Publications from IISER Thiruvananthapuram

21. "Copper-Catalyzed Regioselective Imidation of 2‐Pyridones." Tamilarasu Murugesan, Shanawas Hussain Moulana Mahal, Kalyanakrishnan Arayil Vennoli, Dharsan Karthikeyan, Alagiri Kaliyamoorthy.*

 Org. Lett. 2024, 26, 3048–3053.

20. "Direct Trideuteromethylation of Sulfenate Anions Generated In Situ from β-Sulfinyl Esters: An Access to Trideuteromethyl Sulfoxides." Fathima Pilathottathil, Sreelakshmi Unnikrishnan, Tamilarasu Murugesan, Alagiri Kaliyamoorthy.*

 J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88, 9505–9513.

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19. "Palladium-Catalyzed Regioselective C3-Allylic Alkylation of 2-Aryl Imidazopyridines with MBH Carbonates." Tamilarasu Murugesan, Afna Elikkottil, Alagiri Kaliyamoorthy.*

 J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88, 2655−2665.

18. "Heteroarylation of Sulfenate Ions in situ Generated from β-Sulfinyl Esters under Transition-Metal-Free Conditions." Fathima Pilathottathil, Sreelakshmi Unnikrishnan, Alagiri Kaliyamoorthy.* 

J. Org. Chem. 2022, 87, 14980−14990.

17. "Regioselective Allenylation and Propargylation of Various para-Quinone Methides Using Alkynyl Azaarenes as Pronucleophile." Amritha Rayaroth, Afna Elikkottil, Chithra Mohan Jayakumari, Kalyanakrishnan Arayil Vennoli, Sivaranjana Reddy Vennapusa, Alagiri Kaliyamoorthy.* 

Chem. Commun. 2022, 58, 10671-10674.

16. "Synthesis of Various α-Substituted Alkenyl Sulfoxides from Alkynes and β-Sulfinyl Esters." A. V. Kalyanakrishnan, Arun Joshy, Abhay Kumar Arya, Alagiri Kaliyamoorthy.* 

ChemistrySelect, 2021, 6, 14054-14059

15. "Palladium-Catalyzed Direct C2-Biarylation of Indoles." Tamilarasu Murugesan, Chinraj Sivarajan, Chithra Mohan Jayakumari, Rajat Kumar Singh, Sivaranjana Reddy Vennapusa, Alagiri Kaliyamoorthy.*

 J. Org. Chem. 2021, 86, 10838-10851

14. "Base-promoted 1,6-Conjugate Addition of Alkylazaarenes to para-Quinone Methides." Amritha Rayaroth, Rajat Kumar Singh, A. V. Kalyanakrishnan, Krishna Hari, Alagiri Kaliyamoorthy.* 

Org. Biomol. Chem. 2020, 18, 3354-3359. 

13. "Synthesis of Various Acylating Agents Directly from Carboxylic Acids." Fathima Pilathottathil, Doppalapudi Vineet Kumar, Alagiri Kaliyamoorthy.*

Synth. Commun.  2020, 50, 1622-1632.

12. "N-Heterocyclic carbene as a Brønsted base catalyst for the amination of naphthol derivatives and alcoholysis of glutaric anhydrides."  Jayakrishnan, K.R.;  Tamilarasu, M.; Jincy, K.V.; Alagiri Kaliyamoorthy.* 

Tetrahedron Lett. 2019, 60, 151131.

11. "Recent advancements in dehydrogenative cross coupling reactions for C–C bond  formation." Varun, B.V.; Dhineshkumar, J.; Bettadapur, K.R.; Siddaraju, Y.; Alagiri, K.; Prabhu, K.R. 

Tetrahedron Lett. 2017, 58, 803-824.

Publications from Postdoc and PhD

10. Direct Catalytic Asymmetric Mannich-type Reaction of α- and β-Fluorinated Amides. Brewitz, L.; Arteaga, F.; Yin, L.; Alagiri, K.; Kumagai, N.; Shibasaki, M. 

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 15929 – 15939.  

9. Iterative Direct Aldol Strategy for Polypropionates: Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (–)-Membrenone A and B. Alagiri, K.; Lin, S.; Kumagai, N.; Shibasaki, M. 

Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 5301–5303. 

8. Two Approaches Toward the Formal Total Synthesis of Oseltamivir Phosphate (Tamiflu): Catalytic Enantioselective Three-Component Reaction Strategy and L–Glutamic Acid Strategy. Alagiri, K.; Furutachi, M.; Yamatsugu, K.; Kumagai, N.; Watanabe, T.; Shibasaki, M. 

J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 4019–4026. 

7. A Versatile C–H Functionalization of Tetrahydroisoquinolines Catalyzed by Iodine at Aerobic Conditions. Dhineshkumar, J.; Lamani, M.; Alagiri, K.; Prabhu, K. R. 

Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 1092–1095. 

6. CDC Reactions of N-Aryl Tetrahydroisoquinolines Using Catalytic Amounts of DDQ: C–H Activation Under Aerobic Conditions. Alagiri, K.; Devadig, P.; Prabhu, K. R. 

Chem. Eur. J. 2012, 18, 5160 – 5164. 

5. C–H Functionalization of Tertiary Amines by Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling Reactions: Solvent-Free Synthesis of α-Amino Nitriles and β-Nitro Amines Under Aerobic Condition. Alagiri, K.; Prabhu, K. R. 

Org. Biomol. Chem. 2012, 10, 835-842. (Top 10% of most highly cited articles published in 2011-2012) 

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