Tavarekere Kalliah Chandrashekar

Tavarekere Kalliah Chandrashekar (born 1956) is an Indian bioinorganic chemist and a former director of the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, a CSIR subsidiary.

[7] T. K. Chandrashekar, born on the New Year's Day of 1956 in the Indian state of Karnataka, did his college studies at the University of Mysore from where he completed his graduate and master's courses.

[2] Chandrashekar is credited with the discovery of expanded porphyrins-based macrocyclic systems which had the ability to bind and transport anions and transition metal cations.

[4] In 2021, on the occasion of his 65th birthday, a special issue of the Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines was dedicated to honouring T. K. Chandrashekar for his outstanding contributions in the field of porphyrinoids.

Sixty scholar-contributors around the world, including Karl M. Kadish and Atsuhiro Osuka, submitted their research papers to be published in this special issue.