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Harkesh B. Singh is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in India and conducts research primarily in the field of Materials Science. Their work focuses extensively on the subfield of Materials Chemistry, along with significant contributions to Organic Chemistry, Toxicology, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The scientist's main research topics include Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Organoselenium and Organotellurium chemistry, Crystallography and molecular interactions, Organometallic Compounds Synthesis and Characterization, Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis, and Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials.

Singh's publication record demonstrates engagement with a range of scientific journals and venues, notably:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Chemistry - An Asian Journal
  • Chemistry - A European Journal

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Singh include:

  • "Metallophilic interactions: observations of the shortest metallophilic interactions between closed shell (d10⋯d10, d10⋯d8, d8⋯d8) metal ions [M⋯M' M = Hg(ii) and Pd(ii) and M' = Cu(i), Ag(i), Au(i), and Pd(ii)]", 2020, Dalton Transactions
  • "Chalcogen Bonds in Selenocysteine Seleninic Acid, a Functional GPx Constituent, and in Other Seleninic or Sulfinic Acid Derivatives", 2021, Chemistry - An Asian Journal
  • "Isolation of Homoleptic Dicationic Tellurium and Monocationic Bismuth Analogues of Non-N-Heterocyclic Carbene Derivatives", 2020, Organometallics
  • "Self-Assembly of Nicotinic Acid-Conjugated Selenopeptides into Mesotubes", 2021, ACS Applied Bio Materials
  • "Exploring the Role of Strong Intramolecular Coordination of the 2-(2'-pyridyl)phenyl Group in Heavy Main Group Halides: Insights from Synthesis, Structural, and Bonding Analyses", 2020, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry

Throughout their career, Singh has frequently collaborated with several researchers, with the most common coauthors being:

  • Ray J. Butcher
  • Rajesh Deka
  • David R. Turner
  • Glen B. Deacon
  • Arup Sarkar

Best Publications

  • Synthetic organoselenium compounds as antioxidants:glutathione peroxidase activity

    Govindasamy Mugesh;Harkesh B. Singh

  • Organoselenium chemistry: role of intramolecular interactions.

    Anna J. Mukherjee;Sanjio S. Zade;Harkesh B. Singh;Raghavan B. Sunoj

  • Glutathione peroxidase-like antioxidant activity of diaryl diselenides: a mechanistic study.

    G. Mugesh;Arunashree Panda;Harkesh B. Singh;Narayan S. Punekar

  • Heteroatom-directed aromatic lithiation: a versatile route to the synthesis of organochalcogen (Se, Te) compounds.

    Govindasamy Mugesh;Harkesh B Singh

  • Intramolecular Se⋅⋅⋅N Nonbonding Interactions in Low‐Valent Organoselenium Derivatives: A Detailed Study by 1H and 77Se NMR Spectroscopy and X‐ray Crystallography

    G. Mugesh;Arunashree Panda;Harkesh B. Singh;Ray J. Butcher

  • o-hydroxylmethylphenylchalcogens: synthesis, intramolecular nonbonded chalcogen...OH interactions, and glutathione peroxidase-like activity.

    Santosh K Tripathi;Upali Patel;Dipankar Roy;Raghavan B Sunoj

  • Synthesis, structure, and reactivity of organochalcogen (Se, Te) compounds derived from 1-(N,N-dimethylamino)naphthalene and N,N-dimethylbenzylamine

    Arunashree Panda;G. Mugesh;Harkesh B. Singh;Ray J. Butcher

  • The Isolation and Crystal Structure of a Cyclic Selenenate Ester Derived from Bis(2,6-diformyl-4-tert-butylphenyl)diselenide and its Glutathione Peroxidase-Like Activity

    Sanjio S. Zade;Harkesh B. Singh;Ray J. Butcher

  • Synthesis, structure, and glutathione peroxidase-like activity of amino acid containing ebselen analogues and diaryl diselenides.

    Karuthapandi Selvakumar;Poonam Shah;Harkesh B. Singh;Ray J. Butcher

  • Intramolecularly Coordinated Diorganyl Ditellurides: Thiol Peroxidase-like Antioxidants

    Govindasamy Mugesh;Arunashree Panda;Sangit Kumar;Sandeep D. Apte

  • Diferrocenyl diselenides: excellent thiol peroxidase-like antioxidants

    G. Mugesh;Arunashree Panda;Harkesh B. Singh;Narayan S. Punekar

  • Intramolecular coordination in tellurium chemistry

    Narasimhan Sudha;Harkesh B. Singh

  • Synthesis, characterisation and reactions of bis[2-(dimethylaminomethyl)-phenyl] diselenide: its structure and that of [2-(dimethylaminomethyl)phenyl]-selenium bromide

    Rupinder Kaur;Harkesh B. Singh;Rajan P. Patel

  • Chelate Ring Size Effect on the Reactivity of [2-(2-Phenyl-5,6-dihydro-4H-1,3-oxazinyl)]lithium and Se···N Interactions in Low-Valent Organoselenium Compounds: Facile Isolation of Diorganotriselenide

    Sangit Kumar;Karuppasamy Kandasamy;Harkesh B. Singh;Gotthelf Wolmershäuser

  • Organotellurium precursors for metal organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) of mercury cadmium telluride (MCT)

    Harkesh B. Singh;Narasimhan Sudha

  • Syntheses and Characterization of Hybrid Bi- and Multidentate Tellurium Ligands Derived from N,N-Dimethylbenzylamine: Coordination Behavior of Bis[2-((dimethylamino)methyl)phenyl] Telluride with Chromium Pentacarbonyl

    Rupinder Kaur;Harkesh B. Singh;Ray J. Butcher

  • INTRAMOLECULARLY COORDINATED LOW-VALENT ORGANOTELLURIUM COMPLEXES DERIVED FROM 1-(DIMETHYLAMINO)NAPHTHALENE

    Saija C. Menon;Harkesh B. Singh;John M. Jasinski;Jerry P. Jasinski

  • Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Monomeric Selenolato Complexes of Zinc, Cadmium, and Mercury.

    G. Mugesh;Harkesh B. Singh;Rajan P. Patel;Ray J. Butcher

  • Synthesis of some macrocycles/bicycles from bis(o-formylphenyl) selenide: X-ray crystal structure of bis(o-formylphenyl) selenide and the first 28-membered selenium containing macrocyclic ligand

    Arunashree Panda;Saija C Menon;Harkesh B Singh;Ray J Butcher

  • Convenient Synthesis, Characterization and GPx-Like Catalytic Activity of Novel Ebselen Derivatives

    Sanjio S. Zade;Snigdha Panda;Santosh K. Tripathi;Harkesh B. Singh

  • Synthesis, structure and reactions of the first tellurium-containing macrocyclic Schiff base

    Saija C. Menon;Harkesh B. Singh;Rajan P. Patel;Shailendra K. Kulshreshtha

Frequent Co-Authors

Ray J. Butcher
Ray J. Butcher Howard University
Govindasamy Mugesh
Govindasamy Mugesh Indian Institute of Science
Kalyan Das
Kalyan Das Rega Institute for Medical Research
Glen B. Deacon
Glen B. Deacon Monash University
Peter C. Junk
Peter C. Junk James Cook University
Gotthelf Wolmershäuser
Gotthelf Wolmershäuser Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Raghavan B. Sunoj
Raghavan B. Sunoj Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
David B. Stephenson
David B. Stephenson University of Exeter
Fred Wudl
Fred Wudl University of California, Santa Barbara
J. V. Yakhmi
J. V. Yakhmi Bhabha Atomic Research Center

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