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62
Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Vijay Nair is affiliated with the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology in India. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, as well as Obstetrics and Gynecology. Additional subfields of their work include Plant Science, Molecular Medicine, and Materials Chemistry.

The research topics addressed by Vijay Nair encompass Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects, Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies, Birth, Development, and Health, Moringa oleifera research and applications, Curcumin's Biomedical Applications, and Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis.

Recent publications of Vijay Nair include:

  • "Gag-like proteins: Novel mediators of prenatal alcohol exposure in neural development" (2022), Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research
  • "Biomedical and Anticancer Potential of Green Synthesized Chalcogenide Zinc Sulfide Nanoparticles Using Different Plant Extracts as the Capping Agent" (2024), Brazilian Journal of Physics
  • "Treatment of tinea corporis with bacillinum as a totality-based medicine according to the concept of Hering's three-legged stool - A case report" (2025), International Journal of Homoeopathic Sciences

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Vijay Nair include:

  • Marisa R. Pinson
  • Dae D. Chung
  • Amanda H. Mahnke
  • Nihal A. Salem
  • Daniel Osorio

Vijay Nair's work has been published in journals such as Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research, Brazilian Journal of Physics, and International Journal of Homoeopathic Sciences. The research covers biomedical applications related to prenatal alcohol exposure, biomedical and anticancer properties of nanoparticles, and homeopathic approaches to dermatological conditions.

Best Publications

  • Strategies for heterocyclic construction via novel multicomponent reactions based on isocyanides and nucleophilic carbenes.

    Vijay Nair;C. Rajesh;A. U. Vinod;S. Bindu

  • Recent advances in carbon–carbon bond-forming reactions involving homoenolates generated by NHC catalysis

    Vijay Nair;Sreekumar Vellalath;Beneesh Pattoorpadi Babu

  • Employing homoenolates generated by NHC catalysis in carbon–carbon bond-forming reactions: state of the art

    Vijay Nair;Rajeev S. Menon;Akkattu T. Biju;C. R. Sinu

  • Recent advances in employing homoenolates generated by N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) catalysis in carbon–carbon bond-forming reactions

    Rajeev S. Menon;Akkattu T. Biju;Vijay Nair

  • N‐Heterocyclic Carbenes: Reagents, Not Just Ligands!

    Vijay Nair;Santhamma Bindu;Vellalath Sreekumar

  • Cerium(IV) ammonium nitrate--a versatile single-electron oxidant.

    Vijay Nair;Ani Deepthi

  • Engaging zwitterions in carbon-carbon and carbon-nitrogen bond-forming reactions: A promising synthetic strategy.

    Vijay Nair;Rajeev S Menon;A R Sreekanth;N Abhilash

  • N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed reaction of chalcones and enals via homoenolate: an efficient synthesis of 1,3,4-trisubstituted cyclopentenes.

    Vijay Nair;Sreekumar Vellalath;Manojkumar Poonoth;Eringathodi Suresh

  • N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalyzed Reaction of Enals and 1,2-Dicarbonyl Compounds: Stereoselective Synthesis of Spiro γ-Butyrolactones

    Vijay Nair;Sreekumar Vellalath;Manojkumar Poonoth;Resmi Mohan

  • Recent advances in synthetic transformations mediated by cerium(IV) ammonium nitrate.

    Vijay Nair;Lakshmi Balagopal;Roshini Rajan;Jessy Mathew

  • Recent advances in N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-catalysed benzoin reactions

    Rajeev S Menon;Akkattu T Biju;Vijay Nair

  • Indium- and gallium-mediated carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions in organic synthesis

    Vijay Nair;Sindu Ros;C.N. Jayan;Bindu S. Pillai

  • Recent advances in the chemistry of triaryl- and triheteroarylmethanes

    Vijay Nair;Siji Thomas;Smitha C. Mathew;K.G. Abhilash

  • Carbon–carbon bond forming reactions mediated by cerium(IV) reagents

    Vijay Nair;Jessy Mathew;Jaya Prabhakaran

  • A novel synthesis of 2-aminopyrroles using a three-component reaction.

    Vijay Nair;and A. U. Vinod;C. Rajesh

  • Practical synthesis of triaryl- and triheteroarylmethanes by reaction of aldehydes and activated arenes promoted by gold(III) chloride.

    Vijay Nair;K G Abhilash;N Vidya

  • Carbon-nitrogen bond-forming reactions of dialkyl azodicarboxylate: a promising synthetic strategy.

    Vijay Nair;A. T. Biju;Smitha C. Mathew;Beneesh Pattoorpadi Babu

  • A direct synthesis of aryl thiocyanates using cerium(IV) ammonium nitrate

    Vijay Nair;Tesmol G. George;Latha G. Nair;Sreeletha B. Panicker

  • Recent Advances in the Chemistry of Pentafulvenes.

    Preethanuj Preethalayam;K. Syam Krishnan;Sreeja Thulasi;S. Sarath Chand

  • Multicomponent reactions involving zwitterionic intermediates for the construction of heterocyclic systems: one pot synthesis of aminofurans and iminolactones

    Vijay Nair;A.Unni Vinod;N Abhilash;Rajeev S Menon

  • Novel Synthesis of Highly Functionalized Pyrazolines and Pyrazoles by Triphenylphosphine-Mediated Reaction of Dialkyl Azodicarboxylate with Allenic Esters†

    Vijay Nair;A. T. Biju;Kishor Mohanan;Eringathodi Suresh

Frequent Co-Authors

Eringathodi Suresh
Eringathodi Suresh Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute
Akkattu T. Biju
Akkattu T. Biju Indian Institute of Science
Nigam P. Rath
Nigam P. Rath University of Missouri–St. Louis
Paul G. Williard
Paul G. Williard Brown University
Gilbert Stork
Gilbert Stork Columbia University
Uday Maitra
Uday Maitra Indian Institute of Science
Cherumuttathu H. Suresh
Cherumuttathu H. Suresh National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology
Jean Rodriguez
Jean Rodriguez Aix-Marseille University

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