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Professor Veejendra K. Yadav, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

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Research Publications

  1. Improvements in or Relating to a Process for the Preparation of (-)-Car-3-ene-5-one,
    Amar N. Misra, Veejendra K. Yadav, R. Soman, Sukh Dev
    Patent 155122 (1982).
  2. Synthetic Aspects of Santalenes and Santalols
    Veejendra K. Yadav, Satish C. Bisarya
    J. Sci. & Ind. Res. 1982, 41, 650.
  3. An Enantioselective Synthesis of (+)-Crotanecine
    Veejendra K. Yadav, Heinrich Rueger, Michael Benn
    Heterocycles 1984, 22, 2735.
  4. Structure of Ethyl[(1S,5R,8R)-8-Hydroxy-3-oxo-2-oxa-6-azabicyclo(3.3.0)oct-6-yl]acetate Hydrobromide
    John F. Richardson, Veejendra K. Yadav
    Acta. Cryst. 1985, C41, 1687.
  5. Intramolecular Routes to Hydrindanes: The Diels-Alder and Michael-Aldol Approach to 6-Isopropyl-9-methylbicyclo[4.3.0]nonan-3-one
    S. K. Attah.-Poku, Felix Chau, Veejendra K. Yadav, Alex G. Fallis
    J. Org. Chem. 1985, 50, 3418.
  6. Regioselective Cleavage of 2-Methyltetrahydrofuran: A versatile Synthesis of 1-Halo-4-pentanols and 4-Halo-1-pentanols
    Veejendra K. Yadav and Alex G. Fallis
    J. Org. Chem. 1986, 51,3372.
  7. Cyclopentane Synthesis and Annulation: Intramolecular Radical Cyclization of Acetals
    Veejendra K. Yadav and Alex G. Fallis
    Tetrahedron Lett. 1988,29, 847.
  8. Some Periodical Trends in Compounds Containing O, S, Se, and Te: An ab initio Study
    Veejendra K. Yadav, Arpita Yadav and Raymond A. Poirier
    J. Mol. Struct. (Theochem) 1989, 186, 101.
  9. Cyclopentane Synthesis and Annulation II: Radical Cyclization of Oxathiolanones
    Veejendra K. Yadav and Alex G. Fallis
    Tetrahedrn Lett. 1989, 30,3283.
  10. A Practical Approach to Homo Trialkyl Phosphonates: Catalytic Michaelis-Arbuzov Reaction
    Veejendra K. Yadav
    Synth. Commun. 1990, 20, 239.
  11. Cyclohexenyl Transfer: Synthesis of Cyclohexenyl Substituted Homoallylic Alcohols via a Tin(IV) Diethyl Tartarate Complex
    Veejendra K. Yadav
    Synth. Commun. 1990, 20, 1023.
  12. Free Radical Based Cycloalkanol Synthesis and Annulation from Thioacetal Precursors
    Veejendra K. Yadav and Alex G. Fallis
    Can. J. Chem. 1991, 69, 779-789.
  13. Symmetry and Synthetic Chemistry
    Veejendra K. Yadav, Arpita Yadav, Amitav Sanyal
    Jr. Sci. & Industr. Res. 1994, 53, 778-788.
  14. An ab initio Study of the Thermal Fragmentation of N-Acyloxy pyridine-2-thione: A [3.3] Sigmatropic Process Initiates the Radical Chain
    Veejendra K. Yadav, Arpita Yadav, Praveen Pande, Kamal K. Kapoor
    Ind. J. Chem. 1994, 33B, 1129-1133.
  15. An ab initio Study of Anticonvulsants
    Arpita Yadav and Veejendra K. Yadav
    J. Mol. Struct. (Theochem) 1994, 315, 245-251.
  16. Al2O3 Supported KF: An Efficient Mediator in the Epoxidation of Electron Deficient Alkenes with t-BuOOH
    Veejendra K. Yadav and K. K. Kapoor
    Tetrahedron Lett. 1994, 35, 9481-9484.
  17. 1,8-Diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene: a Remarkable Base in the Epoxidation of a,b-Unsaturated d-Lactones and other Enones with Anhydrous t-BuOOH
    Veejendra K. Yadav and Kamal K. Kapoor
    Tetrahedron 1995, 51, 8573-8581.
  18. PLAP-catalysed hydrolysis and optical resolution. Synthesis of 4(S), 6(S)-4-hydroxy-6-(2-phenylethyl) tetrahydropyran-2-one: the unnatural mevinolin analog
    Veejendra K. Yadav and Kamal K. Kapoor
    Ind. J. Chem. 1995, 34B, 1026-1029.
  19. 3,4-Dehydro-2-Hydroxy-6-(2-Phenylethyl)tetrahydropyran. Acyclic 1,3-Diastereoselection in Reaction with MeOH and its Application to the Synthesis of a Racemic Mevinolin Analog
    Veejendra K. Yadav and Kamal K. Kapoor
    Ind. J. Chem. 1996, 35B, 08.
  20. KF adsorbed on Al2O3 effectively promotes the epoxidation of electron deficient alkenes by anhydrous t-BuOOH
