Announcements / Opportunities:

• Currently, there are 2 to 3 PhD vacancies in my group, students who have qualified for GATE/CSIR/UGC-JRF (in Chemistry) can join our group for the PhD program. For more details contact: alagiri@iisertvm.ac.in

Group News:

• May 2026: Our paper titled "Copper-Catalyzed Asymmetric Propargylation of 5-Aminopyrazoles" has been accepted for publication in Org. Lett. Congratulations to Vignesh, Ramprasad, and Aman.

• March 2026: Congratulations Kalyanakrishanan for successfully defending the thesis. All the best for your future endeavours.

• January 2026: Jincy Sibi (PhD student), joined our group, welcome.

• August 2025: Ayana G Gopal (PhD student), joined our group, welcome.

• July 2025: Congratulations Tamilarasu for successfully defending the thesis. All the best for your future endeavours.

• July 2025: Our paper titled "Base-Promoted S-Trideuteromethylation of Sulfenamides to Access Trideuteromethyl Sulfilimines" has been accepted for publication in J. Org. Chem. Congratulations to Kalyanakrishnan, Afna, Parvathi, Shanawas, and Devashish.

• June 2025: Sujit Maity (Postdoc), Afna Nizar (BSMS Batch 21), Parvathi Ikkara Sunil (BSMS Batch 21), and Rewa Shaw (MSc Batch 24) joined our group, welcome.

• December 2024: Begari Ramprasad (IPhD Batch 23) joined our group, welcome.

• August 2024: Vignesh (PhD student), Visalini (PhD student), and Jincy Sibi (Project Associate) joined our group, welcome.

• May 2024: Lathamani (Project Associate) joined our group, welcome.

• April 2024: Our paper titled  "Direct Trideuteromethylation of Sulfenate Anions Generated In Situ from -Sulfinyl Esters: An Access to Trideuteromethyl Sulfoxides" has been highlighted in "Organic Chemistry Portal."

• April 2024: Our paper titled "Copper-Catalyzed Regioselective Imidation of 2-Pyridones" has been accepted for publication in Org. Lett. Congratulations to Tamilarasu, Shanawas, Kalyanakrishnan, and Dharsan.

• September 2023: Dharsan (PhD student) joined our group, welcome.

• August 2023: Aroma Kurian (BSMS Batch 20) joined our group, welcome.

• August 2023: Melanie (BSMS Batch 19) joined our group for her Major Project, welcome.

• June 2023: Aiswarya (from IISER Berhampur) joined our group for her Major Project, welcome.

• June 2023: Devika (from NISER Bhubaneswar) joined our group as a Summer Internship Student, welcome.

• June 2023: Hida Mariyam Iqbal (BSMS Batch 20) joined our group as a Summer Internship Student, welcome.

• June 2023: Congratulations Fathima for successfully defending the thesis. All the best for your future endeavours.

• May 2023: Our paper titled "Direct Trideuteromethylation of Sulfenate Anions Generated In Situ from -Sulfinyl Esters: An Access to Trideuteromethyl Sulfoxides" has been accepted for publication in J. Org. Chem. Congratulations to  Fathima, Sreelakshmi, and Tamilarasu.

• February 2023: Congratulations Amritha for successfully defending the thesis. All the best for your future endeavours.

• January 2023: Our paper titled "Palladium-Catalyzed Regioselective C3-Allylic Alkylation of 2-Aryl Imidazopyridines with MBH Carbonates" has been accepted for publication in J. Org. Chem. Congratulations to Tamilarasu and Afna.

• October 2022: Our paper titled "Heteroarylation of Sulfenate Ions in situ Generated from β-Sulfinyl Esters under Transition-Metal-Free Conditions." has been accepted for publication in J. Org. Chem. Congratulations to Fathima, and Sreelakshmi.

• August 2022: Our paper titled "Regioselective Allenylation and Propargylation of Various para-Quinone Methides Using Alkynyl Azaarenes as Pronucleophile." has been accepted for publication in Chem. Commun. Congratulations to Amritha, Afna, and Kalyanakrishnan.

• April 2022: Amritha received the best poster award at Frontier Symposium in Chemistry 2022 (FS-CHM 2022) held at IISER-TVM during 8-10 April 2022. Congratulations to Amritha, Afna, and Kalyanakrishnan.

• December 2021: Our paper titled "Synthesis of Various α-Substituted Alkenyl Sulfoxides from Alkynes and β-Sulfinyl Esters" has been accepted for publication in ChemistrySelect. Congratulations to Kalyanakrishnan, Arun, Abhay.

• July 2021: Sreelakshmi joined our group for her major project, welcome.

• July 2021: Afna joined our group for her major project, welcome.

• July 2021: Our paper titled "Palladium-Catalyzed Direct C2-Biarylation of Indoles" has been accepted for publication in  J. Org. Chem. Congratulations to Tamilarasu, Chinraj, and Rajat.

• August 2020: Arun Joshy and Abhay Kumar Arya joined our group for the major project, welcome.

• April 2020: Our paper titled "Base-promoted 1,6-Conjugate Addition of Alkylazaarenes to para- Quinone Methides" has been accepted for publication in  Org. Biomol. Chem. Congratulations to Amritha, Rajat, Kalyanakrishnan, and Krishna Hari.

• March 2020: Our paper titled "Synthesis of Various Acylating Agents Directly from Carboxylic Acids" has been accepted for publication in Synth. Commun. Congratulations to Fathima, and Vineet.

• September 2019: Our paper titled "N-Heterocyclic carbene as a Brønsted base catalyst for the amination of naphthol derivatives and alcoholysis of glutaric anhydrides" has been accepted for publication in Tetrahedron Lett. Congratulations to Jayakrishnan, Tamilarasu, and Jincy.

• May 2019: Rajat Kumar Singh joined our group for his major project, welcome.

• January 2019: Tamilarasu a PhD student joined our group, welcome.

• August 2018: Kalyanakrishnan a PhD student joined our group, welcome.