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Office Phone: 0512-259-6758
N. Barsu, M. A. Rahman, M. Sen, and B. Sundararaju  "Cp*Co(III) Catalyzed C(sp3)-H bond Amidation of 8-Methylquinoline"
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N. Barsu, M. Sen, J. R. Premkumar, B. Sundararaju, "Cobalt (III) catalyzed C-8 selective C-H and C-O coupling of quinoline N-oxide with internal alkynes via C-H activation and oxygen atom transfer"
D. Kalsi, B. Sundararaju, "Cobalt catalyzed C-H and N-H bond annulation of sulfonamide with alkyne:  Rapid access to Benzosultam derivatives"
M. Sen, D. Kalsi, B. Sundararaju, "Cobalt (III) Catalyzed Dehydrative [4+2] Annulation of Oxime with Alkyne by C-H and N-OH activation"
N. Barsu, D. Kalsi, B. Sundararaju, "Carboxylate assisted Ni-catalyzed C-H bond allylation of amides"
Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 1338-1341
Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 6118-6121
Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 15529-15533
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Appeared as top 20 most accessed article for the month of Dec' 15
B. Emayavaramban., M. Roy, B. Sundararaju, "Iron Catalyzed Allylic Amination Directly from Allylic Alcohols"
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Appeared as top 20 most accessed article for the month of Oct' 15
M. Sen, B. Emayavaramban, N. Barsu, J. R. Premkumar, and B. Sundararaju  "Cp*Co(III) Catalyzed C(sp3)-H Bond Activation: A Highly Stereo- and Regioselective Alkenylation of 8-Methylquinoline with Alkynes"
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ACS Catal., 2016, 6, 2792-2796
Appeared as top most accessed article for the Year 2015-16
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Appeared as top 20 most read article for the month of Apr' 16
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Patents