    Veejendra K. Yadav and Kamal K. Kapoor
    Tetrahedron 1996, 52, 3659.
  21. Mevinolins and the Related Analogs. The Synthetic Aspects
    Veejendra K. Yadav and Kamal K. Kapoor
    Ind. J. Chem. 1996, 35B, 1125-1143.
  22. An ab initio study of Histamine Agonists
    Arpita Yadav and Veejendra K. Yadav
    Ind. J. Biochem. & Biophys. 1996, 34, 396-401.
  23. Oxa-thia-spiro-decene Derivatives
    Masood Parvez, Durauiswamy A. Jeyaraj, Veejendra K. Yadav
    Acta Cryst. 1997, C53, 1961-1963.
  24. The Directional Changes in Torsion Angles Alone After Complexation of the Carbonyl Oxygen with a Prototypical Cation such as H+ Predict the Facial Selectivity of Substituted Cyclohexanones. An ab initio Investigation
    Duraiswamy A. Jeyaraj, Arpita Yadav, Veejendra K. Yadav
    Tetrahedron Letts. 1997, 38, 4483-4486.
  25. 3-Halocyclohexanones. Torsion Angle Changes After Cation-Carbonyl Complexation Dictate the Facial Selectivity in Reactions with Nucleophiles: An ab initio Investigation
    Duraiswamy A. Jeyaraj and Veejendra K. Yadav
    Tetrahedron Letts. 1997,38, 6095.
  26. DBU-Catalysed Deconjugation of 3,4-Dehydro-2-oxepanones. Deuterium Incorporation, Significance of the Imine Double Bond and Application to the Synthesis of a Key Pharmacophore
    D. A. Jeyaraj, K. K. Kapoor, Veejendra K. Yadav, H. M. Gauniyal, M. Parvez
    J. Org. Chem. 1998, 63, 287-294.
  27. 4-Substituted Cyclohexanones. Predicting the Facial Selectivity from the Geometrical Changes on Cation-Carbonyl Complexation: An ab initio Investigation
    Duraiswamy A. Jeyaraj and Veejendra K. Yadav
    J. Org. Chem. 1998,63, 3474-3477.
  28. An Investigation of the Diastereoselectivity of Nucleophilic Additions to 6-Methyl-1-oxa-4-thiaspiro[4.5]dec-6-ene-7-carbaldehyde. Hybridization of the Nucleophile Alters Diastereoselectivity
    Duraiswamy A. Jeyaraj, Veejendra K. Yadav, Masood Parvez, H. M. Gauniyal
    J. Org. Chem. 1998, 63, 3831.
  29. 2-(7-Ethylidene-6-methyl-1-oxa-4-thiaspiro[4.5]dec-7-yl)ethanol
    Masood Parvez, Veejendra K. Yadav, Duraiswamy A. Jeyaraj
    Acta. Cryst. 1998, C54, 1679-1681.
  30. 7-Hydroxymethyl-6-methyl-1-oxa-4-thiaspiro[4.5]dec-6-ene. Exceptionally High anti to Sulfur Diastereoselectivity under Conditions of Johnson Orthoester Claisen Rearrangement Favors Cieplak Mode of Diastereoselection
    Veejendra K. Yadav, Duraiswamy A. Jeyaraj, Masood Parvez, Raghav Yamdagni
    J. Org. Chem. 1999, 64, 2928.
  31. Diastereofacial Selectivities of Substituted 5-Aza- and 5-Bora-2-adamantanones. Application of the Complexation Model and its ab initio Investigation
    Veejendra K. Yadav, G. Senthil, Duraiswamy A. Jeyaraj
    Tetrahedron 1999, 55, 14211-14218.
  32. The Suitability of Anion-Accelerated oxy-Cope Rearrangement as a Probe to Study π-Facial Selectivity. An Experimental Study with (6-Methyl-1-oxa-4-thiaspiro[4.5]dec-6-en-7-yl)(allyl)methanols
    Veejendra K. Yadav, Duraiswamy A. Jeyaraj, Masood Parvez
    J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans 1 2000, 1423-1428.
  33. The Synthesis of Hydroxysmirnovine
    Veejendra K. Yadav, Phillip Williams, Michael Benn
    Can. J. Chem. 2000, 78, 542-545.
  34. The Cation Complexation Model Predicts the Experimental π-Facial Selectivity of 2-ax- and 2-eq-Substituted Cyclohexanones. A Detailed ab initio MO Investigation
    Veejendra K. Yadav, Duraiswamy A. Jeyaraj, Rengarajan Balamurugan
    Tetrahedron 2000, 56, 7581-7589.
  35. Johnson orthoester Claisen rearrangement products of some (1-oxa-4-thiaspiro[4.5]dec-6-en-6-yl)alkanols
    Masood Parvez, Veejendra K. Yadav, G. senthil
    Acta Cryst. 2001, C57, 79-81.
  36. Some Diels-Alder adducts of 6-vinyl-1-oxa-4-thiaspiro[4.5]dec-6-ene
    Masood Parvez, Veejendra K. Yadav, G. Senthil
    Acta Cryst. 2001, C57, 82-85.
  37. 7-Phenyl-1-oxa-4-thiaspiro[4.5]decan-7-ol stereoisomers
