BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Name:
Dr. H. MAHESWARAN
Fathers Name:
K. N. Hariharasarma
Date of Birth
29—3-1968
Present Position
Senior Scientist
Mailing Address
Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Division
Indian Institute of Chemical Technology
Tarnaka, Hyderabad –500 007, India
E-mail
maheswaran_dr@yahoo.com & maheswaran@iict.res.in
Phone (Office)
91-040-27191532; Mobile: 09966757604
Fax (Office)
91-040-27160921
Education:
1988
B.Sc. American College, Madurai, India
1990
M.Sc. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai, India
1998
Ph.D. The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham,
Alabama, USA.
Professional:
Dec 1999 - Sep 2001
QRS fellow at Scientist C level, IICT, Hyderabad.
Sep.2001- till date
Senior Scientist, IICT, Hyderabad.
Publications: 29
Patents granted: 1: WO0107156
List of Recent Publications
1. Ponnam Satyanarayana, Ganapam Manohar Reddy, Hariharasarma Maheswaran*,
Mannepalli Lakshmi Kantam, “A Hypervalent Iodine reagent and Rhodium (I)
catalyzed three-component one-pot synthesis of diaryl methyl amines”.
Tetrahedron Letters, manuscript accepted for publication, October 2014.
2. Keya Leyak, Hariharasarma Maheswaran*, Mannepalli Lakshmi Kantam,
“Ullmann coupling of aryl iodides catalyzed by gold nanoparticles stabilized on
nanocrystalline magnesium oxide”, Catal. Sci.Technol., 2013, 3, 1147-1150.
3. Ponnam Satyanarayana, Ganapam Manohar Reddy, Hariharasarma Maheswaran,
and Mannepalli Lakshmi Kantam, “Tris(acetylacetonato)rhodium(III)-Catalyzed
α-Alkylation of Ketones, β-Alkylation of Secondary Alcohols and Alkylation of
Amines with Primary Alcohols” Adv. Synth. Catal. 2013, 355, 1859 – 1867.
4. Ponnam Satyanarayana, Hariharasarma Maheswaran, Mannepalli Lakshmi
Kantam, and H. P. S. Chawla, “Stereoselective asymmetric hydrogenation of 2benzamidomethyl-3-oxobutanoate catalyzed by Pregosin’s hydrido complexes of
type Ru(H)(p-cymene)(bis-phosphine)(SbF6)” Catal. Sci.Technol., 2012, 2, 25082511.
5. Keya Layek, Mannepalli Lakshmi Kantam, Masayuki Shirai, Daisuke NishioHamane, Takehiko Sasaki and Hariharasarma Maheswaran, “Gold nanoparticles
stabilized on nanocrystalline magnesium oxide as an active catalyst for reduction
of nitroarenes in aqueous medium at room temperature” Green Chem., 2012, 14,
3164-3174.
6. P. J. Amal Joseph, S. Priyadarshini, M. Lakshmi Kantam and Hariharasarma
Maheswaran, “Copper catalyzed ipso-nitration of iodoarenes, bromoarenes and
heterocyclic haloarenes under ligand-free conditions”, Tetrahedron Letters, 2012,
53, 1511–1513.
7. Keya Layek, Rajashree Chakravarti, Mannepalli Lakshmi Kantam, Hariharasarma
Maheswaran and Ajayan Vinu, “Nanocrystalline magnesium oxide stabilized gold
nanoparticles: an advanced nanotechnology based recyclable heterogeneous
catalyst platform for the one-pot synthesis of propargylamines” Green Chem.,
2011, 13, 2878-2887.
8. Ponnam Satyanarayana, Hariharasarma Maheswaran, Mannepalli Lakshmi
Kantam, and Suresh Bhargava, “Bis(µ-iodo)bis[(-)-sparteine]-dicopper: A
Versatile Catalyst forDirect O-Arylation and O-Alkylation of Phenols and
Aliphatic Alcohols with Haloarenes”, Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 2011, 84(7), 788790.
