• Highly regio- and enantioselective g-alkylation of linear a,b-Unsaturated aldehydes 

  Kutwal, Mahesh S.; Appayee, Chandrakumar (Wiley, 2017-05)

  Asymmetric alkylation is one of the most useful carbon-carbon bond forming reactions in synthetic organic chemistry. Chiral amine catalyzed alkylation reactions often lack regioselectivity due to multiple reactive centers. ...
• Singlet-singlet energy transfer in carbazole-porphyrin dyads and triads 

  Balsukuri, Naresh; Gupta, Iti (Elsevier, 2017-05)

  Donor-Acceptor (D-π-A) type carbazole-porphyrin dyads and triads were synthesized in good yields through palladium catalyzed coupling reactions. The length of the spacer between the D (carbazole) and A (porphyrin) was ...
• Adsorption of C2 gases over CeO2-based catalysts: synergism of cationic sites and anionic vacancies 

  Padole, Manjusha C.; Gangwar, Bhanu Pratap; Pandey, Aman; Singhal, Aditi; Sharma, Sudhanshu; Deshpande, Parag A. (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017-05)

  The synthesis of novel and efficient catalysts for acetylene hydrogenation exhibiting high selectivity towards ethylene is important due to the presence of selective acetylene hydrogenation reaction in petrochemical ...
• Red-emitting cationic fluorophore as a probe for anionic surfactants 

  Vasu, Anuji K.; Kanvah, Sriram (Elsevier, 2017-07)

  A water soluble N-methylpyridinium dye (DABP) was synthesized and investigated as a fluorescence probe for the detection of anionic surfactants. DABP shows strong solvatochromism with emission at 685 nm in water. The ...
• Molecular connectivity and correlation effects on polymer coacervation 

  Radhakrishna, Mithun; Basu, Kush; Liu, Yalin; Shamsi, Rasmia; Perry, Sarah L.; Sing, Charles E. (American Chemical Society, 2017-03)

  Our ability to predict the thermodynamic phase behavior of a material system is a direct reflection on our understanding of the relevant interactions. Voorn–Overbeek (VO) theory, which combines Flory–Huggins polymer mixing ...
• Crystal structure and Hirshfeld surface analysis of ethyl 5-phenylisoxazole-3-carboxylate 

  Shaik, Althaf; Kirubakaran, Sivapriya; Thiruvenkatam, Vijay (International Union of Crystallography, 2017)

  The title compound, C12H11NO3, is an inter­mediate used in the synthesis of many drug-like mol­ecules. The mol­ecule is almost planar, with the phenyl ring inclined to the isoxazole ring by 0.5 (1)°. The ester moiety has ...
• Evaluating the role of acidic, basic, and polar amino acids and dipeptides on a molecular electrocatalyst for H2oxidation 

  Boralugodage, Nilusha Priyadarshani; Arachchige, Rajith Jayasingha; Dutta, Arnab; Buchko, Garry W.; Shaw, Wendy J. (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017-02)

  Amino acids and peptides have been shown to have a significant influence on the H2 production and oxidation reactivity of Ni(PR2NR′2)2, where PR2NR′2 = 1,5-diaza-3,7-diphosphacyclooctane, R is either phenyl (Ph) or cyclohexyl ...
• α- Cyanostyrenes with Pyrene Scaffold: Unique Emission through Aggregation 

  Kanvah, Sriram; Katla, Jagadish; Bhat, Haamid R.; Jha, Prakash C.; Ghalsasi, Prasanna S. (Wiley, 2017-02)

  α-cyanostyrenes bearing a pyrene scaffold are synthesized and characterized using spectroscopic techniques. The pyrenyl styrenes are weakly emissive in solution state but show enhanced emission in water due to the formation ...
• Carbon-nanotube-supported Bio-inspired Nickel catalyst and its integration in hybrid Hydrogen/Air fuel cells 

  Dutta, Arnab; Gentil, Solene; Lalaoui, Noemie; Nedellec, Yannig; Cosnier, Serge; Shaw, Wendy J.; Artero, Vincent; Le Goff, Alan (Wiley, 2017-01)

  A biomimetic nickel bis-diphosphine complex incorporating the amino acid arginine in the outer coordination sphere was immobilized on modified carbon nanotubes (CNTs) through electrostatic interactions. The functionalized ...
• Donor-acceptor type A2B2 porphyrins: synthesis, energy transfer, computational and electrochemical studies 

  Gupta, Iti; Das, Sudipta; Bhat, Haamid Rasool; Balsukuri, Naresh; Jha, Prakash C; Hisamune, Yutaka; Ishida, Masatoshi; Furuta, Hiroyuki; Mori, Shigeki (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017-01)

