Name of the Teaching Staff Designation Department / School Date of Joining the Institution Qualification with Class / Grade Area of Specialization Research Interests Dr. N. Ananthi Assistant Professor CHEMISTRY / SSAMM 25.07.2011 UG PG Ph.D. Distinction Distinction NA Asymmetric synthesis and catalysis, Organic chemistry Asymmetric synthesis and catalysis, Catalysis, Supra molecular chiral chemistry, Drug delivery, DSSCs, Subjects Teaching Under Graduate Engineering Chemistry Applied Chemistry Applied Chemistry for Engineers Applied Chemistry Practical Environmental Studies Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Post Graduate Organic Reaction Mechanisms Spectroscopic Methods for Structure Elucidation Inorganic Chemistry Molecular Spectroscopy Organic Qualitative Analysis Molecular and Materials Self Assembly Functionalisation of Nano materials Total Experience in Years Teaching Industry Research 7.5 years - 4.5 years Papers Published National 5 International 15 Papers Presented in Conference Conferences / Symposiums / Seminars / Workshops Participated National 5 International 5 National 20 International 5 FDP / STTP / MDP / Summer / Winter School attended Attended the course in Catalysis Research (Sponsored by DST, India) in NCCR, IIT, Madras in December 2007 Faculty Induction Programme held at Karunya University, Coimbatore during June 14 20, 2012. Faculty Pedagogy Programme held at Karunya University, Coimbatore during June 22 28, 2012 Attended workshop on Spectroscopy and its Applications in Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore in February 2013
Attended FDPs and trainings on curriculum design, question paper setting and mentoring conducted by KCDC, KITS during May, June 2018 M.Phil. / Ph.D. Guide ship Ph.D. Projects Guided Field Organic Chemistry 2 Ph.D.s (on going) University KITS Project at Master s Level 10 Professional Memberships Member in Chemical Research Society of India Member in Society of Porphyrin and Phthalocyanins Consultancy Activities Awards & Honours Grants Fetched Interaction with Professional Institutions Educational Details Structural Analysis-NMR, Mass, IR, UV-Vis- and HPLC chromatogram analysis Received DST Young Scientist Award from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India in the year 2013. Received Achiever Award from Karunya University, Coimbatore in the year 2014. Passed All India GATE 2005 with 82 percentile. Won 1 st prize in oral presentation held at NCCR, IIT Madras in December 2007. Projects completed: Research project titled Synthesis of novel chiral metallo porphyrins and their application in catalytic asymmetric epoxidation reactions funded by DST/SERB under the scheme Fast Track Young Scientist award Reference No. CS- 194/2012 (2013-2016) Completed the projects titled Novel chiral ligands for asymmetric catalysis funded by SEED Karunya University. Projects ongoing: Research proposal titled Dual site binding of guest moleculeloaded β-cyclodextrin-porphyrin conjugates to G- Quadruplex DNA: Targeting G-Rich sequences was funded by Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences, DAE, Govt. of India. Reference no. 37(2)/14/17/2018-BRNS) National Institute of Technology, Pondicherry B.Sc. Chemistry, Holy Cross College, Tiruchirappalli, Affliated to Bharatidasan University, Tiruchirappalli
M.Sc. Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore Ph.D. Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli Experience Contact Details Assistant Professor (Grade I): July 2011 January 2017 Assistant Professor (Grade II): February 2017- Till date Room No: SHF 017 Building: Science and Humanities Mobile: 9994149762 Intercom: 4481 E-mail: ananthi@karunya.edu, write2ananthi@gmail.com Papers Published 1. Chiral amide from (1S,2R)-(+)-norephedrine alkaloid in the enantioselective diethylzinc addition to aryl and heteroaryl aldehydes Nallamuthu Ananthi, Umesh Balakrishnan, Ajayan Vinu, katsuhiko Ariga, Sivan Velmathi. Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, Vol 20, Issue 15, (2009) 1731-1735. 