Asymmetric Synthesis Laboratory

Department of Chemistry

 




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[IIT Bombay]


2024

[169] Cu-Catalyzed Coupling of Sulfonyl Chlorides with Alkenes: Synthesis of Dienyl Sulfones and -Chlorosulfones ,
Priyanka Choudhary, Ravikant S. Ranjan and Rodney A. Fernandes* ,
Eur. J. Org. Chem. ,2024, DOI





[168] Regioselective Markovnikov Hydrothiolation of 1-Aryl-1,3-butadienes with Dithiocarbamic Acid to Allyl Dithiocarbamates ,
Rodney A. Fernandes*, Sanjita Moharana, Priyanka Choudhary and Ravikant S. Ranjan ,
Chem. Commun.,2024, DOI





[167] Concise Asymmetric Synthesis of Deepoxyalchornoic Acid and (12R,13R)-Isoleukotoxin Diol ,
Rodney A. Fernandes*, Dnyaneshwar A. Gorve and Himanshu Papnai ,
Synthesis,2024, DOI





[166] Oxone-Mediated Regioselective Oxy-iodination of 1-Aryl/alkyl Butadienes Using TBAI ,
Dnyaneshwar A. Gorve and Rodney A. Fernandes* ,
J. Org. Chem.,2024, 89,12827.





[165] K2S2O8-Mediated or Azoisobutyronitrile-Catalyzed Regioselective Aerobic Oxidative Cleavage of 1-Arylbutadienes to Cinnamaldehydes ,
Rodney A. Fernandes, Ravikant Ranjan and Priyanka Choudhary ,
Org. Lett,2024.





[164] Stereoselective Convergent Total Synthesis of Oxylipins ,
Rodney A. Fernandes*, Sandhya S. Yadav and Sanjita Moharana ,
Org. Biomol. Chem. 2024, 22, 5835.





[163] Traversing the Chiral Pool Potential of Carvone in Total Synthesis of Natural Products ,
Rodney A. Fernandes,* Gulenur N. Khatun and Sanjita Moharana ,
Tetrahedron 2024, DOI





[162] Asymmetric Total Syntheses of Aspilactonol F, Aspiketolactonol and Synthetic Studies Toward Diplofuranoxin ,
Sagar B. Khandekar and Rodney A. Fernandes* ,
Org. Biomol. Chem.,2024, 22, 4508.





[161] Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Cryptorigidifoliol I ,
Rodney A. Fernandes* and Dashrath Jangid,
J. Org. Chem. 2024, DOI





[160] Unanticipated Bicyclic Etherification in Luche Reduction: Asymmetric Total Syntheses of Diospongins A and B and Tetraketide ,
Rodney A. Fernandes, Dashrath Jangid and Dnyaneshwar A. Gorve,
Org. Lett. 2024, ASAP





[159] ] Diastereoselective Allylation-based Asymmetric Total Synthesis of 1,10-seco-Guaianolides ,
Rodney A. Fernandes, and Ravikant S. Ranjan,
Org. Biomol. Chem. 2024





[158] Diastereoselective Allylation in the Divergent Total Syntheses of Guaianolides: (+)-Ligustrin, (+)-Grosheimin and Formal Synthesis of (-)-Eupalinilide E,
Rodney A. Fernandes* and Gujjula V. Ramakrishna.
J.Org.Chem. 2024, DOI :.





2023

[157] Chiral Pools Meets Chiral Catalysis: Eight-Step Convergent Total Synthesis of Anticancer Natural Lipid Mycalol,
Rodney A. Fernandes Priyanka Choudhary and Gulenur N. Khatun,
J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88, 17389.





[156] Book Chapter: "Synthetic Approaches to 4-Aryl-3,4-dihydrocoumarins",
Sandhya S. Yadav, Jyoti Sharma, Sagar, B. Khandekar, Rodney A. Fernandes,
'Targets in Heterocyclic Systems - Chemistry and Properties',
Vol. 27, Published by Italian Chemical Society.





[155] Deciphering the Quest in Divergent Total Synthesis of Natural Products,
Rodney A. Fernandes*,
Chem. Commun. 2023,59, 12205-12230, DOI :





[154] Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Diosniponols A and B,
Deepak Saini, Dashrath Jangid and Rodney A. Fernandes*,
Org. Biomol. Chem. 2023, 21, 6524 .





[153] Recent Advances in the Syntheses of Guaianolides,
Rodney A. Fernandes*, Sanjita Moharana and Gulenur Nesha Khatun,
Org. Biomol. Chem. 2023, 21, 6652 .





[152] TBAI-Catalyzed Regioselective Hydroxyperoxidation of 1 Aryl/Alkyl-1,3-dienes,
Atul Kumar, Gulenur N. Khatun and Rodney A. Fernandes* ,
Org. Lett. 2023, 25, 4313.





[151] Chapter: "The Use of NHC Carbenes in Enantiopure Compounds Synthesis",
Rodney A. Fernandes*, Dnyaneshwar A. Gorve# and Ravikanth S. Ranjan#,
Comprehensive Chirality 2nd Edition, Diastereoselective Synthesis, Ed. E. Roulland and J. Cossy, Elsevier 2023.





[150] Chapter: "Chiral Pool Synthesis: Starting from Terpenes",
Rodney A. Fernandes,* Gulenur N. Khatun# and Sanjita Moharana#
Chirality 2nd Edition, Diastereoselective Synthesis, Ed. E. Roulland and J. Cossy, Elsevier 2023.





