Rajamani Gounder
Groups/Topicals chaired or co-chaired
Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division
2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1114-1)
Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division
2021 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1116-5)
Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division
2022 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1118-9)
Sessions chaired or co-chaired
Advances in Zeolite Science and Technology I - Synthesis and Characterization (Invited Talks)
2016 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1097-7)
Award Session in Honor of Prof. Jim Dumesic III
2016 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1097-7)
Catalysis with Microporous and Mesoporous Materials III: Catalysis
2019 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1112-7)
In Honor of the 2018 William H. Walker Award Winner I (Invited Talks)
2021 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1116-5)
In Honor of the 2018 William H. Walker Award Winner II (Invited Talks)
2021 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1116-5)
In Honor of the 2018 William H. Walker Award Winner III (Invited Talks)
2021 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1116-5)
In Recognition of the 50th Anniversary of ExxonMobil Corporate Strategic Research: CRE (Invited Talks)
2021 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1116-5)
Areas chaired or co-chaired
Catalysis
2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1114-1)
Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division
2021 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1116-5)
Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division
2022 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1118-9)
Authored
(12d) A Molecular Level Understanding of NOx Selective Catalytic Reduction in Cu-SSZ-13 from First Principles
2014 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1086-1)
(12c) Titration of Brønsted Acid Sites in Cu-Zeolites and Their Mechanistic Roles in Standard SCR
2014 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1086-1)
(123a) Probing the Active Site Requirements and Mechanistic Details of NOx Selective Catalytic Reduction with NH3 on Cu-SSZ-13
2014 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1086-1)
(627e) Synthetic Control of Framework Aluminum Distribution in Zeolites and Consequences for Acid and Redox Catalysis
2016 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1097-7)
(574c) Quantifying Lewis Acid Sites in Zeolites That Catalyze Glucose Isomerization
2016 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1097-7)
(216g) Effects of Cu Density in Cu-SSZ-13 Zeolites on Low-Temperature NOx Selective Catalytic Reduction with NH3
2016 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1097-7)
(578c) Cu Site Speciation in SSZ-13 Zeolites Resolved through UV-Visible Spectroscopy, Selective Synthesis, Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory, and Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics
2016 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1097-7)
(674a) Mechanism of Oxygen Activation during Selective Catalytic Reduction of NO with NH3 in Cu-SSZ-13 Zeolites
2016 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1097-7)
(520c) A Periodic DFT Study of the Influence of Lewis Acid Site Speciation on Ethanol Dehydration in Zeolites
2016 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1097-7)
(582bj) Spectroscopic and Kinetic Assessment of Sn Sites Incorporated into Chabazite Frameworks at Intracrystalline and Extracrystalline Locations
2017 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1102-8)
(465d) Catalytic Consequences of Framework Polarity for Ethanol Dehydration on Sn-Beta Zeolites
2017 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1102-8)
(764d) Controlled Tin Insertion into Zeolite Framework Vacancy Defects and Catalytic Consequences for Sugar Isomerization
2017 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1102-8)
(651g) Catalytic Consequences of Isolated and Paired Acid Sites in CHA Zeolites on Monomolecular Propane Cracking
2017 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1102-8)
(269a) Introducing Catalytic Diversity into Single-Site Zeolites of Fixed Composition Via Synthetic Control of Active Site Proximity
2017 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1102-8)
(484f) Nature of SO2 Poisoned Cu-SSZ-13 Catalysts Under Ammonia Selective Catalytic Reduction (NH3-SCR) Conditions
2017 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1102-8)
(465c) Sulfur Deactivation Pathways in Cu-SSZ-13 Determined through First-Principle Modeling and X-Ray Spectroscopy
2017 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1102-8)
(484d) Probing the Oxidation and Reduction Halves of the Cu Redox Cycle during Standard NH3-Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx on Cu-SSZ-13
2017 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1102-8)
(405b) On the Reaction Mechanism and the Nature of the Active Site for Standard Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx on Cu/SSZ-13 Zeolites
2017 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1102-8)
(653c) Influence of Confining Environment Polarity and Active Site Structure on Ethanol Dehydration Catalysis By Lewis Acid Zeolites
2018 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1108-0)
(544ee) Kinetic Assessments of the Location and Proximity of Brønsted Acid Sites in MFI Zeolites Containing Boron and Aluminum Heteroatoms
2018 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1108-0)
(501e) First-Principles Development of Al Proximity Titration Strategy for SSZ-13 Zeolite through Comparison of Divalent Metal Cation Exchange Energy Landscapes
2018 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1108-0)
(445b) Effects of Acid Site Proximity and Confinement in Zeolites on Methanol Dehydration Reaction Mechanisms Prevalent during Low-Temperature Catalysis
