2026 Vadapalli Chandrasekhar: Chemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Chemistry	75	4541	4132	43	43	487	16869

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Chemistry in India Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Chemistry in India Leader Award
2009 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
1994 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Vadapalli Chandrasekhar is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in India. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with significant contributions in the areas of materials chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and physical and theoretical chemistry.

Their work encompasses a range of topics that include:

Crystallization and Solubility Studies
X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
Magnetism in coordination complexes
Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
Crystallography and molecular interactions
Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis

Vadapalli Chandrasekhar's publication record includes recent papers such as:

"Heterometallic CuII-LnIII complexes: Single molecule magnets and magnetic refrigerants" (2021) published in Coordination Chemistry Reviews
"Pentagonal Bipyramidal Ln(III) Complexes Containing an Axial Phosphine Oxide Ligand: Field-induced Single-ion Magnetism Behavior of the Dy(III) Analogues" (2020) published in Inorganic Chemistry
"CAAC-Based Thiele and Schlenk Hydrocarbons" (2020) published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
"Boron-heteroelement (B-E; E = Al, C, Si, Ge, N, P, As, Bi, O, S, Se, Te) multiply bonded compounds: Recent advances" (2020) published in Coordination Chemistry Reviews
"Synthesis, Structure, and Zero-Field SMM Behavior of Homometallic Dy2, Dy4, and Dy6 Complexes" (2022) published in Inorganic Chemistry

Their frequent collaborators include:

Anukul Jana
Carola Schulzke
Biprajit Sarkar
Hemant Rawat
Debdeep Mandal

Publication venues where Vadapalli Chandrasekhar has contributed multiple papers include:

The Cambridge Structural Database (206 publications)
Dalton Transactions (23 publications)
Chemical Communications (8 publications)
Inorganic Chemistry (6 publications)
The Journal of Organic Chemistry (6 publications)

Vadapalli Chandrasekhar has been recognized with fellowships from scientific organizations, including being named a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2009 and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1994.

Best Publications

Organotin assemblies containing SnO bonds

Vadapalli Chandrasekhar;Selvarajan Nagendran;Viswanathan Baskar

601
Citations
Recent developments in the synthesis and structure of organosilanols.

Vadapalli Chandrasekhar;Ramamoorthy Boomishankar;Selvarajan Nagendran

349
Citations
Trinuclear Heterobimetallic Ni2Ln complexes [L2Ni2Ln][ClO4] (Ln = La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, and Er; LH3 = (S)P[N(Me)N═CH−C6H3-2-OH-3-OMe]3): From Simple Paramagnetic Complexes to Single-Molecule Magnet Behavior

Vadapalli Chandrasekhar;Balasubramanian Murugesa Pandian;Ramamoorthy Boomishankar;Alexander Steiner

285
Citations
Synthesis, Structure, and Magnetism of Heterobimetallic Trinuclear Complexes {[L2Co2Ln][X]} [Ln = Eu, X = Cl; Ln = Tb, Dy, Ho, X = NO3; LH3 = (S)P[N(Me)N═CH−C6H3-2-OH-3-OMe]3]: A 3d−4f Family of Single-Molecule Magnets

Vadapalli Chandrasekhar;Balasubramanian Murugesa Pandian;Jagadese J. Vittal;Rodolphe Clérac

266
Citations
Discrete Silanetriols: Building Blocks for Three-Dimensional Metallasiloxanes

Ramaswamy Murugavel;Vadapalli Chandrasekhar;Herbert W. Roesky

238
Citations
Linear Trinuclear Mixed-Metal CoII-GdIII-CoII Single-Molecule Magnet:[L2Co2Gd][NO3]â2CHCl3 (LH3 ) (S)P[N(Me)NdCH-C6H3-2-OH-3-OMe]3)

Vadapalli Chandrasekhar;Balasubramanian Murugesa Pandian;Ramachandran Azhakar;Jagadese J. Vittal

