Novel Intermediates Useful in the Preparation of Substituted Oxazolidinones and a Process for their Preparation. B. B. Lohray and S. Baskaran Indian Patent Application No. 2434 / MAS / 98; filed on October 29, 1998.

Novel Bis-Oxazolidinones Useful in the Preparation of Substituted Oxazolidinones and a Process for their Preparation. B. B. Lohray and S. Baskaran Indian Patent Application No. 2434a / MAS / 98; filed on October 29, 1998.

Novel Heterocyclic Compounds having Antibacterial Activity: Process for their Preparation and Pharmaceutical Composition containing them. B. B. Lohray; G. Prasuna; S. Baskaran; A. K. Sadhukhan and M. S. Kumar Indian Patent Application No. 2885 / MAS / 98; filed on December 31, 1998; US Patent Application No. 60/131,612; filed on April 29, 1999.

Novel Heterocyclic Compounds having Antibacterial Activity: Process for their Preparation and Pharmaceutical Composition containing them. N. Selvakumar; J. Iqbal; M. S. Kumar; S. R. N. V. Mamidi; R. Rajagopalan; S. Baskaran and B. B. Lohray Indian Patent Application No. 1124 / MAS / 2000; filed on December 26, 2000; PCT WO 02/051819 A2 dated July 4, 2002.

Process for the Preparation of Novel Heterocyclic Compounds having Antibacterial Activity. N. Selvakumar; J. Das; J. Iqbal; M. S. Kumar; S. R. N. V. Mamidi; R. Rajagopalan; S. Baskaran and B. B. Lohray Indian Patent Application No. 15/ MAS / 2001; filed on January 4, 2001. US Patent Application No. 10/032,392; filed on December 21, 2001.

Pyridinium Chlorochromate in Organic Synthesis: A Facile and Selective Oxidative Cleavage of Enol Ethers.
S. Baskaran, I. Islam, M. Raghavan and S. Chandrasekaran
Chemistry Lett. 1987, 1175 – 1178

Heterogeneous Permanganate Oxidations: An Improved Procedure for the Direct Conversion of Olefins to a-Diketones / a-Hydroxy Ketones.
S. Baskaran, J. Das and S. Chandrasekaran
J. Org. Chem. 1989, 54, 5182 – 5184.

A Facile Conversion of Alkenes to Alcohols with Benzyltriethyl ammonium Borohydride-Chlorotrimethylsilane.
S. Baskaran, V. Gupta, N. Chidambaram and S. Chandrasekaran
J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun. 1989, 903 – 904.

The Key Role of Water in the Heterogeneous Permanganate Oxidation of w-Hydroxy Olefins.
S. Baskaran, I. Islam, P. S. Vankar and S. Chandrasekaran
J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun. 1990, 1670 – 1671.

Oxidation of Tetrahydrofuran Methanol Derivatives with Pyridinium Chlorochromate: A Facile Synthesis of g- Butyrolactones.
S. Baskaran, and S. Chandrasekaran
Tetrahedron Lett. 1990, 31, 2775-2778.

A General Approach to the synthesis of Butanolides: Synthesis of the Sex Pheromone of the Japanese Beetle.
S. Baskaran, I. Islam and S. Chandrasekaran
J. Org. Chem. 1990, 55, 891 – 895

Unusual Reaction of Enol Ethers with Benzyltriethylammonium Borohydride and Chlorotrimethylsilane.
S. Baskaran, N. Chidambaram, N. Narasimhan S. Chandrasekaran
Tetrahedron Lett. 1992, 33, 6371-6374.

Studies on the Mechanism of the Substituent Directed Oxidative Cyclization of tert-g-Hydroxy Olefins to g-Lactones with Oxo chromium(vi) Reagents.
S. Baskaran, I. Islam, and S. Chandrasekaran
J. Chem. Research (S), 1992, 290 and J. Chem. Research (M), 1992, 2213 – 2246.

A Novel and b-Selective Epoxidation of D 5 -Unsaturated Steroids with Permanganate Ion.
M. S. Syamala, J. Das, S. Baskaran, and S. Chandrasekaran
J. Org. Chem. 1992, 57, 1928 – 1930. 

