Publications

Complete List of Journal Publications:

1. Karishma Sen, Anita Sakarwal, Heera Ram, Suman K. Saha, Nirmal K. Rana, Dharamveer Yadav, Mukesh Kumar Yadav, Balachandar Vellingiri, Mariusz Jaremko, Habibullah Khalilullah, Amita Verma, Vikas Kumar, Anil Panwar, "Ameliorative Potential of Synthetic Flavone-Derivative in Diabetes-Associated Neurodegeneration" Molecular Nutrition & Food Research, 2025 Early View doi.org/10.1002/mnfr.70172 

2. Kumari, A.; Jain, A.; Sharma, H.; Selvakumar, S.; Rana, N. K. "Catalyst-Free Efficient Synthesis of Functionalized 1,2,4-Triazole via Ring Opening/Cyclization of Arylidene Thiazolone with Aryl/Alkyl-Hydrazine" Chem. Commun. 2025, 61, 11029-11032 

3. Suman K. Saha, Anupriya Bera, Akanksha Kumari, Mahesh Loitongbam, Debjyoti Chakladar, Nirmal K. Rana "Temperature-Dependent Regiodivergent Synthesis of Functionalized Maleimides and Itaconimides via in-situ Generated Pyridinium Ylide" Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2025, 28, e202401448 

4. Akanksha Kumari, Anshul Jain, Nirmal K. Rana, "Chiral Thiourea Catalyzed Enantioselective Cascade Synthesis of 2,3-Dihydrobenzofurans" Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2025, 28, e202401391

5. Suman K. Saha, Anupriya Bera, Akanksha Kumari, Nirmal K. Rana, "Highly Diastereoselective Synthesis of 2,3-Dihydropyrroles via Formal [4 + 1] Annulation Reaction of α,β-Unsaturated Imines and in Situ Generated Pyridinium Ylide"  J. Org. Chem. 2025, 90, 853-862. 

6. Suman K. Saha, Akanksha Kumari, Debjyoti Chakladar, Nirmal K. Rana, "Cascade Synthesis of 1,1-Dicyanocyclopropanes via Sulfur Ylide Mediated [2+1] Annulation Reaction in Batch and Continuous Flow" Prayogic Rasayan 2024, 8(4), 67-72 (Highlight: Front cover page)

7. Akanksha Kumari, Anshul Jain, Nirmal K Rana, "A Sustainable Catalyst-Free Approach to Bipyrazoles Under Batch and Flow Chemistry Techniques" Asian J. Org. Chem. 2024, e202400583.

8. Surojit Ghosh, Mohammad Umar Arshi, Satyajit Ghosh, Moumita Jash, Samya Sen, Kamel Mamchaoui, Sudipta Bhattacharyya, Nirmal Kumar Rana, Surajit Ghosh, "Discovery of Quinazoline and Quinoline-Based Small Molecules as Utrophin Upregulators via AhR Antagonism for the Treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy" J. Med. Chem. 2024, 67, 9260-9276.

9. Akanksha Kumari, Dhirajkumar Jitendrabhai Patanvadiya, Anshul Jain, Ranjan Patra, Manikandan Paranjothy, Nirmal K Rana, "Pyridinium Ylide-Mediated Diastereoselective Synthesis of Spirocyclopropanyl-pyrazolones via Cascade Michael/Substitution Reaction" J. Org. Chem. 2024, 89, 8230-8242.

10. Anshul Jain, Vinay K. Yadav, Akanksha Kumari, Suman K. Saha, Ramesh K. Metre, Sudipta Bhattacharyya and Nirmal K. Rana,  "Supported-amine-catalyzed cascade synthesis of spiro-thiazolone-tetrahydrothiophenes: assessing HSA binding activity" Org. Biomol. Chem. 2024, 22, 5087-5092.

11. Anshul Jain, Akanksha Kumari, Ramesh K. Metre, Nirmal K. Rana, "Diastereoselective Synthesis of trans-2,3-Dihydroindoles via Formal [4+1] Annulation Reactions of Sulfonium Ylide" Org. Biomol. Chem. 2024, 22, 621-632.

