low-Spin Cyano-Ferric [Fe(N4)(Cys)] Active Sites of Superoxide Reductase and P450cam Using ENDOR Spectroscopy and DFT Calculations, Tran-Chin Yang, Rebecca L. McNaughton, Michael D. Clay, Francis E. Jenney, Jr., Rangan Krishnan, Donald M. Kurtz, Jr., Michael W. W. Adams, Michael K. Johnson and Brian M. Hoffman, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128, 16566-16578 (2006).

65.              Geometries and Electronic Structures of Cyanide Adducts of the Non-Heme Iron Active Site of Superoxide Reductases: Vibrational and ENDOR Studies, Michael D. Clay, Tran-Chin Yang, Francis E. Jenney, Jr., Irene Y. Kung, Christopher A. Cosper, Rangan Krishnan, Donald M. Kurtz, Jr., Michael W. W. Adams, Brian M. Hoffman and Michael K. Johnson, Biochemistry, 45, 427-438 (2006).

66.              Evidence for a Carbonyl-Containing Intermediate in the 308-nm Photolysis of trans-RhCl(CO)(PMe3)2, R. Krishnan and Richard H. Schultz, Inorganic Chemistry, 44, 6691-6694 (2005).

67.              Tripeptide Complexes of Nickel: The Cys-Gly-Cys Motif Yields Diamidothiolato Coordination and a Metalloligand as Found in Acetyl Coenzyme A Synthase, Rangan Krishnan and Charles G. Riordan, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 126, 4484-4485 (2004).

68.              Modeling the Acetyl Coenzyme A Synthase, Charles G. Riordan, Rangan Krishnan and Yoshinobu Ishikawa, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 96, 22 (2003).

69.              Thiolate-Bridged Nickel-Copper Complexes: A Binuclear Model for the Catalytic Site of Acetyl Coenzyme A Synthase, R. Krishnan, Janis K. Voo, Charles G. Riordan, Lev Zahkarov and Arnold L. Rheingold, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 125, 4422-4423 (2003).

70.              Furans Bound Face-On: Sequential Loss of CO in the Formation of [W(CO)44-2,5-dimethylfuran)], R. Krishnan, Hugo E. Gottlieb and Richard H. Schultz, Angewandte Chimie International Edition, 42, 2179-2181 (2003).

71.              Polynuclear Manganese Complexes Catalyzed Epoxidation of Olefins with Molecular Oxygen, R. Krishnan and S. Vancheesan, Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 185, 87-95 (2002).

72.              Electronic and Steric Effects in Ligand Substitution at a Transient Organometallic Species: The Reaction of W(CO)5(Cyclohexane) with (CH3)nTHF and (CH3)2Furan (n = 1,2), R. Krishnan and Richard H. Schultz, Organometallics, 20, 3314-3322 (2001).

73.              Synthesis, Characterization and Catalytic Activity of Polynuclear Manganese Complexes of 2,5-Dihydroxyterephthalaldehyde for Epoxidation of Olefins with H2O2, R. Krishnan and S. Vancheesan, Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 157, 15-24 (2000).

74.              Catalase and Epoxidation Activity of Polynuclear Manganese(III)-Schiff Base Complexes, R. Krishnan and S. Vancheesan, Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 142, 377-382 (1999).

75.              An Improved Heterogenized Manganese Complexes with More Active Sites as Oxidation Catalyst, R. Krishnan and S. Vancheesan, Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis, 113, 845-849 (1998).