Publications as Independent Investigator
22. ''Total Synthesis of (+)-Lyconadin A and Related Compounds via Oxidative C-N Bond Formation'' Scott P. West, Alakesh Bisai, Andrew D. Lim, Raja R. Narayan, and Richmond Sarpong* (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 11187-11194). Highlighted in Chemistry World news article by RSC(Link).
21. ''Unified Strategy for the Synthesis of the "Miscellaneous" Lycopodium Alkaloids: Total Synthesis of (+/-)-Lyconadin A'' Alakesh Bisai, Scott P. West, and Richmond Sarpong* (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 7222-7223). Highlighted as topic of discussion in Chemical & Engineering News : Science & Technology Concentrates, June 9, 2008, 86, No. 23, 38-39 (Link); Science magazine : Editor's choice, 2008, 320, 5880, issue of 30th May, 2008 (Link) ; topic of an image challenge in JACS-beta (Link) ; Synfacts, 2008, 12, 1251 (Link) ; ChemInform Volume 39, Issue 42, Date: October 14, 2008.
Publications from IIT Kanpur (Ph.D. with Prof. Vinod K. Singh)
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89. Vipin R. Gavit, Sourav Kundu, Sovan Niyogi, Nanda Kishore Roy, and Alakesh Bisai* Total Synthesis of Diterpenoid Quinone Methide Tumor Inhibitor, (+)-Taxodione, J. Org. Chem. 2024, (doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.3c02541).
88. Rhituparna Nandi, Sovan Niyogi, Sourav Kundu, Vipin R. Gavit, Mintu Munda, Ranjit Murmu and Alakesh Bisai* Total Synthesis of Atropisomeric Indolosesquiterpenoids by N-N Bond Formation: Dixiamycins A and B, Chemical Science 2023, (doi.org/10.1039/D2SC07119C).
87. Sulekha Sharma, Saina Shaheeda, Kundan Shaw, Alakesh Bisai* and Amit Paul* Two-Electron- and One-Electron-Transfer Pathways for TEMPO-Catalyzed Greener Electrochemical Dimerization of 3-Substituted-2-Oxindoles, ACS Catalysis 2023, (doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.2c06361).
86. Mintu Munda, Rhituparna Nandi, Vipin R. Gavit, Sourav Kundu, Sovan Niyogi and Alakesh Bisai* Total syntheses of naturally occurring antiviral indolosesquiterpene alkaloids, xiamycins C-F via Csp3-H functionalization, Chemical Science 2022, (doi.org/10.1039/D2SC03479D).
85. Abhinay Yadav, Satyajit Majumder, Mrinal Kanti Das, Ayan Mondal, and Alakesh Bisai* Asymmetric Total Syntheses of (-)-Dihydromaritidine and (-)-Oxomaritidine, Synlett 2022, (doi.org/10.1055/a-1912-2378).
84. Satyajit Majumder, Abhinay Yadav, Souvik Pal, Arindam Khatua and Alakesh Bisai* Asymmetric Total Syntheses of (-)-Lycoramine, (-)-Lycoraminone, (-)-Narwedine, and (-)-Galanthamine, J. Org. Chem. 2022, (doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.2c00420).
83. "Concise Total Syntheses of Bis(cyclotryptamine) Alkaloids via Thio-Urea Catalyzed One-Pot Sequential Michael Addition" Arindam Khatua, Pranay Shyamal, Souvik Pal, Ayan Mondal and Alakesh Bisai*, Chem. Commun. 2022, (doi.org/10.1039/D2CC01008A)!
82. "Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Uterotonic Drug, Methergin" (Manuscript Under Preparation)!
81. "Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Alzheimer's Drug, Physostigmine" (Manuscript Submitted)!
80. Invited Review: "Electrocatalysis as a Key Strategy for the Total Synthesis of Natural Products" Mintu Munda, Sovan Niyogi, Kundan Shaw, Sourav Kundu, Rhituparna Nandi and Alakesh Bisai* Org. Biomol. Chem. 2022. (doi.org/10.1039/D1OB02115J)!
