Rajeev Ramanan

2.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
32 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

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Rajeev Ramanan is a scholar working on Inorganic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Rajeev Ramanan has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Inorganic Chemistry, 10 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Rajeev Ramanan's work include Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (8 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (7 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (7 papers). Rajeev Ramanan is often cited by papers focused on Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (8 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (7 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (7 papers). Rajeev Ramanan collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and Israel. Rajeev Ramanan's co-authors include Sason Shaik, Debasish Mandal, David Danovich, Christo Christov, Raghavan B. Sunoj, Shobhit S. Chaturvedi, Christopher J. Schofield, Tatyana G. Karabencheva‐Christova, Zhanfeng Wang and Binju Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Rajeev Ramanan

31 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Oriented electric fields as future smart reagents in chemistry

2016 465 citations Sason Shaik, Debasish Mandal et al. Nature Chemistry profile →
Structure and reactivity/selectivity control by oriented-external electric fields

2018 344 citations Sason Shaik, Rajeev Ramanan et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rajeev Ramanan India	19	453	418	410	390	381	32	1.7k
Xiangqian Hu United States	22	321 0.7×	219 0.5×	308 0.8×	621 1.6×	332 0.9×	43	1.8k
Christine Fecenko Murphy United States	3	335 0.7×	541 1.3×	268 0.7×	565 1.4×	599 1.6×	5	2.0k
Brittany C. Westlake United States	7	380 0.8×	618 1.5×	284 0.7×	732 1.9×	694 1.8×	7	2.3k
Stephan Kupfer Germany	28	438 1.0×	225 0.5×	250 0.6×	996 2.6×	477 1.3×	128	2.2k
Sandra Luber Switzerland	32	369 0.8×	355 0.8×	748 1.8×	1.1k 2.8×	335 0.9×	121	3.2k
Nicholas F. Polizzi United States	15	257 0.6×	176 0.4×	620 1.5×	287 0.7×	204 0.5×	27	1.4k
Serge Gambarelli France	26	256 0.6×	361 0.9×	527 1.3×	526 1.3×	242 0.6×	76	1.9k
Scot Wherland United States	26	283 0.6×	517 1.2×	695 1.7×	512 1.3×	354 0.9×	77	2.0k
Ana María Blanco‐Rodríguez United Kingdom	17	279 0.6×	184 0.4×	357 0.9×	538 1.4×	311 0.8×	19	1.5k
Dan Lehnherr United States	30	809 1.8×	270 0.6×	210 0.5×	660 1.7×	1.9k 4.9×	56	3.0k

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Ramanan, Rajeev, et al.. (2025). Catalytic Mechanism of the Bacterial Non-Heme Fe(II) and 2-Oxoglutarate Dependent Enzyme AlkB with Single-Stranded DNA Containing Complex Guanine Adducts. Inorganic Chemistry. 64(30). 15650–15666. 2 indexed citations

Sarkar, Moloy, et al.. (2025). Fluorescence Enhancement in a Tri(biphenyl‐4‐yl)amine Derivative via Solid‐State Grinding with Metal Salts: Chemosensing and White Light‐Emitting Diode Applications. ChemPhotoChem. 9(6). 1 indexed citations

Ramanan, Rajeev, et al.. (2025). Unique catalytic role of intermolecular electric fields that emanate from Lewis acids in a ring closing carbonyl olefin metathesis reaction. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 27(11). 5821–5831.

