Room Temperature Organocatalysis/Photocatalysis: The field of catalysis is well recognized for its scientific/social impacts and Nobel Prize awards in this field in 2001 by Knowles, Noyori and Sharpless for stereo-selective oxidation, in 2005 by Chauvin, Grubbs and Schrock for metathesis, in 2010 by Heck, Negishi and Suzuki for cross coupling and most recently in 2021 by Benjamin List and David MacMillan for asymmetric organocatalysis. Using various ruthenium and iridium metal complexes, we are trying to develop new organic methodologies. Our main focus is to development of various macro-cyclic scaffolds with different binding site (mainly carbon or nitrogen) so that selectively different metal can bind and display merging catalytic reactivity.

Recent Publications- 

J. Org. Chem., 2024, 89, 22, 16750–16758. [Link]; Org. Chem. Front., 2024, 11, 6367-6379.  [Link]; ACS Catal. 2024, 14, 9, 6633–6643 [Link]; Chem. Eur. J. 2023, e202303337 [Link],  J. Org. Chem. 2023. [Link], Chem. Eur. J. 2023, e202301637 [Link] ; Org. Lett. 2023, 25, 1, 184–189 [Link].