Publications
I have published nearly 65 articles with h-index 22; in high-impact journals (such as Angew. Chem., ACS Nano, Chem. Commun., Chem. Eur. J., J. Org. Chem., Green Chem etc) including reviews (Chem. Rev., ACS Accounts, Chem. Soc. Rev.), book chapters, patents (US, PCT, GCC) and recently also edited one book from RSC green chemistry series. Several of his articles are rated as Top-10, Top-5, Hot article and highly cited (Total citations – more than 1200).
TOP-PAPERS ( * indicates corresponding author)
1. High Surface Area Silica Nanospheres (KCC-1) with Fibrous Morphology.“HOT paper” “Front Cover”
V. Polshettiwar*, D. Cha, X. Zhang and J. M. Basset,* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 9652-9656.
2. “Hydro-metathesis” of olefins: a new catalytic reaction with a bifunctional single-site nano-catalyst Ta-H/KCC.1
V. Polshettiwar,* J. Thivolle, J. M. Basset,* Angew. Chem. 2011, 50, 10.1002/anie.201007254.
3. Tantalum hydride (TaH) on MCM-41 for efficient hydrogenolysis of alkanes: Low temperature of alkanes into lower carbon number alkanes at atmospheric pressure.
V. Polshettiwar, J. Thivolle, J. M. Basset,* Chem. Cat. Chem. 2011, preliminary MS.
4. Nanoparticle-supported and magnetically recoverable ruthenium hydroxide catalyst: Efficient hydration of nitriles to amides in aqueous medium.
V. Polshettiwar* and R. S. Varma, Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 1582-1586.
5. Magnetic nanoparticle-supported glutathione: a conceptually sustainable organocatalyst.
V. Polshettiwar*, Babita Baruwati, and R. S. Varma, Chem.Commun. 2009, 1837-1839.
6. Self-assembly of metal oxides into 3D nano-structures: Synthesis and nano-catalysis.“TOP 5 paper”
V. Polshettiwar*, Babita Baruwati, and R. S. Varma, ACS Nano 2009, 3, 728-736.
7. Synthesis of single-crystal micro-pine structured nano-ferrites and their application in catalysis.
V. Polshettiwar, M. N. Nadaguada and R. S. Varma, Chem. Commun. 2008, 6318-6320.
8. Olefin ring closing metathesis and hydrosilylation reaction in aqueous medium by Grubbs second generation ruthenium catalyst.
V. Polshettiwar and R. S. Varma, J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 7417-7419.
9. Tandem bis-aldol reaction of ketones: a facile one pot synthesis of 1,3-dioxanes in aqueous medium.
V. Polshettiwar and R. S. Varma, J. Org. Chem. 2007, 72, 7420-7422.
10. Magnetically Recoverable Nano-Catalysts.
V. Polshettiwar,* R. Luque, A. Fihri, H. Zhu, J. M. Basset,* Chem. Rev. 2011, in press.
11. Aqueous microwave chemistry: a clean and green synthetic tool for rapid drug discovery.
V. Polshettiwar* and R. S. Varma, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2008, 37, 1546-1557.
12. Microwave-assisted organic synthesis and transformations using benign reaction media.
V. Polshettiwar and R. S. Varma, Acc. Chem. Res. 2008, 41, 629-639.
13. Green Chemistry by Nano-catalysis.“Top 10 paper”
V. Polshettiwar* and R. S. Varma, Green Chem. 2010, 12, 743-754.