    Masood Parvez, G. Senthil, Veejendra K. Yadav
    Acta. Cryst. 2001, C57, 577-579.
  38. A comparison of the Cieplak model and the cation complexation model as applied to selected 2,3-disubstituted 7-norbornanones
    Veejendra K. Yadav and Rengarajan Balamurugan
    J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans 2, 2001, 01-02.
  39. The thionophosphate-thiolophosphate photoisomerization proceeds predominantly through a non-chain radical pathway. Preparation of 2-benzyltetrahydrofurans and 2-benzyl-2-propanols and allylic benzylation of alkenes
    Veejendra K. Yadav, Rengarajan Balamurugan, Masood Parvez
    J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans 1 2001, 323-332.
  40. Do the anti-Selectivities of 2,3-endo,endo-Dimethylnorbornan-7-one and the Corresponding Diethyl Analog Obey the Cieplak Model? An ab initio MO Investigation and Application of Cation Complexation Model
    Veejendra K. Yadav
    J. Org. Chem. 2001, 66, 2501-2502.
  41. Ab Initio MO Investigations of the Diastereoselectivities of Five- and Six-Membered Ring Ketones Bearing O and S, C and S, and C and O at the a-Carbon
    Veejendra K. Yadav and V. Sriramurthy
    Tetrahedron 2001, 57,3987-3995.
  42. KF-Al2O3 is an Efficient Solid Support Reagent for the Acetylation of Alcohols and Amines. Impeding Effect of Solvent on the Reaction Rate
    Veejendra K. Yadav, K. Ganesh Babu, Manish Mittal
    Tetrahedron 2001, 57, 7047-7051.
  43. Silicon-Assisted Ring Opening of Donor-Acceptor Substituted Cyclopropanes. An Expedient Entry to Substituted Dihydrofurans
    Veejendra K. Yadav and Rengarajan Balamurugan
    Org. Letts 2001, 2717-2719.
  44. π-Facial Selectivities of Diastereotopic Ketones. p-Bromobenzoates of 4-Hetero-1-decalinols
    Masood Parvez, Veejendra K. Yadav, Rengarajan Balamurugan
    Acta Cryst. 2001, C57, 1084-1088.
  45. Heteroatom Influence on the p-Facial Selectivity of Diels-Alder Additions to 1-Oxa-4-thia-6-vinylspiro[4.5]dec-6-ene, 3-Methoxy-3-methyl-2-vinylcyclohexene, and 3-Methoxy-2-vinylcyclohexene
    Veejendra K. Yadav, G. Senthil, K. Ganesh Babu, Masoos Parvez, Jennifer L. Reid
    J. Org. Chem. 2002, 67, 1109-1117.
  46. 4-Oxa-tricyclo[5.2.1.02,6]decan-10-one and 4-Oxa-tricyclo[5.2.1.02,6]dec-8-en-10-one. Experimental and DFT Investigations of the π-Selectivities
    Veejendra K. Yadav and Rengarajan Balamurugan
    J. Org. Chem. 2002, 67, 587-590.
  47. Synthesis of g-methylene oxacycles and a- and b-alkylidene lactones via silicon-assisted ring opening of cyclopropyl carbinols
    Veejendra K. Yadav and Rengarajan Balamurugan
    Chem. Commun. 2002, 514-515.
  48. Mercuric Triflate Catalyzed Hydroxylative Carbocyclization of 1,6-Enynes
    M. Nishizawa, Veejendra K. Yadav, M. Skwarczynski, H. Takao, H. Imagawa, T. Sugihara
    Org. Letts. 2003, 5, 1609-1611.
  49. Efficient Solution Phase Combinatorial Access to a Library of Pyrazole- and Triazole-Containing Ligands
    R. Touzani, S. Garbacia, O. Lavastre, Veejendra K. Yadav, B. Carboni
    J. Combinat. Chem. 2003, 5, 375-378.
  50. Bicyclo[2.1.1]hexan-2-one as a New Probe for the Study of p-Facial Selectivity in Nucleophilic Additions. A comment
    Veejendra K. Yadav, K. Ganesh Babu, Rengarajan Balamurugan
    Tetrahedron Lett 2003, 44, 6617-6619.
  51. AcCl-EtOH Brings About a Remarkably Efficient Conversion of Allyl Acetates into Allyl Chlorides
    Veejendra K. Yadav and K. Ganesh Babu
    Tetrahedron 2003, 59, 9111-9116.
  52. Diastereoselective Aldol Reactions of Enolates Generated from Vicinallly Substituted Trimethylsilylmethyl Cyclopropyl Ketones
    Veejendra K. Yadav and Rengarajan Balamurugan
    Org. Lett. 2003, 5, 4281-4284.
  53. Mercuric Triflate-(TMU)3-Catalyzed Cyclization of w-Arylalkyne Leading to Dihydronaphtalenes
    Mugio Nishizawa, Hiroko Takao, Veejendra K. Yadav, Hiroshi Imagawa, Takumichi Sugihara