[149] Palladium-Catalyzed Regioselective Intermolecular Hydroalkoxylation of 1-Arylbutadienes,
Rodney A. Fernandes,* Naveen Chandra, Ashvin J. Gangani and Gulenur N. Khatun
J.Org.Chem. 2023, 88, 10339. (Cover Page Article) DOI : .





[148] Protecting-Group-Directed Stereodivergent Tsuji-Trost Cyclization: Total Synthesis of Oxylipids and (+)-Petromyroxol,
Rodney A. Fernandes,* Dnyaneshwar A. Gorve and Amit K. Jha.
Chem. Commun. 2023, 59, 2007.





[147] Ni-Catalyzed Regioselective C-5 Halogenation of 8- Aminoquinoline and Co-Catalyzed Chelation Assisted C-H Iodination of Aromatic Sulfonamides with Molecular Iodine,
Rodney A. Fernandes* and Priyanka Choudhary.
Chem. Asian. J. 2023,17, e202200874, DOI :.





2022

[146] 143 Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidant Dependent Switchable Aza-Wacker Cyclization and Oxidative Dimerization of Benzimidates,
Rodney A. Fernandes* and Ashvin J. Gangani.
Org.Lett. 2022, 24, 7400. .





[145] Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (+)-Dihydroitomanallene B and Formal Synthesis of (-)-Kumausallene,
Rodney A. Fernandes*, Atul Kumar and Ramdas S. Pathare.
Chem. Commun. 2022, 58, 11921. .





[144] Chapter: "Synthesis of Dihydropyrane Containing Natural Products"
Priyanka Choudhary, Ravikant Ranjan,# Gulenur N. Khatun# and Rodney A. Fernandes*
Targets in Heterocyclic Systems - Chemistry and Properties, 2022,26,422-455.
Published by Italian Chemical Society.





[143] Regioselective Disulfide-Catalyzed Photocatalytic Oxidative Cleavage of 1-Arylbutadienes to Cinnamaldehydes.
Rodney A. Fernandes,* Praveen Kumar, Amit Bhowmik and Dnyaneshwar Gorve.
Org. Lett. 2022, 24, 3435.






[142] C(sp)-C(sp3)-Sonogashira Coupling Enabled Total Synthesis of Chatenaytrienins-1, -3 and -4 and Muridienins-1-4
Naveen Chandra and Rodney A. Fernandes*
Synthesis 2022, 54, 4049 .





[141] Palladium-Catalyzed anti-Markovnikov Oxidative Acetalization of Activated Olefins with Iron(III) Sulphate as Reoxidant
Rodney A. Fernandes,* Sandhya S. Yadav and Praveen Kumar
Org. Biomol. Chem. 2022, 20, 427-443. DOI : .







2021

[140] Stereoselective Total Synthesis of Obolactones and 7 ,8 -Dihydroobolactones
Deepak Saini, Praveen Kumar and Rodney A. Fernandes*
New J. Chem. , 2021, 45, 18976. .





[139] Catalytic δ-hydroxyalkynone rearrangement in the stereoselectivetotal synthesis of centrolobine, engelheptanoxides A and C andanalogues
Praveen Kumar, Rodney A. Fernandes,*Mohammad N. Ahmad, Sidharth Chopra
Tetrahedron, 2021, 96, 132375.





[138] Synthesis of 5-Vinyl-2-isoxazolines by Palladium-Catalyzed Intramolecular O-Allylation of Ketoximes
Rodney A. Fernandes*, Ashvin J. Gangani, and Arpita Panja
Org. Lett. , 2021, 23, 6227-6231 .





[137] Chapter: "Synthetic Approaches to Spiro Bis-THF Natural Products:Cephalosporolides, Penisporolides, Ascospiroketals and Pyrenolides"
Rodney A. Fernandes,* Ashvin J. Gangani and Naveen Chandra.
Accepted for 'Targets in Heterocyclic Systems - Chemistry and Properties', Vol. 25 to be Published by Italian Chemical Society .





[136] Book chapter:"Allylpalladium Complexes in Organic Synthesis"
Rodney A. Fernandes,* Praveen Kumar and Naveen Chandra.
Accepted for Elsevier's Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry IV, edited by Karsten Meyer, Dermot O'Hare and Gerard Parkin.





[135] Concise Stereoselective Synthesis of β-Hydroxy-γ-lactones: (4R,5R) 4-Hydroxy-γ-decalactone from the Japanese Orange Fly and Enantiomers of Arachnid Harvestmen Isolates ,
Ashvin J. Gangani, Praveen Kumar and Rodney A. Fernandes*
J. Nat. Prod., 2021, 84, 120-125.





[134] Evolution of Strategies in Protecting-Group-Free Synthesis of Natural Products: A Recent Update ,
Rodney A. Fernandes*, Praveen Kumar and Priyanka Choudhary
Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2021, 711-740.





2020

[133] Advances in Cu and Ni-Catalyzed ChanLam-type Coupling: Synthesis of Diarylchalcogenides, Ar2-X (X = S, Se, Te) ,
Rodney A. Fernandes,* Amit Bhowmik and Sandhya S. Yadav.
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2020, 18, 9583-9600.





[132] Muricatacin a Gateway Molecule to Higher Acetogenin Synthesis ,
Rodney A. Fernandes,* Amit Bhowmik and Priyanka Choudhary
Chem. Asian J. , 2020, 15, 3660.





