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Congratulations to Mrs. Padmapriya for her publication in Environmental Science and Polution Research! Congratulations to Ms. Bishnupriya for her publication in Chemosphere! Congratulations to Mr. Subhadarsi for his publication in Combustion & Flame! Congratulations to Mr. Fredy for his publication in PCCP! Congratulations to Mr. Amit for his publication in Chemosphere! Congratulations to Dr. Koushik for his publication in JPCA Special Issue! Heartiest Congratulations to Dr. Koushik Mondal for successfully defending his Thesis and getting the Ph.D. Degree ! Heartiest Congratulations to Dr. Velan for getting Research Investigator position at the ThinkMolecular Tech. Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore! Heartiest Congratulations to Dr. Avinash for getting post-doc offer at Tampere University, Finland! One of our publication accepted as a ‘Featured Content’ in “ACS Atmospheric Chemistry Collection” for 2019-’20!! Heartiest Congratulations to both Dr. Parth and Dr. Revathy for becoming Senior Research Scientist in R&D @Alembic Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Heartiest Congratulations to Dr. Avinash for getting awarded the “Best Thesis” in Chemistry! PhD Positions Available – please contact Prof. Rajakumar Congrats to Dr Vijay for getting a Post Doc RA offer at Harvard University, USA Congrats to Dr Veerabhadra for getting an offer for Asst Prof in the IPC Dept, IISc Bangalore

Welcome to Prof Rajakumar's Group

Prof. Rajakumar's research group focuses on understanding the elementary reactions that happen in both the Troposphere and the Stratosphere of the Earth's atmosphere on one hand and in the combustion on the otherhand. The absorption measurements of the radicals originating from the oxidation processes of volatile organic compounds via their reactions with hydroxyl radical, chlorine atoms and many such oxidizing species those are important in the Earth's atmosphere, are being pursued. Cavity Ring Down Spectroscopy (CRDS) is used as a tool for this purpose. This CRD spectrometer is completely in...

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  • Recent Publications

    • “Laser induced fluorescence and computational studies on the tropospheric photooxidation reactions of me...
    • “Cl atoms-initiated degradation of 1-Chlorobutane and 2-Chlorobutane: Kinetics, product analysis and atm...
    • “An experimental and theoretical kinetic modeling study of the thermal decomposition of methyl-2-methyl ...
    • “Photo-oxidation Reaction of Tert-butyl Chloride with OH Radicals and Cl Atoms in the Troposphere and it...
    • “Computational investigation of thermochemistry and kinetics of the reaction between n-butyl peroxy and ...
    • “Investigation of kinetics and mechanistic insights of the reaction of criegee intermediate (CH2OO) with...
    • “Kinetics of IO radicals with C1, C2 aliphatic alcohols in tropospherically relevant conditions” K...

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    Department of Chemistry,
    Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
    Chennai - 600036, Tamil Nadu, India. +91 44 2257 4231 +91-44 22574231 (Off), +91-44 22574202 (Fax)