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Thomas Mathew is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research encompasses multiple scientific disciplines, focusing primarily on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Plant Science.

The scientist has contributed to several subfields including:

  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Plant Science

The main topics covered in their research are:

  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Thomas Mathew's recent published papers include the following:

  • Facile One-Pot Synthesis of CuxO/TiO2 Photocatalysts by Regulating Cu Oxidation State for Efficient Solar H2 Production (2023), ACS Applied Energy Materials
  • Bimetallic and plasmonic Ag and Cu integrated TiO2 thin films for enhanced solar hydrogen production in direct sunlight (2024), Energy Advances
  • Direct Synthesis of Tri-/Difluoromethyl Ketones from Carboxylic Acids by Cross-Coupling with Acyloxyphosphonium Ions (2021), Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Methanol in the RNA world: An astrochemical perspective (2022), Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
  • Mesoporous Fe2O3-TiO2 Integrated with Plasmonic Ag Nanoparticles for Enhanced Solar H2 Production (2025), Chemistry - An Asian Journal

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Thomas Mathew include:

  • Parvathi R. Devi
  • Ansar Bilyaminu Adam
  • Sivaraj Rajendran
  • Sunesh S. Mani
  • Chinnakonda S. Gopinath

The scientist has published repeatedly in several venues, such as:

  • African Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research
  • African Multidisciplinary Journal of Sciences and Artificial Intelligence
  • ACS Applied Energy Materials
  • Energy Advances
  • Chemistry - A European Journal

Best Publications

  • N-halosuccinimide/BF3-H2O, efficient electrophilic halogenating systems for aromatics.

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  • Cu–Co Synergism in Cu1−xCoxFe2O4—Catalysis and XPS Aspects

    Thomas Mathew;N.R. Shiju;K. Sreekumar;Bollapragada S. Rao

  • Single Step Bi-reforming and Oxidative Bi-reforming of Methane (Natural Gas) with Steam and Carbon Dioxide to Metgas (CO-2H2) for Methanol Synthesis: Self-Sufficient Effective and Exclusive Oxygenation of Methane to Methanol with Oxygen

    George A. Olah;Alain Goeppert;Miklos Czaun;Thomas Mathew

  • ipso-nitration of arylboronic acids with chlorotrimethylsilane-nitrate salts.

    G. K. Surya Prakash;Chiradeep Panja;Thomas Mathew;Vijayalakshmi Surampudi

  • Long‐Lived Trifluoromethanide Anion: A Key Intermediate in Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylations

    G. K. Surya Prakash;Fang Wang;Zhe Zhang;Ralf Haiges

  • Ionic Liquid and Solid HF Equivalent Amine-Poly(Hydrogen Fluoride) Complexes Effecting Efficient Environmentally Friendly Isobutane−Isobutylene Alkylation

    George A. Olah;Thomas Mathew;Alain Goeppert;Béla Török

  • Regioselective Synthesis of Phenols and Halophenols from Arylboronic Acids Using Solid Poly(N‐vinylpyrrolidone)/ Hydrogen Peroxide and Poly(4‐vinylpyridine)/Hydrogen Peroxide Complexes

    G. K. Surya Prakash;Sujith Chacko;Chiradeep Panja;Tisa Elizabeth Thomas

  • Gallium (III) triflate catalyzed efficient Strecker reaction of ketones and their fluorinated analogs

    G. K. Surya Prakash;Thomas Mathew;Chiradeep Panja;Steevens Alconcel

  • BF3-H2O catalyzed hydroxyalkylation of aromatics with aromatic aldehydes and dicarboxaldehydes: efficient synthesis of triarylmethanes, diarylmethylbenzaldehydes, and anthracene derivatives.

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  • Gallium(III) triflate: an efficient and a sustainable Lewis acid catalyst for organic synthetic transformations.