[131] A Decade of Muricatacin Synthesis and Beyond ,
Rodney A. Fernandes,* Ashvin J. Gangani, Anupama Kumari and Praveen Kumar
Eur. J. Org. Chem. , 2020, 6845.





[130] Three Decades of Disparlure and Analogue Synthesis ,
Rodney A. Fernandes,* Naveen Chandra and Ashvin J. Gangani
New. J. Chem. , 2020, 44, 17616.





[129] Asymmetric Synthesis of Catechol Pyran Isolated from Plectranthus sylvestris by  eeta-Hydroxyalkynone Rearrangement ,
Rodney A Fernandes and Deepak Saini,
ChemistrySelect. , 2020, 5, 13160-13162.





[128] Recent Advances in Wacker Oxidation: From Conventional to Modern Variants and Applications ,
Rodney A. Fernandes,* Amit K. Jha and Praveen Kumar
Catal. Sci. Technol. , 2020, 10, 7448.





[127] Emergence of 2,3,5-Trisubstituted Tetrahydrofuran Natural Products and Their Synthesis ,
Rodney A. Fernandes,* Dnyaneshwar A. Gorve and Ramdas S. Pathare
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2020, 18, 7002.





[126] MnO2 as Terminal Oxidant in Wacker Oxidation of Homoallyl Alcohols and Terminal Olefins ,
Rodney A. Fernandes,* Gujjula V. Ramakrisha and Venkati Bethi
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2020, 18, 6115.





[125] Evolution of Strategies in Paraconic Acids Synthesis ,
Rodney A. Fernandes,* Dipali A. Chaudhari and Amit K. Jha
Asian J. Org. Chem. , 2020, 44, 3970.





[124] Advances in Total Synthesis of Some 2,3,5-Trisubstituted Tetrahydrofuran Natural Products ,
Rodney A. Fernandes,* Ramdas S. Pathare and Dnyaneshwar A. Gorve
Chem. Asian. J., 2020, 15, 2815.





[123] (-)-β-Pinene-based -Allylpalladium Complex-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylation of Bis-Imines ,
Rodney A. Fernandes* and Jothi L. Nallasivam
ChemistrySelect, 2020, 5, 8301.





[122] A Decade with DöBenzannulation in the Synthesis of Natural Products ,
Rodney A. Fernandes,* Anupama Kumari and Ramdas S. Pathare
Synlett., 2020, 403 [Personal Account].





[121] Advances in catalytic and protecting-group-free total synthesis of natural products: a recent update ,
Rodney A. Fernandes* Praveen Kumar and Priyanka Choudhari
Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 8569.





[120] A Concise Synthesis of the Key Tetrahydrofuran Moieties of Caruifolin A and EBC-342 ,
Rodney A. Fernandes* and Venkati Bethi
Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2020, 6922 .





[119] 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.





[118] BX3-Mediated Intermolecular Formation of Functionalized 3-Halo-1H-indenes via Cascade Halo-Nazarov-Type Cyclization ,
Anupama Kumari and Rodney A. Fernandes*
Synthesis, 2020, 52, 2245.





[117] Room temperature nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling of aryl-boronic acids with thiophenols: synthesis of diarylsulfides ,
Amit Bhowmik, Mahesh Yadav and Rodney A. Fernandes*
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2020, 18, 2447.





[116] Metal-Free Annulative Hydrosulfonation of Propiolate Esters: Synthesis of 4-Sulfonates of Coumarins and Butenolides,
Rodney A. Fernandes*, Ashvin J. Gangani and Rupesh A. Kunkalkar
New. J. Chem. , 2020, 44, 3970.





[115] Harnessing the Potential of ?-Hydroxy-?-vinyl-?-lactone in the Synthesis of Natural Products and Beyond ,
Rodney A. Fernandes*
Eur. J. Org. Chem. , 2020, 634.





[114] A Chiron Approach to the Stereoselective Total Synthesis of Phomonol and Phytotoxic Nonenolides,
Naveen Chandra and Rodney A. Fernandes*
Eur. J. Org. Chem. , 2020, 6909.





2019

[113] Iron(III)/O2-Mediated Regioselective Oxidative Cleavage of 1-Arylbutadienes to Cinnamaldehydes ,
Amit Bhowmik and Rodney A. Fernandes*
Org. Lett., 2019, 21, 9203.





[112] Catalytic Allylic Functionalization via  pi-Allyl Palladium Chemistry ,
Rodney A. Fernandes* and Jothi L. Nallasivam
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2019, 17, 8647.





[111] A Catalytic Asymmetric Protecting-Group-Free Total Synthesis of (4S,5S)-4,8-Dihydroxy-3,4-dihydrovernoniyne and its Enantiomer
Gujjula V. Ramakrishna and Rodney A. Fernandes
J. Org. Chem., 2019, 84, 14127.





[110] Protecting-Group-Free Total Synthesis of Chatenaytrienin-2
Rupesh A. Kunkalkar and Rodney A. Fernandes
J. Org. Chem., 2019, 84, 12216.





