Upcoming Research
1. Lorenzo Pedrini, Anshul Jain, Lauren Kenny, David Mannion, Kieran Kilcawley, and Stephen Connon, "Upcycle to recycle: triglyceride-derived magnesium soaps as stable, sustainable and extraordinarily efficient catalysts for poly(ethylene terephthalate) glycolysis," Under Submission
2. Anshul Jain, and Stephen Connon, "Asymmetric Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of Azalactones: A Versatile Route to Enantiopure Amines and Peptides," Under Progress
16. Anshul Jain, Eoin Killian, and Stephen Connon, "Rapid catalytic recycling of poly(ethylene terephthalate): minimal hydroxide, minimal biomass-derived, biodegradable and recyclable cosolvent" ChemSusChem 2025, 2501392 https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202501392
15. Akanksha Kumari, Anshul Jain, Himani Sharma, Selvakumar Sermadurai, and Nirmal K Rana, "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 https://doi.org/10.1039/D5CC02145F
14. Anshul Jain, and Stephen Connon, "Catalytic alkaline hydrolysis of PET and BPA-PC waste in minutes at atmospheric pressure without microwaves or organic solvents" Green Chem. 2025, 27, 4986-4994 https://doi.org/10.1039/D5GC01183C
13. Akanksha Kumari, Anshul Jain, and Nirmal K. Rana, "Chiral Thiourea Catalyzed Enantioselective Cascade Synthesis of 2,3-Dihydrobenzofurans" Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2025, e202401391. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202401391
12. Akanksha Kumari, Anshul Jain, and Nirmal K. Rana, "A Sustainable Catalyst-Free Approach to Bipyrazoles Under Batch and Flow Chemistry Techniques" Asian J. Org. Chem. 2024, e202400583. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajoc.202400583
11. 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. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4OB00619D
10. Akanksha Kumari, Dhirajkumar Jitendrabhai Patanvadiya, Anshul Jain, Ranjan Patra, Manikandan Paranjothy, and Nirmal K. Rana, "Pyridinium Ylide-Mediated Diastereoselective Synthesis of Spirocyclopropanyl-pyrazolones via Cascade Michael/Substitution Reaction" J. Org. Chem. 2024, 89, 8230-8242. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.3c02879
9. Anshul Jain, Akanksha Kumari, Ramesh K. Metre, and 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. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3OB01793A
8. Akanksha Kumari, Anshul Jain, and Nirmal K. Rana, "A review on solvent-controlled stereodivergent catalysis" Tetrahedron 2024, 150, 133754. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2023.133754
7. Anshul Jain, Akanksha Kumari, Suman K. Saha, Khyati Shukla, Ashwani Chauhan, Ramesh K. Metre, and Nirmal K. Rana, "Recyclable Polymer Supported DMAP Catalyzed Cascade Synthesis of α-Pyrones" J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88, 11346-11351. doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.3c01052
6. Akanksha Kumari, Anshul Jain, Khyati Shukla, Ranjan Patra, and Nirmal K Rana, "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. doi.org/10.1039/D3OB00804E
5. 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. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.3c01295
4. 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, https://doi.org/10.24820/ark.5550190.p011.947
3. 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 2022, 34, 667-672. www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/a-1934-1189
2. 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. doi.org/10.1039/D2OB00052K
1. 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. doi.org/10.1002/adsc.202100456