220
Citations
Cyclophosphazene-based multi-site coordination ligands

Vadapalli Chandrasekhar;Pakkirisamy Thilagar;Balasubramanian Murugesa Pandian

185
Citations
Advances in the chemistry of chlorocyclophosphazenes

Vadapalli Chandrasekhar;Venkatasubbaiah Krishnan

184
Citations
Phosphazenes as scaffolds for the construction of multi-site coordination ligands

Vadapalli Chandrasekhar;Selvarajan Nagendran

184
Citations
Inorganic and organometallic polymers

Vadapalli Chandrasekhar

176
Citations
OXO CARBOXYLATE TIN LADDER CLUSTERS. A NEW STRUCTURAL CLASS OF ORGANOTIN COMPOUNDS

Robert R. Holmes;Charles G. Schmid;V. Chandrasekhar;Roberta O. Day

164
Citations
Low-coordinate mononuclear lanthanide complexes as molecular nanomagnets

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

162
Citations
A Dodecanuclear Copper(II) Cage Containing Phosphonate and Pyrazole Ligands

Vadapalli Chandrasekhar;Savariraj Kingsley

161
Citations
Stable cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbene (cAAC) radicals with main group substituents

Subrata Kundu;Soumen Sinhababu;Vadapalli Chandrasekhar;Vadapalli Chandrasekhar;Vadapalli Chandrasekhar;Herbert W Roesky

161
Citations
Lanthanide(III)-Based Single-Ion Magnets.

Atanu Dey;Pankaj Kalita;Vadapalli Chandrasekhar;Vadapalli Chandrasekhar

157
Citations
Rhombus-Shaped Tetranuclear [Ln4] Complexes [Ln = Dy(III) and Ho(III)]: Synthesis, Structure, and SMM Behavior

Vadapalli Chandrasekhar;Vadapalli Chandrasekhar;Sakiat Hossain;Sourav Das;Sourav Biswas

146
Citations
An iron wheel on a tin drum: a novel assembly of a hexaferrocene unit on a tin-oxygen cluster

Vadapalli Chandrasekhar;Selvarajan Nagendran;Sachin Bansal;Michael A. Kozee

145
Citations
Syntheses, structures, and magnetic properties of a family of heterometallic heptanuclear [Cu5Ln2] (Ln = Y(III), Lu(III), Dy(III), Ho(III), Er(III), and Yb(III)) complexes: observation of SMM behavior for the Dy(III) and Ho(III) analogues.

Vadapalli Chandrasekhar;Vadapalli Chandrasekhar;Atanu Dey;Sourav Das;Mathieu Rouzières

145
Citations
Slow magnetic relaxation in Co(III)-Co(II) mixed-valence dinuclear complexes with a Co(II)O5X (X = Cl, Br, NO3) distorted-octahedral coordination sphere.

Vadapalli Chandrasekhar;Vadapalli Chandrasekhar;Atanu Dey;Antonio J. Mota;Enrique Colacio

143
Citations
A NEW STRUCTURAL FORM OF TIN OCTAHEDRALLY COORDINATED IN A DRUM-SHAPED MOLECULE

V. Chandrasekhar;Roberta O. Day;Robert R. Holmes

141
Citations
Organooxotin assemblies from SnC bond cleavage reactions

Vadapalli Chandrasekhar;Kandasamy Gopal;Palani Sasikumar;Ramalingam Thirumoorthi

132
Citations
Molecular Metal Phosphonates

Joydeb Goura;Vadapalli Chandrasekhar

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert R. Holmes University of Massachusetts Amherst

Roberta O. Day University of Massachusetts Amherst

Alexander Steiner University of Liverpool

Herbert W. Roesky University of Göttingen

Biprajit Sarkar University of Stuttgart

Enrique Colacio University of Granada

Stefano Zacchini University of Bologna

Rodolphe Clérac Paul Pascal Research Center

Sandeep Verma Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

K. R. Justin Thomas Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

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