[109] Total Synthesis of the Sensitive Triyne Natural Product (4S,5S)-4,8-Dihydroxy-3,4-dihydrovernoniyne and all its Stereoisomers
Gujjula V. Ramakrishna and Rodney A. Fernandes
Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 5827. DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b01897





[108] A Step-Economic Synthesis of (S)-(?)-Juglomycin C and (S)-(?)-NHAB by DöBenzannulation and Convergent Deprotections
Amit Bhowmik, Sandip V. Mulay, and Rodney A. Fernandes
Asian J. Org. Chem. 2019, 8, 1534. DOI: 10.1002/ajoc.201900211





[107]Tandem IBX?Promoted Primary Alcohol Oxidation/Opening of Intermediate β,γ-Diolcarbonate Aldehydes to (E)-γ-Hydroxy-α,β-enals
Anupama Kumari, Sachin P Gholap, Rodney A. Fernandes
Chem. Asian. J. 2019, 14, 2278. DOI: 10.1002/asia.201900421





[106] A Lewis Acid Catalyzed Phenolic Ether 'O to C' Rearrangement: Synthesis of 4-Aryldihydrocoumarins
Praveen Kumar, Rupesh A Kunkalkar, Rodney A. Fernandes
Asian J. Org. Chem. 2019, 8, 1001. DOI: 10.1002/ajoc.2019013.





[105] Menthane-Based Chloride Bridged η3-Bis-π-Allylpalladium Chloride Dimers: Catalytic Asymmetric Allylation of Imines
Amit K. Jha, Rodney A. Fernandes
Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2019, 2857.





[104] Metal-Free Bronsted Acid-Catalyzed Rearrangement of Hydroxyalkynones to 2,3-Dihydro4Hpyran-4-ones: Total Synthesis of Obolactone and a Catechol Pyran Isolated from Plectranthus Sylvestris
Sachin P. Gholap, Dashrath Jangid, Rodney A. Fernandes
J. Org. Chem. 2019, 84, 3537. DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b03141.





[103] Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Annulative Partial Dimerization of 3-Aryloxyacrylates to 4-Arylchroman-2-ones: Synthesis of Analogues of Tolterodine, RORg Inhibitor and a GPR40 Agonist
Rupesh A. Kunkalkar, Rodney A. Fernandes
Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 2313.





[102] A Concise Stereoselective Synthesis of Naturally Occurring D-Xylo-C18-Guggultetrol and its C2-Epimer
Naveen Chandra, Rodney A. Fernandes
Asian J. Org. Chem. 2019, 8, 532. DOI: 10.1002/ajoc.201900063.





[101] Synthetic Modifications of Bifunctional Homoallylamines: Synthesis of 2-Arylpiperidines, (R)-Anatabine and (R)-Anabasine
Jothi L. Nallasivam and Rodney A. Fernandes
Synth. Commun., 2019, 49, 2815 .





2018

[100] Protecting Group Free Organic Synthesis: Improving Economy and Efficiency, Editor Rodney A. Fernandes, John Wiley & Sons, August 2018.

The book presents a comprehensive account of established protecting-group-free synthetic routes to molecules of medium to high complexity. Over 100 total syntheses are covered in this book based on protecting-group-free strategies. Natural products, drugs, pharmaceuticals, heterocycles, carbohydrates, glyco-peptides, glyco-conjugates and glyco-polymers are covered in 9 chapters. The book is graced with forewords by Prof. R. Hoffmann and Prof. G. Mehta. Published in May 2018 (e-first) and hardcopy in August 2018 .



[99] Book Chapter: Latent Functionality: A Tactic toward Formal Protecting?Group?Free Synthesis.

Rodney A. Fernandes*, Protecting Group Free Organic Synthesis: Improving Economy and Efficiency, Editor Rodney A. Fernandes, John Wiley & Sons, August 2018.



[98] Book Chapter: Protecting?Group?Free Synthesis of Natural Products and Analogs, Part I.

Rodney A. Fernandes*, Protecting Group Free Organic Synthesis: Improving Economy and Efficiency, Editor Rodney A. Fernandes, John Wiley & Sons, August 2018.



[97] Book Chapter: Introduction: Concepts, History, Need, and Future Prospects of Protecting?Group?Free Synthesis.

Rodney A. Fernandes*, Protecting Group Free Organic Synthesis: Improving Economy and Efficiency, Editor Rodney A. Fernandes, John Wiley & Sons, August 2018.







2017

[96]Evolution of Total Syntheses of -Hydroxy- -Lactones: Cardiobutanolide and Hagen's Gland Lactones
Rodney A. Fernandes, Pullaiah Kattanguru, Mahesh B. Halle, Rupesh A. Kunkalkar
Chemistry Select. 2017, 2, 6503.





[95] Short Eight-Step Total Synthesis of Racemic Astericunolide C
Rodney A. Fernandes, Vijay P. Chavan, Arpita Panja
Synth. Commun., 2017, 47, 2103.






[94]Recent Advances in Overman Rearrangement: Synthesis of Natural Products and Valuable Compounds
Rodney A. Fernandes, Pullaiah Katanguru, Sachin P. Gholap, Dipali A. Chaudhari
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2017, 15, 2672.





[93]A Protecting-Group-Free Synthesis of (+)-Nephrosteranic, (+)-Protolichesterinic, (+)-Nephrosterinic, (+)-Phaseolinic, (+)-Rocellaric Acids and (+)-Methylenolactocin
Jothi L. Nallasivam, Rodney A. Fernandes
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2017, 15, 708.









