Jayaraman Chandrasekhar

Indian computational chemist and former professor

Jayaraman Chandrasekhar

Born|  (1952-10-23) 23 October 1952 (age 72)

Karnataka, India

Nationality| Indian
Alma mater|

* Bangalore University IIT Madras
* University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
* Yale University

Known for| Studies on the structure and bonding of organic molecules
Awards|

* Dr. Hussain Zaheer Young Scientist Award
* 1995 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
* 2004 Citation Laureate Award

Scientific career
Fields|

* Computational chemistry
* Theoretical chemistry

Institutions|

* Indian Institute of Science
* Neurogen Corporation

Doctoral advisor|

* S. Subramanian
* Paul von Ragué Schleyer
* William L. Jorgensen

Jayaraman Chandrasekhar (born 1952) is an Indian computational chemist and a former professor at the department of organic chemistry of the Indian Institute of Science.[1] He is known for his studies on the structure and bonding of organic molecules[2] and is an elected fellow of Indian National Science Academy,[3] and the Indian Academy of Sciences[4] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1995, for his contributions to chemical sciences.[5]

## Biography

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Bangalore University

J. Chandrasekhar, born on 23 October 1952 in the south Indian state of Karnataka, graduated in chemistry from Bangalore University in 1970 and joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras for his master's degree which he completed in 1972.[3] He continued at IIT Madras for his doctoral studies on computational chemistry and theoretical organic chemistry under the guidance of S. Subramanian and secured a PhD in 1977.[6] His post-doctoral studies were at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg at the laboratory of Paul von Ragué Schleyer, a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and later at with William L. Jorgensen of Yale University as a research associate.[7] In his return to India, he joined Indian Institute of Science as a member of the faculty of organic chemistry and while serving as a professor there, he moved to Neurogen Corporation, Branford where he pursues his researches.[3]

## Legacy

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Chandrasekhar is known to have worked extensively on the structure and bonding of organic molecules and their implications on chemical reactivity.[8] His later researches were on the quantification of electronic effects, prediction of structures and energies and the computation of their molecular properties and his studies have reportedly widened the understanding of negative hyperconjugation in organic, organometallic and inorganic systems and captodative stabilization and distonic effect in radical ions.[3] He has published his researches by way of chapters contributed to three books and several peer-reviewed articles;[9] the online repository of Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 151 of them.[10] He served as an elected member of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists from 1996 to 2005[11] and has been associated with Resonance and Journal of Science Education as an associate editor and with Current Science and Proceedings of Chemical Sciences as a member of their editorial boards.[3]

## Awards and honors

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Chandrasekhar has received the Dr. Hussain Zaheer Young Scientist Award and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1995.[12] The Indian Academy of Sciences elected him as a fellow in 1992[4] and he became an elected fellow of and the Indian National Science Academy in 2000. He received the Citation Laureate Award of Thomson Scientific in 2004.[13] He is also a senior fellow of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and has held the National Lectureship of Science and Engineering Research Board.[3]

## See also

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* Paul von Ragué Schleyer
* William L. Jorgensen

* India portal
* Chemistry portal

## References

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1. ^ Jayaraman Chandrasekhar (1996). "Exploring New Structural Motifs Using Computational Methods". Journal of The Indian Institute of Science.
2. ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
3. ^ a b c d e f "Indian fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2016. Archived from the original on 2 August 2020. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
4. ^ a b "Fellow profile". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
5. ^ "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
6. ^ "Jayaraman Chandrasekhar - Faculty profile". Indian Institute of Science. 2016. Archived from the original on 29 November 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
7. ^ "William L. Jorgensen Research Group". Yale University. 2016.
8. ^ "Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners" (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
9. ^ "Publications Authored by Jayaraan Chadrasekhar". PubFacts. 2016.
10. ^ "Browse by Fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016.
11. ^ "Elected Members" (PDFs). World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemist. 2016.
12. ^ "Chemical Sciences". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2016. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
13. ^ "Thomson Citation Laureate award for 7 scientists". Deccan Herald. 11 October 2004. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2017.

## External links

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* Advances in Organometallic Chemistry. Academic Press. 1 February 1988. pp. 262–. ISBN 978-0-08-058028-9.

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Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Chemical Science

1960s|

* Tuticorin Raghavachari Govindachari (1960)
* Asima Chatterjee (1961)
* S. C. Bhattacharyya (1962)
* B. D. Tilak (1963)
* Sukh Dev (1964)
* Sadhan Basu & R. C. Mehrotra (1965)
* Nanduri Atchuta Ramaiah (1966)
* Mushi Santappa (1967)
* C. N. R. Rao (1968)
* A. C. Jain (1969)

1970s|

* P. T. Narasimhan (1970)
* M. M. Dhar (1971)
* S. V. Kessar (1972)
* A. P. B. Sinha (1972)
* M. V. George (1973)
* H. B. Mathur (1973)
* U. R. Ghatak (1974)
* K. Nagarajan (1974)
* D. S. Bhakuni (1975)
* Animesh Chakravorty (1975)
* Devadas Devaprabhakara (1976)
* Mihir Chowdhury (1977)
* S. Ranganathan (1977)
* Girjesh Govil (1978)
* Goverdhan Mehta (1978)

