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Bakthan Singaram is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions in Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Organic Chemistry, and Catalysis.

Their work addresses several scientific topics, including:

  • Hydrogen Storage and Materials
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Organoboron and Organosilicon Chemistry
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • Magnesium Oxide Properties and Applications

Singaram has collaborated frequently with several researchers, notably:

  • Gabriella Amberchan
  • Scott R. J. Oliver
  • Isai Lopez
  • A'Lester C. Allen
  • Kevin C. Lofgren

Their publications have appeared in a variety of scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • ACS Applied Nano Materials
  • The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Biosensors and Bioelectronics
  • ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • Energy & Fuels

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Singaram cover topics related to nanomaterials, hydrogen generation, organic reaction monitoring, and biosensor probes. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Aluminum Nanoparticles from a Ga-Al Composite for Water Splitting and Hydrogen Generation," 2022, ACS Applied Nano Materials
  • "Reaction of Diisobutylaluminum Borohydride, a Binary Hydride, with Selected Organic Compounds Containing Representative Functional Groups," 2021, The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • "Real-Time Monitoring of Aqueous Organic Reduction Reactions Using Ex Situ Fiber Optic Raman Spectroscopy," 2021, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • "Gallium Nanoparticle Formation and Doping of Nanocrystalline Alumina from a Ga-Al Liquid Metal Hydrogen Generating Reaction," 2023, ACS Applied Nano Materials
  • "A smart probe for detection of sugar markers for applications in gastrointestinal barrier dysfunction," 2024, Biosensors and Bioelectronics

Best Publications

  • The development of a simple general procedure for synthesis of pure enantiomers via chiral organoboranes

    Herbert C. Brown;Bakthan Singaram

  • Fluorescent Quantum Dots with Boronic Acid Substituted Viologens To Sense Glucose in Aqueous Solution

    David B. Cordes;Soya Gamsey;Bakthan Singaram

  • Continuous Glucose Sensing with a Fluorescent Thin-Film Hydrogel†

    Jeff T. Suri;David B. Cordes;Frank E. Cappuccio;Ritchie A. Wessling

  • A Fluorescent Sensor Array for Saccharides Based on Boronic Acid Appended Bipyridinium Salts

    Alexander Schiller;Ritchie A. Wessling;Bakthan Singaram

  • Boronic Acid-Based Bipyridinium Salts as Tunable Receptors for Monosaccharides and α-Hydroxycarboxylates

    Soya Gamsey;Aaron Miller;Marilyn M. Olmstead;Christine M. Beavers

  • Single Cell "Glucose Nanosensor" Verifies Elevated Glucose Levels in Individual Cancer Cells.

    Raphael A. S. Nascimento;Rıfat Emrah Özel;Wai Han Mak;Marcelo Mulato;Marcelo Mulato

  • Hydride as a Leaving Group in the Reaction of Pinacolborane with Halides under Ambient Grignard and Barbier Conditions. One-Pot Synthesis of Alkyl, Aryl, Heteroaryl, Vinyl, and Allyl Pinacolboronic Esters

    Jacob W. Clary;Terry J. Rettenmaier;Rachel Snelling;Whitney Bryks

  • Major Effect of the Leaving Group in Dialkylboron Chlorides and Triflates in Controlling the Stereospecific Conversion of Ketones into Either (E)- or (Z)- Enol Borinatesxxb

    Herbert C. Brown;Raj K. Dhar;Raman K. Bakshi;Paul K. Pandiarajan

  • Chiral synthesis via organoboranes. 8. Synthetic utility of boronic esters of essentially 100% optical purity. Synthesis of primary amines of very high enantiomeric purities

    Herbert C. Brown;Kee Won. Kim;Thomas E. Cole;Bakthan. Singaram

  • Enolboration. 1. Dicyclohexylchloroborane/triethylamine as a convenient reagent for enolboration of ketones and other carbonyl derivatives

    Herbert C. Brown;Raj K. Dhar;Kumaraperumal Ganesan;Bakthan Singaram

  • Reductions of Aliphatic and Aromatic Nitriles to Primary Amines with Diisopropylaminoborane

    Dustin Haddenham;Lubov Pasumansky;Jamie DeSoto;Scott Eagon

  • Aminoborohydrides. 4. The Synthesis and Characterization of Lithium Aminoborohydrides: A New Class of Powerful, Selective, Air-Stable Reducing Agents

    Gary B. Fisher;Joseph C. Fuller;John Harrison;Salvador G. Alvarez

  • Boronic acid substituted viologen based optical sugar sensors: modulated quenching with viologen as a method for monosaccharide detection

    Jason N Camara;Jeff T Suri;Frank E Cappuccio;Ritchie A Wessling

  • Organoboranes for synthesis - substitution with retention

    Herbert C. Brown;B. Singaram

  • Chiral synthesis via organoboranes. 30. Facile synthesis, by the Matteson asymmetric homologation procedure, of .alpha.-methyl boronic acids not available from asymmetric hydroboration and their conversion into the corresponding aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, and amines of high enantiomeric purity

    Milind V. Rangaishenvi;Bakthan Singaram;Herbert C. Brown

  • Improved procedures for the synthesis of diisopinocampheylborane of high optical purity

    Herbert C. Brown;Bakthan Singaram

  • Monosaccharide Detection with 4,7-Phenanthrolinium Salts: Charge-Induced Fluorescence Sensing

    Jeff T. Suri;David B. Cordes;Frank E. Cappuccio;Ritche A. Wessling

  • Asymmetric Addition of Diorganozinc Reagents to Aldehydes and Ketones

    Caitlin M. Binder;Bakthan Singaram

  • The interaction of boronic acid-substituted viologens with pyranine: the effects of quencher charge on fluorescence quenching and glucose response.

    David B. Cordes;Soya Gamsey;Zach Sharrett;Aaron Miller

  • Continuous glucose detection using boronic acid-substituted viologens in fluorescent hydrogels: linker effects and extension to fiber optics.

    Soya Gamsey;Jeff T. Suri;Ritchie A. Wessling;Bakthan Singaram

Frequent Co-Authors

Herbert C. Brown
Herbert C. Brown Purdue University West Lafayette
Andrew Pelter
Andrew Pelter Swansea University
Marilyn M. Olmstead
Marilyn M. Olmstead University of California, Davis
Yoshinori Yamamoto
Yoshinori Yamamoto Tohoku University
Hiroyuki Nakamura
Hiroyuki Nakamura Tokyo Institute of Technology
Demetrios Anglos
Demetrios Anglos Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
Per M. Hellström
Per M. Hellström Uppsala University
Sambasivarao Kotha
Sambasivarao Kotha Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Marcus A. Tius
Marcus A. Tius University of Hawaii at Manoa
Jin Z. Zhang
Jin Z. Zhang University of California, Santa Cruz

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