2016

[92] 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
Jothi L. Nallasivam and Rodney A. Fernandes
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 13238




[91]Traceless OH-directed Wacker Oxidation-Elimination, an Alternative to Wittig Olefination/Aldol Condensation: One-pot Synthesis of α,β-Unsaturated and Non-conjugated Ketones from Homoallyl Alcohols
Venkati Bethi and Rodney A. Fernandes
J. Org. Chem., 2016, 81, 8577




[90]De Novo Protecting-Group-Free Total Synthesis of (+)-Muricadienin, (+)-Ancepsenolide and (+)-3-Hexadesyl-5-methylfuran-2(5H)-one
Rupesh A. Kunkalkar, Debasish Laha and Rodney A. Fernandes
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2016, 14, 9072.




[89] Hypervalent Iodine as Terminal Oxidant in Wacker-type Oxidation of Terminal Olefins to Methyl Ketones
Dipali A. Chaudhari and Rodney A. Fernandes
J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81, 2113.





[88] A Concise Synthesis of (-)-Incrustoporin and its Analogues by Pd-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling from γ-Vinyl- γ-butyrolactone
Jothi L. Nallasivam and Rodney A. Fernandes*
ChemistrySelect, 2016, 1, 5137.





[87]Total Synthesis of Marine Natural Products, Cephalosporolides
Mahesh B. Halle and Rodney A. Fernandes
Asian J.Org.Chem 2016 , 5, 839.





[86]Dimeric Pyranonaphthoquinones: Isolation, Bioactivity and Synthetic Approaches
Rodney A. Fernandes, Pradnya H. Patil and Dipali A. Chaudhari
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 5778.




[85]Total Synthesis of Unique anti,anti-4-Hydroxy-5-(1-hydroxyalkyl)-g-lactones, Polyporolide and Mupirocine H
Rodney A. Fernandes and Mahesh B. Halle
Tetrahedron Lett. 2016 ,57, 3694




[84] A concise synthesis of (4R,5R)-(-)-muricatacin and (4R,5R)-L-(-)-factor from D-glucono- δ-lactone
Dipali A. Chaudhari, Arun B. Ingle and Rodney A. Fernandes
Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2016, 27, 114.







2015

[83] A Process For Synthesis Of Methyl Ketones By Wacker-Type Oxidation Reaction.
Published in Indian Patent Ofiice Journal No. 06/2017 dated 10/02/2017. Provisional Indian process patent application filed, No. 2965/MUM/2015.

Rodney A. Fernandes and Dipali A. Chaudhari.



[82] A concise protecting-group-free synthesis of cephalosporolides E and F

Dipali A Chaudhari, Pullaiah Kattanguru and Rodney A. Fernandes
RSC Adv., 2015 , 5, 42131.





[81] Unimolecular Tetrakis-piperidine-4-ol: an Efficient Ligand for Copper and Amine Free Sonogashira Coupling

Pradnya H. Patil and Rodney A. Fernandes
RSC Adv. 2015, 5, 54037.





[80] Synthetic Studies toward Actinorhodin and γ-Actinorhodin by Homo-coupling Strategy: Synthesis of Hemiactinorhodin and Hemi-γ-actinorhodin

Sandip V. Mulay, Amit Bhowmik and Rodney A. Fernandes
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2015, 4931.





[79] A Stereoselective Synthesis of the Reported Structure of Polyporolide

Pradnya H. Patil and Rodney A. Fernandes
RSC Adv. 2015, 5, 49189.





[78]Development of Unimolecular Tetrakis-Piperidine-4-ol as New Ligand for Suzuki-Miyaura Cross Coupling Reaction: Synthesis of Incrustoporin and Preclamol

Jothi L. Nallasivam and Rodney A. Fernandes
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2015, 3558.





[77]Formal Synthesis of the Human Rhinovirus 3C-Protease Inhibitor (-)-Thysanone

Sandip V. Mulay, Sachin P. Gholap and Rodney A. Fernandes
Asian J. Org. Chem., 2015, 4, 560





[76]Unimolecular 4-Hydroxy Piperidines: New Ligands for Copper Catalyzed N-Arylation

Pradnya H. Patil, Jothi L. Nallsivam and Rodney A. Fernandes
Asian J. Org. Chem., 2015, 4, 552





[75]Synthetic Studies on Actinorhodin and γ-Actinorhodin: Synthesis of Deoxyactinorhodin and Deoxy-γ -Actinorhodin/Crisamicin A Isomer

Sandip V. Mulay and Rodney A. Fernandes
Chem. Eur. J., 2015, 21, 4842.





[74] A Cascade Aza-Cope/Aza-Prins Cyclization to Piperidine Derivatives

Jothi L. Nallasivam and Rodney A. Fernandes
Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2015, 2012.





[73] Tandem Benzylic Oxidative Dihydroxylation of α-Vinyl and α-Alkenylbenzyl Alcohols

Rodney A. Fernandes* and Pullaiah Kattanguru
Helv. Chim. Acta, 2015, 98, 92.





[72] A Process for the preparation of cephalosporolides E and F.
Provisional Indian process patent application filed, No. 2595/MUM/2015. Published in Indian Patent Office Journal No. 02/2017 dated 13-01-2017.

Rodney A. Fernandes, Pullaiah Kattanguru and Dipali A. Chaudhari.



2014

[71] A relay ring-opening/double ring-closing metathesis strategy for the bicyclic macrolide-butenolide core structures.

Mahesh B. Halle and Rodney A. Fernandes
RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 63342.





[70] An expedient osmium(VI)/K3Fe(CN)6-mediated selective oxidation of benzylic, allylic and propargylic alcohols.

