Dr. Rath received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Berhampur University in India, and a Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University. He was an Assistant Faculty Fellow at the University of Notre Dame prior to joining the UMSL faculty as Research Assistant Professor in 1989. He was promoted to Research Professor in 2004 and retired in 2020 and was accorded Emeritus status.
rathn@umsl.edu
Office: N304
Phone: (314)516-5333
Fax: (314)516-5342
Research Interests
Dr. Rath's research interests involve the use of single crystal X-ray diffraction techniques for three dimensional solid state-molecular and crystal structure determination of novel organic and organometallic compounds. Currently, Dr. Rath was the Director of the X-ray Diffraction Laboratory of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Center for Nanoscience. Current research interests include study of weak interactions in the solid state, polymorphism, structure solution and refinement of twin structures and development of techniques and instrumentation for accurate data collection for small molecules.
Selected Publications.
"Catalytic hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to methanol by homogenous ruthenium(II) hydrido carbonyl complexes", S. Sharma, P. K. Pandey, M. Trivedi, N. P. Rath, and R. K. Sharma, New. J. Chem., 2026, 50, 5679.
"Synthesis and Characterization of 3,6-bis(alkynylaryl)-9,9-diphenyl Substituted Silafluorenes and Germafluorenes", S. Germann, N. P. Rath, T. Bandrowsky, J. B. Carroll, N. Virayasiri, A. Scheibel, E. Gallaher, J. Weatherford-Pratt, J. Rabus, B. Bythell, M. Bremer, J. Braddock-Wilking and William R. Winchester, J. Organomet. Chem., 2025, 1041, 123849
"A tetranuclear thiocyanato-bridged copper(I) catalyst for the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to formate under mild conditions", S. Sharma, M. Trivedi, R. K. Sharma, G. Kumar, and N. P. Rath, New. J. Chem 2025, 49, 11607
"Synthesis, characterization, crystal structures and catalytic activity of hydrogen bond mediated 2D and 3D-copper(II) coordination networks based on 2-aminoterepthalic acid and 5-aminoisopthalic acid", S. Khatkar, S. K. Dubey, M. Trivedi, S. Kumar, R. K. Sharma, N. P. Rath and V. K. Yadav, J. Mol. Struct. 2025, 1321, Part-4, 140142.
"Allylic Amination of Pd(II)-Allyl Complexes via High-Valent Pd Intermediates
CAS Concepts" Y-C Wang, N. P. Rath and L. M. Mirica, Organometallics, 2022, 41, 2067.
"Carbene-Like Reactivity in an Iron Azametallacyclobutene Complex: Insights from Electronic Structure", C. A. Richards, N. P. Rath, and J. M. Neely, Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61, 13266.
