Pranav Shridhar Mahulkar

Email: pranav.mahulkar@niser.ac.in

        pranavmahulkar506@gmail.com 

Pranav was born in Nagpur and brought up in Pune, Maharashtra. He completed his 12th class at Indira National School, Pune in 2019. He then joined National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar in July 2019 as an Integrated Master’s student. He is currently working in Prof. Ponneri C. Ravikumar’s group, and his research interest lies in the ‘‘Transition metal-catalyzed directed C–H bond activation of heterocyclic motifs.’’ During his leisure, Pranav loves to listen to music and play games on his laptop.

Publications:

Pranav Shridhar Mahulkar, Sofaya Joshi, Shyam Kumar Banjare, Lamphiza O Najiar and Ponneri C. Ravikumar. 

Expanding the Scope of Alkynes in C–H Activation: Weak Chelation-Assisted Cobalt-Catalyzed Synthesis of Indole C(4)-Acrylophenone via C–O Bond Cleavage of Propargylic Ethers

 Org. Lett., 2024, 26, 2091-2096.


(Invited Contribution, Part of the Virtual Special Issue: "Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Chemical Research Society of India")

Shyam Kumar Banjare, Pranav Shridhar Mahulkar, Tanmayee Nanda, Bedadyuti Vedvyas Pati, Lamphiza O Najiar and Ponneri C. Ravikumar

Diverse reactivity of alkynes in C-H activation reactions

 Chem Commun., 2022, 58,  10262-10289.

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.

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")