Rodney A. Fernandes and Venkati Bethi
RSC Adv. 2014, 4, 40561.




[69] Iron(III) Sulfate as Terminal Oxidant in the Synthesis of Methyl Ketones via Wacker Type Oxidation.

Rodney A. Fernandes* and Dipali A. Chaudhari
J. Org. Chem. 2014, 79, 5787-5793.

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[68] Synthesis of Methyl Ketones from Terminal Olefins using PdCl2/CrO3 System Mimicking the Wacker Process.

Rodney A. Fernandes* and Venkati Bethi
Tetrahedron 2014, 70, 4760.




[67] The Chiral Cups (Calixarenes) via Dötz Benzannulation.
Rodney A. Fernandes* and Sandip V. Mulay
Synthesis 2014, 1836-1846 .




[66] A Practical and Improved Process for the Synthesis of Hagen's Gland Lactones by Catalytic Hydro-deiodination.

Dipali A. Chaudhari, Pullaiah Kattanguru and Rodney A. Fernandes
Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2014, 25, 1022-1025.





[65] Domino Recombinant γ-Isomerization and Reverse Wacker Oxidation of γ-Vinyl-γ-butyrolactone: Synthesis of (+)-trans-, (-)- and (+)-Disparlures.

Venkati Bethi, Pullaiah Kattanguru and Rodney A. Fernandes
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 3249.




[64] Stereoselective inversion of γ-vinyl-γ-butyrolactone under palladium catalysis: Application to the synthesis of (+)-exo- and (+)-endo-brevicomins.

Rodney A. Fernandes,* Pullaiah Kattanguru and Venkati Bethi
RSC Adv. 2014, 4, 14507.




[63] A Facile ChemoselectiveDeprotection of Aryl Silyl Ethers using Sodium Hydride/DMF and in situ Protection of Phenol with Various Groups.

Rodney A. Fernandes,* Sachin P. Gholap and Sandip V. Mulay
RSC Adv. 2014, 4, 16438.




[62] Ring-Closing Metathesis Enabled Efficient Synthesis of g-Butenolide Antifungal Agent (-)-Incrustoporin and its Analogues.

Rodney A. Fernandes, Pradnya H. Patil, Asim K. Chowdhury
Asian. J. Org.Chem. 2014,3, 58.





[61] The Orthoester Johnson-Claisen Rearrangement in the Synthesis of Bioactive Molecules, Natural Products, and Synthetic Intermediates - Recent Advances


Rodney A. Fernandes, Asim K. Chowdhury, Pullaiah Kattanguru
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 2833.




[60] A Late Stage b-Epimerization: A Stereodivergent to Stereoconvergent Relay to the First Total Synthesis of (+)-Murolic Acid.

Rodney A. Fernandes, Pradnya H. Patil, Asim K. Chowdhury
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 237.





2013

[59] A concise total synthesis of arizonins B1 and C1.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Sandip V. Mulay, Vijay P. Chavan
Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2013, 24, 1548.
(highlighted in ChemInform Abstract) Link





[58] A Highly Diastereoselective Oxa-Pictet-Spengler approach to (+)-Astropaquinone B and (+)-Astropaquinone C and the Formation of Astropaquinone B Dimer

Rodney A. Fernandes, Sandip V. Mulay
Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2013, 24, 1281.
(highlighted in ChemInform Abstract) - Link





[57] Total Synthesis of Both Spiroketal Diastereomers of the Reported Structure of Cephalosporolide H.

Rodney A. Fernandes, Mahesh B. Halle
Asian J. Org. Chem. 2013,2, 593 , Editor's Choice article, Highlighted in Chemistry Views).
Link
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[56] A Synthesis of (R)-(-)-and (S)-(+)-Lavandulol, (+)-Lavandulyl-2-methylbutanoate and (+)-Lavandulyl Senecioate through Orthoester Johnson-Claisen Rearrangement.

Rodney A. Fernandes, Asim K. Chowdhury
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 5165.





[55] A 12-Membered to a Strained 11-Membered Ring: First Stereoselective Total Synthesis of (-)-Asteriscunolide C.

Rodney A. Fernandes and Vijay P. Chavan.
Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 3354.





[54] Arundic Acid a Potantial Neuroprotective Agent: Biological Development and Syntheses.

Rodney A. Fernandes and Arun B. Ingle.
Curr. Med. Chem. 2013, 20, 2315.





[53] Step Economic and Protecting-Group-Free Total Synthesis of (+)-Cardiobutanolide.

Rodney A. Fernandes and Pullaiah Kattanguru.
Asian J. Org. Chem. 2013, 2, 74. Featured Article (Most accessed article upto August 2013)





2012

[52] A Chiron Approach to the Total Synthesis of (-)-Juglomycin A, (+)-Kalafungin, (+)-Frenolicin B and (+)-Deoxyfrenolicin.

Rodney A. Fernandes, Vijay P. Chavan, Sandip V. Mulay, Amarender Manchoju.
J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 10455.





[51] A Protecting-Group-Free Synthesis of Hagen's Gland Lactones

Rodney A. Fernandes, Pullaiah Kattanguru.
J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 9357.




[50] Enantioselective allylation of imines catalyzed by newly developed (-)-beta-pinene-based pi-allylpalladium catalyst: an efficient synthesis of (R)-alpha-propylpiperonylamine and (R)-pipecolic acid

Rodney A. Fernandes and Jothi L. Nallasivam.
Org. Biomol. Chem. 2012, 10, 7789.




