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Gautam R. Desiraju

Gautam R. Desiraju

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Chemistry
India
2026

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Chemistry

D-Index
113
Citations
76504
World Ranking
690
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in India Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in India Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Chemistry in India Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in India Leader Award
  • 2002 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Gautam R. Desiraju is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Science in India and has a research focus encompassing materials science and chemistry.

The main fields of study for Desiraju include:

  • Materials Science
  • Chemistry

Subfields of study within their work cover:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Molecular Biology

Their research topics have concentrated on:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions
  • Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds
  • Chemical Thermodynamics and Molecular Structure
  • Crystal structures of chemical compounds
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing

Desiraju has published in several venues, most frequently in:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • IUCrJ
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Crystal Growth & Design
  • Angewandte Chemie

Representative recent papers include:

  • Definition of the pnictogen bond (IUPAC Recommendations 2023), 2024, Pure and Applied Chemistry
  • Synthetic Approaches to Halogen Bonded Ternary Cocrystals, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Drug-Drug Binary Solids of Nitrofurantoin and Trimethoprim: Crystal Engineering and Pharmaceutical Properties, 2020, Molecular Pharmaceutics
  • Heterosynthons, Solid Form Design and Enhanced Drug Bioavailability, 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Quaternary and quinary molecular solids based on structural inequivalence and combinatorial approaches: 2-nitroresorcinol and 4,6-dichlororesorcinol, 2021, IUCrJ

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Desiraju include:

  • Harsh Jain
  • Dipankar Sutradhar
  • Sourav Roy
  • Dilip Kumar Maity
  • Rakesh Kumar Paul

An academic distinction held by Desiraju is being named a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2002.

Best Publications

  • The weak hydrogen bond : in structural chemistry and biology

    Gautam Desiraju;Thomas Steiner

  • Supramolecular Synthons in Crystal Engineering—A New Organic Synthesis

    Gautam R. Desiraju

  • Crystal engineering : the design of organic solids

    Gautam R Desiraju;George W Parshall

  • Hydrogen bridges in crystal engineering: interactions without borders.

    Gautam R. Desiraju

  • The C-h···o hydrogen bond: structural implications and supramolecular design.

    Gautam R. Desiraju

  • Definition of the hydrogen bond (IUPAC Recommendations 2011)

    Elangannan Arunan;Gautam R. Desiraju;Roger A. Klein;Joanna Sadlej

  • Definition of the halogen bond (IUPAC Recommendations 2013)

    Gautam R. Desiraju;P. Shing Ho;Lars Kloo;Anthony C. Legon

  • The C-H.cntdot..cntdot..cntdot.O hydrogen bond in crystals: what is it?

    Gautam R. Desiraju

  • Crystal Engineering: A Holistic View

    Gautam R. Desiraju

  • Crystal engineering: from molecule to crystal.

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  • Crystal Engineering and Organometallic Architecture.

    Dario Braga;Fabrizia Grepioni;Gautam R. Desiraju

  • Polymorphs, Salts, and Cocrystals: What’s in a Name?

    Srinivasulu Aitipamula;Rahul Banerjee;Arvind K. Bansal;Kumar Biradha

  • Defining the hydrogen bond: An account (IUPAC Technical Report)

    Elangannan Arunan;Gautam R. Desiraju;Roger A. Klein;Joanna Sadlej

  • Halogen Bonds in Crystal Engineering: Like Hydrogen Bonds yet Different

    Arijit Mukherjee;Srinu Tothadi;Gautam R Desiraju

  • The nature of halogen.cntdot..cntdot..cntdot.halogen interactions: are short halogen contacts due to specific attractive forces or due to close packing of nonspherical atoms?

    Gautam R. Desiraju;R. Parthasarathy

  • C−H···F Interactions in the Crystal Structures of Some Fluorobenzenes

    Venkat R. Thalladi;Hans-Christoph Weiss;Dieter Blaser;Roland Boese

  • Chemistry beyond the molecule

    Gautam R. Desiraju

  • A bond by any other name

    Gautam R. Desiraju

  • Distinction between the weak hydrogen bond and the van der Waals interaction

    Thomas Steiner;Gautam R. Desiraju

  • C–H⋯O and other weak hydrogen bonds. From crystal engineering to virtual screening

    Gautam R. Desiraju

  • The weak hydrogen bond in structural chemistry and biology. By Gautam R. Desiraju and Thomas Steiner. IUCr Monographs on Crystallography, Vol. 9. Oxford: Oxford University Press/International Union of Crystallography, 1999, pp. xiv + 507. Price £85.00. ISBN 0-19-850252-4.

    Gautam R. Desiraju;Thomas Steiner

Frequent Co-Authors

Ashwini Nangia
Ashwini Nangia University of Hyderabad
Roland Boese
Roland Boese University of Duisburg-Essen
Upadrasta Ramamurty
Upadrasta Ramamurty Nanyang Technological University
Judith A. K. Howard
Judith A. K. Howard Durham University
Rahul Banerjee
Rahul Banerjee Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
Prashant M. Bhatt
Prashant M. Bhatt King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Frank H. Allen
Frank H. Allen University of Cambridge
Dieter Bläser
Dieter Bläser University of Duisburg-Essen
Kumar Biradha
Kumar Biradha Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Dario Braga
Dario Braga University of Bologna

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