Ramanan, Rajeev, et al.. (2023). Internal charge-transfer in a metal-catalyzed oxidative addition reaction turns an inhibitive electric field stimulus to catalytic. Chemical Communications. 59(87). 13054–13057. 2 indexed citations

Shaik, Sason, et al.. (2023). Two‐Way Catalysis in a Diels–Alder Reaction Limits Inhibition Induced by an External Electric Field. Angewandte Chemie. 135(38). 5 indexed citations

Chaturvedi, Shobhit S., et al.. (2023). Can an external electric field switch between ethylene formation and l-arginine hydroxylation in the ethylene forming enzyme?. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 25(19). 13772–13783. 17 indexed citations

Shaik, Sason, et al.. (2023). Two‐Way Catalysis in a Diels–Alder Reaction Limits Inhibition Induced by an External Electric Field. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(38). e202307579–e202307579. 8 indexed citations

Ramanan, Rajeev, et al.. (2021). What Is the Catalytic Mechanism of Enzymatic Histone N‐Methyl Arginine Demethylation and Can It Be Influenced by an External Electric Field?. Chemistry - A European Journal. 27(46). 11827–11836. 23 indexed citations

Ramanan, Rajeev, Shobhit S. Chaturvedi, Nicolai Lehnert, et al.. (2020). Role of Structural Dynamics in Selectivity and Mechanism of Non-heme Fe(II) and 2-Oxoglutarate-Dependent Oxygenases Involved in DNA Repair. ACS Central Science. 6(5). 795–814. 49 indexed citations

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Chaturvedi, Shobhit S., et al.. (2019). Structure-function relationships in KDM7 histone demethylases. Advances in protein chemistry and structural biology. 117. 113–125. 24 indexed citations

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Shaik, Sason, Rajeev Ramanan, David Danovich, & Debasish Mandal. (2018). Structure and reactivity/selectivity control by oriented-external electric fields. Chemical Society Reviews. 47(14). 5125–5145. 344 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ramanan, Rajeev, David Danovich, Debasish Mandal, & Sason Shaik. (2018). Catalysis of Methyl Transfer Reactions by Oriented External Electric Fields: Are Gold–Thiolate Linkers Innocent?. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(12). 4354–4362. 79 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhanfeng, David Danovich, Rajeev Ramanan, & Sason Shaik. (2018). Oriented-External Electric Fields Create Absolute Enantioselectivity in Diels–Alder Reactions: Importance of the Molecular Dipole Moment. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(41). 13350–13359. 128 indexed citations

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Shaik, Sason, Debasish Mandal, & Rajeev Ramanan. (2016). Oriented electric fields as future smart reagents in chemistry. Nature Chemistry. 8(12). 1091–1098. 465 indexed citations breakdown →

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Thawani, Akanksha, Rajeev Ramanan, & Raghavan B. Sunoj. (2013). On the Mechanism of the Dehydroaromatization of Hexane to Benzene by an Iridium Pincer Catalyst. Chemistry - A European Journal. 19(12). 4069–4077. 21 indexed citations

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Ramanan, Rajeev & Raghavan B. Sunoj. (2013). Mechanism and Stereoselectivity of Biologically Important Oxygenation Reactions of the 7-Dehydrocholesterol Radical. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 78(14). 7023–7029. 6 indexed citations

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Ramanan, Rajeev & Raghavan B. Sunoj. (2012). Mechanistic insights on platinum- and palladium-pincer catalyzed coupling and cyclopropanation reactions between olefins. Dalton Transactions. 41(27). 8430–8430. 20 indexed citations

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Ramanan, Rajeev & Raghavan B. Sunoj. (2011). Mechanism and electronic effects in nitrogen ylide-promoted asymmetric aziridination reaction. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 9(7). 2123–2123. 5 indexed citations

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Ray, Aurkie, Georgina M. Rosair, Rajeev Ramanan, et al.. (2009). NaI/CuI–II heterometallic cages interconnected by unusual linear 2-coordinate OCN-Cu(I)-NCO links: synthesis, structural, magnetostructural correlation and computational studies. Dalton Transactions. 9510–9510. 22 indexed citations

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Ramanan, Rajeev & Raghavan B. Sunoj. (2009). On the Origin of Reversible Hydrogen Activation by Phosphine–Boranes. Chemistry - A European Journal. 15(46). 12846–12855. 34 indexed citations

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