    Org. Lett. 2003, 5, 4563-4565.
  54. Reactions on solid surface. A simple, economical and efficient acylation of alcohols and amines over alumina.
    Veejendra K. Yadav and K. Ganesh Babu
    J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69, 577-580.
  55. Formal [3 + 2] Addition of Acceptor-Substituted Cyclopropylmethylsilanes with Arylacetylenes
    Veejendra K. Yadav, V. Sriramurthy
    Angewandte Chemie 2004, 43, 2669-2671.
  56. Do the Electronic Effects of Sulfur Indeed Control the π-Selectivity of γ-Sulfenyl Enones? A Reinvestigation
    Veejendra K. Yadav, K. Ganesh Babu, Masood Parvez
    J.Org.Chem. 2004, 69, 3866-3874.
  57. Highly Stereoselective Prins Cyclization of Silylmethyl Substituted Cyclopropyl Carbinols to 2,4,6-Trisubstituted Tetrahydropyrans
    Veejendra K. Yadav and N. Vijay Kumar
    J. Am. Chem. Soc 2004, 126, 8652-8653.>
  1. On the reaction of 1-oxa-4-thiaspiro[4.5]decan-7-one with PhLi. A reinvestigation
    Veejendra K. Yadav, Govindaraji Senthil, Latika Singh, Masood Parvez
    J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69, 8131-8132.
  2. Formal [3 + 2] and [3 + 3] Additions of Acceptor-Substituted Cyclopropylmethylsilanes to Allenylsilanes
    Veejendra K. Yadav, Vardhineedi Sriramurthy
    Org. Letts. 2004, 6, 4495-4498.
  3. Investigation of the Diastereoselectivity of Tricyclo(5.2.1.02,6)decan-10-ones. Controversies and Agreements
    Veejendra K. Yadav, Latika Singh
    J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 692-695.
  4. 1-Substituted-tricyclo[2.1.0.02,5]pentan-3-ones. Revisiting the Diastereoselectivity
    Veejendra K. Yadav, Archana Gupta, Divya Agarwal, Sachin Srivastava and Virendra S. Yadava
    ARKIVOC (Gainesville, FL, United States) 2005, 3, 67-73.
  5. A remarkable efficient Markovnikov hydrochlorination of olefins and transformation of nitriles into imidates using AcCl and an alcohol
    Veejendra K. Yadav, K. Ganesh Babu
    Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2005, 10, 452-456.
  6. 1- Silylmethyl-substituted aziridine and azetidine as masked 1,3- and 1,4-dipoles for formal [3 + 2] and [4 + 2] cycloaddition reactions
    Veejendra K. Yadav, Vardhineedi Sriramurthy
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 16366-16367.
  7. Distinguishing the early and late transition states and exploring the validity of σ→σ*#, σ#,→σ* and σ→π*C=O concepts in diastereoselection from NBO analysis
    Veejendra K. Yadav, Archana Gupta, Rengarajan Balamurugan, Vardhineedi Sriramurthy and Naganabonia Vijaya Kumar
    J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71, 4178-4182.
  8. 4,5-Didehyro-7-silyloxymethyl-2-oxepanone and formal total syntheses of Hagen fs gland lactones and trans-kumausynes
    Divya Agrawal, Vardhineedi Sriramurthy and Veejendra K. Yadav
    Tetrahedron Lett. 2006, 47, 7615-7618.
  9. A highly diastereoselective approach to tetrahydrofurans via [3 + 2] cycloaddition of a silylmethyl-substituted cyclopropane with aldehydes and ketones
    Archana Gupta and Veejendra K. Yadav
    Tetrahedron Lett. 2006, 47, 8043-8047. For corrigendum, see: Tetrahedron Letters 2006, 47, 9159.
  10. π-Selectivities of trans-2-heterobicyclo[4.4.0]decan-5-ones in reductions with NaBH4 and Na(CN)BH3
    Rengarajan Balamurugan, Vardhineedi Sriramurthy and Veejendra K. Yadav
    Ind. J. Chem. 2007, 46B, 509-515.
  11. Do the electronic effects of sulfur indeed control the pi-selectivity of gama-sulfenyl enones? Further evidence
    K Ganesh Babu and Veejendra K Yadav
    Ind. J. Chem.     2007, 46B, 1001-1003.
  12. Lewis acid-catalyzed formation of indene derivatives via tandem reactions of arylacetylenes with the cations generated from silylmethyl-substituted cyclopropyl carbinols
    Veejendra K. Yadav, Naganabonia Vijay Kumar and Masood Parvez
    Chem. Commun.     2007, 2281-2283.

