The 10 best molecules selected for their originality, complexity and the impact of the work from the group’s perspective and is presented in the order of their priority.
No 1
Demonstrated the potential of palladium N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes as pharmaceuticals for anticancer applications.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 15042-15053.
No 2
Stronger Argentophilic interaction over Aurophilic interaction in a discrete pairwise model complex questioned the popular perception.
Inorg. Chem. 2008, 47, 230-240.
No 3
The second example of amine-free Sonogashira reaction under ambient aqueous condition for this class of complexes.
Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 6646-6655.
No 4
Highly active catalyst for the Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction.
Organometallics 2007, 26, 958-964.
No 5
Highly active catalyst for the regioselective alkyne hydroamination reaction.
Inorg. Chem. 2010, 49, 4972-4983.
No 6
High anticancer activity with significant selectivity towards the cancer cells over the normal ones.
ACS Omega, 2017, 2, 4632-4646
US Patent No.: US 10421769 (Granted on Sep 24, 2019)
Indian Patent No.: 380602 (Granted on Oct 28, 2021).
US Patent No.: US 10421769 (Granted on Sep 24, 2019)
Indian Patent No.: 380602 (Granted on Oct 28, 2021).
No 7
The first example of a Hiyama coupling and also the first example of a tandem catalysis by any palladium acyclic diamino carbene (ADC) complex.
ACS Omega, 2018, 3, 1740-1756.
US Patent Application Serial No. 16/168,434.
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US Patent Application Serial No. 16/168,434.
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No 8
Efficient asymmetric bifunctional catalysis for the base-free Michael addition reaction under ambient conditions.
Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2015, 1604-1615.
No 9
Structurally intriguing chiral oxazoline-fused imidazole derived N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) catalysts prepared from readily available and cheap amino acids without any chiral resolution.
Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2017, 3253-3268.
No 10 (Joint)
Efficient small molecule structural and functional mimics of Purple Acid Phosphatase (PAP) enzyme.
ACS Omega, 2017, 2, 4737-4750.
The first iron catalyst of fused imidazo[1,5-a]pyridine derived N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands for the β-enaminone synthesis.
Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2019, 295-313.
