Curriculum Vitae Dr. ARUMUGAM NATARAJAN
Associate Professor Department of Chemistry College of Science
King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Office Tel. +966114675907; Mobile No. +966533875187
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Associate Professor [27 December 2016 to till date] Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Visiting Faculty [25th June 2014-18th August 2014] Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America.
Assistant Professor [April 2011-26 December 2016], Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow [December 2009-December 2010], School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang-11800, Malaysia.
Research Scientist [May 2008-July 2009], Process chemistry (R&D), Advinus Therapeutics Private Limited, Bangalore, India- Responsible for Process development of Pharma intermediate and synthesis of API (Active Pharmaceutical ingredient).
Ph. D. in Synthetic Organic Chemistry [September2003–July2008], Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Madras, Chennai- 600 025, India.
Chemist in Research and Development (Management Trainee) [2002-2003], Shasun Chemicals and Drugs Private Limited, Chennai, India -synthesis of API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient).
M.Phil. in Organic Chemistry [2001-2002], Department of Organic Chemistry, School of Chemical Science, University of Madras, Chennai-600 025, India.
M. Sc. in Physical Chemistry [1999 - 2001], School of Chemical Science, University of Madras, Chennai- 600 025, India.
B. Sc. in Chemistry [1994-1997], Govt. Arts College, Dharmapuri, University of Madras. India.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Qualified for Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE -A National level entrance exam for admission to Ph.D programs in IIT’s and IISc, India) conducted by Ministry of Human Resource, Government of India.
Awarded Junior Research Fellowship (Spetember 2003-August 2006) by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India.
Awarded Senior Research Fellowship (September 2006-April 2008) by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India.
Best poster presentation in National Symposium awarded by Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) at kolkata-India on 2005.
King Saud University, Riyadh
VISITING FACULTY
Visiting Faculty at Drug Discovery Research facility, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America invited by Prof. Philip S. Low Ralph C. Corley Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Purdue Center for Drug Discovery.
INVITED LECTURE
Title of Lecture: “Facile [3+2]-cycloaddition-annulations in the construction of novel heptacyclic cage systems with the generation of three new rings and seven contiguous stereocentres" invited lecture on 3- 6 March 2013 at the 14th Annual Florida synthetic and heterocyclic conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America.
Title of talk: “Straightforward synthesis of novel pyrrolo[3,4-b]quinolones via intramolecular Povarov reaction” invited lecture on 1-4 March 2015 at the 16th Annual Florida synthetic and heterocyclic conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America.
MAJOR FUNDED PROJECTS
Currently, I am running four major projects as principal and co-investigator funded by King Saud University and National Plan for Science and Technology (NPST is leading funding agency in Saudi Arabia), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2021- Researcher Supporting program (RSP-143/2021) as principal investigator
2020-Researcher Supporting program (RSP-230/2020) as Co-investigator investigator
2019-Researcher Supporting program (RSP-143/2019) as principal investigator
2018-till date: (NPST project) Project entitled “Synthesis, efficacy and evaluation of novel rigid coumarin/quinoline hybrids for solid state dye lasers” participate as Co-investigator investigator.
2013-2016 (Successfully completed the project as Co-investigator investigator): Project entitled “Design, synthesis and anticancer activities of novel luotonin-inspired hybrid heterocycles” Prof. Jose Carlos Menendez, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, is an international consultant for this project (1 million Saudi Riyals)
2016-2018 ((Successfully completed the project as Principal-investigator investigator): International Scientific partnership program (ISPP), Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2019-til date: Participate as Principal Investigator in Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR) Group No.
RG-1440-071, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2011-till date: Participate as Co-Investigator in Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR) Group No. RG- 026, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2018-till date: Participate as Co-Investigator in Deanship of Scientific Research Group (DSR) No. RG- 1438-052, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
POTENTIAL REVIWER FOR HIGHLY REPUTED INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS
Expert reviewer for the following highly reputed international journals (1) Journal of Organic Chemistry (ACS publication),
(2) Energy & Fuels (ACS publication)
(3) European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (Elsevier publisher);
(4) Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry (Elsevier Publisher);
(v) RSC advances (Royal Society of Chemistry, UK)
(5) Letters in drug design and discovery (Bentham Scienc publisher);
(6) Bioorganic Chemistry (Elsevier Publisher);
(7) Journal of Materials and Environmental Science.
(8) ChemistrySelect (Wiley-VCH on behalf of Chemistry Europe) (9) Scientific Reports (Nature publisher);
(10) Chemistry Central Journal (Spring publications), (9) BMC Chemistry (Spring publications)
(10) Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry Letters (Elsevier publisher);
REVIEW ARTICLES
(1) The Chemical Records 2017, 17, 1-12.
(2) Arkivoc 2016, (ii), 9-41. (impact factor 1.6) (3) Synlett 2015, 26, 2355-2380 (Impact factor: 2.41).
