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Gopalan Rajaraman
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Chemistry
India
2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
67
Citations
13052
World Ranking
7073
National Ranking
84

Gopalan Rajaraman publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gopalan Rajaraman sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 334 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Gopalan Rajaraman D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gopalan Rajaraman sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in India Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in India Leader Award

Overview

Gopalan Rajaraman is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in India. Their research is primarily situated in the field of Materials Science, with a strong focus on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Spectroscopy.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, including:

  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications

Rajaraman has published extensively in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Chemical Communications

Their recent papers demonstrate continued work in coordination chemistry and magnetism, such as:

  • Role of Coordination Number and Geometry in Controlling the Magnetic Anisotropy in FeII, CoII, and NiII Single-Ion Magnets, 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Engineering macrocyclic high performance pentagonal bipyramidal Dy( iii ) single-ion magnets, 2020, Chemical Communications
  • Pentagonal Bipyramidal Ln(III) Complexes Containing an Axial Phosphine Oxide Ligand: Field-induced Single-ion Magnetism Behavior of the Dy(III) Analogues, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • Strategies to quench quantum tunneling of magnetization in lanthanide single molecule magnets, 2023, Chemical Communications
  • Role of oxidation state, ferryl-oxygen, and ligand architecture on the reactivity of popular high-valent FeIV=O species: A theoretical perspective, 2020, Coordination Chemistry Reviews

Collaborations are a significant aspect of Rajaraman's research. Frequent coauthors include Abinash Swain, Sourav Dey, Ramaswamy Murugavel, Tanu Sharma, and Maheswaran Shanmugam, with coauthorship counts ranging from 33 to 56 publications.

Best Publications

  • An air-stable Dy(iii) single-ion magnet with high anisotropy barrier and blocking temperature

    Sandeep K. Gupta;Thayalan Rajeshkumar;Gopalan Rajaraman;Ramaswamy Murugavel

  • Synthesis and characterization of heterometallic {Cr7M} wheels.

    Finn K. Larsen;Eric J. L. McInnes;Hassane El Mkami;Jacob Overgaard

  • Insight into D6h Symmetry: Targeting Strong Axiality in Stable Dysprosium(III) Hexagonal Bipyramidal Single-Ion Magnets.

    Angelos B. Canaj;Sourav Dey;Emma Regincós Martí;Claire Wilson

  • A Family of Manganese Rods: Syntheses, Structures, and Magnetic Properties

    G. Rajaraman;M. Murugesu;EC Sanudo;M. Soler

  • Mechanistic insights on the ortho-hydroxylation of aromatic compounds by non-heme iron complex: a computational case study on the comparative oxidative ability of ferric-hydroperoxo and high-valent Fe(IV)═O and Fe(V)═O intermediates.

    Azaj Ansari;Abhishek Kaushik;Gopalan Rajaraman

  • Biomimetic High‐Valent Non‐Heme Iron Oxidants for the cis‐Dihydroxylation and Epoxidation of Olefins

    Jochen Bautz;Peter Comba;Carlos Lopez de Laorden;Matthias Menzel

  • Enhancing the effective energy barrier of a Dy(III) SMM using a bridged diamagnetic Zn(II) ion

    Apoorva Upadhyay;Saurabh Kumar Singh;Chinmoy Das;Ranajit Mondol

  • Low-coordinate mononuclear lanthanide complexes as molecular nanomagnets

    Arun Kumar Bar;Pankaj Kalita;Mukesh Kumar Singh;Gopalan Rajaraman

  • Density functional studies on the exchange interaction of a dinuclear Gd(III)–Cu(II) complex: method assessment, magnetic coupling mechanism and magneto-structural correlations

    Gopalan Rajaraman;Federico Totti;Alessandro Bencini;Andrea Caneschi

  • Density functional studies on dinuclear {Ni(II)Gd(III)} and trinuclear {Ni(II)Gd(III)Ni(II)} complexes: magnetic exchange and magneto-structural maps.

    Saurabh Kumar Singh;Neeraj Kumar Tibrewal;Gopalan Rajaraman

  • A classification of spin frustration in molecular magnets from a physical study of large odd-numbered-metal, odd electron rings

    Michael L. Baker;Michael L. Baker;Grigore A. Timco;Stergios Piligkos;Jennifer S. Mathieson

  • A synthetic strategy for switching the single ion anisotropy in tetrahedral Co(II) complexes

    Shefali Vaidya;Apoorva Upadhyay;Saurabh Kumar Singh;Tulika Gupta

  • Effect of Ligand Substitution around the DyIII on the SMM Properties of Dual-Luminescent Zn–Dy and Zn–Dy–Zn Complexes with Large Anisotropy Energy Barriers: A Combined Theoretical and Experimental Magnetostructural Study

    Jean Pierre Costes;Silvia Titos-Padilla;Itziar Oyarzabal;Tulika Gupta

  • Exploring the Influence of Diamagnetic Ions on the Mechanism of Magnetization Relaxation in {CoIII2LnIII2} (Ln = Dy, Tb, Ho) "Butterfly" Complexes.

    Kuduva R. Vignesh;Stuart K. Langley;Keith S. Murray;Gopalan Rajaraman

  • New routes to polymetallic clusters: fluoride-based tri-, deca-, and hexaicosametallic MnIII clusters and their magnetic properties.

    Leigh F. Jones;Gopalan Rajaraman;Jonathon Brockman;Muralee Murugesu

  • What Controls the Sign and Magnitude of Magnetic Anisotropy in Tetrahedral Cobalt(II) Single-Ion Magnets?

    Shefali Vaidya;Subrata Tewary;Saurabh Kumar Singh;Stuart K. Langley

  • Studies of an Enneanuclear Manganese Single-Molecule Magnet

    Stergios Piligkos;Gopalan Rajaraman;Monica Soler;Nadeschda Kirchner

  • Role of Coordination Number and Geometry in Controlling the Magnetic Anisotropy in Fe(II), Co(II) and Ni(II) Single‐Ion Magnets

    Arup Sarkar;Sourav Dey;Gopalan Rajaraman

  • Is a radical bridge a route to strong exchange interactions in lanthanide complexes? A computational examination

    Thayalan Rajeshkumar;Gopalan Rajaraman

  • Magnetic anisotropy and mechanism of magnetic relaxation in Er(III) single-ion magnets.

    Saurabh Kumar Singh;Tulika Gupta;Gopalan Rajaraman

  • Magnetic Exchange Interactions and Magneto-Structural Correlations in Heterobridged μ-Phenoxo-μ1,1-Azide Dinickel(II) Compounds: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Exploration

    Sujit Sasmal;Susanta Hazra;Parimal Kundu;Supriya Dutta

  • DFT models for copper(II) bispidine complexes: Structures, stabilities, isomerism, spin distribution, and spectroscopy

    Mihail Atanasov;Mihail Atanasov;Peter Comba;Bodo Martin;Vera Müller

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith S. Murray
Keith S. Murray Monash University
Euan K. Brechin
Euan K. Brechin University of Edinburgh
Vadapalli Chandrasekhar
Vadapalli Chandrasekhar Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Wolfgang Wernsdorfer
Wolfgang Wernsdorfer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Mark Murrie
Mark Murrie University of Glasgow
Boujemaa Moubaraki
Boujemaa Moubaraki Monash University
Peter Comba
Peter Comba Heidelberg University
Claire Wilson
Claire Wilson University of Glasgow
Richard E. P. Winpenny
Richard E. P. Winpenny University of Manchester
Grigore A. Timco
Grigore A. Timco University of Manchester

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