79. "Catalytic Decarboxylative Allylation of Enolcarbonates: Synthesis of Enantioenriched 3-Allyl-3'-Aryl 2-Oxindoles and Core Structure of Azonazine" K. Naresh Babu, Souvik Pal, Arindam Khatua, Avishek Roy and Alakesh Bisai* , Org. Biomol. Chem. 2021, (doi.org/10.1039/D1OB02048J)!
78. "Total syntheses of Hexahydropyrrolo[2,3-b]indole Alkaloids, (+)-pseudophrynamine 270 and (+)-pseudophrynamine 272A" Arindam Maity, Mintu Munda, Sovan Niyogi, Nivesh Kumar, Alakesh Bisai* ,Tetrahedron Lett. 2021, (doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2021.153541)!
77. Invited Review: "FeCl3-Catalyzed Highly Efficient Nazarov Type Cyclization of Arylvinyl Carbinols: Total Syntheses of Naturally Occurring Taiwaniaquinoids" Badrinath N. Kakde, Amarchand Parida, Vipin R. Gavit, Rhituparna Nandi, Sourav Kundu, and Alakesh Bisai* , Prayogik Raayan 2021, (DOI: 10.53023/p.rasayan-20211115)!
76. "Oxidative Electro-organic Synthesis of Dimeric hexahydropyrrolo-[2,3-b]indole Alkaloids Involving PCET: Total Synthesis of (±)-Folicanthine" Kundan Shaw, Sulekha Sharma, Arindam Khatua, Amit Paul* and Alakesh Bisai*, Org. Biomol. Chem. 2021, (doi.org/10.1039/D1OB01463C)!
75. Invited Review: "Pd(0)-Catalyzed Deacylative Allylations (DaA) Strategy and Application in the Total Synthesis of Alkaloids" Sourav Kundu, Mintu Munda, Rhituparna Nandi, and Alakesh Bisai* The Chemical Record 2021, (doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202100267)!
74. "Total syntheses of (+)- and (-)-Crinane via Pd(0)-Catalyzed deacylative allylation" Mrinal K. Das, AbhinayYadav, Satyajit Majumder, Ayan Mondal and Alakesh Bisai* Tetrahedron 2021, (doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2021.131928)!
73. "Electrochemical Synthesis of Dimeric 2.Oxindole Sharing Vicinal Quaternary Centers Employing Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer" Sulekha Sharma, Avishek Roy, Kundan Shaw, Alakesh Bisai*, and Amit Paul* J. Org. Chem. 2020, (doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.0c01621)!
72. Invited Review: "Hexahydropyrrolo [2,3-b] indole Alkaloids of Biological Relevence: proposed Biosynthesis and Synthetic Approaches."Avishek Roy, Arindam Maity, Saina Shaheeda MK, Rahul Giri, and Alakesh Bisai* ARKIVOC, 2020, (20-11307LR)!
71. "Catalytic deacylative alkylations (DaA) of enolcarbonates: Total synthesis of (±)-Crinane" Mrinal K. Das, Abhinay Yadav, Satyajit Majumder and Alakesh Bisai* Tetrahedron Lett. 2020, (doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2020.152129)!
70. "Efficient Alkynylation of 2-Oxindoles with Alkynyl Dibenzothiophenium Triflates: Total Synthesis of (±)-Deoxyeseroline" Avishek Roy, Arindam Maity, Rahul Giri, and Alakesh Bisai* Asian J. Org. Chem. 2020, (DOI: 10.1002/ajoc.20200027)!
69. "Oxidative cyanation of 2-oxindoles: formal total synthesis of (±)-gliocladin C" Arindam Maity, Avishek Roy, Mrinal Kanti Das, Subhadip De, Malay Naskara and Alakesh Bisai * Org. Biomol. Chem., 2020, (DOI: 10.1039/c9ob02752a)!
68. "Biosynthetic Relationships and Total Syntheses of Naturally Occurring Benzo[c]Phenanthridine Alkaloids" Vishnumaya Bisai,* M. K. Saina Shaheeda, Aditi Gupta, and Alakesh Bisai* Asian J. Org. Chem. 2019, (DOI: 10.1002/ajoc.201900244)!