Basker sundararaju, Alois Fuerstner, "A trans-selective hydroboration of internal alkynes"
Basker Sundararaju, Tailor Sridhar, Mathieu Achard, Gangavaram. V. M. Sharma, Christian Bruneau. "Ring Closing and Macrocyclization of π-Dipeptides by Olefin Metathesis
Zeyneb Sahli, Basker Sundararaju, Mathieu Achard, Christian Bruneau, ''Selective Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation : Terpenylations of Amines involving hydrogen Transfers"
Karin Radkowski, Basker Sundararaju, Alois Fuerstner, ''A Functional-Group-Tolerant Catalytic trans Hydrogenation of Alkynes"
Basker Sundararaju, Mathieu Achard, Christian Bruneau, ''Activation of p-allylic alcohols by transition metal catalysts'
Tarek Boudiar, Zeyneb Sahli, Basker Sundararaju, Mathieu Achard, Zahia Kabouche, Henri Doucet, Christian Bruneau.  "Isoquiolines derivatives via stepwise regioselective sp2 and sp3 C-H bond functionalization"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 14050-14054
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 6433-6442.
Chem. Soc. Rev. 2012, 41, 4467
Green Chem. 2013, 15, 775
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 355
Hassan Srour, Kaouther abidi, Zeyneb Sahli, Basker Sundararaju, Naceur Hamdi, Mathieu Achard and Christian Bruneau.  "Dendralenes preparation via ene-yne cross-metathesis from in situ generated 1,3-enynes"
ChemCatChem, 2011, 3, 1876
Zeyneb Sahli, Basker Sundararaju, Mathieu Achard and Christian Bruneau. "Ruthenium catalyzed reductive amination of allylic alcohols"
Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 3964
Basker Sundararaju, Mathieu Achard, Gangavaram. V. M. Sharma, Christian Bruneau. "sp3 C-H bond functionalisation with Ru(II) catalysts and C(3) alkylation of cyclic amines",
Xiao-Feng Wu, Basker Sundararaju, Pazhamalai Anbarasan, Helfried Neumann, Pierre H. Dixneuf, and Matthias Beller,  "Palladium-catalyzed Cyclocarbonylation of Aryl Bromides/Triflates and Benzyl Acetylenes to Furanones"
Chem. Eur. J. 2011, 17, 8014
Xiao-Feng Wu, Basker Sundararaju, Helfried Neumann, Pierre H. Dixneuf, and Matthias Beller, "A General Palladium-Catalyzed Carbonylative Sonogashira Coupling of Aryl Triflates''
Chem. Eur. J. 2011, 17, 106-110
Basker Sundararaju, Zhou Tang, Mathieu Achard, Gangavaram. V. M. Sharma, Christian Bruneau. "Ruthenium-Catalyzed cascade N, and C(3) dialkylation of amines with alcohols involving hydrogen auto transfer processes"
Adv. Synth Catal. 2010, 352, 3141-3146
Basker Sundararaju, Tailor Sridhar, Mathieu Achard, Gangavaram. V. M. Sharma, Christian Bruneau. "Preparation of sugar α-amino acid derivatives with cyclic structures via ring closing metathesis"
Basker Sundararaju, Mathieu Achard, Bernard Demerseman, Loic Toupet, Gangavaram V. M. Sharma, Christian Bruneau, "Ruthenium(IV) Complexes featuring P,O-chelating ligands: Regioselective substitution directly from allylic alcohol"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 2782-85.
Dianjun Chen, Basker Sundararaju, Rafael Krause, Juergen Klankermayer, Pierre H. Dixneuf, Walter Leitner, "Asymmetric Induction by Chiral Borate Anions in Enantioselective Hydrogenation using a Racemic Rh-Binap Catalyst"
ChemCatChem, 2010, 2, 55-57
Kassem Beydoun, Hui-Jun Zhang, Basker Sundararaju, Bernard Demerseman, Mathieu Achard, Zhenfeng Xi and Christian Bruneau. "Efficient Ruthenium Catalyzed synthesis of [3]-dendralenes from 1,3-dienic allylic carbonates"
Chem. Commun. 2009, 6580-6582
Felix Gartner, Basker Sundararaju, Annette-Enrica Surkus, Albert Boddien, Bjorn Loges, Henrik Junge, Pierre H. Dixneuf, Matthias Beller. "Light-Driven Hydrogen Generation: Efficient Iron-Based Water Reduction Catalysts"
Basker Sundararaju, Mathieu Achard, Gangavaram. V. M. Sharma, Christian Bruneau.  ''Ruthenium-Catalyzed selective N,N-diallylation and N,N,O-triallylation of free amino acids''
Org. Biomol. Chem. 2009, 7, 3906-3909
PhD & Post Doc.
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 9962-9965
Basker Sundararaju, Alois Fuerstner, " Process for the trans-selective hydroboration of internal alkynes" European Patent (Filed on 01.10.2013)
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Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 3952-3955
Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 9364-9368
Appeared as top 20 most read article for the month of june' 16
Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 9135-9138
D. Kalsi, R. A. Laskar, N. Barsu, J. R.  Premkumar, and B. Sundararaju "C-8-Selective Allylation of Quinoline: A Case Study of beta-Hydride vs beta-Hydroxy Elimination"
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Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 4198-4201
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B. Emayavaramban, M. Sen and B. Sundararaju, "Iron Catalyzed Sustainable Synthesis of Pyrrole"
N. Barsu, S. K. Bolli and B. Sundararaju "Cobalt Catalyzed Carbonylation of Unactivated C(sp3)-H Bonds"
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Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 6-9
Chem. Sci. 2017, 8, 2431-2435
D. Kalsi, N. Barsu, P. Dahiya and B. Sundararaju, "C-H and N-H Bond Annulation of Benzamides with Isonitriles Catalyzed by Cobalt(III)" 
R. Mandal and B. Sundararaju, "Cp*Co(III)-Catalyzed Annulation of Carboxylic Acids with Alkynes"
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Org. Lett 2017, 19, 2544-2547
Synthesis 2017, 49, 3937-3944
M. Sen, P. Dahiya, R. Prem Kumar and B. Sundararaju "Dehydrative Cp*Co(III)-Catalyzed C-H bond Allenylation"
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Invited article for special topic: "Cobalt in organic synthesis"
N. Barsu, B. Emayavaramban and B. Sundararaju "Linear Selective C-H bond alkylation with Activated Olefins Catalyzed by Cp*Co(III)"
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Org. Lett., 2017, 19, 3699-3702
Eur.J.Org.Chem 2017, 4370-4374
Invited article for special issue: "Emerging Investigators from India"
M. Sen, N. Rajesh, B. Emayavaramban, J. Richard Premkumar and  B. Sundararaju, "Isolation of Co(III)-alkenyl Intermediate  in Efficient Cobalt-Catalyzed C-H bond Alkenylation with Alkynes"
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M. Sen, R. Mandal, A. Das, D. Kalsi and Basker Sundararaju, "Cp*Co(III)-Catalyzed bis-Isoquinolones Synthesis via C-H Annulation of Arylamide with 1,3-diyne"
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D. Kalsi, N. Barsu and B. Sundararaju, "Co(III)-Catalyzed Isonitrile Insertion/Acyl-Group Migration Between C-H and N-H bonds of Arylamides"
N. Rajesh, N. Barsu and B. Sundararaju, "Recent Advances in C(sp3)-H bond Carbonylation by First Row Transition Metals".
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Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 342-346
Selected as HOT Paper
Chem.Eur.J. 2017, 23, 17454-17457
Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 2360-2364
Selected as HOT Paper
Tetrahedron Lett. 2018, 59, 862-868
Invited "Digest review"
Appeared as top 15 most accessed article for the month of Jan' 18
R. Mandal, B. Emayavaramban and B. Sundararaju, "Cp*Co(III)-Catalyzed C-H Alkylation with Maleimides using Weakly Coordinating Carbonyl Directing Groups".
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J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 10340
J. Org. Chem., 2012, 77, 3674
Org. Lett., 2018, 20, 2835-2838
Appeared as top 20 most accessed article for the month of May' 18
N. Rajesh and B. Sundararaju, "Nickel-catalyzed C-H bond Alkoxylation of Amides with Alcohols".
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M. K. Gangwar, P. Dahiya, B. Emayavaramban and B. Sundararaju, "Cp*Co(III)-Catalyzed Dehydrogenation of Secondary Alcohols".
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Asian J. Org. Chem. 2018, 7, 1368-1371
Invited article for special issue on "Homogeneous Catalysis "; Emerging Investigators from Asia.
Invited article for special issue on"C-H Bond Activation"
D. Kalsi, S. Dutta, N. Barsu, M. Rueping and B. Sundararaju, "Room Temperature C-H bond Functionalization by Merging Cobalt- and Photoredox catalysis."
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ACS Catal. 2018, 8, 8115-8120
Highlighted in ChemistryViews.
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6092–6096
Appeared as top 20 most accessed article for the month of August' 18
Highlighted in ChemistryViews &
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Most downloaded articles of 2017: Energy and Catalysis
N. Barsu, D. Kalsi and B. Sundararaju, "Site-Selective C-H Bond Carbonylation with CO2 and Cobalt-Catalysis".
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Catal. Sci. Technol., 2018, 8, 5963-5969