2018 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1108-0)
(606c) Ab-Initio modeling of Site Interconversion and Microkinetic Modeling of Lewis Acid Zeolites for Butadiene Synthesis
2018 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1108-0)
(504b) First Principles Modeling of Extended Solvent Structures in Defected Microporous Materials and Their Influence on the Kinetics of Lewis Acid Site Speciation
2018 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1108-0)
(446f) Synthesis Methods to Influence Framework Al Arrangements in CHA Zeolites and Consequences for NOx Selective Catalytic Reduction
2018 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1108-0)
(380c) Kinetic Study of the Reduction and Oxidation Half-Cycles during Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx with Ammonia on Cu-SSZ-13
2018 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1108-0)
(501c) Speciation of Liquid Ion-Exchanged Cu into SSZ-13, ZSM-5, and Beta Zeolites
2018 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1108-0)
(81d) Influence of Zeolite Framework on Cu Ion Mobility and the Kinetics of Selective Catalytic Reduction of Nitrogen Oxides with Ammonia
2019 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1112-7)
(387e) Distinct Catalytic Reactivity of Sn Substituted in Framework Locations and at Defect Grain Boundaries in Sn-Zeolites
2019 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1112-7)
(560ek) Kinetics of O2 Activation over Cu-Exchanged Zeolites: Implications for Partial Methane Oxidation
2019 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1112-7)
(560ek) Kinetics of O2 Activation over Cu-Exchanged Zeolites: Implications for Partial Methane Oxidation
2019 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1112-7)
(101d) Cooperation and Competition between Organic and Inorganic Structure Directing Agents Influences the Aluminum Arrangement in CHA Zeolites
2019 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1112-7)
(196d) First-Principles Investigation of Cu Ion Exchange and Siting Preference in FER Zeolite
2019 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1112-7)
(530d) Effects of Hydrophilic Binding Site Density in Lewis Acid Zeolites on Glucose Isomerization Catalysis
2019 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1112-7)
(36d) Influence of Al-Al Proximity on Metal Ion Exchange in SSZ-13 Zeolite and Strategies to Characterize and Control It
2019 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1112-7)
(560em) Mechanistic Origins of the High-Pressure Inhibition of Methanol Dehydration Rates in Small-Pore Acidic Zeolites
2019 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1112-7)
(406f) Acceleration of Methanol Dehydration in H-SSZ-13 By Acid Site Proximity
2019 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1112-7)
(119d) Effects of Intrapore Hydroxyl Density on Confined Water Structures and Ethanol Dehydration Kinetics within Microporous Brønsted Acids
2019 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1112-7)
(632b) Spectroscopic and Kinetic Assessment of Brønsted Acid Site Proximity in Chabazite Zeolites
2019 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1112-7)
(762e) Influence of Zeolite Framework on Cu Ion Mobility and the Kinetics of Low Temperature NOX Selective Catalytic Reduction
2019 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1112-7)
(721b) Microkinetic Model of Light Olefin Oligomerization on Acidic Zeolites
2019 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1112-7)
(762f) Spectroscopic and Kinetic Responses of Cu-SSZ-13 to SO2 Exposure and Implications for NOx Selective Catalytic Reduction
2019 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1112-7)
(632g) Combining Experiment and Theory to Elucidate the Active Site and Catalytic Behavior of Aqueous-Phase Sugar Isomerization in Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Lewis Acid Zeolites
2019 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1112-7)
(677e) Influence of Active Site Density and Arrangement on the Kinetics of NOx Selective Catalytic Reduction with NH3 over Cu-CHA Zeolites
2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1114-1)
(677b) Solvation of Water and Alkanols Confined within Brønsted Acid Zeolites: Kinetic Effects of Protonated Clusters and Extended Networks
2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1114-1)
(102b) Influencing Aluminum Proximity in MFI Zeolites Using Mixtures of Structure-Directing Agents and Consequences for Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Methanol Dehydration
2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1114-1)
(758b) Influence of Copper Site Structure and Proximity in Cu-CHA Zeolites on Partial Methane Oxidation to Methanol
2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1114-1)
(714a) Ab-Initio characterization of Water Clusters at Acid Sites in Microporous Zeolites and Their Influence on Ethanol Dehydration Kinetics
2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1114-1)
(628a) Effects of Cu-Zeolite Pore Size, Shape, and Connectivity on the Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx with NH3
2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1114-1)
(758d) DFT Investigations for the Influence of the Framework Topology in Cu2+ Exchange and Siting Preference in Zeolites
2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1114-1)
(582c) Interconversion of Agglomerated Pd Domains and Ion-Exchanged Pd2+ in CHA Zeolite Materials for Passive NOx Adsorption
2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1114-1)
(344r) DFT Analysis of Ethene Oligomerization on Metal Exchanged Zeolites
2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1114-1)
(714b) Assessing the Kinetic Effects of Al Siting on Methanol Dehydration in Different Zeolite Void Environments Using Density Functional Theory
