Ravikumar Group - Annapurna Saxena

Annapurna Saxena

Annapurna was born and brought up in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. She completed her Bachelor's (BSc-B.ED) from Regional Institute of Education Ajmer. After her Bachelor's, she qualified the Joint Admission test (JAM) for M.Sc. and joined IIT Indore. Then, she joined as a project student under Dr. Ponneri. C Ravikumar at National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar. At the PCR Lab, she explored the reactivity of cobalt(III)-catalyst towards regioselective alkynylation of lactam ring. Currently, she is a junior research scholar at Technische Universität Berlin under Prof. Dr. Matthias Driess.

Publications:

Shyam Kumar Banjare, Annapurna Saxena, Tanmayee Nanda, Namrata Prusty, Sofaya Joshi, and Ponneri C. Ravikumar.

Weak-Chelation Assisted Cobalt-Catalyzed C–H Bond Activation: An Approach Toward Regioselective Ethynylation of N-Aryl γ-Lactam.

Org. Lett., 2023, 25, 251-255.

Sofaya Joshi, Riya Dutta, Shyam Kumar, Annapurna Saxena, and Ponneri C. Ravikumar

Weak-Chelation Assisted Regioselective Indole C(4)-Alkynylation via Six-Membered Cobaltacycle Intermediate

Adv. Synth. Catal., 2024, ASAP.

Shyam Kumar Banjare, Saista Afreen, Pranav Shridhar Mahulkar, Annapurna Saxena, and Ponneri C. Ravikumar

Uncovering the Reactivity of Cobalt-catalyst Towards Regioselective Hydroarylation of 1,6-Diyne via Weak-chelation Assisted C-H Bond Activation

Adv. Synth. Catal., 2023, 365, 1997-1982.