B. Emayavaramban, P. Chakraborty and B. Sundararaju, "Cobalt-Catalyzed Reductive Alkylation of Amines with Carboxylic Acids".
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ChemSusChem 2019, 12, 3089–3093
Invited Article for a Special Issues on "Sustainable Organic Synthesis".
B. Emayavaramban, P. Chakraborty, E. Manoury, R. Poli and B. Sundararaju, "Cp*Co(III)-Catalyzed N-Alkylation of Amines with Secondary Alcohols".
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Org. Chem. Front., 2019, 6, 852-857
Chem. Asian J. 2018, 13, 2445-2448
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P. Chakraborty M. k. Gangwar, E. Manoury, R. Poli and B. Sundararaju, "a-Alkylation of Ketones with Secondary Alcohols Catalyzed by Well-defined Cp*Co(III)-Complexes".
ChemSusChem 2019, 12, 3463–3467
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V. Dwivedi, D. Kalsi and B. Sundararaju, "Electrochemical-/ Photoredox Aspects of Transition Metal-Catalyzed Directed C-H Bond Activations".
ChemCatChem 2019, 11, 5160–5187
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D. Kalsi, N. Barsu, S. Chakrabarti, P. Dahiya, M. Rueping and B. Sundararaju, "C-H and N-H Bond Annulation of Aryl Amides with Unactivated Olefins by Merging Cobalt(III) and Photoredox Catalysis".
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B. Khan, V. Dwivedi and B. Sundararaju, "Cp*Co(III)-Catalyzed o-Amidation of Benzaldehydes with Dioxazolones Using Transient Directing Group Strategy".
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P. Chakraborty , N. Garg, E. Manoury, R. Poli and B. Sundararaju, "C-Alkylation of Various Carbonucleophiles with Secondary Alcohols under Co(III)Catalysis".
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P. Dahiya, M. K. Gangwar and B. Sundararaju, "Well-defined Cp*Co(III)-catalyzed Hydrogenation of Carbonates and Polycarbonates".
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N. Garg, A. Sarkar and B. Sundararaju, "Recent developments on methanol as liquid organic hydrogen carrier in transfer hydrogenation reactions".
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N. Garg, S. Paira and B. Sundararaju, "Efficient Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones using Methanol as Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier".
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 11626-11629
Adv. Synth. Catal. 2020, 362, 1195-1200
ChemCatChem 2020, 12, 3472-3476
Coord. Chem. Rev., 2021, 433, 213728-213746
ACS Catal. 2020, 10, 8023-8031
ChemCatChem 2021, 13, 934-939
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R Mandal, B Garai and B. Sundararaju, "Cp*Co(III)-Catalyzed C(7)-H Bond Annulation of Indolines with Alkynes".
J. Org. Chem. 2021, 86, 9407-9417
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AV Kolos, YV Nelyubina, B Sundararaju and DS Perekalin, "Synthesis of Overloaded Cyclopentadienyl Rhodium(III) Complexes via Cyclotetramerization of tert-Butylacetylene".
Organometallics 2021, 40, 3712-3719
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P. Chakraborty, B. Sundararaju, E. Manoury and Rinaldo Poli "New Borrowing Hydrogen Mechanism for Redox-Active Metals".
ACS Catal. 2021, 11, 11906-11920
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U Bandyopadhyay, B Sundararaju, R Poli and E Manoury, "Chiral Tridentate-based Ligands".
CRC Press, 2021, Chiral Ligands, 167-194
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U Bandyopadhyay, B Sundararaju, R Poli, E Manoury, and JC Daran, "Synthesis and crystallographic studies of 2-(diphenylphosphinothioyl)-2-(3-oxobut-1-en-yl) ferrocene".
Acta Cryst., 2021, E77, 853-856
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P Chakraborty, R Mandal, N Garg and B. Sundararaju, "Recent advances in transition metal-catalyzed asymmetric electrocatalysis".
Coord. Chem. Rev., 2021, 444, 214065-214088
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N. Garg, B. Garai and B. Sundararaju, "Nickel-catalyzed C(sp2)-H bond Functionalizations: Trifluoromethylation, Thiolation and Selenolylation"
Handbook of C-H bond Functionalizations. ISBN: 9783527834242
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P. Chakraborty, R. Mandal and B. Sundararaju, "Cobalt-catalyzed Carbonylation Reactions"
Pattai Chemistry of Functional group Series, 2021 (Wiley), (in press).

