Rate My Professor Vittal Gudimetla

Dr. Vittal Babu Gudimetla is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, where he has served in a regular capacity since 2013, following a contract position from 2012 to 2013. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA, in 2002, under the supervision of Prof. John D. Protasiewicz. Prior to that, he completed his M.Sc. in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2000, with project work advised by Prof. G. Ranga Rao, and his B.Sc. in Chemistry from R.K.M. Vivekananda College, University of Madras. From 2009 to 2011, he held the Welch Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA, working with Prof. Paul S. Engel.

Dr. Gudimetla's research specializations include the synthesis and applications of structurally diverse imidazolium salts and N-heterocyclic carbenes for catalysis and technological applications, organometallics and catalysis, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and physical methods in chemistry. Key publications include 'Non-Symmetrical Tetraaryl α-Diimines via Transimination: A Promising Route for Non-Symmetrical 1,3,4,5 Tetraarylimidazolium Chlorides' (ChemistrySelect, 2023), 'Benzilbis(2-hydroxyanil) - highly efficient fluorophore for ferric ion (Fe³⁺) sensing' (New J. Chem., 2023), 'Copper-NHC Based Ullmann Catalysis in Water for Selective N-Arylation of 3-Aminophenols' (ChemistrySelect, 2020), 'Cost Efficient Synthesis of Diaryl Ethers Catalysed by CuI, Imidazolium Chloride and Cs₂CO₃' (ChemistrySelect, 2019), 'Solution Phase Photolysis of 1,2-Dithiane Alone and with Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes' (J. Phys. Chem. A, 2012), 'meta-Terphenyl phosphaalkenes bearing electron donating and accepting groups' (Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2010), and 'Phosphorus can also be a photocopy' (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010). His publications have accumulated 204 citations on Google Scholar. He has received the Robert Welch Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2009-2011), Outstanding Graduate Performance Award (2007), American Chemical Society-Student Travel Award (2007), and CSIR-Junior Research Fellowship (2003). As principal investigator, he secured the UGC BSR Startup Grant (Rs. 6 Lakhs, 2015-2017) and DST-SERB-EEQ Grant (Rs. 44.20 Lakhs, 2017-2021). He has given invited talks on carbon-heteroatom bond formation, synthetic chemistry in nanomaterials, and metal-mediated catalysis at Ewing Christian College, NIT-Pondicherry, and others. He is a member of CUTN's Academic Council (2023), Board of Studies in Chemistry and Mathematics (2022), and several doctoral committees.