2. Salicylaldimine based copper (II) complex-potential catalyst for asymmetric Henry reaction Nallamuthu Ananthi, Umesh balakrishnan, Sivan Velmathi. Accepted for publication in the journal ARKIVOC 2010 (xi) 370-379 3. Synthesis, characterization, electrochemical and antibacterial activity studies of Cobalt (II) complexes of salen derived ligands Nallamuthu Ananthi, Umesh Balakrishnan, M. Babu, Mubarak ali, N. Thajudin, Sivan Velmathi. The IUP journal of chemistry, Vol 3, Issue 3, (2010) 28-41. 4. Preparation and characterization of chiral oxazaborolidine complex i mmobilized in SBA- 15 and its application in the asymmetric reduction of prochira l ketones Umesh Balakrishnan, Nallamuthu Ananthi, Ajayan vinu, Katsuhiko Ariga, Sivan Velmathi. Chemistry- An Asian journal, Vol 5, (2010) 897-903. This paper has been highlighted in SYNFACTS 2010, Vol 7, 0841. 5. Chiral ligand derived from (1S,2R)-(+)-norephedrine as a catalyst for enantioselective prochiral ketone reduction. Umesh Balakrishnan, Nallamuthu Ananthi, Sivan Velmathi. Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, Vol 20, Issue 10, (2009) 1150-1153. 6. Colorimetric and fluorescence sensing of fluoride anions with p otential salicylaldimine based Schiff base receptors Radhakrishnan Sivakumar, Reena Vijayaraghavan, Nallamuthu Ananthi, Muthiya Babu, Sambandam Anandan, Sivan Velmathi Spectrochimica acta A, Vol 75, (2010) 1146 1151. 7. Influence of the substituent groups in chiral oxazaborolidine catalyst derived from L- Valine for the prochiral ketone reduction Umesh Balakrishnan, Nallamuthu Ananthi, Sivan Velmathi Indian journal of Chemistry Vol. 50B, August 2011.
8. Immobilization of chiral oxazaborolidine catalyst over highly ordered 3D mesoporous silica with Ia3d symmetry for enantioselective reduction of prochiral ketone Sivan Velmathi, Umesh Balakrishnan, Nallamuthu Ananthi, Katsuhiko Ariga, Siddulu Naidu, Ajayan Vinu. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2011, 13, 4950-4956. 9. Immobilization of chiral amide derived from (1R,2S)-(-)-norephedrine over 3Dnanoporous silica for the enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to aldehydes Umesh Balakrishnan, Nallamuthu Ananthi, Sivan Velmathi, Mercy R. Benzigar, Siddulu N. Talapaneni, Salem S. Aldeyab, Katsuhiko Ariga, Ajayan Vinu. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 155, 40-46, 2012 10. Synthesis, characterization and third order non linear optical properties of metallo organic chromopjores Nallamuthu Ananthi, Umesh Balakrishnan, Sivan Velmathi, Krishna Balakrishna Manjunath, Govindarao Umesh Optics and Photonics Journal 2, 40-45, 2012 11. Synthesis and Application of New Salen Type Chiral Ligands from L-Valine in Asymmetric Henry Reaction Nallamuthu Ananthi, Umesh Balakrishnan, Sivan Velmathi Advanced Science Letters 5, 1 5, 2012. 12. Asymmetric Reformatsky reaction catalysed by (1S,2R)-(+)-Norephedrine derived amide Nallamuthu Ananthi, Umesh Balakrishnan, Sivan Velmathi Journal of Chemical Sciences 126, 151-158, 2014 13. Asymmetric Henry reaction catalysed by transition metal complexes Nallamuthu Ananthi, Sivan Velmathi Indian Journal of Chemistry Section B 52B, 87-108, 2013 14. Asymmetric epoxidation of alkenes catalyzed by novel chiral metal porphyrin metal complexes Sakthipriya Pachiannan, Ananthi Nallamuthu Journal of Porphyrin and Phthalocyanin. 20, 1-8, 2016 15. Poly lactic acid coated SBA-15 functionalized with 3-aminopropyl triethoxysilane Jose Varghese, Pachiannan Sakthipriya, Gunalan Rachel, Nallamuthu Ananthi Indian Journal of Chemistry 56A, 621-625, 2017 16. Chiral cobalt complexes synthesized from L-valine: As potential catalysts for asymmetric Henry reaction Pachiannan Sakthipriya, Sakshi Joseph, Nallamuthu Ananthi MOJ Bioorganic and Organic Chemistry 1, 1-9, 2017 17. Role of Chirality in Drugs Reshma Jeyakumar, Ragavi Vadivel, Nallamuthu Ananthi Organic and Medicinal Chemistry International Journal doi: 10.19080/OMCIJ.2018.05.555661 18. Promising Antibacterial Activity of Simple Schiff Bases ragavi Vadivel, Reshma Jeyakumar, Nallamuthu Ananthi Organic and Medicinal Chemistry International Journal doi: 10.19080/OMCIJ.2018.05.555662 19. Development of efficient dye sensitized organic solar cells using eco friendly dyes extracted from Acalypha Godseffia and Epipremnum Aureum Pachiannan Sakthipriya, Sunday Chukwuemeka Emmanuel, M. S. P. Subathra, Nallamuthu Ananthi Submitted to
