Rodney A. Fernandes

Professor

Room 404, Chemistry Bldg.
rfernand@chem.iitb.ac.in
+91 22 2576 7174
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Educational Background:

Ph.D., National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
M.Sc., Goa University
B.Sc., Goa University

Professional Experience:

Lecturer, Goa Engineering College, Goa
Lecturer, Goa University
Post-doc, Tohoku University, Japan
Post-doc, Freiburg University, Germany
Investigador Titular A, UNAM, Mexico City (2006)
Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay (2007)
Associate Professor, IIT Bombay (2011)
Professor, IIT Bombay (2015)
Research Interest:
  • Asymmetric synthesis of natural products.
  • Total synthesis of natural products and analogs.
  • Asymmetric catalysis and new methodology development.
  • Organometallic chemistry: chiral and achiral Pd, Fe and other metal catalysis.
  • Heterocyclic chemistry.
Publications:
Fischer Carbene Pentannulation with Alkynes Having Adjacent Carbonate or Acyloxy Groups: Synthesis of 3-Substituted 1-Indanones
Rodney A. Fernandes*, Sachin P. Gholap, Vijay P. Chavan, Akeel S. Saiyed and Shubhankar Bhattacharyya
Org. Lett. 2020, 22,3438.
Pd-Catalyzed Site-Selective Mono-allylic Substitution and Bis-arylation by Directed Allylic C-H Activation: Synthesis of anti-γ-(Aryl,Styryl)-β-hydroxy Acids and Highly Substituted Tetrahydrofurans.
Nallasivam, Jothi L.; Fernandes, Rodney A.
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 13238-13245
Traceless OH-Directed Wacker Oxidation-Elimination, an Alternative to Wittig Olefination/Aldol Condensation: One-Pot Synthesis of α,β-Unsaturated and Nonconjugated Ketones from Homoallyl Alcohols.
Bethi, Venkati; Fernandes, Rodney A.
J. Org. Chem., 2016, 81, 8577-8584
Synthetic Studies on Actinorhodin and γ-Actinorhodin: Synthesis of Deoxyactinorhodin and Deoxy-γ-actinorhodin/Crisamicin A Isomer.
Mulay, Sandip V.; Fernandes, Rodney A.
Chem. - Eur. J., 2015, 21, 4842-4852
A 12-membered to a strained 11-membered ring: first stereoselective total synthesis of (-)-asteriscunolide C.
Fernandes, Rodney A.; Chavan, Vijay P.
Chem. Commun. (Cambridge, U. K.), 2013, 49, 3354-3356
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