  A series of donor-acceptor type trans-A2B2 porphyrins and their Zn(II) and Pd(II) complexes 5-13 have been synthesized and characterized by various spectroscopic techniques. The effect of the donor moieties (e.g., ...
• Carbohydrate tethered cyanostilbene fluorogen: unique emission and preferential protein binding 

  Vasu, Anuji K.; Paramasivam, Mahalingavelar; Kanvah, Sriram (Wiley, 2017-01)

  A simple and efficient construction of a water-soluble glycoconjugate bearing a cyanostilbene with glucose pendant and its interaction with proteins is reported. The absorption and fluorescence behavior of this glycoconjugate ...
• Synthesis and characterization of styryl-BODIPY derivatives for monitoring in vitro Tau aggregation 

  Mani, Vedamalai; Krishnakumar, Guru V.; Gupta, Sharad; Mori, Shigeki; Gupta, Iti (Elsevier, 2017-01)

  New synthetic strategy to synthesize α-methyl BODIPY derivatives from dipyrromethanes is reported. The method involves regioselective formylation of dipyrromethane followed by modified Wolff-Kishner reduction. The ...
• Non-reducible, basic La2O3 to reducible, acidic La2-xSbxO3 with significant oxygen storage capacity, lower band gap and effect on the catalytic activity 

  Pandey, Aman; Jain, Gunisha; Vyas, Divya; Irusta, Silvia; Sharma, Sudhanshu (American Chemical Society, 2016-12)
• High charge density coacervate assembly via hybrid monte carlo single chain in mean field theory 

  Radhakrishna, Mithun; Lytle, Tyler K.; Sing, Charles E. (American Chemical Society, 2016-12)
• Green synthesis of 1,4-benzodiazepines over La2O3 and La(OH)3 catalysts: possibility of Langmuir–Hinshelwood adsorption 

  Palakollu, Veerabhadraiah; Singh, Archana; Pandey, Aman; Kanvah, Sriram; Sharma, Sudhanshu (RSC Advances, 2016-10)

  Lanthanum oxide [La2O3] and lanthanum hydroxide [La(OH)3] have been utilized as bases for the three-component reaction of aldehyde, dimedone and o-phenylenediamine for the synthesis of 1,4-benzodiazepine derivatives. The ...
• Gold-nanorod-enhanced FCS of fluorophores with high quantum yield in lipid bilayers 

  Pradhan, Biswajit; Khatua, Saumyakanti Saumyakanti; Gupta, Ankur; Aartsma, Thijs J.; Canters, Gerard W.; Orrit, Michel (American Chemical Society, 2016-10)

  Plasmonic fluorescence enhancement is used to study fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) at higher concentrations than in regular diffraction-limited FCS experiments. Previous studies suffered from sticking to the ...
• Selective recognition of G-Quadruplexes by a dimeric carbocyanine dye 

  Chilka, Pallavi; Reddy, Patlollar; Prathap; Datta, Bhaskar (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016-09)

  A novel dimeric carbocyanine dye is found to recognise G-quadruplex structures selectively compared to mixed sequence or double-stranded DNA molecules. The dye exhibits a preference for G3-bearing parallel quadruplexes and ...
• Covalent attachment of the water-insoluble Ni(PCy2NPhe2)2 electrocatalyst to electrodes showing reversible catalysis in aqueous solution 

  Rodríguez-Maciá, Patricia; Priyadarshani, Nilusha; Dutta, Arnab; Weidenthaler, Claudia; Lubitz, Wolfgang; Shaw, Wendy J.; Rüdiger, Olaf (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016-07)

  Hydrogenases are a diverse group of metalloenzymes which catalyze the reversible conversion between molecular hydrogen and protons at high rates. The catalytic activity of these enzymes does not require overpotential because ...
• Achieving reversible H2/H+ interconversion at room temperature with enzyme-inspired molecular complexes: a mechanistic study 

  Priyadarshani, Nilusha; Dutta, Arnab; Ginovska, Bojana; Buchko, Garry W.; O'Hagan, Molly; Raugei, Simone; Shaw, Wendy J. (American Chemical Society, 2016-07)

  Inspired by the contribution of the protein scaffold to the efficiency with which enzymes function, we used outer coordination sphere features to develop a novel molecular electrocatalyst for the reversible production/oxidation ...
• One pot, rapid synthesis of Co3O4 by solution combustion method and its electrochemical properties in different electrolytes 

  Singhal, Aditi; Bisht, Anuj; Kumar, Amit; Sharma, Sudhanshu (Elsevier, 2016-07)

  Nano-crystalline Co3O4 is synthesized using solution combustion method. Characterization is done using XRD, TEM and BET surface area analysis. XRD shows pure nano-crystalline phase of Co3O4. Crystallinity of as prepared ...

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