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  1. Reduction of Heterocumulenes Using Cationic Zinc Hydride

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, December 2025, Wiley

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  2. Isolation and reactivity of sodium benzyl cations

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  3. Synthesis and reactivity of an antimony(III) dication

    Article • Nature Synthesis, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  4. Isostructural Mg and Zn compounds: analogies and differences in reactivity

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2025, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  5. An aldehyde-stabilised alkoxyaluminium dication

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2025, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  6. Bi[Se‐(2‐Me2NC6H4)]3: Single Source Precursor for Preparing Pure‐Phase, 2‐Dimensional Bismuth Selenide Films

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, December 2024, Wiley

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  7. Revisited Synthesis of Trispyrazolylborate Aluminum Halides

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, September 2024, Wiley

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  8. Quest for Active Species in Al/B-Catalyzed CO2 Hydrosilylation

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, October 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  9. From Sn(II) to Sn(IV): Enhancing Lewis Acidity Via Oxidation

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, September 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  10. Mechanistic Investigations on Bismuth Catalyzed Reduction of Ketones and Phosphine Oxides

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, June 2023, Wiley

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  11. Reactivity of a quasi-four-coordinate butylmagnesium cation

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2023, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  12. Computational Insights on Periodicity in Bonding and Lewis Acidity and Basicity of the p‐Block Trispyrazolylborate Complexes

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, December 2022, Wiley

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  13. Computational Insights on Periodicity in Bonding and Lewis Acidity and Basicity of the p‐Block Trispyrazolylborate Complexes

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, November 2022, Wiley

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal, Eluvathingal Jemmis

  14. Crystallographic evidence for a continuum and reversal of roles in primary–secondary interactions in antimony Lewis acids: applications in carbonyl activation

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal, Eluvathingal Jemmis

  15. Cover Feature: Cationic Zinc Hydride Catalyzed Carbon Dioxide Reduction to Formate: Deciphering Elementary Reactions, Isolation of Intermediates, and Computational Investigations (Chem. Eur. J. 26/2021)

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, April 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  16. Cationic Zinc Hydride Catalyzed Carbon Dioxide Reduction to Formate: Deciphering Elementary Reactions, Isolation of Intermediates, and Computational Investigations

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, February 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  17. Reversing Lewis acidity from bismuth to antimony

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal, Eluvathingal Jemmis

  18. Electrophilic Organobismuth Dication Catalyzes Carbonyl Hydrosilylation

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, September 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal, Eluvathingal Jemmis

  19. Electrophilic Organobismuth Dication Catalyzes Carbonyl Hydrosilylation

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, September 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal, Eluvathingal Jemmis

  20. trans -Influence in Heavy Main Group Compounds: A Case Study on Tris(pyrazolyl)borate Bismuth Complexes

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, May 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal, Eluvathingal Jemmis

  21. Probing the Lewis acidity of heavier pnictogen trichlorides

    Article • Journal of Chemical Sciences, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  22. A Dicationic Bismuth(III) Lewis Acid: Catalytic Hydrosilylation of Olefins

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, June 2019, Wiley

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal, Eluvathingal Jemmis

  23. Front Cover: A Dicationic Bismuth(III) Lewis Acid: Catalytic Hydrosilylation of Olefins (Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 28/2019)

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, June 2019, Wiley

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal, Eluvathingal Jemmis

  24. A Dicationic Bismuth(III) Lewis Acid: Catalytic Hydrosilylation of Olefins

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, June 2019, Wiley

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal, Eluvathingal Jemmis

  25. Bismuth(III) dication trapped on a chlorobismuthate

    Article • Journal of Coordination Chemistry, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  26. Amidomagnesium cations

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  27. Organoaluminum cations for carbonyl activation

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal, Eluvathingal Jemmis

  28. Terminal hydridozinc cation

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  29. A disguised hydride in a butylmagnesium cation

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  30. Consequence of Ligand Bite Angle on Bismuth Lewis Acidity

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, August 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal, Eluvathingal Jemmis

  31. Neutral and Cationic β-Ketoiminato Bismuth Complexes

    Article • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, April 2017, Wiley

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  32. 2,6-Diisopropylanilinium Bromobismuthates

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, December 2016, Wiley

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  33. Manifestation of helicity in one-dimensional iodobismuthate

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  34. Molecular Rare-Earth-Metal Hydrides in Non-Cyclopentadienyl Environments

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, November 2014, Wiley

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  35. Review: Structurally characterized α-diimine complexes of s- and p-block elements

    Article • Journal of Coordination Chemistry, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  36. Reversible Dihydrogen Activation in Cationic Rare-Earth-Metal Polyhydride Complexes

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, June 2013, Wiley

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  37. A hydride-ligated dysprosium single-molecule magnet

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  38. Dihydrogen Addition in a Dinuclear Rare-Earth Metal Hydride Complex Supported by a Metalated TREN Ligand

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, November 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  39. Synthesis of a Coordinatively Labile Gold(III) Methyl Complex

    Article • Organometallics, June 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  40. CH Activation versus Yttrium–Methyl Cation Formation from [Y(AlMe4)3] Induced by Cyclic Polynitrogen Bases: Solvent and Substituent‐Size Effects

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, April 2011, Wiley

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  41. Ping-Pong at Gold: Proton Jump Between Coordinated Phenyl and η1-Benzene Ligands, A Computational Study

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, August 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  42. (β-Diketiminato)dimethylgold(III): Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity

    Article • Organometallics, May 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  43. Lewis Base Induced Reductions in Organolanthanide Chemistry

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, March 2010, Wiley

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  44. Structural Variations and Molecular Dynamics of Rare-Earth Metal Complexes with theN,N-Bis(2-{pyrid-2-yl}ethyl)hydroxylaminato Ligand

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, September 2009, Wiley

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  45. Bis(hydroxylaminato)-mono(pentamethylcyclopentadienyl) rare-earth metal complexes

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2009, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  46. Neutral ligand induced methane elimination from rare-earth metal tetramethylaluminates up to the six-coordinate carbide state

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2009, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  47. Potassium Hydroxylamine Complexes

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, June 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  48. Rare-earth metal hydroxylamide complexes

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2008, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal

  49. Hydroxylaminato yttrate and samarate complexes

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2007, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Ajay Venugopal