Ph. D. IISc Bangalore, M.Tech (Anna University, Chennai)
Principal Research Scientist
Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore – 560012, India
E-mail: sathishkumar@sscu.iisc.ernet.in
Tel: +91 (0) 80 22932820
- In-situ cryo-crystallography: In-situ cryo-crystallization of low melting organic liquids and ionic liquids to study their inter and intra molecular interactions in the solid state
- Chemical crystallography: Understanding the molecular structure and bonding features of small molecules via high resolution X- ray diffraction studies to reveal the importance of fundamentals of chemistry.
- “Third polymorph of Phenylacetylene”Thakur, RanganathanSathishkumar, Amol G. Dikundwar, Tayur N. Guru Row, and Gautam R. Desiraju. Crystal Growth & Design, 2010, 10, 4246–4249.
- “Conformation-changing aggregation in hydroxyacetone: A combined low temperature FTIR, jet and crystallographic study” Archna Sharma, Igor D. Reva, RuiFausto , Susanne Hesse , ZhifengXue , Martin A. Suhm , Susanta Kumar Nayak, SathishkumarRanganthan, Rumpa Pal, and TayurNarasingarao Guru Row Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 20194–2020.
- “Succinate esters: odd–even effects in melting points”Sumy Joseph, RanganathanSathishkumar, ActaCrystallographica Section B,2014,B70, 839-846.
- “Fluorine prefers hydrogen bonds over halogen bonds! Insights from crystal structures of some halofluorobenzenes”, Amol G. Dikundwar, RanganathanSathishkumarandTayur N. Guru Row, Kristallogr. 2014, 229, 609-624.
- “Organic alloys of room temperature liquids thiophenol and selenophenol” Sajesh P. Thomas, RanganathanSathishkumar and T. N. Guru RowChem. Commun., 2015,51, 14255-14258