Publications

37. Direct Conversion of Aryl/Alkyl Methyl Halides into Aldehydes Using Commercially Available Ru(II) Complexes, Preeti Devi, Sonia Rani and Senthilkumar Muthaiah, Chemistry Select, 2025,10, 1-5.

36. Hydrogen Production via Dehydrogenative Oxidation of Alcohols using Well-defined Ruthenium Hexamethylenetetramine Complex, Preeti Devi and Senthilkumar Muthaiah, Academia Green Energy, 2024, 1, 1-9.

35.  Ruthenium Chloride Catalyzed One-Pot Synthesis of Aldehydes Directly from Benzylic or Primary Alkyl Halides in Aqueous Medium, Kiran and Senthilkumar Muthaiah, Synlett, 2025, 36(03), 226-230.

34. Ruthenium-Induced Decomposition of Hexamethylenetetramine as a Tool for the Acid-Free Sommelet Reaction in Aqueous Medium, Preeti Devi, Vikas Dasharath Ghule, and Senthilkumar Muthaiah, J. Org. Chem., 2024, 89, 4366-4374.

33.  Synthesis, characterization and biological activity of a novel N1, N5-bis[2-hydroxyphenyl]-2-methyl-1, 5-diaminopentane Schiff base: Effect of methylene spacers on biological activities, Vidushi Sharma, Monika Yadav, Anita Bhatia, Senthilkumar Muthaiah, Jitander Kumar Kapoor, J. Mol. Struct., 2024, 1297, 136924.

32.  Well-defined ruthenium-hexamethylenetetramine complex: Synthesis, characterization, and catalytic activity towards base and acceptor free oxidation of alcohols and amines, Preeti Devi, Kiran, Ashwani Kumar, Senthilkumar Muthaiah, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2023, 558, 121729.

31. Synthesis and characterization of 1, 3,5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane based water-soluble ligands, Anita Bhatia, Senthilkumar Muthaiah, Phosphorus, Sulfur Silicon Relat. Elem., 2023, 198, 122-127.

30. Dehydrogenative oxidation of alcohols using ruthenium (II) complexes, Preeti Devi, Muthukumar Kannan, Ashwani Kumar, Senthilkumar Muthaiah, J.  Organomet. Chem., 2022, 980, 122515.

29.  Ruthenium (II)-complex-catalyzed acceptorless double dehydrogenation of primary amines to nitriles Muthukumar Kannan and Senthilkumar Muthaiah, Synlett, 2020, 31, 1073-1076.

28.  “Acceptorless dehydrogenation of Amines and Alcohols using Simple Ruthenium Chloride” Muthukumar Kannan, Parul Barteja, Preeti Devi and Senthilkumar Muthaiah, J. Catal. 2020, 386, 1-11.

27. “Ruthenium (II) Complex Catalysed Acceptorless Double Dehydrogenation of Amines to Nitriles” Muthukumar Kannan and Senthilkumar Muthaiah, Synlett, 2020, 31 (11), 1073-1076.

26. “Solvent and additive-free efficient aerobic oxidation of alcohols by a perovskite oxide-based heterogeneous catalyst” Nikhil Kumar, Kumari Naveen, Anita Bhatia, Senthilkumar Muthaiah, Vasudeva Siruguri and Avijit Kumar Paul, Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 2020, 5, 1264-1271.

25.  “Extending the Chemistry of Hexamethylenetetramine in Ruthenium Catalyzed Amine Oxidation” Muthukumar Kannan and Senthilkumar Muthaiah, Organometallics, 2019, 38(19), 3560-3567.

24. “Ruthenium Promoted Acceptorless and Oxidant-Free Lactone Synthesis in Aqueous Medium” Anita Bhatia, Muthukumar Kannan and Senthilkumar Muthaiah, Synlett 2019, 30(06), 721-725. 

23. “Synthesis of Water Soluble Ruthenium Complex and its Catalytic Activity for Acceptorless Alcohol Dehydrogenation in Aqueous Medium” Anita Bhatia and Senthilkumar Muthaiah, Synlett 2018, 29, 1644-1648. 

22. “Well-Defined Ruthenium Complex for Acceptorless Alcohol Dehydrogenation in Aqueous Medium” Anita Bhatia and Senthilkumar Muthaiah, ChemistrySelect 2018, 3, 3737-3741.

21. “Ligand- and Acid-Free Gold(I) Chloride catalyzed Hydration of Terminal Alkynes” Atanu Kumar Das, Sangseung Park,Senthilkumar Muthaiah, Soon Hyeok Hong. Synlett 2015, 26, 2517-2520.

20.  “Extending the chemistry of carbones: P-N bond cleavage via an SN2-like mechanism” Dragoslav Vidović, Chitra Gurnani, Nemanja Dordevic,  Senthilkumar Muthaiah,   Dušan Dimić,  Ganguly Rakesh and  Milena Petkovic. Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 10762-10764. 

19.  “C-F Bond Activation by Transient P(III) Based Dications” Nemanja Đorđević, Madelyn Qin Yi Tay, Senthilkumar Muthaiah, Rakesh Ganguly, Dušan Dimić, Dragoslav Vidović. Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54, 4180-4182.

18. “Synthesis of N‑Heterocyclic Carbene Stabilized Catecholatoborenium Cations by Ligand Substitution” Dinh Cao Huan Do, Senthilkumar Muthaiah, Rakesh Ganguly, and Dragoslav Vidović. Organometallics 2014, 33, 4165-4168.

