Ashoka Samuelson
Indian Institute of Science, India
Biography
Ashoka G Samuelson had his early education in Tiruchirapalli, India. After obtaining a Master’s degree in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras at Chennai he finished his Doctoral studies at Cornell University, Ithaca. He has been working in the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore since then. His research interests are organometallic and coordination chemistry of transition metals. Their goal is to utilize the reactivity of organometallic compounds to devise new catalysts or anticancer active molecules. His research group often employs computational tools to supplement and complement their experimental findings.
Abstract
Abstract : Electronic requirements for C-H activation in half-sandwich complexes