[49] Stereoselective synthesis of (-)-1-epi-ventiloquinone L and (+)-ventiloquinone L, the monomeric unit of cardinalin 3

Rodney A. Fernandes, Arun B. Ingle and Vijay P. Chavan.
Org. Biomol. Chem. 2012,10, 4462




[48] Development of first menthane based chiral pi-allylpalladium catalysis: asymmetric allylation of imines

Rodney A. Fernandes, Dipali A. Chaudhari.
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2012, 1945.




[47] A control of diastereoselectivity in orthoester Johnson-Claisen rearrangement of tartrate based allyl alcohol: a efficient synthesis of Alzheimer's potential therapeutic agent, arundic acid.

Rodney A Fernandes, Arun B Ingle, Dipali A. Chaudhari.
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2012, 1047




[46] Diatereoselective synthesis of (+)-nephrosterinic acid and (+)-protolichesterinic acid

Rodney A. Fernandes, Mahesh B. Halle, Asim K. Chowdhury, Arun B. Ingle.
Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2012, 23, 60





[45] A novel process for the four step protecting group free synthesis of (+)-Hagen's gland lactones. Provisional Indian process patent application filed, No. 1908/MUM/2012.

Rodney A. Fernandes and Pullaiah Kattanguru.



[44] Process for the three step synthesis of (+)-cardiobutanolide from D-glucono-δ-lactone. Provisional Indian process patent application filed, No. 1780/MUM/2012. Published in Indian Patent Office Journal No. 22/2014 dated 30-05-2014..

Rodney A. Fernandes and Pullaiah Kattanguru.





2011

[43] Total synthesis of (8S,11R,12R)- and (8R,11R,12R)-topsentolide B2 diastereomers and assignment of absolute configuration.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Pullaiah Kattanguru. Tetrahedron:Asymmetry 2011 22, 1930-1935

[42] A concise stereoselective synthesis of tetracyclic naphthoquinone, (-)-isagarin.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Arun B. Ingle. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2011, 6624-6627

[41] A Dötz benzannulation route to the enantioselective synthesis of (-) and (+)-juglomycin A.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Vijay P. Chavan, Tetrahedron:Asymmetry 2011, 22, 1312.

[40] A concise synthesis of paraconic acids: (-)-methylenolactocin and (-)-phaseolinic acid.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Asim K. Chowdhury, Tetrahedron:Asymmetry 2011, 22, 1114.

[39] A concise and improved synthesis of (+)-eleutherin, (+)-allo-eleutherin and a formal synthesis of (+)-nocardione B.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Vijay P. Chavan, Sandip V. Mulay, Tetrahedron:Asymmetry 2011, 22, 487-492.

[38] Total synthesis of topsentolide B2.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Pullaiah Katanguru, Tetrahedron Letters 2011, 52, 1788.

[37]Stereoselective Total Synthesis of (+)-Nephrosteranic Acid and (+)-Roccellaric Acid through Asymmetric Dihydroxylation and Johnson-Claisen Rearrangement.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Asim K. Chowdhury, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2011, 1106.

[36]Synthetic studies on C14 cembranoids: synthesis of C412 fragment of sarcophytonolides E, G and L and C5-11 fragment of sarcophytonolide L.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Arun B. Ingle, Tetrahedron Letters 2011, 52, 458.



2010

[35] Total synthesis of (+)-demethoxycardinalin 3.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Sandip V. Mulay, J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 7029.

[34] Dimeric Fischer carbenes: a bidirectional Dötz benzannulation approach to the synthesis of regioisomeric core of cardinalin 3.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Sandip V. Mulay, Synlett 2010, 2667.

[33] A Concise Asymmetric Synthesis of (-)-Hongconin and (-)-1-epi-Hongconin.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Vijay P. Chavan, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2010, 4306.

[32] Total Synthesis of (+)-Cephalosporolide E and (-)-Cephalosporolide F en route to Bassianolone.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Arun B. Ingle, Synlett 2010, 158.




2009

[31] Synthesis of chiral beta,gamma-disubstituted-gamma-lactones through Johnson-Claisen rearrangement: A short route to xylobovide, nor-canadensolide, canadensolide, sporothriolide and santolinolides.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Arun B. Ingle, Vijay P. Chavan, Tetrahedran : Asymmetry 2009, 20, 2835.

[30] Total Syntheses of all Stereoisomers of Phenatic Acid B.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Asim K. Chowdhury, J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 8826.

[29] A Diethyltartrate-based Synthesis of both (+)- and (-)-Arundic Acid.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Abhinav Dhall, Arun B. Ingle, Tetrahedron Lett. 2009, 50, 5903.

[28] Chiral Vicinal Diols as Platforms for Separable Diastereomers in Johnson-Claisen Rearrangement: A New Short Route to (-)-Nor-canadensolide, (-)-Canadensolide and (-)-Sporothriolide.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Arun B. Ingle, Tetrahedron Lett. 2009, 50, 1122.




2008

[27] A Short Enantioselective Synthesis of (+)-Eleutherin, (+)-Allo-eleutherin and a Formal Synthesis of (+)-Nocardione B.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Vijay P. Chavan, Arun B. Ingle, Tetrahedron Lett. 2008, 49, 6341.

