In thisIndian name, the nameEluvathingal Devassy is apatronymic, and the person should be referred to by thegiven name,Jemmis.
Eluvathingal Devassy Jemmis (born 31 October 1951) is a professor of theoretical chemistry at theIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He was the founding director ofIndian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram(IISER-TVM). His primary area of research isapplied theoretical chemistry with emphasis on structure, bonding and reactivity, across the periodic table of the elements. Apart from many of his contributions to applied theoretical chemistry,[2] an equivalent of the structural chemistry of carbon, as exemplified by the Huckel 4n+2 Rule, benzenoid aromatics and graphite, and tetrahedral carbon and diamond, is brought in the structural chemistry of boron by theJemmis mno rules which relates polyhedral and macropolyhedralboranes toallotropes of boron and boron-rich solids.[3][4][5] He has been awardedPadma Shri in Science and Engineering category (year 2014) by the Government of India.[6]
E. D. Jemmis, after obtaining his BSc from University College, Thiruvananthapuram andSt. Thomas College, Thrissur and MSc fromIIT Kanpur, joinedPrinceton University (1973) under the supervision of ProfsPaul von Rague Schleyer andJohn Pople (1998 Nobel laureate). Moving along with his supervisors Jemmis spent one semester at theUniversity of Munich and four semesters at the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg. He was awarded the PhD degree (1978) from Princeton. After a two-year postdoctoral work atCornell University with ProfessorRoald Hoffmann (1981 Nobel laureate), he joined the School of Chemistry,University of Hyderabad (1980) rising to the rank of professor (1990) and dean (2002). Jemmis was a visiting fellow at theAustralian National University, Canberra (1991) and a visiting professor at the Centre for Computational Quantum Chemistry of the University of Georgia, Athens (2000). Jemmis is an honorary professor atJNCASR and an adjunct professor at ICTS-TIFR. In 2005 he accepted an invitation from theIndian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, and joined the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry. In 2008 Dr. Jemmis moved again, this time on a five-year deputation, accepting the responsibility to start theIndian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram and served there till 2013.
Jemmis is engaged in the study of structure and reactivity of molecules, clusters and solids using theoretical methods. A constant attempt is made by his group to find common threads between problems of different areas, viz. between organic and organometallic chemistry; amongst the chemistry of various main group elements; between polymorphs of elements and their compounds; etc. His research group not only gets numbers as an answer to a problem, but also tries to find out why the numbers turn out the way they do, based on overlap of orbitals, perturbation theory and symmetry, and devise transferable models. Significant results have been obtained in understanding the reactions of transition metalorganometallics, weekH-bond,[7] electronic structure of three-dimensionalaromatic compounds,[1][8] polyhedralboranes,carboranes, silaboranes,electron counting rules for polycondensation, and structure ofboron allotropes.[9][10][11][12][13] The latter involved an extension of the Wade's Rules for polyhedral boranes to macropolyhedral boranes and the Huckel 4n+2 Rule to three dimensions. TheJemmis mno rules for polyhedral boranes have found a place in textbooks[14][15][16][17][18][19][20] and are being taught in Inorganic Chemistry Courses in leading educational institutions around the world. Just as the basic tenets of the structural chemistry of carbon has stood the test of time, and led to major developments in carbon, the edifice of the structural chemistry expounded by Jemmis has already begun to do so for boron. Several of his predictions have been proved experimentally.[21][22][23] He has mentored 20 PhD students and several postdoctoral and students and research associates, and published about 200 research articles.
^abJemmis, E. D. (1982). "Overlap control and stability of polyhedral molecules. closo-Carboranes".J. Am. Chem. Soc.104 (18):7017–7020.doi:10.1021/ja00382a008.
^Jemmis, E. D.; Balakrishnarajan M. M; Pancharatna P. D. (2002). "Electronic Requirements for Macropolyhedral Boranes".Chem. Rev.102 (1):93–114.doi:10.1021/cr990356x.PMID11782130.
^Jemmis, E. D.; Jayasree E. G. (2003). "Analogies between Boron and Carbon".Acc. Chem. Res.36 (11):816–824.doi:10.1021/ar0300266.PMID14622028.
^Prasad, D. L. V. K.; Balakrishnarajan M. M; Jemmis E. D. (2005). "Electronic structure and bonding of β-rhombohedral boron using cluster fragment approach".Phys. Rev. B.72 (19) 195102.Bibcode:2005PhRvB..72s5102P.doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.72.195102.
^Jorly, J.; Jemmis E. D. (2007). "Red-, Blue-, or No-Shift in Hydrogen Bonds: A Unified Explanation".J. Am. Chem. Soc.129 (15):4620–4632.doi:10.1021/ja067545z.PMID17375920.
^Jemmis, E. D.; Schleyer P. v. R. (1982). "Aromaticity in three dimensions. 4. Influence of orbital compatibility on the geometry and stability of capped annulene rings with six interstitial electrons".J. Am. Chem. Soc.104 (18):4781–4788.doi:10.1021/ja00382a008.
^Jemmis, E. D.; Balakrishnarajan M. M. (2001). "Polyhedral Boranes and Elemental Boron: Direct Structural Relations and Diverse Electronic Requirements".J. Am. Chem. Soc.123 (18):4324–4330.doi:10.1021/ja0026962.PMID11457199.
^Shameema, O.; Jemmis E. D. (2008). "Orbital Compatibility in the Condensation of Polyhedral Boranes".Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.47 (30):5561–5564.doi:10.1002/anie.200801295.PMID18567034.
^Gary L. Miessler; Donald A. Tarr (2011).Inorganic Chemistry. Prentice Hall.ISBN978-0-13-612866-3.
^Wai-Kee Li; Gong-Du Zhou; Thomas Mak (2008).Advanced Structural Inorganic Chemistry (International Union of Crystallography Texts on Crystallography). Oxford University Press.ISBN978-0-19-921695-6.
^Thomas Fehlner, Jean-François Halet, Jean-Yves (2007).Molecular clusters: a bridge to solid-state chemistry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN978-0-521-85236-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Bd Gupta; Anil J. Elias (2010).Basic organometallic chemistry: concepts, syntheses, and applications of transition metals. Hyderabad: Universities Press.ISBN978-1-4398-4968-2.
^Grimes, Russell N. (24 March 2011).Carboranes (2nd ed.). London: Academic Press.ISBN978-0-12-374170-7.
^Comba, Peter, ed. (5 October 2011).Modeling of molecular properties. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH.ISBN978-3-527-63641-9.
^Bin, Li; John D. Corbett (2005). "Phase Stabilization through Electronic Tuning: Electron-Poorer Alkali-Metal−Indium Compounds with Unprecedented In/Li Clusters".J. Am. Chem. Soc.127 (3):926–932.doi:10.1021/ja0402046.PMID15656631.
^Bernhardt, E.; Brauer D. J.; Finze M.; Willner H. (2007). "closo-[B21H18]−: A Face-Fused Diicosahedral Borate Ion".Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.46 (16):2927–2930.doi:10.1002/anie.200604077.PMID17366499.
^Pediaditakis, A.; Schroeder M.; Sagawe V; Ludwig T.; Hillebrecht H. (2010). "Binary Boron-Rich Borides of Magnesium: Single-Crystal Investigations and Properties of MgB7 and the New Boride Mg5B44".Inorg. Chem.49 (23):10882–10893.doi:10.1021/ic1012389.PMID21043472.