67. Invited Review: "Synthetic Organic Chemistry in India" Alakesh Bisai* and Vishwakarma Singh Proc Indian Natn Sci Acad. 2019, (DOI: 10.16943/ptinsa/2019/49726)!
66. ''Thiourea-Catalyzed Enantioselective Malonate Addition onto 3-Sulfonyl-3'-indolyl-2-oxindoles: Formal Total Syntheses of (-)-Chimonanthine, (-)-Folicanthine, and (+)-Calycanthine'' K. Naresh Babu, Avishek Roy, Manvendra Singh and Alakesh Bisai* Org. Lett. 2018, (DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b02327)!
65. "Catalytic N-Deacylative Alkylation Approach to Hexahydropyrrolo[2,3-b]indole Alkaloids Catalytic N-Deacylative Alkylation Approach to Hexahydropyrrolo[2,3-b]indole Alkaloids" Nivesh Kumar, Arindam Maity, Vipin R. Gavit and Alakesh Bisai* Chem. Commun. 2018, (DOI:10.1039/C8CC04117B)!
64. "Catalytic Asymmetric Total Syntheses of Naturally Occurring Amarylidaceae Alkaloids, (-)-Crinine, (-)-epi-Crinine, (-)-Oxocrinine, (+)-epi-Elwesine, (+)-Vittatine, and (+)-epi-Vittatine" Mrinal K. Das, Nivesh Kumar, and Alakesh Bisai* Org. Lett. 2018, ( DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b01703)!
63. "Naturally Occurring Taiwaniaquinoids: Biosynthetic Relationships and Synthetic Approaches" Vishnumaya Bisai,* Aditi Gupta, and Alakesh Bisai* ARKIVOC (Invited Article)!
62. "Cu(II)-tBu-PHOX catalyzed enantioselective malonate addition onto 3-hydroxy 2-oxindoles: application in the synthesis of dimeric pyrroloindoline alkaloids" K. Naresh Babu, Lakshmana K. Kinthada, Partha Pratim Das and Alakesh Bisai* Chem. Commun. 2018, 54, 7963. (DOI:10.1039/C8CC04338H)!.
61. ''Development of Pd(0)-Catalyzed Chemoselective Deacylative Alkylation (DaA) of N-Acyl-2-oxindoles'' Nivesh Kumar, Vipin R. Gavit, Arindam Maity and Alakesh Bisai* J. Org. Chem. 2018(accepted)
60. ''Diels-Alder Reactions in Creating Complexity in Higher Order Isoprenoids: Proposed Biosynthesis and Biomimetic Total Syntheses'',Vishnumaya Bisai* and Alakesh Bisai* Asian J. Org. Chem.. 2018,(https://doi.org/10.1002/ajoc.201800158)
59. ''Expeditious Route to Enantioenriched Tetracyclic Core of Ergot Alkaloids via Organocatalytic Aldol Reaction'' Subhajit Bhunia, Saikat Chaudhuri, Subhadip De, K. Naresh Babu, and Alakesh Bisai* Org. Biomol. Chem., 2018, 16, 2427-2437 (DOI: 10.1039/C7OB03069J)
58. ''Catalytic Asymmetric Formal Total Syntheses of (+)- and (-)-Cycloclavine'' Saikat Chaudhuri, Santanu Ghosh, Subhajit Bhunia, and Alakesh Bisai* Chem. Commun. 2018, 54, 940-943 (DOI: 10.1039/c7cc09045e)
57. "Transition-Metal Free Oxidative Alkynylation of 2-Oxindoles with Ethynylbenziodoxolone (EBX) Reagents" Avishek Roy, Mrinal Kanti Das, Saikat Chaudhuri, and Alakesh Bisai* J. Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 403-421(DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.7b02797)
56. "Biomimetic Total Syntheses of Clavine Alkaloids" Saikat Chaudhuri, Subhajit Bhunia, Avishek Roy, Mrinal K. Das, and Alakesh Bisai* Org. Lett. 2018, 20, 288-291 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.7b03683)
55. "Synthesis of 3-Hydroxy 2-Oxindoles via Deacylative Oxygenation (DaO): Total Synthesis of CPC 1" Nivesh Kumar, Vipin R. Gavit, Manvendra Singh and Alakesh Bisai* J. Ind. Chem. Soc., 2017, 94, 1- 8. Invited Article!
