Ravikumar Group - Smruti Ranjan Mohanty

Smruti Ranjan Mohanty

bapismruti1992@gmail.com

Smruti was born and raised in Jajpur, Odisha. He completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Ravenshaw University, Cuttack. After completing his master's, he joined Dr. Ponneri C. Ravikumar's group at National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar in July 2016. He successfully completed his doctoral studies, which focused on First Row Transition Metal Catalyzed C-H bond activation. He is currently working as a research investigator at Syngene International, Hyderabad, India. In his leisure, Smruti loves to listen to music, use social media, read chemistry books and roam around the city on his bike.

Awards:

Second prize in poster presentation at National Conference on Organic Synthesis (NCOS) 2020 held at Berhampur University.

PUBLICATIONS

Smruti Ranjan Mohanty, Namrata Prusty, Shyam Kumar Banjare, Tanmayee Nanda, and Ponneri C. Ravikumar

Overcoming the Challenges toward Selective C(6)–H Functionalization of 2-Pyridone with Maleimide through Mn(I)-Catalyst: Easy Access to All-Carbon Quaternary Center

Org. Lett. 2022 24, 848-852

Smruti Ranjan Mohanty, Namrata Prusty, Tanmayee Nanda, Pranav Shridhar Mahulkar, and Ponneri C. Ravikumar

Directing Group Assisted Selective C-H activation of Six-Membered N-heterocycles and Benzo Fused N-heterocycles

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, 11, 540-575

(Part of the themed collection: "Organic Chemistry Frontiers HOT Articles")

Smruti Ranjan Mohanty, Namrata Prusty, Tanmayee Nanda, Shyam Kumar Banjare and Ponneri C. Ravikumar

Pyridone Directed Ru-Catalyzed Olefination of sp2(C–H) Bond Using Michael Acceptors: Creation of Drug Analogues

J. Org. Chem., 2022, 87, 9, 6189-6201.

Smruti Ranjan Mohanty, Bedadyuti Vedvyas Pati, Shyam Kumar Banjare, Gopal Krushna Das Adhikari, and Ponneri Chandrababu Ravikumar

Redox-Neutral Cobalt(III)-Catalyzed C–H Activation/Annulation of α,β-Unsaturated Oxime Ether with Alkyne: One-Step Access to Multisubstituted Pyridine

J. Org. Chem., 2020, 86, 1074.

Smruti Ranjan Mohanty, Namrata Prusty, Lokesh Gupta, Pragati Biswal, and Ponneri Chandrababu Ravikumar

Cobalt(III)-Catalyzed C-6 Alkenylation of 2-Pyridones by Using Terminal Alkyne with High Regioselectivity

J. Org. Chem., 2021, 86, 9444.

Namrata Prusty, Smruti Ranjan Mohanty, Shyam Kumar Banjare, Tanmayee Nanda and Ponneri C. Ravikumar

Switching the Reactivity of the Nickel-Catalyzed Reaction of 2-Pyridones with Alkynes: Easy Access to Polyaryl/Polyalkyl Quinolinones

Org. Lett. 2022, 24, 33, 6122-6127.

Gopal Krushna Das Adhikari, Smruti Ranjan Mohanty, Shyam Kumar Banjare, Namrata Prusty, Gajiram Murmu and Ponneri C. Ravikumar

Annulation of Indole-2-Carboxamides with Bicycloalkenes Catalyzed by Ru(II) at Room Temperature: An Easy Access to β-Carboline-1-one Derivatives under Mild Conditions

J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88, 952-959

(Most Downloaded/Most Read Article of the month)

Namrata Prusty#, Shyam Kumar Banjare#, Smruti Ranjan Mohanty, Tanmayee Nanda, Komal Yadav, and Ponneri C. Ravikumar

Synthesis and Photophysical Study of Heteropolycyclic and Carbazole Motif: Nickel-Catalyzed Chelate-Assisted Cascade C–H Activations/Annulations

Org. Lett. 2021 23, 9041-9046 (# equal contribution)

Pragati Biswal,# Tanmayee Nanda,# Shyam Kumar Banjare, Smruti Ranjan Mohanty, Ranjit Mishra, and Ponneri C. Ravikumar

N-allylbenzimidazole as a strategic surrogate in Rh-catalyzed stereoselective trans-propenylation of aryl C(sp2)-H bond

Chem. Commun. 2023, 59, 199-202. (# equal contribution)

(Invited Article as a part of "Pioneering Investigators Collection 2023" by the Royal Society of Chemistry)

Tanmayee Nanda, Smruti Ranjan Mohanty, and Ponneri C. Ravikumar

Book Chapter: Recent advances in Multicomponent reaction through C-H bond functionalization.

Handbook of CH Functionalizations (CHF), Wiley-VCH Publishers, 2022.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527834242.chf0218

Pragati Biswal, Tanmayee Nanda, Namrata Prusty, Smruti Ranjan Mohanty, and P. C. Ravikumar

Rhodium-Catalyzed Synthesis of 2-Methylindoles via C–N Bond Cleavage of N-Allylbenzimidazole

J. Org. Chem., 2023, 88, 7988-7997.

(Selected as Editor's Choice Article, Most Downloaded/Most Read article)

Pragati Biswal, Shyam Kumar Banjare, Bedadyuti Vedvyas Pati, Smruti Ranjan Mohanty, and P. C. Ravikumar

Rhodium-Catalyzed One-Pot Access to N-Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from Aryl Ketones through Triple C–H Bond Activations

J. Org. Chem., 2021, 86, 1108

Bedadyuti Vedvyas Pati, Prateep Singh Sagara, Asit Ghosh, Smruti Ranjan Mohanty, and Ponneri Chandrababu Ravikumar

Ruthenium-Catalyzed Cross Dehydrogenative Annulation of N-(7-Azaindole)benzamides with Maleimides: One-Step Access to Highly Functionalized Pyrroloisoquinoline

J. Org. Chem., 2021, 86, 6551.

Tanmayee Nanda, Shyam Kumar Banjare, Wang-Yeuk Kong, Wentao Guo, Pragati Biswal, Lokesh Gupta, Astha Linda, Bedadyuti Vedvyas Pati, Smruti Ranjan Mohanty, Dean J. Tantillo and Ponneri C. Ravikumar

Breaking the Monotony: Cobalt and Maleimide as an Entrant to the Olefin-Mediated Ortho C–H Functionalization

ACS Catal. 2022, 12, 19, 11651–11659