(4) Current Organic Chemistry 2013, 17, 1929-1956 (impact factor 3.04)
FOUR US PATENTS
(1) US patent (Patent No. US9,486,444B1) Date of Patent : 8 Nov 2016;
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/04/86/7b/1d51b94e6ae511/US9486444.pdf (2) US patent (Patent No. US 9,873,699B1) Date of Patent : 23 January 2018
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/fc/85/b9/d3d1b7d62bc577/US9873699.pdf (3) US patent (Patent No. US 10 , 357 , 485 B1) Date of Patent : 23 July 2019
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/ff/4c/94/97f53c7771ce7c/US10357485.pdf
(4) US patent (Patent No. US10 590147 B1) Date of Patent : 17 March 2020 https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/b5/04/eb/0a0af66d573af5/US10590147.pdf
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TOTAL NUMBERS OF RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS IN PEET-REVIEWED INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL (ISI) -165
LAST THREE YEARS PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2019
2019:
1. Journal of molecular structure 2021, 1237, 130396. DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2021.130396 2. Journal of materials science-materials in electronics 2021, DOI: 10.1007/s10854-021-06063-6 3. Journal of electronic materials, 2021, 50, 4215-4221. DOI: 10.1007/s11664-021-08912-w 4. Bioorganic chemistry, 2021, 110, 104798. DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2021.104798
5. Tetrahedron, 2021, 84, 132026, DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2021.132026
6. Journal of molecular structure, 2021, 1229, 129752, DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2020.129752 7. Crystal growth & design, 2021, 21, 1617-1624. DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.0c01464
8. Journal of king saud university science, 2021, 33, 101296. DOI: 10.1016/j.jksus.2020.101296 9. Journal of molecular structure, 2021, 1226, 129348. DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2020.129348 10. Journal of molecular structure, 2021, 1225, 129165. DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2020.129165 11. Arabian journal of chemistry, 2021, 14, 102938. DOI: 10.1016/j.arabjc.2020.10293
12. Journal of inorganic and organometallic polymers and materials, 2021, 31, 2553-2559. DOI:
10.1007/s10904-020-01848-4
13. Journal of heterocyclic chemistry, 2021, 58, 588-580. DOI: 10.1002/jhet.4197
14. Journal of king saud university science, 2021, 33, 101238. DOI: 10.1016/j.jksus.2020.101238 15. Saudi journal of biological sciences, 2021, 28, 754-761. DOI: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2020.11.005
16. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 2021, 32, 12732–12742. doi.org/10.1007/s10854- 021-05910-w
17. Synthetic Communications, 2021, 51, 234-244. DOI: 10.1080/00397911.2020.1821226
2020:
18. Tetrahedron Letters 2020, 61, 151606.
19. Processes 2020, 8, 1473. doi.org/10.3390/pr8111473 20. Journal of Saudi Chemical Society 2020, 24, 934-941.
21. Molecules 2020, 25, 5581; doi:10.3390/molecules25235581 22. Arabian Journal of Chemistry 2020, 13, 9047-9057.
23. Journal of infection and public Health 2020, 13, 2001-2008.
24. Molecules 2020, 25(20), 4779.
25. Journal of King Saud University-Science 2020, 32, 3153-3158.
26. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2020, 30, 126789.
27. Journal of Molecular Structure, 2020, 1222, 128940.
28. Journal of King Saud University-Science 2020, 32, 3059-3064.
29. Journal of Molecular Structure 2020, 129348.
30. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, 2020, 27, 3290-3300. doi.org/10.1016/j.sjbs.2020.09.042 31. Synthetic Communications, 2020, 1058-1065. doi.org/10.1080/00397911.2020.1866612
32. Processes 2020, 8, 1154.
33. Frontiers in Chemistry 2020, 8, 465.
34. Bioorganic Chemistry, 2020, 103865.
35. Bioorganic Chemistry 2020, 103799.
36. Journal of King Saud University-Science, 2020, 32, 2500.
37. RSC Advance, 2020, 10, 23522-23531.
38. Journal of king Saud University-Sciences, 2020, 32, 2406-2413.
39. Journal of King Saud University-Science, 2020 (In press).
40. Tetrahedron Letters 2020, 61, 152661. doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2020.152661
2019:
41. Bioorganic chemistry, 2019, 88, 102920.
42. Tetrahedron Letters, 2019, 60,23,1514-1517.
43. BMC chemistry, 2019,13, 1-11.
44. BioMed Research International, 2019. 2514524.
45. Bioorganic chemistry, 2019, 91, 103180.
46. Molecules 2019, 24, 3501.
47. RSC advances 2019, 9, 29909.
48. Molecules, 2019, 24, 3820, 49. Molecules 2019, 24 (10), 1962.
50. Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 2019, 29, 2059-2063.
51. Tetrahedron Letters 2019, 60, 602-605.
52. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 2019, 27, 2621-2628 53. Synlett 2019, 30, 401-404.
54. Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 2019, 29, 729-733.
55. Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry 2019, 27, 2487-2498.
2018: (15); 2017: (11); 2016: (14); 2015: (11); 2014: (6); 2013: (8); 2012: (11); 2011: (8); 2010: (12);
2008: (8) and 2007: (1); 2006: (4).
Scopus link:
http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?origin=AuthorProfile&authorId=8351597600&zone=#
Google scholar link:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=P8ZgKPsAAAAJ&hl=en&cstart=60&pagesize=20 http://fac.ksu.edu.sa/anatarajan/course/39805
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9073-155Xhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9073-155X
Researcher ID: I-3078-2012