International Journal of Green Chemistry (Under review) 20. Chiral porphyrin imine manganese complexes a scatalysts for asymmetric epoxidation of styrene derivatives Nallamuthu Ananthi Submitted under review in the journal Chirality Papers Presented in Conferences 1. Catalytic application of the chiral ligand immobilised onto mesoporous material in asymmetric ketone reduction Nallamuthu Ananthi, Umesh Balakrishnan, Ajayan Vinu, Siavn Velmathi, Paper presented in the conference FM 2008, IIT, Madras during Nov 2008. 2. Asymmetric Henry reaction catalyzed by a chiral schiff base-cu(oac) 2 complex Nallamuthu Ananthi, Umesh Balakrishnan, Sivan Velmathi, Paper presented in the conference MATCON 2010, CUSAT, Cochin during Jan 2010. 3. Synthesis And Third Order Non Linear Optical Properties Of Schiff Bases And Their Metal Complexes Nallamuthu Ananthi, Umesh Balakrishnan, K.B. Manjunath, G. Umesh and Sivan Velmathi, Paper presented in the conference RETMAC 2010, NIT, Surathkal during Feb 2010. 4. Microwave assisted synthesis of imides and bisimides Umesh Balakrishnan, Nallamuthu Ananthi, R. Chandra sekar, R. Anandhi, Sivan Velmathi, Paper presented in the conference GREEN CHEMISTRY, Karunya University, Coimbatore during Aug 2007. 5. Participated and helped in all the conferences, seminars and workshops held in the department of chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli during January 2007- June 2011. 6. Chiral amide ligands synthesised from l-proline: potential catalysts for asymmetric michael reaction Samandram Rashini Kumar, Nalamuthu Ananthi Poster presented in the Chennai Chemistry Conference (CCC-13) held in CLRI, Chennai on 8 th February 2013. 7. Potential chiral catalysts synthesized from L-Valine for asymmetric Henry reaction Sakshi Joseph, Nallamuthu Ananthi Poster presented in the conference ICCFC 2014 at PSGR Krishnammal college for women, Coimbatore on 10 th January 2014. 8. The paper entitled synthesis and characterization of new chiral meso-tetraarylporphyrin ligands for asymmetric catalysis was presented in the national level seminar on emerging trends in chemistry which was held at Sri GVG Visalakshi college for women, Udumalpet in December 2014. 9. Participated and helped in all the conferences, seminars and workshops held in the department of chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli during January 2007- June 2011.
10. Student Jose Varghese won the Best poster award for the poster on the topic PLA Coated Mesoporous Materials For Drug Delivery in the National Seminar On Nano and Bio Materials held on 28 th February 2015 in CUSAT, Cochin. 11. Phd student Ms. E. P. Sakthipriya won Best paper Award for the paper titled Synthesis and catalytic application of novel chiral modified amino acid porphyrin in asymmetric epoxidation in the National Conference on Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry (NCBOC-2015) conducted by the department of chemistry, Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Neelambur, Coimbatore during 15 th October 2015 12. B. Tech student Sunday Chukwuemeka Emmanuel won first place in paper presentation for presenting the research paper titled Development of Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Using Ecofriendly Dyes Extracted From Natural Resources in the National conference on Advancement in Smart Power Engineering NCASPE 17 organized by Department of Electrical Technology, Karunya University, held on 21 st April 2017. Lectures Delivered 1. Delivered lecture on the topic Scope of Bioinorganic Chemistry Research in the -17 th National Conference on Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry (NCBOC- 2015) conducted by the department of chemistry, Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Neelambur, Coimbatore during 15 th -17 th October 2015. 2. Delivered lecture on the topic Reaction monitoring Using High Performance Liquid Chromatography in the workshop conducted by the department of chemistry, KITS in October 2016. Research Group Members: Phd Students: Ms. Aleyamma Alexander Ms. Sakthipriya M. Sc Students: Mr. Rashini Kumar Ms. Sakshi Joseph Ms. Deepa Ms. Alen Mr. Sunday Emmanuel Mr. Agnel Mr. Nithish Mr. Bevin Mr. Dakshina Moorthy Ms. Ragavi Ms. Reshma Mr. Jesu Johnson Mr. Vinoth Kumar