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