    G K Surya Prakash;Thomas Mathew;George A Olah

  • Facile synthesis of TMS-protected trifluoromethylated alcohols using trifluoromethyltrimethylsilane (TMSCF3) and various nucleophilic catalysts in DMF.

    G K Surya Prakash;Chiradeep Panja;Habiba Vaghoo;Vijayalakshmi Surampudi

  • Nafion-H Catalysed Intramolecular Friedel-Crafts Acylation: Formation of Cyclic Ketones and Related Heterocycles

    George A. Olah;Thomas Mathew;Morteza Farnia;G. K. Surya Prakash

  • α-Fluoro-α-nitro(phenylsulfonyl)methane as a fluoromethyl pronucleophile: Efficient stereoselective Michael addition to chalcones

    G. K. Surya Prakash;Fang Wang;Timothy Stewart;Thomas Mathew

  • Benzodiazines: recent synthetic advances

    Thomas Mathew;Attila Á. Papp;Farzaneh Paknia;Santos Fustero

  • A mechanistic approach to phenol methylation on Cu1−xCoxFe2O4: FTIR study

    Thomas Mathew;Munusamy Vijayaraj;Shivanand Pai;Balkrishna B. Tope

  • Tertiary butylation of phenol on Cu1−xCoxFe2O4: catalysis and structure–activity correlation

    Thomas Mathew;Bollapragada S Rao;Chinnakonda S Gopinath

  • Metal oxide catalysts for DME steam reforming: Ga2O3 and Ga2O3–Al2O3 catalysts with and without copper

    Thomas Mathew;Yusuke Yamada;Atsushi Ueda;Hiroshi Shioyama

  • ipso-Nitration of arenes.

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  • Nafion-H catalysed sulfonylation of aromatics with arene/alkenesulfonic acids for the preparation of sulfones

    George A. Olah;Thomas Mathew;G. K. Surya Prakash

  • Selective Late-Stage Hydrodefluorination of Trifluoromethylarenes: A Facile Access to Difluoromethylarenes

    Socrates B. Munoz;Chuanfa Ni;Zhe Zhang;Fang Wang

  • Efficient one-pot synthesis of fluorinated benzimidazolines, benzothiazolines, benzoxazolines, and dihydrobenzoxazinones using gallium(III) triflate as a catalyst.

    G. K. Surya Prakash;Thomas Mathew;Chiradeep Panja;Habiba Vaghoo

  • Acid-base properties of Cu1-xCoxFe2O4ferrospinels: FTIR investigations

    Thomas Mathew;Balkrishna B. Tope;N. R. Shiju;Sooryakant G. Hegde

  • Selective production of orthoalkyl phenols on Cu0.5Co0.5Fe2O4: a study of catalysis and characterization

    Thomas Mathew;Sankaran Shylesh;Biju M. Devassy;Munusamy Vijayaraj

  • Difluoromethyl phenyl sulfone as a selective difluoromethylene dianion equivalent: one-pot stereoselective synthesis of anti-2,2-difluoropropane-1,3-diols.

    Unknown

  • ipso-Nitration of Arylboronic Acids with Chlorotrimethylsilane—Nitrate Salts.

    G. K. Surya Prakash;Chiradeep Panja;Thomas Mathew;Vijayalakshmi Surampudi

Frequent Co-Authors

G. K. Surya Prakash
G. K. Surya Prakash University of Southern California
George A. Olah
George A. Olah University of Southern California
Ralf Haiges
Ralf Haiges University of Southern California
Alain Goeppert
Alain Goeppert University of Southern California
Karl O. Christe
Karl O. Christe University of Southern California
Chuanfa Ni
Chuanfa Ni Chinese Academy of Sciences
Béla Török
Béla Török University of Massachusetts Boston
Satoshi Sakaguchi
Satoshi Sakaguchi Kansai University
Santos Fustero
Santos Fustero University of Valencia
Nicos A. Petasis
Nicos A. Petasis University of Southern California

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