American Journal of Organic Chemistry

American Journal of Organic Chemistry is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal describing the design of, synthetic approaches to, and characterization of new molecules with applications in organometallics, medicinal and heterocyclic chemistry, green chemistry, photochemistry, materials science, nanotechnology, and catalysis. Articles considered for publication include: original scientific research articles, review type articles and communications.


Mahesh Pattabiraman

Editorial Board Member of American Journal of Organic Chemistry

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry,University of Nebraska at Kearney, USA

Research Areas

Organic Photochemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry, Solid-State, Green Chemistry, Physical Organic, Sensors, Extractants, Host-Guest

Education

2006Ph.D Organic Photochemistry, University of Miami, Florida
2001M.Sc Inorganic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
1999B.ScChemistry, University of Madras, Chennai, India

Experience

2011-presentVisiting Research Scientist, University of Arizona, Dept. Chem. & Biochem. AZ
2009-presentAssistant Professor, Western New Mexico University, Dept. Natural Sciences, NM
2007-2009Postdoctoral Research Associate, Florida Int. Univ., Dept. Chem & Biochem. FL

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums/Journals/Books

[1]  Mahesh Pattabiraman, Alec Lutzke. Undergraduate lab to introduce bile salt micelles: Photochemistry of acenaphthylene included in sodium cholate aggregates. J. Chem. Ed. 2011, Manuscript submitted.
[2]  Lucy Yehiayan, Mahesh Pattabiraman, Konstantinos Kavallieratos, Xiaotang Wang, Lawrence H. Boise and Yong Cai. Speciation, formation, stability and analytical challenges of human arsenic metabolites. J. Anal. At. Spectrom. 2009, 24, 1397.
[3]  Murthy V. S. N, Lakshmi S. Kaanumalle; Arunkumar Natarajan, Mahesh Pattabiraman; Vaidhyanathan Ramamurthy. Preorientation of olefins toward a single photodimer: Cucurbituril-mediated photodimerization of protonated azastilbenes in water. Langmuir, 2007, 23, 7545-7554.
[4]  Mahesh Pattabiraman, Lakshmi S. Kaanumalle, Arunkumar Natarajan and Vaidhyanathan Ramamurthy. Regioselective photodimerization of cinnamic acids in water: Templation with cucurbiturils. Langmuir, 2006, 22, 7605-7609.
[5]  Mahesh Pattabiraman, Lakshmi S. Kaanumalle and Vaidhyanathan Ramamurthy. Photoproduct selectivity in reactions involving singlet and triplet excited states within bile salt micelles. Langmuir, 2006, 22, 2185-2192.
[6]  Lakshmi S. Kaanumalle, Arunkumar Natarajan, Karthikeyan Sivasubramanian, Raja Kaliappan, Mahesh Pattabiraman and V. Ramamurthy. Bioinspired green supramolecular nanophotochemistry: Photoproducts control though weak intermolecular forces. Spectrum, 2006, 19, 16-21.
[7]  Mahesh Pattabiraman, Arunkumar Natarajan, Raja Kaliappan, Joel. T. Mague and Vaidhyanthan Ramamurthy. Template directed photodimerization of trans-1, 2-bis(n-pyridyl)ethylenes and stilbazoles in water. Chem. Commun. 2005, 4542-4544.
[8]  Mahesh Pattabiraman, Arunkumar Natarajan, Lakshmi S. Kaanumalle and Vaidhyanathan Ramamurthy. Templating photodimerization of trans-cinnamic acids with cucurbit[8]uril and γ-cyclodextrin. Organic Letters, 2005, 7, 529-532.
[9]  Lakshmi. S. Kaanumalle, Mahesh Pattabiraman, N. Jayaraman and Vaidhyanathan Ramamurthy. Water-Soluble dendrimers as photochemical reaction media: Chemical behavior of singlet and triplet radical pairs inside dendritic reaction cavities. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 8999-9006.
[10]  Aspen Rae Clements, Mahesh Pattabiraman*, “γ-Cyclodextrin mediated photo-heterodimerization between cinnamic acids and coumarins”J. Photochem. Photobiol., 2014, 297, 1-7.
[11]  Murthy V. S. N Maddipatla, Mahesh Pattabiraman, Arunkumar Natarajan, Karan Srivastav, Joel T. Mague, V. Ramamurthy, Regioselective photodimerization of pyridyl-butadienes within cucurbit[8]uril cavities, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2012, 10, 9219.
[12]  Nick Carter, Mahesh Pattabiraman*, Luis Albert Arias. Dynamics of Apolar Guest solubilized in Bile Salt Micelles: Photochemistry of Acenaphthylene as a probe to understand the supramolecular characteristics of the Aggregates.  Am. J. Chem., 2012, 2(3), 131-136.