G U Kulkarni
Articles written in Journal of Chemical Sciences
Volume 112 Issue 2 April 2000 pp 83-95
An indigenous cluster beam apparatus with a reflectron time-of-flight mass spectrometer
G Raina G U Kulkarni R T Yadav V S Ramamurthy C N R Rao
The design and fabrication of a Smalley-type cluster source in combination with a reflectron based time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometer are reported. The generation of clusters is based on supersonic jet expansion of the sampling plume. Sample cells for both liquid and solid targets developed for this purpose are described. Two pulsed Nd-YAG lasers are used in tandem, one (532 nm) for target vapourization and the other (355 nm) for cluster ionization. Methanol clusters of nuclearity up to 14 (mass 500 amu) were produced from liquid methanol as the test sample. The clusters were detected with a mass resolution of ∼ 2500 in the R-TOF geometry. Carbon clusters up to a nuclearity of 28 were obtained using a polyimide target. The utility of the instrument is demonstrated by carrying out experiments to generate mixed clusters from alcohol mixtures.
Volume 112 Issue 3 June 2000 pp 421-421
Synthesis and characterization of ruthenium complexes bearing
Nibedita Rath Nisha Mathew Balaji R Jagirdhar R Srinivasa Gopalan G U Kulkarni
Volume 113 Issue 4 August 2001 pp 307-324
R Srinivasa Gopalan G U Kulkarni
Detailed X-ray crystallographic investigation of the reactive α- and the unreactive γ-polymorphs of
Volume 113 Issue 5-6 October 2001 pp 611-619
Self-assembling bilayers of palladiumthiolates in organic media
P John Thomas A Lavanya V Sabareesh G U Kulkarni
Alkylthiolates of palladium forming a homologous series (butyl to octadecyl) have been prepared and characterized using X-ray diffraction and STM. The thiolates adopt an unusual bilayered lamellar structure, whose thickness is governed by the length of the alkyl chain. These mesophases melt in the temperature range, 60° to 100°C, with the melting point increasing linearly with the thiol chain length. There is evidence to suggest that the alkyl chains are orientationally disordered especially prior to melting.
Volume 115 Issue 5-6 October 2003 pp 319-319
Volume 115 Issue 5-6 October 2003 pp 637-647
Aromaticity in benzene-like rings — An experimental electron density investigation
Anupama Ranganathan G U Kulkarni
An experimental charge density study has been carried out on perylene based on X-ray diffraction measurements at 130 K. The electron density and its associated properties have been evaluated at the bond and the ring critical points for the naphthalene residues as well as for the central ring. The variation of the Laplacian along the axis, above and below the ring plane, is found to be symmetric for the central ring while for the naphthalene rings, the Laplacian values are enhanced under the bow-shaped region. A plot of the Laplacian versus density evaluated at various points along the axis above the ring plane, shows a steep variation in the case of the central ring implying that the
Volume 120 Issue 6 November 2008 pp 613-620
Reji Thomas Shrinwantu Pal Ayan Datta Mariusz K Marchewka Henryk Ratajczak Swapan K Pati G U Kulkarni
An experimental charge density study has been carried out on proton-transfer complexes exhibiting nonlinear optical (NLO) properties-melaminium tartrate monohydrate and L-asparaginium picrate employing high-resolution X-ray diffraction at 100 K. Both the complexes crystallize in non-centric space group P21 and the structures exhibit interesting patterns of N-H…O and O-H…O hydrogen bonding. Experimental determination of the dipole moment (𝜇) for the asymmetric unit reveals that for both the crystals, there is a large cooperative enhancement in the crystalline 𝜇 arising essentially due to hydrogen bond mediated charge transfer between the melaminium ion and the L-tartrate in one case, between the Lasparaginium ion and the picrate in the other complex. We have additionally performed theoretical calculations at the density functional theory (DFT) level to understand the origin of enhancement of the dipole moments in the two systems.
Volume 123 Issue 2 March 2011 pp 95-95
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