Dr. Dandamudi Usharani
Principal Scientist
Food Safety & Analytical Quality Control Laboratory (FSAQCL)
Central Food Technological Research Institute
India
Biography
Dr. Dandamudi Usharani is currently a Principal Scientist in the Department of Dept. of Food Safety & Analytical Quality Control Laboratory (FSAQCL) Central Food Technological Research Institute, India. She completed Bachelor of Science, Genetics, Zoology, Chemistry Shadan Coll., Osm. Univ., Hyderabad, India, Master of Science, General Chemistry School of Chemistry, Univ. of Hyd., Hyderabad, India and Doctor of Philosophy, Computational Chemistry Junior Research Scholar at School of Chemistry, Univ. of Hyd., Hyderabad.
Research Interest
Computational Bioinorganic Chemistry / Biochemistry / Structural Biology, Molecular Modeling, Biocatalysis and Disease Mechanisms.
Publications
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J. Li, S. Zhou, J. Zhang, M. Schlangen, T. Weiske, D. Usharani, S. Shaik, H. Schwarz, “Electronic Origins of the Variable Efficiency of Room-Temperature Methane Activation by Homo- and Heteronuclear Cluster Oxide Cations [XYO2] + (X,Y= Al, Si, Mg): Competition between Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer and Hydrogen Atom Transfer. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 7973 (No of Citations: 19, ISI impact factor 11.444).
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J. Li, S. Zhou, J. Zhang, M. Schlangen, D. Usharani, S. Shaik, H. Schwarz, “Mechanistic Variants in Gas-phase Metal-oxide Mediated Activation of Methane at Ambient Conditions†J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 11368 Selected for JACS Spotlights 2016, 138, 12003 (No of Citations: 15, ISI impact factor 11.444).
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D. Dutta Gupta, D. Usharani, S. Mazumdar, “Mono-nuclear Copper Complexes Mimicking the Intermediates for the Binuclear Copper Center of the Subunit II of Cytochrome Oxidase: A peptide Based Approachâ€, Dalton Transactions 2016, 45, 17624 (ISI impact factor 4.177)
