Sekar Research Group

Department of Chemistry • IIT Madras • INDIA

Dr. G. Sekar Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry IIT Madras   Email:  [email protected]   Department website

Recent Publications (20)

• Sep. 2009 
  An Efficient Copper Catalyzed Synthesis of Hexahydro-1H-phenothiazines  
  (D.J.C. Prasad, and G. Sekar, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, Accepted)
  
  
An Efficient CuCl Catalyzed Selective and Direct Oxidation of β- and γ-Substituted Aliphatic Primary Alcohols to Carboxylic Acids  
(S. Mannam, and G. Sekar, Synth. Commun. 2009, accepted)


• Aug. 2009 
  An Efficient, Mild and Intermolecular Ullmann-Type Synthesis of Thioethers Catalyzed by Diol-Copper(I) Complex  (Abstract)
  (D.J.C. Prasad, and G. Sekar, Synthesis, 2009, In Press)
  
  
• Apr. 2009 
  Copper(I)-Catalyzed Caryl–Calkynyl Bond Formation of Aryl Iodides with Terminal Alkynes  (Abstract)
  (K. Gn. Thakur, G. Sekar, Synthesis, 2009, In press)
  
  
• Mar. 2009 
  Highly efficient copper catalyzed domino ring opening and Goldburg coupling cyclization for the synthesis of 3, 4-dihydro-2H-1,4-benzoxazines  (Abstract)
  (R. K. Rao, A. B. Naidu, and G. Sekar, Org Lett., 2009, 11, 1923)
  One of the most accessed top 20 papers in Organic Letters
  
  
• Chiral cobalt catalyzed enantiomer-differentiating oxidation of racemic benzoins using molecular oxygen as stoichiometric oxidant  (Abstract)
  (S. K.Alamsetti, P. Muthupandi and G. Sekar, Chem. Eur. J., ,2009, 15, 5424)
  
  
• Chiral iron complex catalyzed enantioselective oxidation of racemic benzoins  (Abstract)
  (P. Muthupandi, S. K.Alamsetti and G. Sekar, Chem. Commun., 2009, 3288)
  
  
• An efficient copper(I) complex catalyzed Sonogashira type cross-coupling of aryl halides with terminal alkynes  (Abstract)
  (K. G. Thakur, E. A. Jaseer, A. B. Naidu and G. Sekar, Tetrahedron Lett., 2009, 50, 2965)
  
  
• An efficient, mild and selective Ullmann-type N-arylation of indoles catalyzed by copper(I) complex  (Abstract)
  (R. K. Rao, A. B. Naidu, E. A. Jaseer and G. Sekar, Tetrahedron , 2009, 65, 4619)
  
  
• A general, mild and intermolecular Ullmann-type synthesis of diaryl and alkyl aryl ethers catalyzed by diol-copper(I) complex  (Abstract)
  (A. B. Naidu, E. A. Jaseer and G. Sekar, J. Org. Chem, 2009, 74, 3675)
  One of the most accessed top 20 papers in Journal of Organic Chemistry
  
  
• Feb. 2009
  The group's latest paper got accepted in Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 
  An enantiopure galactose oxidase model: synthesis of chiral amino alcohols through oxidative kinetic resolution catalyzed by chiral copper complex  (Abstract)
  (S. Mannam, and G. Sekar, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 2009, 20, 495)
  
  
• Jan. 2009
  The group's latest paper has been accepted in Tetrahedron Letters 
  An efficient intermolecular C(aryl)-S bond forming reaction catalyzed by BINAM-copper(II) complex (Abstract)
  (D.J.C. Prasad, Ajay B. Naidua and G. Sekar, Tetrahedron Lett., 2009, 50, 1411)
  
  
• Nov. 2008
  Recent paper got accepted in Chemistry: A European Journal 
  Galactose Oxidase Model: Biomimetic, Enantiomer-Differentiating Oxidation of Alcohols by Chiral Copper Complex (Abstract)
  (Santosh Kumar Alamsetti, Sreedevi Mannam, P. Muthupandi, G. Sekar, Chem. Eur. J., 2009, 15, 1086)
  
  
• Mar. 2008
  Recent paper got accepted in Tetrahedron Letters 
  An efficient intermolecular BINAM-copper (I) catalyzed Ullmann coupling of aryl iodides/bromides with aliphatic alcohols (Abstract)
  (Ajay B. Naidu, and G. Sekar, Tetrahedron Lett., 2008, 49, 3147)
  
  
• Jan. 2008
  Our group's latest paper got accepted for publication in Tetrahedron Letters 
  CuCl catalyzed selective oxidation of primary alcohols to carboxylic acids with tert-butyl hydroperoxide at room temperature (Abstract)
  (Sreedevi Mannam and G. Sekar,Tetrahedron Lett.,2008, 49, 2457)
  
  
• Nov. 2007
  Our research group?s two articles got accepted for publication in ?Tetrahedron Letters? journal
  CuCl catalyzed oxidation of aldehydes to carboxylic acids with aqueous tert-butyl hydroperoxide under mild conditions (Abstract)
  Sreedevi Mannam and G. Saekar, Tetrahedron Lett.,2008,49,1083
  
  
• Nov. 2007
  An Efficient BINAM-Copper(II) catalyzed Ullmann-type synthesis of diaryl ethers (Abstract)
  Ajay B. Naidu, O. R. Raghunath, D. J. C. Prasad and G. Sekar,Tetrahedron Lett., 2008, 49, 1057
  
  
• Sep. 2007
  The group's recent paper got accepted in Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis (Impact factor: 4.67)
  Aerobic, Chemoselective Oxidation of Alcohols to Carbonyl Compounds Catalyzed by DABCO-Copper Complex under Mild Conditions (Abstract)
  S. Mannam, S. K. Alamsetti and G. Sekar, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2007, 349, 2253
  
  
• Nov. 2006
  The group's first paper got accepted in Chemical Communication.
  Highly stereoselective chlorination of -substituted cyclic alcohols using PPh3?NCS: factors that control the stereoselectivity (Abstract)
  E. A. Jaseer, Ajay B. Naidu, Sreehari S. Kumar, R. Koteshwar Rao, Krishna G. Thakur and G. Sekar
  

Group News

• Sep, 2009 
  The group welcomes Mr. D. Ganapathy(CSIR JRF



• 29 Jun, 2009 
  Sridevi Mannam has successfully defended her thesis. Her thesis is selected for the Best Thesis in Chemistry Award for the year 2009 (Prof.C.N.Pillai Prize).



• Jun. 2009 
  The group welcomes Dr. E. Poonguzhali (DST fast track young scientist) 



• Apr. 2009 
  The group welcomes Mr. Arpan Dandapat and Mr. Chiranjeevi Korupalli (M.Sc project)



• Mar. 2009 
  A new instrumentation room has been added to the group 



• Feb. 2009 
  Ms.Mannam Sridevi has submitted her thesis for Ph.D. 



• Jan. 2009 
  Mr.I.Karthikeyan has joined the group (CSIR JRF) 



• Sep. 2007 
  Group's new lab CB 205C was inagurated on 15th Sep 2007. Photos here



• Aug. 2007 
  Mr. Jagdish and Mr. Raghunath have joined the group for Ph.D programme and M.Sc. research project work respectively



• Jan. 2007 
  Mr. Santhosh Kumar Alamsetti and Mr.Muthupandi have joined the group for Ph. D. programme



• July. 2006
  Congratulations Jaseer for winning "Students Innovative project"

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