9. P. J. Amal Joseph, S. Priyadarshini, M. Lakshmi Kantam and Hariharasarma
Maheswaran, Sulfonic acid containing cation-exchanger resin ‘‘INDION770’’and copper(I) salts: a novel reusable catalyst for N-arylation of NHheterocycles with haloarenes”, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, 1, 234–238.
10. P. J. Amal Joseph, S. Priyadarshini, M. Lakshmi Kantam and Hariharasarma
Maheswaran, “Sulfonic acid resin and copper salts: a novel heterogeneous
catalytic system for direct hydroxylation of haloarenes” Catal. Sci. Technol.,
2011, 1, 582–585.
11. S. Priyadarshini, P. J. Amal Joseph, P. Srinivas, Hariharasarma Maheswaran, M.
Lakshmi Kantam, and Suresh Bhargava, “Bis(µ-iodo)bis((-)-sparteine)dicopper(I)
catalyzed Sonogashira-type reaction under palladium and phosphine-free
conditions”, Tetrahedron Letters, 2011, 52, 1615–1618.
12. Hariharasarma Maheswaran , P. J. Amal Joseph, K. Leon Prasanth, S.
Priyadarshini, P. Satyanarayana, Praveen R. Likhar, M. Lakshmi Kantam,
“Investigations of enantioreversal in both direct and directed enantioselective
aldol reactions catalyzed by CuCl2[(-)-sparteine] and NiCl2[(-)-sparteine]
complexes” Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 2010, 21, 2158–2166.
13. H. Maheswaran , G. Gopi Krishna , K. Leon Prasanth, V. Srinivas, G. Krishna
Chaitanya , K. Bhanuprakash “Bis(µ-iodo)bis((-)-sparteine)dicopper(I): versatile
catalyst for direct N-arylation of diverse nitrogen heterocycles with haloarenes”
Tetrahedron 64, pp. 2471-2479, 2008.
14. H. Maheswaran , G. Gopi Krishna, V. Srinivas, K. Leon Prasanth, C. V.
Rajasekhar “Copper(I) Thiophene-2-carboxylate (CuTC): A Versatile NonNitrogen Ligand-Based Catalyst for Direct N-Arylation of Imidazole and Pyrazole
Using Aryl Iodides, Aryl Bromides, and Aryl Chlorides” Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn,
81(4) pp. 515-517, 2008.
15. Maheswaran, H., Prasanth, K.L., “Selective oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides in
water using 30% hydrogen peroxide catalyzed with a recoverable VO(acac)2
exchanged sulfonic acid resin catalyst” Journal of Molecular Catalysis A:
Chemical 268 (1-2), pp. 45-49, 2007.
16. Pathak, D.D., Maheswaran, H., Leon Prasanth, K., Lakshmi Kantam, M., “Design
and development of a new chelating bis(phosphinite)-based palladium(II) catalyst
and its application to the heck reaction” Synlett (5), pp. 757-760, 2007.
17. Maheswaran, H., Prasanth, K.L., Krishna, G.G., Ravikumar, K., Sridhar, B.,
Kantam, M.L., “Enantioselective nitroaldol (Henry) reaction using copper(II)
complexes of (-)-sparteine” Chemical Communications (39), pp. 4066-4068,
2006.
18. Maheswaran, H., Choudary, B.M., Ramani, T., Prashant, L., Ranganath, K.V.S.,
Kumar, K.V., “Catalytic asymmetric epoxidation of unfunctionalised olefins
using silica, LDH and resin-supported sulfonato-Mn(salen) complex” Advanced
Synthesis and Catalysis 348 (4-5), pp. 493-498, 2006.
19. Rajasekhar, Ch.V., Maheswaran, H., “Enantioselective Michael addition and
Henry reaction catalyzed by a new heterobimetallic aluminum-lithium complex
derived from (+)-2,3-O-isoproylidine threitol” Indian Journal of Chemistry Section A Inorganic, Physical, Theoretical and Analytical Chemistry 41 (12), pp.
2503-2506, 2002.
20. Hariharasarma, M., Watkins, C.L., Gray, G.M., “Solution Conformational
Features of the Unsymmetrical Metalla Crown Ether cis-Mo(CO)4{2-(2,2′O2C12H8)PO(CH2CH2O)2-2-C20H12-2′-OP(2,2′-O2C12H8)}
from
2D-NMR
Spectroscopy and Molecular Modeling” Organometallics 19 (7), pp. 1232-1238,
2000.
