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Education and Experience:

Aug 2023 - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Punjab
2021 - July 2023 Inspire Faculty Fellow, Dept. of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad, Kerala
2019 - 2020 Inspire Faculty Fellow, Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka
2016 - 2018 Postdoctoral Researcher in Prof. Roald Hoffmann Group, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA2016 PhD Research supervisor: Prof. E. D. Jemmis, IISER Trivandrum2009 MSc Chemistry, S. N. G. S College (Calicut University), Kerala

Research Publications

After joining IISER Mohali

Pd(II)-Mediated Si−H Activation of Ortho-Silyl Arylphosphines: Complexes with Pd−Si Bonds and their Utility in Carbon−Carbon Coupling Reactions. Amiya Kumar Sahoo, Rageshree Dash, Lapislazuli Chekrain Valappil, Gaurav Jhaa, Suraj Kumar Agarwalla, Chandra Shekhar Purohit, Priyakumari Chakkingal Parambil,* and Adinarayana Doddi*. Inorg. Chem. 2025, 64, 20467−20480
Defect-Induced Cu-Doped TiO2 Nanofibers for Enhanced Solar Hydrogen Generation. M. Manikandan, Hafijul Islam, Sagar Varangane, Priyakumari Chakkingal Parambil, Gaurav Jhaa, Ujjwal Pal,* and P. Sujatha Devi*. Adv. Sustainable Syst. 2025, e00729
Zn-Doped Cesium Bismuth Bromide Perovskites: Impact of Structural and Morphological Modifications on Linear and Non-Linear Optical Properties. Fency S., Priyakumari C. P., Nandakumar K., and Subila, K. B.* Small, 2025.
Probing the significance of phenylethyl ammonium doping in Cs3Bi2Br9 halide perovskite nanosheets: a structural and optical perspective. Fency S., Priyakumari C. P., Nandakumar K.*, and Subila, K. B.* Dalton Trans., 2025, Advance Article
In pursuit of understanding metavalency.

Gaurav J., Mithu K., Priyakumari C. P.*

ChemRxiv 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-8856v-v2

What Can Chemical Bonding Tell Us about Photoinduced Phase Transition Reactions in Inorganic Semiconductors? Insight from Bismuth−Antimony Selenide

Anchal V., Subila K. B., Yaniv D., Jitendra K., Priyakumari C. P., and Eran E.*,

Inorg. Chem. 2024, 63, 22492−22501

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c03454

Bond-Alternated and Bond-Equalized Hexazine Derivatives
Krishnapriya K. C., Ashith T, Mithu K., and Priyakumari C. P.*
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2024, 26, 3569-3577
https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CP05546A

At IIT Palakkad, with the support of DST Inspire grant

Revealing Hidden Phases and Self-Healing in Antimony Trichalcogenides and Chalcoiodides
Subila K. B., Priyakumari C. P., Lothar H., Maor A., Omer Y., and Eran E*
Cell Rep. Phys. Sci. 2023 4, 101298
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2023.101298
(expt. collaboration)

On the Instability of Iodides of Heavy Main Group Atoms in their Higher Oxidation State
Priyakumari C. P.* and Sathya S. R. R. Perumal
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.2023, 25, 6306-6315
https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CP00014A
Lewis Acidity Trend of Boron and Aluminium Trihalides: If Not π Back-Bonding, What Else?
Ashith T., and Priyakumari C. P.*
ChemPhysChem, 2023, 24,1,e202200761
https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.202200761
Preparation of Mesoporous Poly (Fullerene oxide) Framework by Thermal [3+ 2] Cycloadditions and its Application as a Semiconductor Photocatalyst
M. Usha, K. Sreeja, U. Rajeena, Priyakumari C. P., P. Raveendran, M. R. Resmi
Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures. (Taylor & Francis) 2022, 1-10
https://doi.org/10.1080/1536383X.2022.2152440
(expt. collaboration)

Mechanistic Insight into the Topotactic Transformation of Trichalcogenides to Chalcohalides
Subila K. B., Priyakumari C. P., and Eran E
Chem. Mater. 2022, 34, 7, 3468-3478
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c00306
(expt. collaboration)

This work appears as a cover page graphics

While at IISc, Bengaluru, with the support of DST Inspire grant

Lewis Base/Acid Coordination Stabilizes Planar 6π Aromatic Si6/P6
Priyakumari C. P.* and Sathya S. R. R. Perumal*
Organometallics, 2020, 39, 16, 2951-2955
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.0c00449

While at Cornell University

Alkyl Isosteres
Priyakumari C. P. and R. Hoffmann
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140 (40), 12844–12852,
https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b06141
Donor-Acceptor Strategies to Stabilize a Planar- Diplumbene
Priyakumari C. P. and R. Hoffmann
Organometallics 2017, 36 (24), 4825–4833.6
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00733
An Iodabenzene Story,
A. M. Rawashdeh, Priyakumari C. P., T. Zeng, and R. Hoffmann
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139 (20), 7124–7129
https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b03388

An interesting chronicle about this work can be found here

While at IISER Trivandrum

Computational Design of Oligo-sulfuranes,
C. P. Priyakumari, and E. D. Jemmis,
J. Chem. Sci. 2016, 128, 1663–166
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12039-016-1157-2
Electron Counting Rules in Cluster Bonding -Polyhedral Boranes, Elemental Boron, and Boron-Rich Solids, in The Chemical Bond: Chemical Bonding Across the Periodic Table, Ed., G. Frenking, S. Shaik, pp. 113-147, Wiley-VCH, 2014
C. P. Priyakumari and E. D. Jemmis,
https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527664658.ch5
P 3 F 92- An All-Pseudo-π* 2π-Aromatic
C. P. Priyakumari, E. D. Jemmis,
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 16026-16029
https://doi.org/10.1021/ja408308g
This paper was highlighted in chemistryviews, a popular science portal
https://www.chemistryviews.org/details/news/5337741/New_Evidence_for_CO_and_PF3_Analogy.html

Contact
Priyakumari C P,
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Sciences,
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali
Knowledge city, Sector 81, SAS Nagar, Manauli PO 140306
Punjab, India

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