12. Akanksha Kumari, Anshul Jain, Nirmal K Rana, "A review on solvent-controlled stereodivergent catalysis" Tetrahedron 2024, 150, 133754.

13. Akanksha Kumari, Anshul Jain, Khyati Shukla, Ranjan Patra and Nirmal K. Rana "A Reusable Polymer Anchored Pyridine Mediated Formal [4+1] Annulation Reaction for the Diastereoselective Synthesis of 2,3-Dihydrobenzofurans" Org. Biomol. Chem. 2023, 21, 5542-5546.

14. Anshul Jain, Akanksha Kumari, Suman K. Saha, Khyati Shukla, Ashwani Chauhan, Ramesh K. Metre, Nirmal K. Rana, "Recyclable Polymer Supported DMAP Catalyzed Cascade Synthesis of α-Pyrones" J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88, 11346-11351.

15. Anshul Jain, Anitta Regina, Akanksha Kumari, Ranjan Patra, Manikandan Paranjothy, and Nirmal K. Rana "Reusable Supported Pyridine-Mediated Cascade Synthesis of trans-2,3-Dihydroindoles via In Situ-Generated N‑Ylide" Org. Lett. 2023, 25, 3790–3795. 

16. Anshul Jain, Akanksha Kumari, Khyati Shukla, Selvakumar Sermadurai and Nirmal K. Rana, "Solvent-controlled diastereodivergent cascade synthesis of trisubstituted tetrahydrothiophenes utilizing polystyrene-supported amine" Arkivoc 2023 (vi) 202311947 DOI: https://doi.org/10.24820/ark.5550190.p011.947 

17. Suman K. Saha, Anupriya Bera, Soniya Singh, and Nirmal K. Rana, "Asymmetric Catalytic Approaches Employing α,β-Unsaturated Imines" Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2023, 26, e202201470 

18. Suman K. Saha, Anshul Jain, Akanksha Kumari, Tshering Sangmo Bhutia, Chanchal Agrawat, Nirmal K. Rana, "Use of Polymer-Supported 4-(N,N-Dimethylamino)pyridine in a Formal Conjugate Addition/Elimination Mediated by an N-Ylide Generated In Situ for the Construction of Highly Functionalized Itaconimides/Alkenes" Synlett 2023, 34, 667-672.

19. Pragati R Sharma, Apoorva Malik, Sateesh Bandaru, Kanika Vashisth, Nirmal K Rana and Rakesh K Sharma, "Experimental and computational studies on the Cinchona anchored calixarene catalysed asymmetric Michael addition reaction" Chem. Commun. 2022, 58, 7249-7252. 

20. Anshul Jain, Sushobhan Maji, Khyati Shukla, Akanksha Kumari, Shivani Garg, Ramesh K. Metre, Sudipta Bhattacharyya and Nirmal K. Rana, "Stereoselective synthesis of tri-substituted tetrahydrothiophenes and their in silico binding against mycobacterial protein tyrosine phosphatase B" Org. Biomol. Chem. 2022, 20, 3124-3135.

21. Anshul Jain, Nirmal K. Rana, "Review on Asymmetric Catalysis Employing 5H-Oxazol-4-Ones as α-Hydroxy Carboxylic Acid Surrogates" Adv. Synth. Catal. 2021, 363, 3879– 3912.

22. Pratibha Mahto, Nirmal K. Rana, Khyati Shukla, Braja G. Das, Harshit Joshi and Vinod K. Singh, "Asymmetric Multifunctional Modular Organocatalysis: One-Pot Direct Strategy to Enantiopure α,β-Disubstituted γ-Butyrolactones" Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 5962-5966  (Highlighted: Benjamin List, Manuel J. Scharf Synfacts 2019, 15, 1184)

23. Khyati Shukla, Sadhna Shah, Nirmal K. Rana, and Vinod K. Singh, "An efficient and highly diastereoselective synthesis of carbocyclic spiropyrazolones via one-pot sequential dual organo-silver catalyzed Michael-hydroalkylation reactions" Tetrahedron Letters 2019, 60, 92-97. 

