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Prasad L. Polavarapu

Prasad L. Polavarapu

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Chemistry

D-Index
54
Citations
11028
World Ranking
12562
National Ranking
3342

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Prasad L. Polavarapu is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science. Their work encompasses several subfields, including Spectroscopy, Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Organic Chemistry, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist has contributed notably to topics such as molecular spectroscopy and chirality, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, analytical chemistry and chromatography, axial and atropisomeric chirality synthesis, and chemical synthesis involving alkaloids.

Among the recent publications by Prasad L. Polavarapu are:

  • Vibrational optical activity for structural characterization of natural products (2020) published in Natural Product Reports
  • How important are the intermolecular hydrogen bonding interactions in methanol solvent for interpreting the chiroptical properties? (2020) published in Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Polavarapu include Andrew R. Puente, Jordan L. Johnson, Zabeera Kallingathodi, Simimole Haleema, and Ibrahim Ibnusaud.

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, Chirality, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, and the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy.

Polavarapu's body of work also highlights recent papers by collaborators, for example:

  • Natural Product-Derived Chiral Pyrrolidine-2,5-diones, Their Molecular Structures and Conversion to Pharmacologically Important Skeletons (2020) in Journal of Natural Products
  • Influence of microsolvation on vibrational circular dichroism spectra in dimethyl sulfoxide solvent: A Bottom-Up approach using Quantum cluster growth (2023) in Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
  • Vibrational Raman optical activity of camphor: The importance of electric-dipole-electric-quadrupole polarizability contribution (2020) in Journal of Raman Spectroscopy

Recognition for contributions to the scientific community includes being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Ab initio vibrational Raman and Raman optical activity spectra

    P. L. Polavarapu

  • Comprehensive Chiroptical Spectroscopy: Applications in Stereochemical Analysis of Synthetic Compounds, Natural Products, and Biomolecules

    Nina Berova;Prasad L. Polavarapu;Koji Nakanishi;Robert W. Woody

  • Optical rotation: Recent advances in determining the absolute configuration

    Prasad L. Polavarapu

  • Ab initio molecular optical rotations and absolute configurations

    Prasad L. Polavarapu

  • Why is it important to simultaneously use more than one chiroptical spectroscopic method for determining the structures of chiral molecules

    Prasad L. Polavarapu

  • Renaissance in chiroptical spectroscopic methods for molecular structure determination.

    Prasad L. Polavarapu

  • Vibrational Spectra: Principles and Applications with Emphasis on Optical Activity

    Prasad L. Polavarapu

  • Absolute Configuration of Bromochlorofluoromethane from Experimental and Ab Initio Theoretical Vibrational Raman Optical Activity

    Jeanne Costante;Lutz Hecht;Prasad L. Polavarapu;André Collet

  • Vibrational circular dichroism in amino acids and peptides. 4. Vibrational analysis, assignments, and solution-phase Raman spectra of deuterated isotopomers of alanine

    Max Diem;Prasad L. Polavarapu;Mohammedreza Oboodi;Laurence A. Nafie

  • Ab initio computed molecular structures and energies of the conformers of glucose

    P. L. Polavarapu;C. S. Ewig

  • Kramers-Kronig transformation for optical rotatory dispersion studies.

    Prasad L. Polavarapu

  • The Absolute Configuration of Bromochlorofluoromethane

    Prasad L. Polavarapu

  • Chiroptical Spectroscopy: Fundamentals and Applications

    Prasad L. Polavarapu

  • Vibrational circular dichroism: a new spectroscopic tool for biomolecular structural determination.

    P. L. Polavarapu;Ch. Zhao

  • Vibrational Circular Dichroism of Protein Films

    Ganesh Shanmugam;Prasad L. Polavarapu

  • Vibrational optical activity for structural characterization of natural products.

    Prasad L. Polavarapu;Ernesto Santoro

  • Experimental and ab initio theoretical vibrational Raman optical activity of alanine

    L.D. Barron;A.R. Gargaro;L. Hecht;P.L. Polavarapu

  • Intrinsic rotation and molecular structure.

    Prasad L. Polavarapu;Ana Petrovic;Feng Wang

  • Comparison of Experimental and Calculated Chiroptical Spectra for Chiral Molecular Structure Determination

    Prasad L. Polavarapu;Cody L. Covington

  • ABSOLUTE STEREOCHEMISTRY OF CHIRAL MOLECULES FROM AB INITIO THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MOLECULAR OPTICAL ROTATIONS

    Prasad L. Polavarapu;Dilip K. Chakraborty

  • A Thermal and Solvocontrollable Cylindrical Nanoshutter Based on a Single Screw‐Sense Helical Polyguanidine

    Hong Zhi Tang;Bruce M. Novak;Jiangtao He;Prasad L. Polavarapu

  • Vibrational Circular Dichroism of β-Hairpin Peptides

    Chunxia Zhao;Prasad L. Polavarapu;Chittaranjan Das;P. Balaram

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurence D. Barron
Laurence D. Barron University of Glasgow
Lutz Hecht
Lutz Hecht University of Glasgow
Laurence A. Nafie
Laurence A. Nafie Syracuse University
Vijay V. Raghavan
Vijay V. Raghavan University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Max Diem
Max Diem Northeastern University
Nina Berova
Nina Berova Columbia University
Arvi Rauk
Arvi Rauk University of Calgary
Padmanabhan Balaram
Padmanabhan Balaram Indian Institute of Science
Jeanne Crassous
Jeanne Crassous University of Rennes
Malgorzata Baranska
Malgorzata Baranska Jagiellonian University

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