IITKGP

Ganesh Venkataraman

Assistant Professor Grade-I

Chemistry

+91-3222-283318

ganesh.v@chem.iitkgp.ac.in

Responsibilities

  • Program Officer, NSO

Research Areas

  • Synthetic Organic Chemistry
  • Asymmetric Synthesis
  • Transition Metal Catalysis
  • Total Synthesis of Natural Products
  • Photoredox Catalysis
Metal Catalyzed Reactions

Approach to complex molecular skeletons has transformed with a growing arsenal of efficient synthetic methodologies. Metals play an important role in this due to their diverse reactivity at their various oxidation states. Our group will focus on developing new, interesting multifunctionalization reactions utilizing this diversity.

Asymmetric Synthesis

Our interest is to use the versatility of carbonyl compounds in combination with the diversity in reactivity of the metal catalysts bearing chiral ligands and achieve highly selective transformations.

Radical - Photoredox Catalysis

We are interested in intercepting our metal catalyzed reactions with radicals. We are also interested in developing solely radical mediated transformation without the assistance of a metal.

  • Organophosphorus-Catalyzed Borylative Ring-Opening of Vinylcyclopropanes: A Stereoselective Route to delta-Valerolactones Biswas K., Khamrai A. , Malik S. , Venkataraman G. By Organic Letters 25 1805-1810 (2023)
  • Recent Advances in the Synthesis and Reactivity of Vinylcyclopropanes Venkataraman G., Chandrasekaran S. By Synthesis 48 4347-4380 (2016)
  • Copper-Catalyzed Protoboration of 1,3-Diynes as a Platform for Iterative Functionalization Ghosh S., Chakrabortty R., Kumar S., Das A., Ganesh V. By ACS Catalysis 12 11660-11666 (2022)
  • Recent Advances in Organophosphorus-Catalyzed Borylation and Silylation Reactions Biswas K., Das A., Ganesh V. By Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis 363 4475-4496 (2021)
  • Strain Release of Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropyl Boronate Complexes Gregson C. G., Venkataraman G. , Aggarwal V. By Organic Letters 21 3412-3416 (2019)
  • Chiral Aniline Synthesis via Stereospecific C(sp3 ) C(sp2 ) Coupling of Boronic Esters with Aryl Hydrazines Venkataraman G., Noble A. , Aggarwal V. K. By Organic Letters 20 6144-6147 (2018)
  • Alkynyl Moiety for Triggering 1,2 Metallate Shifts: Enantiospecific sp2 sp3 Coupling of Boronic Esters with p Arylacetylenes Venkataraman G., Odachowski M. , Aggarwal V. K. By Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 56 9752-9755 (2017)
  • Enantiospecific sp2-sp3 Coupling of Chiral Boronic Esters with o- and p-Phenols. Wilson C. M., Venkataraman G. , Noble A. , Aggarwal V. K. By Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 56 16318-16322 (2017)
  • Tandem Ring Opening/Cyclization of Vinylcyclopropanes: A Facile Synthesis of Chiral Bicyclic Amidines Venkataraman G., Sureshkumar D. , Chandrasekaran S. By Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 50 5878-5881 (2011)
  • Dual Functionalization of Alkynes Utilizing the Redox Characteristics of Transition Metal Catalysts Ghosh S., Chakrabortty R. , Venkataraman G. By ChemCatChem 13 4262-4298 (2021)

Principal Investigator

  • Stereoselective Hydroboration of Conjugated and Skipped Diynes as a Platform for Iterative Chemistry
  • Transition-metal Mediated Enantioselective Reductive Coupling of Alkynes with Electrophiles

Ph. D. Students

Aankhi Khamrai

Area of Research: Metal Mediated Difunctionalization of Unsaturated Systems

Aniruddha Das

Area of Research: Metal Mediated Difunctionalization of Unsaturated Systems

Arnab Rooj

Area of Research: Tranistion Metal Catalysis

Krishna Biswas

Area of Research: Transition Metal Catalysis, Boron Chemistry

Rajesh Chakrabortty

Area of Research: Transition Metal Catalysis, Boron Chemistry

Shailendra Kumar

Area of Research: Transition Metal Catalysis, Boron Chemistry

Sourav Mondal

Area of Research: Transition Metal Catalysis, Boron Chemistry

Sudipta Ghosh

Area of Research: Metal Mediated Difunctionalization of Unsaturated Systems

Suman Ghosh

Area of Research: Transition Metal Catalysis, Boron Chemistry

Tamal Ballav

Area of Research: Metal Mediated Difunctionalization of Unsaturated Systems