54. "Total Syntheses of Pyroclavine, Festuclavine, Lysergol, and Isolysergol via a Catalytic Asymmetric Nitro-Michael Reaction" Subhajit Bhunia, Saikat Chaudhuri and Alakesh Bisai* Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 1-6, (DOI: 10.1002/chem.201702459)
53. "FeCl3-Catalyzed Allylation Reactions onto 3-Hydroxy-2-oxindoles: Formal Total Syntheses of Bis-cyclotryptamine Alkaloids, Chimonanthine, and Folicanthine" Lakshmana K. Kinthada, Sai Raghavendra Medisetty, Amarchand Parida, K. Naresh Babu, Alakesh Bisai* J. Org. Chem., 2017, 82, 8548-8567, (DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.7b01232)
52. "Lewis-Acid-Catalysed Reaction of 3-Hydroxy-2-oxindoles with Terminal Alkynes: Synthetic Approaches to the Pyrroloindoline Alkaloids" Lakshmana K. Kinthada, K. Naresh Babu, Dikshaa Padhi, Alakesh Bisai* Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2017, 3078-3091, (DOI:10.1002/ejoc.201700507)
51. "Development of Catalytic Deacylative Alkylations (DaA) of 3-Acyl-2-Oxindoles: Total Synthesis of meso-Chimonanthine and Related Alkaloids" Nivesh Kumar, Mrinal Kanti Das, Santanu Ghosh and Alakesh Bisai * Chem. Commun. 2017, (DOI: 10.1039/C6CC10228J)
50. "Synthesis of 2 Oxindoles Sharing Vicinal All-Carbon Quaternary Stereocenters via Organocatalytic Aldol Reaction " Subhadip De, Mrinal Kanti Das, Avishek Roy, Alakesh Bisai* J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81, 12258-12274. (DOI:10.1021/acs.joc.6b02195)
49. "Zwitterionic BODIPYs with Larger Stokes Shift: Small Molecular Biomarkers for Live Cells Adiki Raja Sekhar, Santhosh K. Sariki, R. V. Ramana Reddy, Alakesh Bisai, Pushpendra K. Sahu, Raghuvir S. Tomar, Jeyaraman Sankar* Chem. Commun. 2016, (DOI: 10.1039/C6CC09325F)
48. "FeCl3-Catalyzed Highly Efficient Nazarov Type Cyclization of Arylvinylcarbinols: Total Synthesis of Dichroanal B and Related Taiwaniaquinoids" Badrinath N. Kakde, Amarchand Parida, Nivesh Kumar, and Alakesh Bisai* ChemistrySelect 2016, 1, 3357-3362. (DOI: 10.1002/slct.201600890)
47. "Total Syntheses of Taiwaniaquinol D and Taiwaniaquinone D via a key Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Nazarov Type Cyclization" Badrinath N. Kakde, Amarchand Parida, Pooja Kumari, and Alakesh Bisai* Tetrahedron Lett. 2016, 57, 3179-3184. (doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2016.06.030)
46. "Synthesis of 2-oxindoles via 'transition-metal-free' intramolecular dehydrogenative coupling (IDC) of sp2 C-H and sp3 C-H bonds" Nivesh Kumar, Santanu Ghosh, Subhajit Bhunia and Alakesh Bisai* Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1153-1169. (doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.111) Invited article!
45. "Approach to Merosesquiterpenes via Lewis Acid Catalyzed Nazarov Type Cyclization: Total Synthesis of Akaol A" Badrinath N. Kakde, Nivesh Kumar, Pradip Kumar Mondal, and Alakesh Bisai* Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 1752-1755. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.6b00446)!