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R. Mandal, N. Barsu, B. Garai, A. Das, D. Perekalin and B. Sundararaju, "Room-temperature C-H bond alkynylation by merging cobalt and photocatalysts"

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P. Chakraborty, R. Mandal, S. Paira and B. Sundararaju, "C-H Bond Functionalization by Dual Catalysis: Merging of High-Valent Cobalt and Photoredox Catalysis"

Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 13075-13083
Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 13075-13083
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R. Mandal, B. Garai and B. Sundararaju, "Weak-Coordination in C-H Bond Functionalizations Catalyzed by 3d Metals"

ACS Catal. 2022, 12, 3452-3506
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P. Dahiya, A. Sarkar and B. Sundararaju, "Well-defined [Cp*Co(N,O)I]-Catalysts for Site-selective Intramolecular C-H Amidation"

Adv. Synth. Catal. 2022, 364, 2642-2647
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N. Garg, H.-P. Somasundharam, P. Dahiya and B. Sundararaju, "Methanol as Hydrogen source: Room-temperature Highly-Selective Transfer Hydrogenation of a, β-unsaturated Ketones"

Chem. Commun., 2022,58, 9930-9933
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B. Emayavaramban, P. Chakraborty, P. Dahiya and B. Sundararaju, "Iron-Catalyzed a-Methylation of Ketones Using Methanol as the C1 Source under Photoirradiation"

Org. Lett. 2022, 24, 6219-6223
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A. Singh, U. Alam, P. Chakraborty, B. Sundararaju, and N. Verma, "A sustainable approach for the production of formate from CO2 using microalgae as a clean biomass and improvement using potassium-doped g-C3N4"

Chem. Eng. J., 2023, 454, 140303
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B. Garai, M. R. Ali, R. Mandal, and B. Sundararaju, "Cp*Co(III)-Catalyzed C(8)-Nucleophilic Cascade Cyclization of Quinoline N-Oxide with 1,6-Enyne"

Org. Lett. 2023, 25, 2018-2023
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P. Chakraborty, S. Pradhan, J R. Premkumar, and B. Sundararaju, "Valorization of Terpenols Under Iron Catalysis"

J. Catal. 2023, 421, 309-318
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S. Pradhan, P. Chakraborty, S. Paira, and B. Sundararaju "Allenyl Carbonate as a Butadiene Surrogate in Cobalt-Catalyzed Crotylation of Aldehydes"

J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88, 5893-5899
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R. Mandal, B. Garai, and B. Sundararaju, "Cobalt-Catalyzed Bidentate Chelation-Assisted C-H Functionalization"

Science of Synthesis: Base-Metal Catalysis, (2023) 2, 149-260.
Wiley, 2022 (DOI: 10.1002/9783527834242.chf0061)
P. Dahiya, N. Garg, R. Poli, and B. Sundararaju, "Hydrogenation and Dehydrogenation of N-Heterocycles Under Cp*Co(III)-Catalysis" 



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P. Chakraborty, S. Pradhan and B. Sundararaju, "A Mechanistic Analysis of Dehydrogenation Reactions with First-row Transition Metal Complexes"

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Dalton Trans. 2023, 52, 14752-14756
B. N. Tafese, T. Ganesh, A. Solomon, B. Sundararaju, N. Garg, and B. Alebachew, "Efficient Adsorptive Removal of Methylene Blue Dye from Aqueous Solution Using Eragrostis Teff Biomass-Derived Nitrogen and Phosphorus-Codoped Carbon Quantum Dots" 



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Langmuir. 2024, 40, 72–83
N. Garg, I. Agrawal, D. Satav, D. V. Kumar, and B. Sundararaju, "Recent Developments in Transition Metal-catalyzed Asymmetric Borrowing Hydrogen Catalysis" 



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Tetrahedron Chem 2023, 8, 100054
A. Das, R. Mandal, H. S. R. Sankar, S. Kumaran, J. R. Premkumar, D. Borah, and B. Sundararaju, "Reversal of Regioselectivity in Asymmetric C-H Bond Annulation with Bromoalkynes under Cobalt Catalysis" 



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Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202315005

Topics in Organometallic Chemistry, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2023).
N. Garg, R. Poli, and B. Sundararaju, "Mechanistic insights of the Ir-bipyridonate catalyzed aqueous methanol dehydrogenation and transfer dehydrogenation to acetophenone: Experimental and DFT study" 



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Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2024, e202300744 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.202300744)

B. Garai, A. Das, D. Vineet Kumar, and B. Sundararaju, "Enantioselective C-H Bond Functionalization Under Co (III)-Catalysis"



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Chem. Commun. 2024, (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CC05329F)