King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

Faculty Member, Catalysis Center

Ass. Professor

Nano-Catalysis Laboratory (KAUST NanoCat)

About

http://nanocat.kaust.edu.sa/Pages/Home.aspx


Dr. Polshettiwar is  an Assistant Professor at KAUST. His research interests are in the area of advanced nano-materials, surface organometallic chemistry, catalysis and green chemistry. He has published nearly 65 articles  in high-impact journals (such as Angew. Chem., ACS Nano, Chem. Commun., Chem. Eur. J., J. Org. Chem., Green Chem etc) including reviews (Chem. Rev., ACS Accounts, Chem. Soc. Rev.), book chapters, patents (US, PCT, GCC) and recently also edited one book from RSC green chemistry series. Several of his articles are rated as Top-10, Top-5, Hot article and highly cited (Total citations – more than 1400 with h-index 24).


SIlica Nanoparticle Breakthrough at KAUST Catalysis Center
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVHoXtGs2gw

Polshettiwar's Nano-Catalysis laboratory (KAUST NanoCat)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTi6ZLBRRx0&feature=related


ACADEMIC PROFILE :                                                                                                                                              :       
* Ass. Professor (current) KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC), Thuwal (KSA)
Research Topic: Green Chemistry by Nano-catalysis.


* Visiting Research Scientist (Mar-2010 – June 2010) CPE, Lyon (France)
Research Topic: Nano-catalysis by surface organometallic chemistry.
                 
* Research Associate (April-2007 – Sept-2009) US-EPA Cincinnati OH (USA)
Research Topic: Nano-catalysis for greener and sustainable organic synthesis

* Research Scientist (Sept-2006 to Mar-2007) Jubilant Chemsys, Delhi (India)
Project Leader- Catalysis and multistep organic synthesis.

* Postdoc (Sept-2005 to Aug-2006) ENSCM, Montpellier (FRANCE)
Research Topic: Functionalized nano-structured hybrid silica for catalysis in organic synthesis.

* Ph. D (2005) DRDE and Jiwaji University, Gwalior (INDIA)


TOP-PAPERS ( * indicates corresponding author)

1. High Surface Area Silica Nanospheres (KCC-1) with Fibrous Morphology.“HOT paper” “Front Cover”
V. Polshettiwar*, D. Cha, X. Zhang and J. M. Basset,* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 9652-9656.

2.   “Hydro-metathesis” of olefins: a new catalytic reaction with a bifunctional single-site nano-catalyst Ta-H/KCC.1
V. Polshettiwar,* J. Thivolle, J. M. Basset,* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 2747-2751.

3. Tantalum hydride (TaH) on MCM-41 for efficient hydrogenolysis of alkanes: Low temperature of alkanes into lower carbon number alkanes at atmospheric pressure.
V. Polshettiwar, J. Thivolle, J. M. Basset,* Chem. Cat. Chem. 2011,  preliminary MS.

4.   Nanoparticle-supported and magnetically recoverable ruthenium hydroxide catalyst: Efficient  hydration of  nitriles to amides in aqueous medium.
V. Polshettiwar* and R. S. Varma, Chem. Eur. J.  2009, 15, 1582-1586.

5. Magnetic nanoparticle-supported glutathione:  a conceptually sustainable organocatalyst.
V. Polshettiwar*, Babita Baruwati, and R. S. Varma, Chem.Commun.  2009, 1837-1839.

6. Self-assembly of metal oxides into 3D nano-structures: Synthesis and nano-catalysis.“TOP 5 paper”
V. Polshettiwar*, Babita Baruwati, and R. S. Varma, ACS Nano  2009, 3, 728-736. 

7. Synthesis of single-crystal micro-pine structured nano-ferrites and their application in catalysis.
V. Polshettiwar, M. N. Nadaguada and R. S. Varma, Chem. Commun. 2008, 6318-6320.

8. Olefin ring closing metathesis and hydrosilylation reaction in aqueous medium by Grubbs second generation ruthenium catalyst.
V. Polshettiwar and R. S. Varma, J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 7417-7419.

9. Tandem bis-aldol reaction of ketones: a facile one pot synthesis of 1,3-dioxanes in aqueous medium.
V. Polshettiwar and R. S. Varma, J. Org. Chem. 2007, 72, 7420-7422.

10. Magnetically Recoverable Nano-Catalysts.
V. Polshettiwar,* R. Luque, A. Fihri, H. Zhu, J. M. Basset,* Chem. Rev. 2011, 111,  3036-3075.

11. Aqueous microwave chemistry: a clean and green synthetic tool for rapid drug discovery.
V. Polshettiwar* and R. S. Varma, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2008, 37, 1546-1557.

12. Microwave-assisted organic synthesis and transformations using benign reaction media. 
V. Polshettiwar and R. S. Varma, Acc. Chem. Res. 2008, 41, 629-639.

13. Green Chemistry by Nano-catalysis.“Top 10 paper”
V. Polshettiwar* and R. S. Varma, Green Chem.  2010, 12, 743-754.


 

FELLOWSHIP & MEMBERSHIPS :                                                                                   
* Eak-Lavya Scholarship for meritorious performance during BSc; from 1999- 2001 by Government of India.

* DRDO Research Fellowship for PhD; from 2002-2005 by DRDO, Government of India.

* Postdoc Research Fellowship; from 2005 - 2006, by Science & Education Ministry, France.

* ORISE Research Fellowship for the development of independent scientist; from 2007 - 2009, by US EPA.

* Humboldt Fellowship 2009 awarded by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany and Marie Curie Fellowship 2009 awarded by EU (both not accepted due to my prior commitment to KAUST).

*Scientific and Technology Achievement Award by US Environmental Protection Agency in 2009.

* Editor of a RSC green chemistry series book, “Aqueous Microwave Chemistry: Synthesis and catalysis” 2010.

* Editor of a Wiley  book, “NanoCatalysis: Synthesis and Applications”, to be published in 2012.

*Guest co-Editor, ChemSusChem for special issue (Nov 2011), “Green Chemistry by Nano-Catalysis”.

* Reviewer of Angew. Chem.; Chem. Eur. J.; Chem. Commun.; Green Chem.; Nano Scale; J. Org. Chem.; Adv. Syn. Catal.; Catal. Commun.; Org. Biomol. Chem.; J. Mol. Cat. A. Chem.; New J. Chem.; Green Chem. Lett. Rev. etc.



Email: vivek.pol@kaust.edu.sa or vivekpol@yahoo.com

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