  13. Total syntheses of (+)-7-epi-goniofufurone, (+)-goniopypyrone and (+)-goniofufurone from a common precursor
    Veejendra K. Yadav and Divya Agrawal
    Chem. Commun. 2007, 232-5234.

  14. 2,3-Heteroaromatic ring-fused cyclohexanones via heteroaromatic homo-Nazarov cylcization of donor-acceptor substituted cyclopropanes
    Veejendra K. Yadav and Naganabonia Vijaya Kumar
    Chem. Commun. 2008, 3774-3776.

  15. Silylmethyl-substituted cyclopropyl and other strained systems: cycloaddition with dipolarophiles
    Divya Agrawal and Veejendra K. Yadav
    Chem. Commun. 2008, 6471-6488.

  16. A new synthesis of pyrrolidines via imino-aldol reaction of (2-trimethylsilylmethyl)cyclopropyl ketones with imines
    Veejendra K. Yadav and Archana Gupta
    Tetrahedron Lett.2008, 49, 3212-3215.

  17. Raction of 2-silylmethylcyclopropyl ketones with in situ oxirane-derived aldehydes and formation of 2-hydroxymethyl tetrahydrofurans
    Veejendra K. Yadav and Archana Gupta
    Tetrahedron Lett. 2009, 50, 4647-4650.

  18. A smooth rearrangement of N-p-toluenesulfonyl 2-tert-butyldiphenylsilylmethyl-substituted azetidines into N-p-toluenesulfonyl 3-tert-butyldiphenylsilyl-substituted pyrrolidines
    Bharat D. Narhe, Vardhineedi Sriramurthy and Veejendra K. Yadav
    Org. Biomol. Chem. 2012, 10, 4390-4399.

  19. A route to 2-alkenyl-3-(tert-butyldiphenylsilyl)amines and application to the construction of a tricyclic ring system
    Veejendra K. Yadav, Bharat D. Narhe, Kamlesh Kumar and Vijaykumar Hulikal
    Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 4163-4174.

  20. 2-Arylcyclopropylmethanol as a substitute for homoallyl aryl alcohol in the construction of cis-2,6-disubstituted tetrahydropyran: synthesis of (±)-centrolobine
    Veejendra K. Yadav, Ashish K. Verma, Piyush Kumar and Vijaykumar Hulikal
    Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 15457-15460.

  21. Allylsilane-interrupted homo-Nazarov cyclization and synthesis of bicyclo[3.2.1]octan-8-ones
    Veejendra K. Yadav, Vijaya K. Naganaboina, Vijaykumar Hulikal
    Tetrahedron Lett. 2014, 55, 2015-2018.

  22. Synergistic pharmacological effects of phytochemicals derived from ginger, garlic and tulsi
    Prakhar Shukla, Sweta Sharma, Veejendra K. Yadav, Arpita Yadavc and Veejendra K Yadav
    Int. J. Pharm. Sci. Res. 2015, 6(12), 4967-4981.