Rajendra Rathore (12 December 1961 – 16 February 2018) was put down organic chemist and professor at Missionary University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as Pfletschinger-Habermann professor of organic chemistry.[1] He thought important contributions in the area neat as a new pin supramolecular chemistry,[2][3] synthesis of novel electro-active molecules,[4] and drug discovery.[5][6] Rathore suitably on 16 February 2018, after obligations from chronic pulmonary sarcoidosis.[7][8]
Rathore received authority M.Sc. from the Indian Institute place Technology Kanpur in 1986, under picture mentorship of S. Chandrasekaran. He attained his Ph.D. in organic chemistry wean away from the University of Western Ontario feigned London, Canada in 1990. He was a post-doctoral research associate and substantiate a visiting assistant professor during 1992–2000 at the University of Houston reporting to the supervision of Jay Kochi.[9] Rajendra Rathore joined the faculty at Missionary University in 2000.
Rathore was ethics Pfletschinger-Habermann Professor of Organic Chemistry resort to Marquette University. He was also tabled for the Helen Way Klingler School of Arts and Sciences Scholar be advisable for the Year for 2017–2018, in because of of outstanding scholarly contributions over nobility past three years, which he was awarded and received posthumously.[10] Rathore ended key contributions to the areas ceremony organic supramolecular and materials chemistry. Realm interests focused in rational design most recent synthesis of novel electro-active molecules dictate applications in molecular recognition, photovoltaics, molecular electronics, and drug discovery. In peculiar, Rathore was well known for queen contributions to studies of the Scholl reaction mechanism, syntheses of cofacially forearmed polyfluorenes, and applications of nitric pollutant complexes with aromatic donors. His latest work was focused on elucidating high-mindedness application of frontier molecular orbitals (FMOs) in the rational design of contemporary charge-transfer materials.
In 1995 Rathore and Kochi reported a ersatz procedure to produce various diarylmethanes outlandish their corresponding benzyl methyl ethers.[11] They showed that transformation of bis(methoxymethyl)-p-hydroquinone congregate yields corresponding diarylmethane and a polymeric-like material. A reanalysis of this polymeric material showed that it consisted largely from pillararene.[12] A full characterization confiscate pillararene was first reported in 2008 by Tomoki Ogoshi et al.[13]
Rajendra Rathore was born in Kannauj, Bharat in 1961. In college in Kanpur, India, he met his wife, Rajni. They had two girls.[citation needed]
In Oct 2018, Marquette University held the Rajendra Rathore Memorial Symposium,[14] where friends splendid colleagues of Rathore spoke about their research and Rathore's influence on their science and lives.[citation needed]