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Sumalekshmy S

Sumalekshmy S

  • Name: Dr. Sumalekshmy S.
  • Designation: Assistant Professor
  • Academic Qualification: M. Sc., Ph. D
  • Area of Interest: Organic Chemistry, Photochemistry
  • Address: TC54/989(4), Nayathuparampil, Nemom, Thiruvananthapuram 695020
  • Email: sumees@gmail.com
  • Phone: 9400751144
  • Date of birth: 30/05/1976
  • Date of joining:13/12/2012

Education

CourseInstitutionPeriod
M. Sc. Chemistry School of Chemical Sciences, M. G. University, Thiruvananthapuram 1996-1998
Ph. D. NIIST-Thiruvananthapuram 1999-2004

Publications

A highly sensitive GC-MS method for simultaneous determination of Anacardic Acids in Cashew (Anacardiumoccidentale) Nut Shell oil in presence of other phenolic lipid derivatives,

Osmana, S. M.; Abdel-Megied, A. M.; Zain Eldain, M. H.; Simimole, H.; ChithraGopinath; Sumalekshmy, S.; Aboul-Enein, H. Y., Biomedical Chromatography, 2019 (early view: https://doi.org/10.1002/bmc.4659)

Chromis-1, a Ratiometric Fluorescent Probe Optimized for Two-Photon Microscopy Reveals Dynamic Changes in Labile Zn(II) in Differentiating Oligodendrocytes,

Bourassa, D.; Elitt, C. M.; McCallum, A. M.; Sumalekshmy, S.; Mcrae, R. L.; Morgan, M. T.; Siegel, N.; Perry, J. W.; Rosenberg, P. A.; Fahrni, C. J.ACS Sensors, 2018, 3,458-467

Probing Ternary Complex Equilibria of Crown Ether Ligands by Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy,

Morgan, M. T.; Sumalekshmy, S.; Sarwar, M.; Beck, H.; Crooke, S.; Fahrni, C. J.,J. Phys. Chem. B, 2014, 118, 14196-14202

Metal-ion-responsive fluorescent probes for two-photon excitation microscopy,

Sumalekshmy, S. and Fahrni, C. J. Chem. Mater.2011, 23, 483-500.

Up-scaling aerosol functionalization. Photooxychlorination using vacuum- ultraviolet radiation (VUV),

Vicente, J. S., Gejo, J. L., Rothenbacher, S., Sumalekshmy, S., Gogritchiani, E., Woerner, M., Oliveros, E. and Braun, A. M. ARKIVOC ,2011, 6, 210-226.

(Book) VUV-photochemical functionalization of polystyrene aerosols,

Vicente, J. S., Gejo, J. L., Rothenbacher, S., Sumalekshmy, S., Gogritchiani, E., Miranda, M. A., Woerner, M., Oliveros, E., Kasper, G. and Braun, A. M. In Basics and Applications of Photopolymerization Reactions, Vol. 3, 2010, 47-65.

In Situ Imaging of Metals in Cells and Tissues,

McRae, R., Bagchi, P., Sumalekshmy, S. and Fahrni, C. J. Chem. Rev. 2009, 109, 4780-4827.

Oxidation of polystyrene aerosols by VUV-photolysis and/or ozone,

Vicente, J. S., Gejo, J. L., Rothenbacher, S., Sumalekshmy, S., Gogritchiani, E., Woerner, M., Kasper, G. and Braun, A. M. Photochem. Photobiol. Sci.2009, 8, 944-952.

Design of Emission Ratiometric Metal-Ion Sensors with Enhanced Two-Photon Cross Section and Brightness,

Sumalekshmy, S., Henary, M. M., Siegel, N. N., Lawson, P. V., Wu, Y., Schmidt, K., Bredas, J. -L.; Perry, J. W. and Fahrni, C. J. J. Am. Chem. Soc.2007, 129, 11888-11889.

Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer in 2-(2'-Arylsulfonamidophenyl) benzimidazole Derivatives: The Effect of Donor and Acceptor Substituents,

Henary, M. M., Wu, Y., Cody, J., Sumalekshmy, S., Li, J., Mandal, S. and Fahrni, C. J. J. Org. Chem.2007, 72, 4784-4797.

Vacuum-ultraviolet photochemically initiated modification of polystyrene surfaces: morphological changes and mechanistic investigations,

Gejo, J. L., Narayanapillai, M., Sumalekshmy, S., Glieman, H., Schimmel, T., Woerner, M. and Braun, A. M. Photochem. Photobiol. Sci.2006, 5, 948-954.

Reaction of aromatic amines with Cu(ClO4)2 in acetonitrile as a facile route to amine radical cation generation,

SumalekshmyS. and Gopidas, K. R. Chem. Phys. Lett. 2005, 413, 294-299.

Intramolecular charge transfer processes in donor-acceptor substituted vinyltetrahydropyrenes,

Sumalekshmy S. and Gopidas, K. R.Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2005, 4, 539-546.

Synthesis and photophysical studies of few donor-acceptor substituted tetrahydropyrenes,

SumalekshmyS. and Gopidas, K. R. New J. Chem.2005, 29, 325-331.

Photoinduced intramolecular charge transfer in donor-acceptor substituted tetrahydropyrenes,

SumalekshmyS. and Gopidas, K. R. J. Phys. Chem. B 2004, 108, 3705-3712.

Research Projects

Title of the ProjectFunding AgencyAmountPeriod
Design of Ratiometric Fluorescent Probes for Diagnostic and Imaging Applications DST-SERB 14 lakhs 2014-2017

Research

Guideship – University of Kerala, Center – T. K. M. College of Arts and Science, Kollam

Name of the Student with IDYear of admissionFellowship
Lekshmi C. L 2018 UGC- SRF
Sherifa Rahim 2017
Swathy U. S. 2020 CSIR-JRF
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