44. "Concise Total Syntheses of Joubertiamine, O-Methyl-joubertiamine, 3'-Methoxy-4'-O-methyljoubertiamine, Mesembrane, and Crinane" Mrinal Kanti Das, Subhadip De , Shubhashish, Alakesh Bisai* Synthesis. 2016, 48, 2093-2104. (DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1561583)!
43. "Highly Stereoselective Syntheses of Proline Derived Vicinal Amino Alcohols via Grignard Addition onto N-Tosylprolinal" Saikat Chaudhuri, Amarchand Parida, Santanu Ghosh, and Alakesh Bisai* Synlett 2016, 27, 215-220. (DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1560802) which is qualified for the best paper award competition by editor!
42. "Unified Approach to the Spiro(pyrrolidinyl-oxindole) and Hexahydropyrrolo[2,3-b]indole Alkaloids: Total Syntheses of Pseudophrynamines 270 and 272A" Subhadip De, Mrinal Kanti Das, Subhajit Bhunia, and Alakesh Bisai* Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 5922-5925. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5b03082).
41. "Catalytic Enantioselective Decarboxylative Allylations of a Mixture of Allylcarbonates and Allylesters: Total Syntheses of (-)- and (+)-Folicanthine" Santanu Ghosh, Saikat Chaudhuri, and Alakesh Bisai* Chem.- Eur. J. 2015, 21, 17479-17484.( DOI: 10.1002/chem.201502878).
40. "Total Synthesis of (±)-Taiwaniaquinol F and Related Taiwaniaquinoids" Badrinath N. Kakde, Pooja Kumari, and Alakesh Bisai* J. Org. Chem. 2015, 80, 9889-9899. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.5b01345).
39. "Highly chemoselective synthesis of dimeric 2-oxindoles with a C-3/C-5' via Friedel-Crafts alkylations of 2-oxindoles with 3-hydroxy-2-oxindoles" K. Naresh Babu, Lakshmana K. Kinthada, Santanu Ghosh, and Alakesh Bisai* Org. Biomol. Chem. 2015, 13, 10641-10655. (DOI: 10.1039/C5OB01670C).
38. "Efficient Synthesis of 3-Alkynyl-2-(hydroxymethyl)cyclohex-2-en- 1-ones by a Stork-Danheiser Sequence from Vinylogous Esters and Terminal Alkynes" Amarchand Parida, Mohd. Sharique, Badrinath N. Kakde, Santanu Ghosh, Alakesh Bisai* Synthesis 2015, 47, 2965-2970. (DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1380451)as an Invited Article!
37. "Oxidative Dimerization of 2-Oxindoles Promoted by KOtBu-I2: Total Synthesis of (±)-Folicanthine" Santanu Ghosh, Saikat Chaudhuri, and Alakesh Bisai* Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 1373-1376. ( DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5b00032), which is a most downloaded article!
36. "Concise Total Syntheses of (±)-mesembrane and (±)-crinane" Mrinal Kanti Das, Subhadip De, Shubhashish, and Alakesh Bisai* Org. Biomol. Chem. 2015, 13, 3585-3588. (DOI: 10.1039/C5OB00183H), which is a most downloaded article!
35. "Friedel-Crafts Alkylations of Electron-rich Aromatics with 3-Hydroxy-2-oxindoles: Scope and Limitations" Lakshmana K. Kinthada, Santanu Ghosh, K. Naresh Babu, Mohd. Sharique, Soumava Biswas and Alakesh Bisai* Org. Biomol. Chem. 2014, 12, 8152-8173. (DOI: 10.1039/c4ob01264j).
34. "Enantioselective Construction of Vicinal All-Carbon Quaternary Centers via Catalytic Double Asymmetric Decarboxylative Allylation" Santanu Ghosh, Subhajit Bhunia, Badrinath N. Kakde, Subhadip De, and Alakesh Bisai* Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 2434-2437 (DOI: 10.1039/C3CC49064E), which is a most downloaded article!
