Publications from 2005 - 2014
Prateep Singh Sagara, Rajesh Chebolu, Ashish Bahuguna, P. C. Ravikumar, Hypervalent Iodine mediated direct one-pot transformation of aldehydes to ketones. RSC Advances, 2014, 4, 15011-15013.
Christina M. Woo, Shivajirao L. Gholap, Liang Lu, Miho Kaneko, Zhenwu Li, P.C. Ravikumar, and Seth B. Herzon, Development of Enantioselective Synthetic Routes to (–)-Kinamycin F and (–)-Lomaiviticin Aglycon. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134 (41), 17262-17273.
Lihua Yao, Bhaskar Pitta, P. C. Ravikumar, Matthew Purzycki, and Fraser F.Fleming, Transmissive Olefination Route to Putative "Morinol I" Lignans, J. Org. Chem., 2012, 77(7), 3651–3657.
Fraser F. Fleming, Wang Liu, Lihua Yao, Bhaskar Pitta, Matthew Purzycki, P. C. Ravikumar, Alkenenitrile Transmissive Olefination: Synthesis of the Putative Lignan “Morinol I”, Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 34, 6843.
Fraser F. Fleming, Lihua Yao, P. C. Ravikumar, Lee Funk and Brian C. Shook, Nirile-Containing Pharmaceuticals: Efficacious role of the Nitrile Pharmacophore, J. Med. Chem., 2010, 53, 7902-7917.
Shivajirao L Gholap, Christina M. Woo, P. C. Ravikumar, Seth B. Herzon, Synthesis of the Fully Glycosylated Cyclohexenone Core of Lomaiviticin A, Org. Lett., 2009, 11, 4322-4325.
P. C. Ravikumar, Lihua Yao, Fraser F. Fleming, Allylic and Allenic Halide Synthesis via NbCl5- and NbBr5- Mediated Alkoxide Rearrangement. J. Org. Chem., 2009, 74, 7294-7299.For a commentary see: NbCl5/NbBr5-Mediated Alkoxide Rearrangements to Allylic and Allenic Halides. Paul Knochel and Andreas J Wagner, SYNFACTS, 2009, 12, 1394.
Fraser F. Fleming, P. C. Ravikumar, Lihua Yao, Direct Conversion of Aldehydes and Ketones to Allylic Halides by a NbX5-[3,3] Rearrangement, Synlett, 2009, 1077-1080.
Adusumilli Srikrishna, Ponneri C. Ravikumar, Hema S. Krishnan, The First Total Synthesis of Herbertenone A and Herberteneone B, Synthesis, 2008, 1527-1534.
A. Srikrishna, S. Ratna kumar, P. C. Ravikumar, Synthesis of (±)-12-Methoxy Herbertenediol methylether, Synth. Commun., 2007, 37, 4123-4140.
A. Srikrishna, R. Ramesh Babu, P. C. Ravikumar, A Regioselective Total Synthesis of Fungal Sesquiterpene (±)-Lagopodin A, Synlett, 2007, 655-657.
A. Srikrishna, P. C. Ravikumar, The First Total Synthesis of (±)-γ-Herbertenol, an herbertene isolated from a non-herbertus source, Synthesis, 2007, 65-74.
A. Srikrishna, P. C. Ravikumar, Structure revision of HM-3, an aromatic sesquiterpene isolated from phytopatogenic fungus Helicobasidium mompa. First Total Synthesis of HM-3 and HM-4, Tetrahedron, 2006, 62, 9393-9402.
A. Srikrishna, B. Vasantha Lakshmi, P. C. Ravikumar, The First Total Synthesis of (±) Lagopodin A, Tetrahedron Lett., 2006, 47, 1277-1281. (This Paper was the Second Most Hottest Paper of the first quarter of 2006)
A. Srikrishna, P. C. Ravikumar, Total Synthesis of HM-1 and HM-2, aromatic sesquiterpenes isolated from the phytopatogenic fungus Helicobasidium mompa. Structure revision of HM-2, Tetrahedron Lett., 2005, 46, 6105-6109.