17. “Tandem Synthesis of Amides and Secondary Amines from Esters with PrimaryAmines under Solvent-Free Conditions” Jeongbin Lee, Senthilkumar Muthaiah, and Soon Hyeok Hong. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2014, 356, 2653-2660.

16. “Counterion Dependence on the Synthetic Viability of NHC-Stabilized Dichloroborenium Cation” Muthaiah Senthilkumar, Dinh Cao Huan Do, Rakesh Ganguly, Dragoslav Vidović. Organometallics 2013, 32, 6718-6724. (Invited article for a special issue on “Applications of Electrophilic Main Group Organometallic Molecules”).

15. “Acceptorless Dehydrogenation of amines and secondary alcohols using ruthenium-hydride complexes” Muthaiah Senthilkumar and Hong Soon Hyeok, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2012, 354, 3045 -3053.

14. “Atom Economical Synthesis of Cyclic Imides” Muthaiah Senthilkumar and Soon Hyeok Hong, Synlett  2011, 11, 1481 -1485, invited Synpacts Highlight Article.

13. “Synthesis and reactions of (β-phenylethynyl)-gem-diphenyltrifluorocyclotri phosphazene with RCpCoL2 complexes (L = PPh3, CO; L2=COD): A comparison with the reactivity of PhCºCP3N3F5” Muthiah Senthil Kumar, Dheeraj Kumar, and Anil J. Elias, Inorg. Chim. Acta 2011, 372, 175-182.

12. “Synthesis of Cyclic Imides from Simple Diols” Jian Zhang, Senthilkumar Muthaiah, Subhash Chandra Ghosh, and Soon Hyeok Hong, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 6391. Featured in SYNFACTS 2010, 11, 1128.

11. “Direct amide synthesis from either alcohols or aldehydes with amines: activity of Ru(II) hydride and Ru(0) complexes” Senthilkumar Muthaiah, Subhash Chandra Ghosh, Joo-Eun Jee, Cheng Chen, Jian Zhang  and Soon Hyeok Hong,  J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 3002-3006.

10. “Direct amide synthesis from alcohols and amines by phosphine-free ruthenium catalysts system” Subhash Chandra Ghosh, Senthilkumar Muthaiah, Yao Zhang, Xiangya Xu and Soon Hyeok Hong, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2009, 351, 2643-2649. 

9. “Synthesis, reactivity and structural characterization of (η5-methylcyclopentadienyl)(η4-tetraphenylcyclobutadiene) cobalt and its derivatives” Rajkumar Jana, M. Senthil Kumar, Nem Singh and Anil J. Elias, J. Organomet. Chem., 2008, 693, 3780 - 3786.

8. “Synthesis and selectivity in formation of cyclophosphazene derived 1,3-cyclohexadienes from reactions of CpCo(COD) (R= MeOC(O)) with alkynes and alkenes” Muthiah Senthil Kumar, Ram Prakash Gupta and Anil J. Elias, Inorg. Chem., 2008, 47, 3433-3441.

7.  “Chemistry of cyclodicarbaphosphatriazene: Synthesis and structural studies of pentaerythritoxy-bridged and lariat ether type spirocyclic derivatives” Nabakrushna Behera, M. Senthil Kumar and Anil J. Elias, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2008, 361(7), 1929-1936. 

6. “Synthesis and characterization of novel pyrazole based ligands of   [η5-cyclopentadiene] [η4–tetraphenylcyclobutadiene] cobalt as scaffolds for the construction of multi-site coordination ligands” A. J. Elias, M. Senthil Kumar, R. P. Gupta and N. Behera, Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic, Metal-Organic, and Nano-Metal Chemistry, 2007, 37(9), 729-733.

5. “Synthesis and characterization of novel fluorophosphazene derived cobaltacyclopentadienyl metallacycles” Muthiah Senthil Kumar, Shailesh Upreti and Anil J. Elias, Inorg. Chem., 2006, 45, 7835-7842.

4.  “Reactions of [η5-carboxycyclopentadiene][η4–tetraphenylcyclobutadiene] cobalt with alkyl and aryl tin oxides: Synthesis, structural studies  and electrochemistry of novel monomeric and dimeric [η5-carboxycyclopentadiene] [η4–tetraphenylcyclobutadiene] cobalt based stannoxanes” Muthiah Senthil Kumar, Shailesh Upreti, Hanuman P. Gupta and Anil J.  Elias, J. Organomet. Chem., 2006, 691, 4708 - 4716.

3. “Synthesis of metallocene carboxylate esters [η4-Ph4-n(SiMe3)nC4] [η5-MeOC(O)C5H4]Co (n=1, 2) and their desilylation reactions: Structural studies and conversion to metallocene carboxylic acids and alcohols” Hanuman P. Gupta, M. Senthil Kumar, Shailesh Upreti, and Anil J. Elias, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2006, 5002 -5032.

2. “Reactions of gem- diphenyltetrafluorophosphazene with lithiated diols: Synthesis and characterization of novel spiro, ansa, bridged and dangling diphenylfluorophosphazene compounds. A comparison to reactions of lithiated diols with hexafluorophosphazene”  Anil J. Elias, K. Muralidharan and M. Senthil Kumar, J. Fluorine Chem., 2006, 127, 1046 -1053. 

1. “Reactions of trialkylamines with the cyclocarbaphosphazene Cl2PN(ClCN)2: Selectivity in the cleavage of alkyl groups” Anil J. Elias, P. Mishra; M. Senthil Kumar; N. Behera; N. Reddy, Phosphorus, Sulfur Silicon Relat. Elem., 2005, 180(8), 1785-1794.