Ramesh Rasappan

Professor of Chemistry, IISER Trivandrum. My views...

[Ramesh Rasappan @rr_prof]

JACS: Do you wonder how to homo-couple two nucleophiles or two radical species? Here's our solution via the persistent radical effect of coupling two free alkyl carboxylic acids.

[Ramesh Rasappan Lab @rr_lab]

A proud milestone for @rr_lab - our first JACS publication! Heartiest congratulations to Chandru, Bincy, Sanjai, Sheryl & Venkadesh for this remarkable achievement and well-deserved success. 👏✨https://t.co/7VrDqGcCUD
@rr_prof @Chemie_iisertvm @tvmiiser

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@VarinderAggar11 @BristolChem congrats Varinder!

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@biomimetic_chem @ANUChemistry @EdinburghChem congrats Andy!

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@AggarwalLab Congrats Varinder!

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Congrats to our very own Prof. Varinder Aggarwal who has been awarded the 2026 Nagoya Gold Medal Prize. This prize was established in 1995 by Prof. Noyori and is awarded to an organic chemist who has made significant original contributions to the field in its broadest sense.

[Wolf Prize @WolfPrize_]

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆.
Henri Kagan’s path to scientific greatness was anything but straightforward.
Born near Paris in 1930, his childhood was shaped by World War II, when his family sought refuge in southern France under assumed names. Back at school, Kagan recalled being “not what you would call a good student.” He began on a literary track before discovering his fascination with mathematics, physics and chemistry.

The road remained bumpy:
he initially planned to become an engineer and failed his first entrance exam to chemistry school. He tried again, and succeeded.
That persistence and curiosity eventually helped Kagan become a pioneer of asymmetric catalysis, transforming scientists’ ability to create chiral molecules.

In 2001, Kagan shared the Wolf Prize in Chemistry with Ryoji Noyori and K. Barry Sharpless.
As Kagan later said: “One of the interests of research is to go toward the unknown, and to be attentive to the unexpected.”

A fitting description of his own journey.

[Ramesh Rasappan @rr_prof]

@MainTvm @PMOIndia @PrinSciAdvOff @EduMinOfIndia @IndiaDST @NITIAayog @ANRFIndia @tvmiiser @ScienceMagazine @ScienceAdvances congrats Ajay!

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If you're a JRF fellow and interested in joining IISER-TVM for Ph.D. then apply here (don't forget to choose our area "Organic Synthesis and Catalysis, Cross-Coupling Reactions; Machine learning and AI in organic reactions – Cheminformatics": https://t.co/c8TX0MZMOG

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@basker25071980 @angew_chem @ANRFIndia @IITKanpur congrats Basker!

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@FereiroJerry @ANRFIndia @tvmiiser @Chemie_iisertvm congrats Jerry!

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@GroupHariharan @ACSCentSci @MaretPhilip nice cover!

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@ATBijuLab @ACSCatalysis @Soumen__Barik @ANRFIndia @JindalLab @iiscbangalore Congrats!

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@ChandraVolla @iitbombay @Chemistry_IITB great!

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@GroupHariharan @MaretPhilip @brijith07 @maheshhrn @ACSCentSci @Chemie_iisertvm @tvmiiser fantastic Mahesh! congrats!!

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@ChandraVolla @PranjalPyneIITB @Srini_1989 @AdvPortfolio congrats@ Mouli

[Reiser-group @reiser_group]

Visible light knits nitroalkanes into alkenes and @ParasramLab and our group together. Thank you @cenmag for the nice write up, it is an honor. https://t.co/K4GvsyPwQr

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@reiser_group @ParasramLab @cenmag fantastic finding!!

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@ATBijuLab @ACSCatalysis @deeptanu_2 @KamalakshiB1103 @serbonline @iiscbangalore congtrats!

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@reiser_group @ParasramLab fantastic work! Oliver

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Postdoctoral Position in Machine Learning
Apply here: https://t.co/7VJ0gZq9oq

[SupraChem@Sureshan Group @SureshanLab]

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