Specialisation: Biocrystallography, Bioinorganic Chemistry , Computational Chemistry of Biomolecules Areas of Research Work: Bioinorganic chemistry,Structural and computational chemistry of Biomolecules, Crystallography, Crystal Engineering Ph.D, Saha Institute,Calcutta University,1985.

Research Activities

X-ray Crystallography, Supramolecular Chemistry, Crystal engineering, Bioinorganic chemistry, Structural bioinformatics and bioinorganic motifs, Structured-based design of drugs and functional materials, Nanostructured materials, Computational chemistry.

 “Muthiah and coworkers have identified recurring motifs of hydrogen bonded association describing the whole molecule by the systematic analysis of carefully chosen series of oxyanion salts of trimethoprim and pyrimethamine. (Crystallography Reviews, Vol. 12, No. 4, October–December 2006, 267–300).”

PhDs Guided:  12 - (3 in Physics and 9 in Chemistry), Papers Published: 115.

External Funding

UGC-Career Award Scheme, (1994 – 97).
U.G.C - F.I.P Student – T.Balasubramanian(1992-93).
Director General of Central Health Service.- (JRF) - Umadevi(1992-94).
C.S.I.R- S.R.F – 5:
J.Justin Robert – (1996-98), S.Baskarraj(2002-04),N.Stanley(2002-03),S.Francis(2002-04),
M.Hemamalini(2004-06).
U.G.C- Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship.- (JRF) - K.Thanigaimani (2005-10).

Selected Publications
 

1. Crystal Engineering of Organic Salts: Hydrogen-Bonded Supramolecular Motifs in Pyrimethamine Hydrogen Glutarate and Pyrimethamine Formate., Stanley, N.; Sethuraman, V.; Muthiah, P. T.; Luger, P.; Weber, M. Cryst. Growth Des.; 2002; 2(6); 631-635.

2. Isomorphism and Crystal Engineering: Organic Ionic Ladders Formed by Supramolecular Motifs in Pyrimethamine Salts.,   Sethuraman,V.; Stanley, N.; Muthiah,P. T.;Sheldrick,W. S.; Winter,M.;Luger,P.;Weber, M.   Cryst. Growth Des.; 2003; 3(5); 823-828.

3. Crystal Engineering of Organic Salts: Hydrogen-Bonded Supramolecular Motifs in Trimethoprim Sorbate Dihydrate and Trimethoprim o-Nitrobenzoate, Raj, S. B.; Stanley, N.; Muthiah, P. T.; Bocelli, G.; Olla, R.; Cantoni, A.   Cryst. Growth Des.; 2003; 3(4); 567-571.  

4. Supramolecular organisation via hydrogen bonding in trimethoprim sulfonate salts., Raj, S. B.; Sethuraman, V.; Francis,S.; Hemamalini,M.; Muthiah, P. T.; Bocelli, G.; Cantoni, A.; Rychlewska,U.; Warzajtis,B. CrystEngComm., 2003;(15);70-76.

5. Pseudo-polymorphism and crystal engineering: hydrogen-bonded supramolecular networks in trimethoprim m-chlorobenzoate and trimethoprim m-chlorobenzoate dihydrate, Raj,S.B.;Muthiah,P. T.;Rychlewska,U.;Warzajtis,B.    CrystEngComm., 2003;(9); 48-53.

6. The novel hydrogen bonding motifs and supramolecular patterns in 2,4-diaminopyrimidine–nitrobenzoate complexes.,   Stanley,N.;Muthiah,P.T.; Geib,S.J.; Luger,P.; Weber,M.; Messerschmidt,M.Tetrahedron.;2005; 61(30); 7201-7210.

Visiting fellowships and Awards    

1. INSA – KOSEF (Korea) Exchange Fellowship to Korea (Pohang University of Science & Technology) 05 Jan. 2007 – 05 Mar. 2007.

2. INSA – Royal Society Exchange Fellowship to U. K (Imperial College & Oxford University) 28 Nov. 2002 – 28 Feb. 2003.

3. Visitor, University of Manchester, U.K., April – May, 2001.

4. Indian National Science Academy - DFG Visiting Fellowship to Germany, March 1998.

5. UGC-Career Award in Chemistry, 1994.

6. Biotechnology National Associateship 1992 (March-September) - Received training in  Protein Crystallography at Indian Institute of Science. 

National / International Links

Section Editor of the  Journal - Chemistry Central Journal,

Reviewed Manuscripts for the following Journals:

J. Molecular Structure   -  Elsevier

Inorg. Chem. Commun.  -  Elsevier  

         Acta Crystallographica Section B & C - IUCr

         Structural Chemistry - Springer Link

         Crystal Growth & Design -  ACS 

         JACS -  ACS

         Inorganic Chemistry -  ACS                                 

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