Dr.
Durairaj Baskaran
Department of
Chemistry, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, TN
37996-1600, USA
Research Associate
Professor
Email:
baskaran@utk.edu
Qualifications
1996 Ph.D., University of Mainz, Germany and
National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
1988 M.Sc., Anna University, Madras, India
1986 B.Sc., Madurai Kamaraj
University, Madurai, India
Publications (Selected)
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Hydration
mediation in supported aqueous-phase catalysis for atom transfer radical
polymerization, R. Aggarwal and D. Baskaran, Macromolecules, 2011.
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A new approach
to the living anionic polymerization of 4-cyanostyrene, P. Driva, D. L. Pickel,
J. W. Mays, D. Baskaran, Macromolecules, 2010, 43, 6915-6918.
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Highly efficient
recyclable hydrated-clay supported catalytic system for atom transfer radical
polymerization. S. Munirasu, R. Aggarwal, D. Baskaran. Chemical Communications,
2009, 4518-4520.
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Enhanced polymer
grafting from multiwalled carbon nanotubes through living anionic surface
initiated polymerization, G. Sakellariou, H. Ji, J. W. Mays, D. Baskaran,
Chemistry of Materials, 2008, 20, 6217- 6230.
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Anionic vinyl
polymerization-50 years after Michael Szwarc,
D. Baskaran and A. H. E. Mueller, Progress in Polymer Science, 2007, 32,
173-219 ( a review with 407 references).
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Unfavorable
coordination of copper with methyl vinyl ketone in atrom transfer radical
polymerization. A. Mittal, S. Sivaram, D. Baskaran, Macromolecules, 2006, 39,
5555-5558.
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Recent trends in
ionic polymerization (peer reviewed articles presented from IP05, Goa) D.
Baskaran and S. Sivaram Eds.: Macromolecular Symposia, vol. 240, 2006.
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Polymer grafted
multi-walled carbon nanotubes through surface initiated polymerization, D.
Baskaran, J. W. Mays, M. S. Bratcher. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 2138-2142.
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Carbon nanotubes
with covalently linked porphyrin antennae: Photoinduced electron transfer.
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D. Baskaran,
J.W. Mays, X. Peter Zhang, and M.S. Bratcher, Journal of American Chemical
Society, 2005, 127, 6916.
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Living anionic
polymerization of methyl methacrylate in the presence of polydentate
bislithiumalkoxides. D. Baskaran, Macromol. Chem. Phys., 2000, 201, 890.