Educational Qualification:

Professional Experience

• 2019- Current - Professor (AcSIR) & Senior Principal Scientist, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
• 2015- 2019 Associate Professor (AcSIR) & Principal Scientist, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
• 2012- 2015 Assistant Professor (AcSIR) & Senior scientist, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
• 2011-2012 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (with Prof. Dr. Stefan Mecking), University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
• 2008-2011 Dutch Polymer Institute Post-doctoral Fellow (with Prof. Dr. Joost Reek), University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 
• 2003-2008 Ph. D. student (with Prof. Dr. Dietrich Gudat) University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany 

Reviewer

• Journal of the American Chemical Society
• Nature Communication
• Chemistry A European Journal
• Inorganic Chemistry
• Macromolecules
• Polymer Chemistry
• European Polymer Journal
• The Journal of Organic Chemistry
• Chemical Communication
• Green Chemistry
• ChemCatChem
• Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry
• Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
• Journal of Applied Polymer Science 
• RSC Advances

Asociate Editor

Bulletin of Materials Science (https://www.ias.ac.in/matersci)

Selected Publications

• Kishor V. Khopade, Nikhita S. Rajput, Raghavendrakumar Rangappa, Nagaraju Barsu* And Samir H. Chikkali*, Depolymerization of Waste Polyethylene to Linear Alkenes via Sequential Dehydrogenation and Metathesis, Green Chem., , (2024), DOI:10.1039/D4GC03646H.
• Amol C. Chandanshive, Rajesh G. Gonnade And Samir H. Chikkali*, Thermally Stable P-Chiral Supramolecular Phosphines, their Self-Assembly and Implication in Rh-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation, Chem. Eur. J., 30, e202401077 (2024), DOI:10.1002/chem.202401077.
• Anirban Sen, Tanuja Tewari, Rohit Kumar, C. P. Vinod, Himanshu Sharma, Kumar Vanka And Samir H. Chikkali*, Iron-catalyzed (E)-selective hydrosilylation of alkynes: Scope and mechanistic insights, Catal. Sci. Technol., 14, 2752 - 2760 (2024), DOI:10.1039/D3CY01775C.
• Rajkumar S. Birajdar, Rajesh G. Gonnade And Samir H. Chikkali*, Regulating the polyethylene microstructure by increasing steric crowding in naphthoxy imine ligated Ni(II) complexes, Polym. Chem., 15, 292 - 302 (2024), DOI:10.1039/D3PY01010D
• Tanuja Tewari, Rohit Kumar And Samir H. Chikkali*, Iron-Catalyzed Magnesium-Mediated Formal Hydroformylation of Alkynes and Alkenes, ChemCatChem., 15, e202201394 (2023), DOI:10.1002/cctc.202201394
• Swechchha Pandey, K. Vipin Raj, Dinesh Shinde, Kumar Vanka, Varchaswal Kashyap, Sreekumar Kurungot, Chathakudath Vinod And Samir Chikkali*, Iron Catalyzed Hydroformylation of Alkenes under Mild Conditions: Evidence of an Fe(II) Catalyzed Process, J. Am. Chem. Soc., , (2018), DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b01286.
• K. Patel, Satej Deshmukh, Dnyaneshwar Bodkhe, Manoj Maneb, Kumar Vankab, Dinesh Shindec, Pattuparambil R. Rajamohananc, Shyamapada Nandid, Ramanathan Vaidhyanath And Samir H. Chikkali*, Secondary Interactions Arrest the Hemiaminal Intermediate to Invert the Modus Operandi of Schiff Base Reaction: A Route to Benzoxazinones, J. Org. Chem., , (2017), DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.7b00352.
• V. S. Koshti, S. Thorat, R. G. Gonnade And S. H. Chikkali*, The impact of modular substitution on crystal packing: The tail of two urea's, CrystEngCommun., 18 (2016), 7078-7094. 
• B. S. Rajput, U. Chander, K. Arole, F. Stempfle, S. Menon, S. Mecking And S. H. Chikkali*, Synthesis of Renewable Copolyacetals with Tunable Degradation, Macromol. Chem. Phys., (2016), DOI:10.1002/macp.201600071
• Swechchha Pandey And S. H. Chikkali*, Highly regioselective isomerizing hydroformylation of long-chain internal olefins catalyzed by rhodium bis-phosphite complex, ChemCatChem., 7(2015), 3468 - 3471.
• Shahaji Gaikwad, Satej Deshmukh, Rajesh Gonnade, P. R. Rajamohanan And Samir H. Chikkali*, Insertion Copolymerization of Di-functional Polar Vinyl Monomers with Ethylene, ACS Macro Lett., 4 (2015), 933 - 937.
• Vijay S. Koshti, Nilesh R. Mote, Rajesh G. Gonnade And Samir H. Chikkali*, Highly Enantioselective Pd-Catalyzed Synthesis of p-Stereogenic Supramolecular Phosphines, Self-assembly, and Implication, Organometallics., 34 (2015), 4802 - 4805.
• B. S. Rajput, S. R. Gaikwad, S. K. Menon, Samir H. Chikkali*, Sustainable polyacetals from isohexides, Green Chem. 16 (2014) 3810-3818.
• Vijay Koshti, Shahaji Gaikwad, Samir H. Chikkali*, Contemporary avenues in catalytic P-H bond addition reaction: A case study of hydrophosphination, Coord. Chem. Rev. 265 (2014) 52-73.
• Samir H. Chikkali*, Jarl I. van der Vlugt*, Joost N. H. Reek*, Hybrid Diphosphorus Ligands in Rhodium Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydroformylation, Coord. Chem. Rev. 262 (2014) 1-15.
• Shahaji Gaikwad, Satej Deshmukh, Samir H. Chikkali*, Pd-Phosphinesulfonate Bravely Battles the "Vinyl Halide Insertion Copolymerization" Barricade, J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem. 52 (2014) 1-6. DOI: 10.1002/pola.26968.
• Samir Chikkali, Florian Stempfle, Stefan Mecking, Long-chain Polyacetals from Plant Oils, Macromol. Rapid Commun. 33 (2012) 1126-1129
• Samir Chikkali, Rosalba Bellini, Bas de Bruin, J. I. van der Vlugt, Joost, N. H. Reek, Highly Selective Asymmetric Rh-catalyzed Hydroformylation of Heterocyclic Olefins, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134 (2012) 6607-6616
• R. Bellini, S. Chikkali, G. Berthon, J. N. H. Reek, Supramolecular Control of Ligand Coordination and Implications in Hydroformylation Reactions, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 50 (2011) 7342-7345
•  S. Chikkali, M. Nieger, D. Gudat, Stoichiometry Controlled Self-assembly of Tri- and Octa-nuclear Palladium-Yttrium Complexes, New J. Chem. 34 (2010) 1348-1354 
• S. H. Chikkali, R. Bellini, G. Berthon, J. I. van der Vlugt, B. De Bruin, J. N. H. Reek, Highly enantioselective hydroformylation of dihydrofurans catalyzed by hybrid phosphine phosphonite-rhodium complexes, Chem. Commun. 46 (2010) 1244-1246
• S. Chikkali, D. Gudat, F. Lissner, M. Niemeyer, T. Schleid, M. Nieger, Template controlled assembly of ditopic catechol phosphines: A strategy for the generation of complexes of bidentate phosphines with different bite angles Chem. Eur. J. 15 (2009) 482-491