33. ''Acid-Catalyzed Reactions of 3-Hydroxy-2-oxindoles with Electron-rich Substrates: Synthesis of 2-Oxindoles with All-Carbon Quaternary Centers'' Lakshmana K. Kinthada, Santanu Ghosh, Subhadip De, Subhajit Bhunia, Dhananjay Dey, and Alakesh Bisai* Org. Biomol. Chem., 2013, 11, 6984-6993. (DOI: 10.1039/C3OB41482E).
32. "Pd-Catalyzed Direct Arylation Approach to the 6H-dibenzo[c,h]chromenes: Total Synthesis of Arnottin I" Subhadip De, Saikat Chaudhuri, Sourabh Mishra, Himanshu Mamtani, and Alakesh Bisai* J. Ind. Chem. Soc., 2013, 90, 1871-1884. Invited Article!
31. ''Expeditious Approach to Pyrrolophenanthridones, Phenanthridines, and Benzo[c]phenanthridines via Organocatalytic Direct Biaryl-Coupling Promoted by Potassium tert-Butoxide'' Subhadip De, Sourabh Mishra, Badrinath N. Kakde, Dhananjay Dey, and Alakesh Bisai* J. Org. Chem., 2013, 78, 7823-7844. (DOI: 10.1021/jo400890k).
30. ''Expeditious Approach to the Amarylidaceae Alkaloids via a Pd-Catalyzed Direct Biaryl-Coupling Reactions'' Sourabh Mishra, Subhadip De, Badrinath N. Kakde, Dhananjay Dey, and Alakesh Bisai* Indian Journal of Chemistry A, 2013, 52A, 1093-1102. Invited Article!
29. ''DDQ-Mediated Direct Intramolecular-Dehydrogenative Coupling (IDC): Expeditious Approach to the Tetracyclic Core of Ergot Alkaloids'' Subhajit Bhunia, Santanu Ghosh, Dhananjay Dey, and Alakesh Bisai* Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 2426-2429. (DOI: 10.1021/ol400899e)
28. ''Metal triflate-Catalyzed Cyclization of Arylvinylcarbinols: Formal Total Synthesis of (±)-Dichroa-none and (±)-Taiwaniaquinone H'' Badrinath N. Kakde, Subhadip De, Dhananjay Dey, and Alakesh Bisai* RSC Adv. 2013, 3, 8176. (DOI: 10.1039/C3RA41497C).
27. ''Approach to the Core Structure of abeo-Abietanes and Gibberellins via Stork-Danheiser Sequence Followed by Friedel-Crafts Alkylations'' Badrinath N. Kakde, Subhajit Bhunia, and Alakesh Bisai* Tetrahedron Lett. 2013, 54, 1436-1439.( DOI : 10.1016/j.tetlet.2013.01.002.)
26. "Intramolecular Dehydrogenative Coupling of sp2 C-H and sp3 C-H Bonds: An Expeditious Route to 2-Oxindoles" Santanu Ghosh, Subhadip De, Badrinath N. Kakde, Subhajit Bhunia, Amit Adhikary, and Alakesh Bisai* Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 5864-5867. (DOI: 10.1021/ol302767w). Highlighted as one of the 5 Most-Read Article in December 2012; ChemInform Volume 44, Issue 17, Date: April 23, 2013.
25. ''Base Promoted Michael Reaction Concomitant with Alkylation of Cyclic 1,3-Dione: An Efficient Approach to 2-Substituted Vinylogous Esters'' Subhadip De, Lakshmana K. Kinthada, and Alakesh Bisai* Synlett 2012, 2785-2788 Highlighted as ChemInform Volume 44, Issue 14, Date: April 2, 2013. (DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1317496).
24. ''Lewis-Acid Catalyzed Friedel-Crafts Alkylations of 3-Hydroxy-2-oxindoles: An Efficient Approach to the Core Structure of Azonazine'' Santanu Ghosh, Lakshmana K. Kinthada, Subhajit Bhunia, and Alakesh Bisai* Chem. Commun. 2012, 10132-10134. (DOI: 10.1039/C2CC35283D). Highlighted in ChemInform Volume 44, Issue 14, Date: April 2, 2013.
