Vishal Kandathil

To work in a healthy, inventive, and demanding atmosphere that brings out the best in me and promotes professional and personal growth, thereby directing my future endeavors as an asset to the organization.

• HPLC (Agilent-1260 & 1200 Series)
• GC (GC Agilent-7890 Series)
• UV-Visible Spectrophotometer (Analytik jena Specord UV Spectrophotometer)
• FT-IR Spectrometer (ABB FTLA-2000, Spectrum Two FT-IR Spectrometer Perkin Elmer)
• Polarimeter (Jasco P2000)
• Auto Titrator (Metrohm,848 Titrino plus)
• KF Titrator (Mitsubishi moisture meter)
• BET surface analyzer (Belsorp max)

• Design and synthesis of new heterogeneous catalysts, nanocatalysts, or single-atom catalysts.
• Studying the activity of prepared catalyst in various organic transformations, environmental applications, CO2 utilization and so on.
• Designing of new synthetic protocols following green chemistry principles.
• Synthesis and characterization of new green and sustainable materials for interdisciplinary applications.

• Date of Birth: 07/07/87
• Gender: Male
• Nationality: Indian
• Marital Status: Married

• Delivery of practical Organic Chemistry lab for M. Sc. Students.
• Supervision of M. Sc. students and student interns in their research orientation programme in the lab.

• Advances in CO2 utilization employing anisotropic nanomaterials as catalysts: a review, Kandathil, V., Manoj, N., Frontiers in Chemistry, 11, 1175132, 2023
• Pd/Fe3O4 supported on bio-waste derived cellulosic-carbon as a nanocatalyst for CC coupling and electrocatalytic application, Kandathil, V., Moolakkil, A., Kulkarni, P., Veetil, A.K., Kempasiddaiah, M., Somappa, S.B., Balakrishna, R.G., Patil, S.A., Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, 1-12, 2022
• Single-atom nanozymes and environmental catalysis: A perspective, Kandathil, V., Patil, S.A., Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 102485, 2021
• A green and sustainable cellulosic-carbon-shielded Pd-MNP hybrid material for catalysis and energy storage applications, Kandathil, V., Veetil, A.K., Patra, A., Moolakkil, A., Kempasiddaiah, M., Somappa, S.B., Rout, C.S., Patil, S.A., Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry, 395-407, 2021
• NHC-Pd complex heterogenized on graphene oxide for cross-coupling reactions and supercapacitor applications, Kandathil, V., Siddiqa, A., Patra, A., Kulkarni, B., Kempasiddaiah, M., Sasidhar, B.S., Patil, S.A., Rout, C.S., Patil, S.A., Applied Organometallic Chemistry, 34, 11, e5924, 2020
• DNA as a bioligand supported on magnetite for grafting palladium nanoparticles for cross-coupling reaction, Kandathil, V., Kempasiddaiah, M., Nataraj, S.K., Somappa, S.B., Patil, S.A., Applied Organometallic Chemistry, 34, 3, e5357, 2020
• Immobilized N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Palladium (II) Complex on Graphene Oxide as Efficient and Recyclable Catalyst for Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling and Reduction of Nitroarenes, Kandathil, V., Kulkarni, B., Siddiqa, A., Kempasiddaiah, M., Sasidhar, B.S., Patil, S.A., Patil, S.A., Catalysis Letters, 150, 2, 384-403, 2020
• From agriculture residue to catalyst support; A green and sustainable cellulose-based dip catalyst for C-C coupling and direct arylation reactions, Kandathil, V., Kempasiddaiah, M., Sasidhar, B.S., Patil, S.A., Carbohydrate polymers, 223, 115060, 2019
• A new magnetically recyclable heterogeneous palladium (II) as a green catalyst for Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling and reduction of nitroarenes in aqueous medium at room temperature, Kandathil, V., Koley, T.S., Manjunatha, K., Dateer, R.B., Keri, R.S., Sasidhar, B.S., Patil, S.A., Patil, S.A., Inorganica Chimica Acta, 478, 195-210, 2018
• Green synthesis of palladium nanoparticles: applications in aryl halide cyanation and hiyama cross-coupling reaction under ligand free conditions, Kandathil, V., Dateer, R.B., Sasidhar, B.S., Patil, S.A., Patil, S.A., Catalysis Letters, 148, 6, 1562-1578, 2018
• A convenient, efficient and reusable N-heterocyclic carbene-palladium (ii) based catalyst supported on magnetite for Suzuki-Miyaura and Mizoroki-Heck cross-coupling reactions, Kandathil, V., Fahlman, B.D., Sasidhar, B.S., Patil, S.A., Patil, S.A., New Journal of Chemistry, 41, 17, 9531-9545, 2017
• Magnetic nanoparticle-supported N-heterocyclic carbene-palladium (II): a convenient, efficient and recyclable catalyst for Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reactions, Vishal, K., Fahlman, B.D., Sasidhar, B.S., Patil, S.A., Patil, S.A., Catalysis Letters, 147, 4, 900-918, 2017

• 252nd American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 08/21/2016, 08/25/2016, Poster presentation
• International Conference on Smart Engineering Materials - ICSEM-2016, RVCE-Bengaluru, India, 10/20/2016, 10/22/2016, Poster presentation
• International Symposium on New Trends in Applied Chemistry, Sacred Heart College, Kochi, India, 02/09/2017, 02/11/2017, Poster presentation
• 23rd National Symposium on Catalysis Applied Catalysis in Emerging Technologies for Chemicals CATSYMP-23, Royal Orchid Yelhanka, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 01/17/2018, 01/19/2018, Oral presentation
• 255th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States, 03/18/2018, 03/22/2018, Poster presentation
• International conference on Green Methods for Separation, Purification and Nanomaterial Synthesis, CNMS, JAIN (Deemed-to-be University), Ramanagara, Bangalore, India, 04/24/2018, 04/25/2018, Oral presentation
• International conference on Frontiers in Materials from Basic Science to Real-time Application, CNMS, JAIN (Deemed-to-be University), Ramanagara, Bangalore, India, 03/13/2019, 03/16/2019, Poster presentation
• The Present and Future of Excellence in Organic Synthesis (PFEOS-2021), Tezpur University, Assam, India, 01/07/2021, 01/08/2021, Poster presentation