The Sekar Group – Organic Synthesis & Catalysis

Recent News

Recent Publication: Harnessing Diazo Compounds as Alkoxycarbonyl Methylene Radical Linchpins: Truce–Smiles Rearrangement toward Amido Esters and Isoquinolinedione Scaffolds Authors: Suman Sasmal, Nalladhambi Neerathilingam, and Govindasamy Sekar. Recent Publication: Enantioenriched η³-Benzyl Palladium-Mediated Synthesis of Chiral Indanones: An Enantioselective 1,1-Carbene Migratory Insertion/Carbopalladation Strategy at Room Temperature Authors: Vysakh Venugopalan Nair, Suman Sasmal, and Govindasamy Sekar. Congratulations to Mr. K. Kathirvel for winning the Best Poster Award at the 37th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry (CRSI-NSC-37) and CRSI-ACS Lecture Series 2026, Kolkata. Welcome to Our Lab: Please welcome our newly joined PhD scholars, Ms. Shilpa Gautam, Ms. Isha Mary Abraham, Mr. Raghul Ramanan S, We wish them a successful and rewarding research journey in our group. Welcome to Our Lab: Please welcome our newly joined M.Sc. scholar, Ms. Shirin B. C. and Mr. Shefin Mohammed T. P. We wish her all the best for her academic and research journey. Recent Publication in Organic Letters: Congratulations to Gunturu Sai Kumar, Nalladhambi Neerathilingam, and Prof. Govindasamy Sekar on their recent publication entitled “Undivided Parallel Paired Electrolyzed Chemoselective Cathodic Reduction of α-Keto Amides and Anodic Oxidative Esterification of Aldehydes” in Organic Letters. Postdoctoral Appointment : Congratulations to Dr. Vysakh V. Nair on joining the research group of Prof. Xihe Bi, Northeast Normal University, as a postdoctoral researcher. Successful PhD Thesis Defense – 2026 : Congratulations to Dr. Soundarya Palanisamy and Dr. R. Selvam on successfully defending their PhD theses in 2026.

G. SEKAR, FASc, FNASc, FRSC

Professor & Head of the Department

Prof. G. Sekar obtained his Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur in 1999 under the guidance of Padma Shri Prof. Vinod K. Singh. Dr. Sekar was a JSPS postdoctoral fellow (with Prof. H. Nishiyama) at Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, and an AvH postdoctoral fellow (with Prof. L. F. Tietze) at Goettingen University, Germany. He also conducted postdoctoral research (with Prof. Brian M. Stoltz ) at Caltech, USA. Prof. Sekar was a visiting professor at EPFL, Switzerland, from May 1, 2023, to July 22, 2023.

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Publication

Binaphthyl-Stabilized Palladium Nanoparticle-Catalyzed Stereoselective Synthesis of 3-Arylidene-2-oxindoles via One-Pot Heck-like Carbocyclization/ Nucleophilic Addition (Naziya Parveen, Solai Pandidurai, and G. Sekar, J. Org. Chem., 2023, 88, 3, 1730-1741
(https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc. 2c02792)

Chemical Society Reviews: Chalcogen bonding catalysis (G. Sekar, Vysakh V Nair, Jieping Zhu, Chem. Soc. Rev,.2024, 53, 586).
https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CS00503H

Chemo- and Enantioselective Reduction of α-Keto Amides to α-Hydroxy Amides using Reusable CuO-Nanoparticles as Catalyst (Gollapalli Narasimha Rao, G. Sekar, J. Org. Chem.,2023, 88, 4008- 4016)
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc. 3c00090

Organocatalyzed Enantio- and Diastereoselective Formal Domino 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditio/Rearrangement: Synthesis of Chiral Pyrrolo-thiazine-carbaldehydes (Solai Pandidurai, Venkata Surya Kumar Choutipalli, Venkatesan Subramanian and G. Sekar, Org. Lett., 2024, 26, 15, 2971-2975.
(https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett. 4c00544)

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