Vasuki Tambyrajah

General Studies
University College of Jubail
Saudi Arabia

Professor Chemistry
Biography

PhD in Organic Chemistry, School of Chemistry University of Leeds, UK, 1997. B.Sc. (First Class) Chemistry, University of Jaffna, Srilanka, 1991.

Research Intrest

Organic synthesis-Catalytic organic reactions and Organic catalytic reactions in Ionic liquids.

List of Publications
Abbott AP, Capper G, Davies DL, Munro HL, Rasheed RK, Tambyrajah V. Preparation of novel, moisture-stable, Lewis-acidic ionic liquids containing quaternary ammonium salts with functional side chainsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: plot of conductivity vs. temperature for the ionic liquid formed from zinc chloride and choline chloride (2∶ 1). See http://www. rsc. org/suppdata/cc/b1/b106357j. Chemical Communications. 2001(19):2010-1.
Brown D, Grigg R, Sridharan V, Tambyrajah V, Thornton-Pett M. Palladium catalysed cyclisation-intermolecular cyclopropanation versus cyclisation Friedel-Crafts alkylation with olefin insertion. Tetrahedron. 1998 Mar 12;54(11):2595-606.
Grigg R, Savic V, Tambyrajah V. Phenanthrene type heterocycles via Rh (I) catalysed [2+ 2+ 2]-cycloaddition and Pd (0) catalysed arylation. Tetrahedron Letters. 2000 Apr 15;41(16):3003-6.

Global Scientific Words in Chemistry