[26] A Highly Enantioselective Synthesis of (-)- and (+)-Juglomycin A through Dötz Annulation and Asymmetric Dihydroxylation.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Vijay P. Chavan, Tetrahedron Lett. 2008, 49, 3899.



2007 and prior

[Institute of Chemistry, UNAM, Mexico]

[25] A Short Synthesis of (+)-(S)-Kurasoin B.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2008, 19, 15.

[24] An Efficient Synthesis of (-)-Posticlure: The Sex Pheromone of Orygia Postica.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2007, 5064.



[Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany]

[23] First synthesis of the pyrano-naphthoquinone lactone (-)-arizonin C. [Cover Page Article]
Manuel Mahlau, Rodney A. Fernandes, Reinhard Brückner, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2011, 4765 4772.

[22] Efficient synthesis of (+)-kalafungin and (-)-nanaomycin by asymmetric dihydroxylation, oxa-Pictet-Spengler cyclization, and H2SO4-mediated isomerization.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Reinhard Brückner, Synlett 2005, 1281.



[Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan]

[21] Catalytic asymmetric carbalkoxyallylation of imines with chiral bis-π-allylpalladium complex.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Yoshinori Yamamoto, J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69, 3562.

[20] Catalytic asymmetric allylation of imines with Tetraallylsilane-TBAF-MeOH system using bis-π-allyl palladium complex. Japanese patent JP 2003-396110, 2003.
Yoshinori Yamamoto and Rodney A. Fernandes.

[19] The first catalytic asymmetric allylation of imines with tetraallylsilane-TBAF-MeOH system using chiral bis-π-allylpalladium complex.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Yoshinori Yamamoto, J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69, 735.

[18] Chiral bis-π-allylpalladium catalyzed allylation of imines: Enhancement of chemical yield and enantioselectivity by water.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Anton Stimac, Yoshinori Yamamoto, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 14133.

[17] Preparation of bis-π-allyl palladium complex and synthetic procedure for asymmetric allylamines. Japanese patent JP 2003-358265, 2003.
Yoshinori Yamamoto, Rodney A. Fernandes and Anton Stimac.



[National Chemical Laboratory, Pune]

[16] An asymmetric dihydroxylation route to (R)-(-)-octopamine, (R)-(-)-tembamide and (R)-(-)-aegeline.
Sadyandi Ramalingam, Rodney A. Fernandes, Pradeep Kumar, Arkivoc 2005, (iii) 36-43.

[15] An improved process for the preparation of enantiomerically pure cyclohexylphenyl glycolic acid, US patent, No. 6825378, 2004.
Pradeep Kumar, Rodney A. Fernandes and Priti Gupta.

[14] PCC: Novel oxidation reactions.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Synlett Spotlight 2003, 741-742.

[13] An asymmetric dihydroxylation route to (S) oxybutynin.
Priti Gupta, Rodney A. Fernandes, Pradeep Kumar, Tetrahedron Letters 2003, 44, 4231-4232.

[12] A new PCC mediated oxidation reaction of homobenzylic and homoallylic alcohols.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Pradeep Kumar, Tetrahedron Letters 2003, 44, 1275-1278.

[11] Enantioselective synthesis of xylo C18 phytosphingosines using double stereodifferentiation.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Pradeep Kumar, Synthesis 2003, 129-135.

[10] A concise synthesis of (+) compactin lactone via asymmetric dihydroxylation and regioselective cyclic sulfite opening reactions.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Pradeep Kumar, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2002, 2921-2923.

[9] Asymmetric dihydroxylation and one-pot epoxidation routes to (+) and (-) posticlure: A novel trans-epoxide as a sex pheromone component of Orgyia postica (Walker).
Rodney A. Fernandes, Pradeep Kumar, Tetrahedron 2002, 58, 6685-6690.

[8] An asymmetric dihydroxylation route to enantomerically pure norfluoxetine and fluoxetine.
Rajesh Kumar Pandey, Rodney A. Fernandes, Pradeep Kumar, Tetrahedron Letters 2002, 43, 4425-4426.

[7] Asymmetric dihydroxylation and regioselective C-3 indole coupling routes to the anticoccidial antibiotic (+) diolmycin A2.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Mandar S. Bodas, Pradeep Kumar, Tetrahedron 2002, 58, 1223-1227.

[6] An improved process for the preparation of (4R,6S)-4-Hydroxy-6-hydroxymethyl- tetrahydro-pyran-2-one, US Patent, No 6376683, 2002.
Pradeep Kumar and Rodney A. Fernandes.

[5] Double stereodifferentiation in asymmetric dihydroxylation: Application to the first diastereoselective synthesis of L xylo [2R,3S,4S] C18 phytosphingosine.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Pradeep Kumar, Tetrahedron Letters 2000, 41, 10309-10312.

[4] A stereoselective synthesis of dihydrosphingosine.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Pradeep Kumar, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2000, 3447-3449.

[3] A short and efficient stereoselective synthesis of dihydrosphingosine triacetate.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Pradeep Kumar, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 1999, 10, 4797-4802.

[2] Enantioselective synthesis of (R) ( ) mevalonolactone via cylcic sulfate methodology.
Rodney A. Fernandes, Pradeep Kumar, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 1999, 10, 4349-4356.

[1] Asymmetric synthesis of (S) massoialactone.
Godwin C. G. Pais, Rodney A. Fernandes, Pradeep Kumar, Tetrahedron 1999, 55, 13445-13450.