2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1114-1)
(756h) Olefin Oligomerization on Acidic Zeolites: A Mechanistic Model for Catalyst Optimization
2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1114-1)
(344n) Effects of Ni Site Density on Deactivation Rates and Mechanisms during Ethene Oligomerization on Ni-Beta Zeolites
2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1114-1)
(344m) Effects of MFI Crystallite Properties on Propene Oligomerization Rate and Selectivity
2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1114-1)
(344h) Quantification of Intraporous Hydrophilic Binding Sites in Lewis Acid Zeolites and Consequences for Sugar Isomerization Catalysis
2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1114-1)
(603g) Alkane Dehydrogenation Catalyzed By Brønsted Acidic and Reaction-Derived Carbonaceous Active Sites in Zeolites
2021 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1116-5)
(314e) Catalytic Diversity in MFI Zeolites for Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Propene Oligomerization: Consequences of Crystallite Properties and Active Site Proximity
2021 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1116-5)
(580e) Quantitative Connections between Copper Site Proximity and Binuclear Active Sites for Partial Methane Oxidation to Methanol in Cu-CHA Zeolites
2021 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1116-5)
(602e) Effects of Framework Al Density in Chabazite Zeolites on Cu Ion Mobility and the Kinetics of NOx Selective Catalytic Reduction with NH3
2021 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1116-5)
(107c) Synthetic and Post-Synthetic Methods to Alter Al-Al Site Pair Arrangements in Zeolites
2021 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1116-5)
(641g) Condition and Particle Size Effects on the Interconversion between Nanoparticles and Cations in Pd-Exchanged SSZ-13 Zeolites
2021 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1116-5)
(349h) Investigating the Consequences of Brønsted Acid Site Proximity on Propene Oligomerization in MFI Zeolites with DFT
2021 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1116-5)
(349ag) A Kinetic Modelling Strategy for Interrogating NOx Selective Catalytic Reduction on Cu-Exchanged Zeolites
2021 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1116-5)
(349j) Synthetic Approaches to Independently Vary Crystallite and Atomic-Scale Acid Site Distributions and Their Catalytic Consequences for Propene Oligomerization
2021 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1116-5)
(99d) Mechanistic Studies of NH3-Assisted Reduction of Mononuclear Cu(II) Cation Sites in Cu-CHA Zeolites
2022 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1118-9)
(44h) Interrogation of Alkaline Earth Ion Exchange and CO Vibrational Spectroscopy As Reporters of Al Proximity in CHA Zeolites
2022 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1118-9)
(532du) Analysis and Augmentation of Guest-Host Interaction Energy Models As CHA and AEI Zeolite Crystallization Phase Predictors
2022 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1118-9)
(228h) Evolution of Framework Al Arrangements in CHA Zeolites during Crystallization in the Presence of Organic and Inorganic Structure-Directing Agents
2022 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1118-9)
(7c) Kinetic Assessments of the Influence of Active Site Distribution in Brønsted Acid Zeolites on Toluene Methylation Catalysis
2022 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1118-9)
(101e) Mapping Interactions between Cationic Structure-Directing Agents and Framework Anions in Zeolites Using Computational Tools
2022 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1118-9)
(100b) Origins of Changes in Methanol Dehydration Turnover Rates on Brønsted Acid Sites in Zeolites with Different Al Distributions
2022 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1118-9)
(690h) Presence of Multiple Types of Cu Active Sites and Their Connections to Framework Composition and Methane Oxidation Reactivity in Cu-CHA
2023 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1120-2)
(594b) Influence of the Crystallite-Scale Spatial Distributions of Framework Al Sites in MFI Zeolites on Propene Oligomerization Catalysis
2023 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1120-2)
(674c) Adsorbate Induced Restructuring of Pt Nanoparticle and Resultant Kinetics for Catalytic Ammonia Oxidation
2023 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1120-2)
(689c) Influence of N,N,N-Trimethyl-1-Adamantyl Ammonium on Al and Defect Siting Energetics and Implications for Accessible Si/Al Ratios in CHA
2023 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1120-2)
(676c) Characterization of the Structural Evolution of Mo-MFI for Methane Dehydroaromatization Reaction-Regeneration Cycles
2023 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1120-2)
(689e) Quantifying the Kinetics of Framework Dealumination during Hydrothermal Aging of Proton-Form CHA Zeolites
2023 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1120-2)
(674a) Mechanistic and Structural Transformations of Pt/Al2O3 Catalysts during NH3 oxidation for NH3 Slip Applications
2023 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1120-2)
(691a) Effects of Acid Site Proximity in CHA Zeolites on Monomolecular Propane and n-Butane Activation Kinetics
2023 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1120-2)
(691g) Quantifying the Role of Structure Directing Agents and Framework Al Location on Xylene Isomer Selectivity during Toluene Methylation Reactions
2023 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1120-2)
(521bj) Influence of Cu-CHA Catalyst Composition and Structure on Rates and Selectivities of Catalytic Partial Methane Oxidation to Methanol
2023 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1120-2)
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