24. Nirmal K. Rana, Khyati Shukla, Pratibha Mahto, Rupesh K. Jha, and Vinod K. Singh, "A facile and highly diastereoselective synthesis of carbocyclic spiro-pyrazolones via DABCO catalyzed Michael-Michael domino reaction" Tetrahedron 2018, 74, 5270-5279. 

25. Nirmal K. Rana, Rupesh K. Jha, Harshit Joshi, and Vinod K. Singh, “Enantioselective access to tetrahydropyrano[2,3-c]pyrazoles via an organocatalytic domino Michael-hydroalkoxylation reaction” Tetrahedron Lett. 2017, 58, 2135-2139.

26. Nirmal K. Rana, Harshit Joshi, Rupesh K. Jha, and Vinod K. Singh, “Enantioselective Tandem Oxidation/Michael-Aldol Approaches to Tetra-Substituted Cyclohexanes” Chem.-Eur. J. 2017, 23, 2040-2043 (Highlighted: Philip Kocienski Synfacts 2017, 13, 0458)

27. Rajshekhar A. Unhale, Nagaraju Molleti, Nirmal K. Rana, Sivasankaran Dhanasekaran, Subhrajyoti Bhandary and Vinod K. Singh, “Chiral phosphoric acid catalyzed enantioselective addition of thiols to in situ generated ketimines: Synthesis of N,S-ketals” Tetrahedron Lett. 2017, 58, 145-151.

28. Santhi Abbaraju, Naresh Ramireddy, Nirmal K. Rana, Arman Hadi and John Cong-Gui Zhao, “Organocatalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of Polysubstituted Spirooxindoles using a Tandem Michael–Michael Reaction” Adv. Synth. Catal. 2015, 257, 2633-2638.

29. Nirmal K. Rana, Huicai Huang, and John Cong-Gui Zhao, “Highly diastereodivergent synthesis of tetrasubstituted cyclohexanes catalyzed by modularly designed organocatalysts” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 7619-7623. (Highlighted: Benjamin List, Lisa Kötzner Synfacts 2014, 10, 098)

30. Sandun Perera, Debarshi Sinha, Nirmal K. Rana, Van Trieu-Do, and John Cong-Gui Zhao, “List−Barbas−Mannich reaction catalyzed by modularly designed organocatalysts” J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 10947-10953.

31. Qipu Dai, Nirmal K. Rana, John Cong-Gui Zhao, “Highly stereoselective synthesis of 2,6-cis-substituted tetrahydropyrans using a one-pot sequential catalysis” Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 2922-2925.

32. Rajshekhar Unhale, Nirmal K. Rana and Vinod K. Singh, “Catalytic conjugate addition of thioacetic acid to a-substituted N-acryloyloxazolidin-2-ones in asymmetric enolate protonation”, Tetrahedron Lett. 2013, 54, 1911-1915.

33. Nagaraju Molleti, Nirmal K. Rana and Vinod K. Singh, “Highly enantioselective conjugate addition of malononitrile to 2-enoylpyridine with bifunctional organocatalyst”, Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 4322-4325.

34. Nirmal K. Rana, Rajshekhar Unhale and Vinod K. Singh, “Enantioselective sulfa-Michael addition of thioacids to α,β-unsaturated ketones with bifunctional organocatalyst”,  Tetrahedron Lett. 2012, 53, 2121-2124.

35. Nirmal K. Rana and Vinod K. Singh, “Enantioselective enolate protonation in sulfa-Michael addition to a-substituted N-acryloyloxazolidin-2-ones with bifunctional organocatalyst”, Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 6520-6523.

36. Nirmal K. Rana, Sermadurai Selvakumar and Vinod K. Singh, “Highly enantioselective organocatalytic sulfa-Michael addition to α,β-unsaturated ketones”,  J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 2089-2091.

Patents:

1. Composition of various small molecules for the treatment of Duchene Muscular Dystrophy. Ghosh, Surajit, Rana Nirmal Kumar, Bhattacharyya Sudipta, Shastry Arun, Jain Anshul, Yadav Vinay Kumar, Ghosh Surojit. IN 202411000547 NA Indian Pat. Appl. Provisional patent granted