23. ''Intramolecular Direct Dehydrohalide Coupling Promoted by KOtBu: Total Synthesis of Amaryllidaceae Alkaloids Anhydrolycorinone and Oxoassoanine'' Subhadip De, Santanu Ghosh, Subhajit Bhunia, Javeed A. Sheikh, and Alakesh Bisai* Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 4466-4469.( DOI: 10.1021/ol3019677)
20. Encyclopedia for Reagents in Organic Synthesis (EROS) on "Benzenecarboperoxoic acid, 1,1-dimethylethyl Ester" published by John and Wiley & Sons Ltd. (Alakesh Bisai, Vishnumaya Bisai, and Vinod K. Singh*) Invited E-ROS accepted (RN01616).
19. Enantioselective Organocatalytic Aldol Reaction Using Small Organic Molecules (Vishnumaya Bisai, Alakesh Bisai and Vinod K. Singh* Tetrahedron 2012, 68, 4541- 4580) doi:10.1016/j.tet.2012.03.099 Invited Review. Highlighted in ChemInform Volume 43, Issue 40, Date: October 2, 2012.
18. Enantioselective One-pot Three-component Synthesis of Propargylamines Catalyzed by Copper(I)-Pyridine Bis-(oxazoline) Complexes (Alakesh Bisai and Vinod K. Singh* Tetrahedron 2012, 68, 3480-3486) doi:10.1016/j.tet.2011.05.114 Invited Article.
17. An efficient approach to 2-substituted N-tosylpiperidine: Asymmetric synthesis of 2-(2-hydroxysubstituted)piperidine alkaloids (Alakesh Bisai and Vinod K. Singh* Tetrahedron Lett. 2007, 48, 1907-1910).
16. Studies on the Reaction of Aziridines with Nitriles and Carbonyls: Synthesis of Imidazolines and Oxazolidines (Shikha Gandhi, Alakesh Bisai, B. A. Bhanu Prasad, and Vinod K. Singh* J. Org. Chem. 2007, 72, 2133-2142). Highlighted in ChemInform Volume 38, Issue 31, July 31, 2007.
15. Enantioselective Friedel-Crafts alkylation of Indoles with Nitroalkenes Catalyzed by a Bis(oxazoline)-Cu(II) Complex (Pradeep K. Singh, Alakesh Bisai, and Vinod K. Singh* Tetrahedron Lett. 2007, 48, 1127-1129). Highlighted inChemInform Volume 38, Issue 21, Date: May 22, 2007.
14. Activation of DMSO by Phosphonitrilic Chloride. An Efficient Method for Oxidation of Alcohols (Sanjay K. Pandey, Alakesh Bisai, and Vinod K. Singh* Synth. Commun. 2007, 37, 4099- 4103). Highlighted in ChemInform Volume 39, Issue 17, Date: April 22, 2008.
13. Enantioselective Diethylzinc Addition to Aldehydes Catalyzed by Ti(IV) Complex of Unsymmetrical Chiral Bis(sulfonamide) Ligands of trans-Cyclohexane 1,2-diamine (Alakesh Bisai, Pradeep K. Singh, and Vinod K. Singh* Tetrahedron 2007, 63, 598-601). Highlighted in ChemInform Volume 38, Issue 21, Date: May 22, 2007.
12. Aminolysis of N-tosylaziridines: An Approach to Asymmetric Synthesis of Symmetric and Unsymmetric Chiral Sulfonamide Ligands (Alakesh Bisai, B. A. Bhanu Prasad, and Vinod K. Singh* ARKIVOC 2007, 5, 20-37) [Commemorative Issue in Honor of Prof. Lutz F. Tietze on the occasion of his 65th anniversary].
11. Enantioselective One-pot Three-component Synthesis of Propargylamines (Alakesh Bisai and Vinod K. Singh* Org. Lett. 2006, 8, 2405-2408) Most-Accessed Article (Apr-Jun 2006). Highlighted in Synfacts, 2006, 9, 910 (Link); ChemInform Volume 37, Issue 40, Date: October 3, 2006.
