DR. SEKAR, G.

Prof. Sekar obtained his Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur in 1999 under the guidance of Padma Shri, Prof. Vinod K. Singh. He was a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at TUT, Japan, and an AvH postdoctoral fellow at Goettingen University, Germany. He also carried out postdoctoral research at Caltech, USA. Prof. Sekar’s research on organic synthesis focuses on developing new synthetic methodologies that employ environmentally benign homogeneous catalysts, metal nanocatalysts, and halogen bonding catalysis. Prof. Sekar has more than 130 publications, graduated 25 Ph.D. students and presently guiding 12 Ph.D. students. He is the recipient of the Institute Research and Development Award (Mid-Career)-2017, JSPS, AvH postdoctoral fellowships, and CRSI bronze medal (2015). He is the Fellow National Academy of Sciences (FNASc, 2019), Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), and Fellow of the Academy of Sciences, Chennai (FASCh). He is also a present council member of the National Organic Symposium Trust (NOST), Chemical Research Society of India (Joint Secretary, CRSI), and Academy of Sciences, Chennai.

Copper-catalyzed domino synthesis of multisubstituted benzo[b]thiophene through radical cyclization using xanthate as a sulfur surrogate (N. Sundaravelu, Tushar Singha, Anuradha Nandy, and Sekar, Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 4512).

Selective oxidation of alkylarenes to aromatic acids/ketone in water by using reusable binaphthyl stabilized Pt nanoparticles (Pt-BNP) as a catalyst, Saha, R.; Sekar, G., Applied Catalysis B:  Environmental, 2019, 250, 325. (highlighted in “The Hindu” national English newspaper (31st March 2019)

Stable Pd-nanoparticles catalyzed domino C-H activation/C-N bond formation strategy: An access to phenanthridinones, Saha, R.; Sekar, G.,  Catalysis,2018, 366, 176.

Metal-free halogen(I) catalysts for the oxidation of aryl(heteroaryl)methanes to ketones or esters: Selectivity control by halogen bonding, Somraj Guha, Sekar, G.,  Eur. J.2018, 24, 14171.

An efficient synthesis of polysubstituted olefins using stable palladium nanocatalyst: Applications in the synthesis of tamoxifen and iso-combretastatin A4, Ganapathy, D.,  Sekar, G.,  Lett.2014, 16, 3856.

  Galactose oxidase model: biomimetic, enantiomer-differentiating oxidation of alcohols by chiral copper complex, Alamsetti, S. K., Mannam, S., Muthupandi, P., Sekar, G.,  Eur. J.2009, 15, 1086.