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Palani Elumalai

Palani Elumalai (PhD)

Postdoctoral Researcher
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute

Biography

Dr. Palani Elumalai received his PhD (2013) in Synthetic Functionalized Organometallic and Supramolecular Chemistry from the University of Delhi, India. He worked as a Post Doc in various organizations including the University of Delhi, and University of Ulsan, South Korea, Texas A&M University at Qatar and Texas A&M University, College Station, U.S.A. 

Dr. Elumalai joined Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in March 2021 in the QNRF funded National Priorities Research Program - NPRP - Cluster grant to develop highly effective porous materials for selective CO2 capture and conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into high-value chemicals.

 

Research Interests

  • Functionalized porous materials
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Covalent Organic-Frameworks (COFs)
  • Supramolecular Self-assembled Porous Cages and coordination polymeric materials
  • Synthetic organic, organic-inorganic/organometallics
  • High pressure and high temperature hydrothermal or solvothermal syntheses
  • Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) and Hydrogen Storage in Liquid Organic
  • Hydrogen Carriers (LOHC)

Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher (QNRF, NPRP - cluster grant)

Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation, Qatar

2021 - Present

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate (QNRF grant)

    Department of Chemistry, Science Program, Texas A&M University, Qatar

    2016 - 2021

  • Senior Researcher (National Research Fellow of Korea, NRF-Fellow)

    Department of Chemistry & Biology, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea

    2014 - 2016

  • Post-Doctoral Fellow (Senior Researcher, BK21-Korea grant)

    Department of Chemistry & Biology, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea

    2013 - 2014

  • Post-doctoral Research Associate (CSIR-India grant)

    Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

    2012 - 2013

Education

Ph.D., Synthetic Chemistry

Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

2007 - 2009

  • M.S., Chemical Sciences

    School of Chemistry, Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu, India

    2005 - 2007

  • B.S., Chemistry

    AAGA-College, University of Madras, India

    2001 - 2005

Selected Publications

  • Chen, W., Cai, P., Elumalai, P., Zhang, P., Feng, L., Al-Rawashdeh, M., Madrahimov, S.M., Zhou, H.C.

    “Site-Isolated Azobenzene-Containing Metal-Organic Framework for Cyclopalladated Catalyzed Suzuki-Miyuara Coupling in Flow”. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2021,13 (44), 51849–51854

     2021

  • Elumalai, P.; Elrefaei, N.; Al-Rawashdeh, M.; Madrahimov, S. M.

    “Testing Metal–Organic Framework Catalysts in a Microreactor for Ethyl Paraoxon Hydrolysis”. Catalysts, 2020, 10 (10), 1159

     2020

  • Mamlouk, H.; Elumalai, P.; Kumar, M. P.; Aidoudi, F. H.; Bengali, A. A.; Madrahimov, S.

    “In Situ Solution-State Characterization of MOF-Immobilized Transition-Metal Complexes by Infrared Spectroscopy”. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 3171-3178.

     2020

  • Elumalai, P.; Mamlouk, H.; Yiming, W.; Feng, L.; Yuan, S.; Zhou, H.-C.; Madrahimov, S.

    “Recyclable and Reusable Heteroleptic Nickel Catalyst Immobilized on MOF for Suzuki–Miyaura Coupling”. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2018, 10, 41431– 41438.

    2018

  • Yuan, S.; Zhang, P.; Zhang, L.; Garcia-Esparza, A. T.; Sokaras, D.; Qin, J.; Feng, L.; Day, G. S.; Chen, W.; Drake, H. F.; Elumalai, P.; Madrahimov, S.; Sun, D.; and Zhou, H-C.

    “Expose Equatorial Positions of Metal Centers via Sequential Ligand Elimination and Installation in MOFs”. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 10814-10819.

     2018

  • Elumalai, P.; Kaushik, N.; Kim, D. W.; Kim, H.; Lee, S. J.; Choi, E. H.; Chi, K-W.; Kaushik, N. K.

    “Flexible ligated ruthenium(II) self-assemblies sensitizes glioma tumor-initiating cells in vitro”. Oncotarget, 2017, 8, 60188-60200

     2017

  • Elumalai, P.; Jeong, Y. J.; Park, D. W.; Kim, D-W.; Kim, H.; Kang, S. C.; Chi, K.-W.

    “Antitumor and biological investigation of doubly cyclometalated ruthenium(II) organometallics derived from benzimidazolyl derivatives”. Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 6667-6673.

    2016

  • Lee, H.-W.; Elumalai, P.; Singh, N.; Kim, H.; Lee, S. U.; Chi, K.-W.

    “Selective Synthesis of Ruthenium(II) Metalla[2]Catenane via Solvent and Guest-Dependent Self-Assembly”. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 4674-4677.

     2015

  • Elumalai, P.; Kanagaraj, R.; Marimuthu, R.; Shankar, B.; Kalita, A. C.

    Sathiyendiran, M. “Rhenium(I)-based Bridgeless Double Metallocalix[4]arenes”. Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 11274-11277

     2015

  • Elumalai, P.; Thirupathi, N.; Nethaji, M.

    “The Dual Role of Acetate as a Nucleophile and as an Internal Base in Cycloplatination Reaction of sym N,N,N-Triarylguanidines”. Inorg. Chem. 2013, 52, 1883‒1894.

     2013
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