1980s|

* D. Balasubramanian (1981)
* B. M. Deb (1981)
* C. L. Khetrapal (1982)
* G. S. R. Subba Rao (1982)
* Samaresh Mitra (1983)
* Naba Kishore Ray (1983)
* Paramasivam Natarajan (1984)
* K. J. Rao (1984)
* P. Balaram (1986)
* Debashis Mukherjee (1987)
* Kaushal Kishore (1988)
* Srinivasan Chandrasekaran (1989)
* M. K. Chaudhuri (1989)

1990s|

* B. M. Choudary (1990)
* N. Sathyamurthy (1990)
* Biman Bagchi (1991)
* J. S. Yadav (1991)
* Sumit Bhaduri (1992)
* Suryanarayanasastry Ramasesha (1992)
* S. R. Gadre (1993)
* T. Ramasami (1993)
* E. D. Jemmis (1994)
* D. D. Sarma (1994)
* Jayaraman Chandrasekhar (1995)
* K. L. Sebastian (1995)
* Narayanan Chandrakumar (1996)
* Mariappan Periasamy (1996)
* Kankan Bhattacharyya (1997)
* Adusumilli Srikrishna (1997)
* A. R. Chakravarty (1998)
* K. N. Ganesh (1998)
* Ganesh Prasad Pandey (1999)
* Deb Shankar Ray (1999)

2000s|

* Sourav Pal (2000)
* Pradeep Mathur (2000)
* Uday Maitra (2001)
* T. K. Chandrashekar (2001)
* Murali Sastry (2002)
* T. K. Chakraborty (2002)
* Santanu Bhattacharya (2003)
* S. Ramakrishnan (2005)
* Srinivasan Sampath (2006)
* K. George Thomas (2006)
* Amalendu Chandra (2007)
* A. Ajayghosh (2007)
* Thalappil Pradeep (2008)
* Jarugu Narasimha Moorthy (2008)
* Charusita Chakravarty (2009)
* Narayanaswamy Jayaraman(2009)

2010s|

* Swapan Kumar Pati (2010)
* Sandeep Verma (2010)
* Balasubramanian Sundaram (2011)
* Garikapati Narahari Sastry (2011)
* Gangadhar J. Sanjayan (2012)
* Govindasamy Mugesh (2012)
* Yamuna Krishnan (2013)
* Kavirayani Ramakrishna Prasad (2014)
* Souvik Maiti (2014)
* Pradyut Ghosh (2015)
* D. Srinivasa Reddy (2015)
* Partha Sarathi Mukherjee (2016)
* G. Naresh Patwari (2017)
* Swadhin Kumar Mandal (2018)
* Rahul Banerjee (2018)
* Tapas Kumar Maji (2019)

2020s|

* Subi Jacob George (2020)
* Jyotirmayee Dash (2020)
* Kanishka Biswas (2021)
* T Govindaraju (2021)
* Akkattu T. Biju (2022)
* Debabrata Maiti (2022)

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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Laureates of Karnataka

Biological Sciences|

* Sunil Kumar Podder
* Manchanahalli Rangaswamy Satyanarayana Rao
* Srinivas Kishanrao Saidapur
* M. R. N. Murthy
* Kalappa Muniyappa
* Vishweshwaraiah Prakash
* K. VijayRaghavan
* V. Nagaraja
* Dinakar Mashnu Salunke
* Raghavan Varadarajan
* Amitabh Joshi
* Balasubramanian Gopal
* Rishikesh Narayanan

Chemical Sciences|

* Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
* Kalya Jagannath Rao
* Biman Bagchi
* Suryanarayanasastry Ramasesha
* Jayaraman Chandrasekhar
* Akhil Ranjan Chakravarty
* Krishna N. Ganesh
* Uday Maitra
* Tavarekere Kalliah Chandrashekar
* Tushar Kanti Chakraborty
* Santanu Bhattacharya
* Siva Umapathy
* Subramaniam Ramakrishnan
* Srinivasan Sampath
* Balasubramanian Sundaram
* Yamuna Krishnan
* Kavirayani Ramakrishna Prasad

Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences|

* Shankar Doraiswamy

Engineering Sciences|

* Roddam Narasimha
* Mangalore Anantha Pai
* Udipi Ramachandra Rao
* Vallampadugai Srinivasa Raghavan Arunachalam
* Dipankar Banerjee
* Atul Chokshi
* Giridhar Madras
* Jayant Haritsa
* N. Ravishankar
* Venkata Padmanabhan
* Neelesh B. Mehta

Mathematical Sciences|

* Siva Athreya
* Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
* Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan
* Shrikrishna Gopalrao Dani
* Tyakal Nanjundiah Venkataramana
* Vasudevan Srinivas
* Sujatha Ramdorai
* Kaushal Kumar Verma
* K. Sandeep

Medical Sciences|

* Nuggehalli Raghuveer Moudgal
* Perdur Radhakantha Adiga
* P. N. Rangarajan
* K. Narayanaswamy Balaji

Physical Sciences|

* Raja Ramanna
* Narasimhaiengar Mukunda
* N. V. Madhusudana
* A. M. Jayannavar
* Sriram Ramaswamy
* Avinash Deshpande
* Madan Rao
* Srikanth Sastry
* Abhishek Dhar
* Umesh Waghmare
* Arindam Ghosh

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