My research interests revolve around designing and fabrication of nanomaterials for shape selective catalysis. I have worked on porous materials as zeolites and mesoporous materials and also on nanocrystalline ones, functionalizing them whenever necessary to form selective catalysts.

I am currently working on fabricating catalysts for mitigating naphthenic acid based corrosion in the refineries.

        RajashreeChakravarti, M. Lakshmi Kantam,* Ujjwal Pal, B. Sreedhar, and SureshBhargava Adv. Synth. Catal. 2008, 350, 822– 827, Nanocrystalline Magnesium Oxide-Stabilized Palladium(0): An Efficientand Reusable Catalyst for Selective Reduction of Nitro Compounds.

        Rajashree Chakravarti, M. Lakshmi Kantam,* Ch. Venkat Reddy, B. Sreedhar, Suresh Bhargava,  Adv. Synth. Catal. 2008, 350, 2544-2550, Palladium Catalyzed HeckCoupling-Hydrogenation:  Highly EfficientOne-pot Synthesis of Dibenzyls and Alkyl Phenyl Esters.

          RajashreeChakravarti, M. Lakshmi Kantam,* B. Sreedhar and Suresh Bhargava SYNLETT2008, 10, 1449–1454, Friedel–Crafts Alkylation of NitrogenHeterocycles Using [Bmim][OTf] as a Catalyst and Reaction Medium.

        R. Chakravarti, H. Oveisi, P. Kalita, R.R. Pal, S.B. Halligudi, M.L. Kantam and A. Vinu*,Micropor. Mesopor. Mater. 2009, 123, 338-344,Three-dimensional mesoporous cage type aluminosilicate: An efficient catalyst for ring opening of epoxides with aromatic and aliphatic amines.

        R. Chakravarti, P. Kalita, S. Tamil Selvan, H. Oveisi, V. V. Balasubramanian, M. Lakshmi Kantam, and A. Vinu*, A facile synthesis of alkylated nitrogen heterocycles catalyzed by three dimensional cage-type aluminosilicates in aqueous medium, Green Chem. 2010, 12, 49-53.

        Chakravarti Rajashree, Mano Ajayan, Iwai Hideo, Aldeyab Salem S.,Kumar R. Pradeep, Kantam M. Lakshmi, Vinu Ajayan*, Functionalization of Mesoporous Carbon with Superbasic MgONanoparticles for the Efficient Synthesis of Sulfinamides , Chem. Eur. J. 2011, 17(24), 6673-6682.