10. Enantioselective Turnover in Glyoxylate-Ene Reactions Catalyzed by Chiral Copper Complexes (Manoj K. Pandey, Alakesh Bisai, and Vinod K. Singh* Tetrahedron Lett. 2006, 47, 897-900). Highlighted in ChemInform Volume 37, Issue 20, Date: May 16, 2006.
9. Synthesis of Chiral Vicinal C2-Symmetric and Unsymmetric Bis(sulfonamide) Ligands based on trans-1,2-cyclohexanediamine by Aminolysis of N-Tosylaziridines (Alakesh Bisai, B. A. Bhanu Prasad, and Vinod K. Singh* Tetrahedron Lett. 2005, 46, 7935-7939).
8. Imino-ene Reaction of N-Tosyl Arylaldimines with a-Methylstyrene: Application in the Synthesis of Important Amines (Manoj K. Pandey, Alakesh Bisai, Ankur Pandey, and Vinod K. Singh* Tetrahedron Lett. 2005, 46, 5039-5041). Highlighted in ChemInform Volume 36, Issue 44, Date: November 1, 2005.
7. Regioselective Ring Opening of Aziridines with Activated DMF Complexes: A Facile Synthesis of b-Haloamines (Manoj K. Pandey, Alakesh Bisai, and Vinod K. Singh* Tetrahedron Lett. 2004, 45, 9661-9663). Highlighted in ChemInform Volume 36, Issue 14, Date: April 5, 2005.
6. 2-Aryl-N-tosylazetidines as Formal 1,4-dipoles for [4+2]-Cycloaddition Reactions with Nitriles: An Easy Access to the Tetrahydropyrimidine Derivatives (B. A. Bhanu Prasad, Alakesh Bisai, and Vinod. K. Singh* Org. Lett. 2004, 6, 4829-4831). Highlighted in ChemInform Volume 36, Issue 14, Date: April 5, 2005.
5. Trimethylsilyl Cyanide Addition to Arylaldimines and its Application in the Synthesis of (S)-Phenylglycine methyl ester (B. A. Bhanu Prasad, Alakesh Bisai, and Vinod K. Singh* Tetrahedron Lett. 2004, 45, 9565-9567). Highlighted in ChemInform Volume 36, Issue 14, Date: April 5, 2005.
4. Do Aziridines Require Lewis Acids for Cleavage with Ionic Nucleophiles? (Alakesh Bisai, Ghanshyam Pandey, Manoj K. Pandey, and Vinod K. Singh* Tetrahedron Lett. 2003, 44, 5839- 5841). Highlighted inChemInform Volume 34, Issue 47, November 25, 2003.
3. Synthesis of Chiral Non-racemic 1,2-Diamines from O-Acetyl Mandelic acid: Application in Enantioselective Deprotonation of Epoxides and Diethylzinc Addition to Aldehydes (P. Saravanan, Alakesh Bisai, S. Baktharaman, M. Chandrasekhar, and Vinod K. Singh* Tetrahedron 2002, 58, 4693-4706). Highlighted in ChemInform Volume 33, Issue 41, Date: October 15, 2002.
2. An Alternative to the Swern Oxidation (Alakesh Bisai, M. Chandrasekhar, and Vinod K. Singh* Tetrahedron Lett. 2002, 43, 8355-8357). Highlighted in ChemInform Volume 34, Issue 5, Date: February 4, 2003.
1. A One-Pot Synthesis of b-Chloro Acetates/Benzoates from Epoxides (Kusum L. Chandra, Alakesh Bisai, P. Saravanan, and Vinod K. Singh* J. Chem. Res. 2002, 5, 221-223). Highlighted in ChemInform Volume 33, Issue 42, Date: October 22, 2002
Publications from UC Berkeley (Postdoc with Prof. Richmond Sarpong)
Book Chapter from IISER Bhopal
1. ''Protecting-Group-Free Synthesis of Natural Products and Analogs, Part III edited by Rodney A. Fernandes'' Alakesh Bisai and Vishnumaya Bisai (John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
The AB Research Group
A Laboratory of Organic Synthesis