21. Lukehart, C.M., Boxall, D.L., Corn, J.D., Maheswaran, H., King, W.D.,
Kwiatkowski, K.C., Steigerwalt, E.S., Kenik, E.A., “Preparation of PT-RU or PTMO supported catalysts for PEM or direct methanol fuel cells from single-source
molecular precursors” ACS Division of Fuel Chemistry, Preprints Volume 44,
Issue 4, Pages 982-986, 22 August 1999.
22.
Hariharasarma, M., Lake, C.H., Watkins, C.L., Gray, G.M., “31P NMR and
X-ray crystallographic study of atropisomerism in cis-tetracarbonylmolybdenum(0) and cis-dichloroplatinum(II) complexes of (±)-6,6′-[[1,1′Biphenyl]-2,2′-diylbis(oxy)]bis(dibenzo[d,f][1,3,2]dioxaphosphepin) & (±)-6,6’[[1,1′-Binaphthyl]-2,2′-diylbis(oxy)]bis(dibenzo[d,f][1,3,2]dioxaphosphepin)
ligands”, Organometallics, Volume 18, Issue 14, Pages
2593- 2600, 5 July
1999.
23.
Hariharasarma, M., Lake, C.H., Watkins, C.L., Gray, G.M., “Synthesis, reactions
and X-ray crystal structures of metallacrown ethers with unsymmetrical
bis(phosphinite) and bis(phosphite) ligands derived from 2-hydroxy-2′-(1,4bisoxo-6-hexanol)-1,1′-biphenyl” Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 580 (2),
pp. 328-338, 1999.
24.
Hariharasarma, M., Lake, C.H., Watkins, C.L., Gray, G.M., “Synthesis, reactions
and X-ray crystal structures of metallacrown ethers with symmetrical
bis(phosphinite), bis(phosphite) and bis(phosphine) ligands derived from 2,2’dihydroxy-(1,4-bisoxo-6-hexanol)-1,1′-biphenyl” Ph.D Thesis, The University of
Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA, 1999.
25.
Hariharasarma, M., Lake, C.H., Gray, G.M., “X-ray crystal structure of cis-{(±)6,6′-[[1,1′-biphenyl]-2,2′-diylbis(oxy)]bis-dibenzo[d,f][1,3,2]dioxaphosphepin}diiodoplatinum(II) · dichloromethane” Journal of Chemical Crystallography 29 (1),
pp. 87-91, 1999.
26.
Sun, W., Byeon, C.C., Mckerns, M.M., Lawson, C.M., Maheswaran, H., Dunn,
J.M., Gray, G.M., “Enhancement of the third-order susceptibility of cisMo(CO)4(PPh3)2 solution by oxygen in different solvents” Proceedings of SPIE The International Society for Optical Engineering 3472, pp. 108-115, 1998.
27.
Sun, W., Byeon, C.C., McKerns, M.M., Lawson, C.M., Maheswaran, H., Dunn,
J.M., Gray, G.M., “Oxidative enhancement of the χ(3) values of solutions of cisMo(CO)4L2 (L = PPh3, AsPh3, PPh2Np) complexes as measured by DFWM”
Optical Materials 11 (1), pp. 87-93, 1998.
28.
Maheswaran, H., Gray, G.M., “X-ray crystal structure of 2-hydroxy-2′-(1,4bisoxo-6-hexanol)-1,1′-biphenyl” Journal of Chemical Crystallography 28 (4),
pp. 297-301, 1998.
29.
METALLACROWN ETHER CATALYSTS FOR HYDROFORMYLATION
GRAY, Gary M., Maheswaran, H, SMITH, Dale C. ”A metallacrown ether
ligand chelates a transition metal atom to form a catalyst well suited to perform
hydroformylation in the presence of carbon monoxide, hydrogen and an
unsaturated substrate compound”, Patent record available from the World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); Publication number: WO0107156,
Publication date: 2001-02-01.