Heterogeneous Permanganate Oxidation of 1,5-Dienes: A Novel Synthesis of 5-Substituted Butanolides.
S. Baskaran, I. Islam, P. S. Vankar and S. Chandrasekaran
J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun. 1992, 626 – 627.

Studies Directed Toward the Total Synthesis of Fredericamycin-A.
S. Baskaran, E. Nagy, and M. Braun
Presented at the “German-National Organic Chemistry Meet”, September 25-27, 1993, Hamburg, Germany.

Diisopropoxytitanium(III) Tetrahydroborate: A Highly Useful Reagent for the Remarkably Selective 1,2-Reduction of -unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds.
K. S. Ravikumar, S. Baskaran, and S. Chandrasekaran
J. Org. Chem. 1993, 58, 5981 – 5982.

An Unusual Anti-Markovnikov Hydration of Alkenes with Titanium(III) Tetrahydro-borates.
K. S. Ravikumar, S. Baskaran, and S. Chandrasekaran
Tetrahedron Lett. 1993, 34, 171-174.

Diastereoselective Reactions of Enolates
M. Braun, H. Sacha, D. Galle and S. Baskaran.
Pure & Appl. Chem. 1996, 68, 561-564.

Enzymic Lipoxygenation of Ethanolamide Derivative of Fatty Acids.
E. J. Corey and S. Baskaran
To be communicated.

Radical route to the synthesis of cyclonucleosides.
E. J. Corey and S. Baskaran
To be communicated.

A Tandem Claisen-Decarboxylation-Aldol Reaction: Facile Access to the Fredericamycin-A Core.
S. Baskaran, E. Nagy, M. Braun
Liebigs Ann. / Rect. 1997, 311-312.

Lanosterol Cyclase Mimic: Design and Synthesis of Molecular
Receptor for 2,3-Oxido Squalene.
E. J. Corey and S. Baskaran

To be communicated.

Biomimetic Synthesis of Prostaglandin PGG2 from Arachidonic Acid.
E. J. Corey and S. Baskaran
To be communicated.

Enantiospecific Synthesis of N-Aryl-1,3-oxazin-2-one. B.B. Lohray, S. Baskaran, B.Yadi Reddy and K. Srinivasa Rao Tetrahedron Lett. 1998, 39, 6555.

Intramolecular SN 2 Ring Opening of Cyclic Sulfate: 6-Exo-Tet versus 7- Exo-Tet Cyclization.
B.B. Lohray, S. Baskaran, B. Srinivasa Rao and V. Bhushan
Ind. J. Chem. 1998, 37B, 209-218.

Novel Quinolone Derivatives as Potent Antibacterials.
B. B. Lohray, S. Baskaran, B. Srinivas Rao, B. Mallesham, K. S. N. Bharath, B. Yadi Reddey, S. Venkateswarlu, A. K. Sadhukhan, M. S. Kumar, H. M. Sarnaik
Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 1998, 8, 525-528.

A Short and Efficient Synthesis of Linezolid and Eperezolid: A New Class of Antibacterial Agents.
B. B. Lohray, S. Baskaran, B. Yadi Reddy, B. Srinivas Rao
Tetrahedron Lett. 1999, 40, 4855.

A Convenient Method for the N – Formylation of Secondary Amines and Anilines using Ammonium formate.
P. G. Reddy, G. D. K. Kumar and S. Baskaran
Tetrahedron Lett. 2000, 41, 9149-9151. 

Microwave Assisted Amination of Quinolone Carboxylic Acids: An Expeditious Synthesis of Fluoroquinolone Antibacterials.
P. Ganapati Reddy and S. Baskaran
Tetrahedron Lett. 2001, 42, 6775-6777. 

Direct Conversion of Aryl Nitro Compounds to Formanilides under Catalytic Transfer Hydrogenation Conditions.
T. V. Pratap and S. Baskaran
Tetrahedron Lett. 2001, 42, 1983-1985. 

Lindlar Catalyst Revitalized: An Unprecedented Chemoselective Method for the Direct Conversion of Azides to N-(tert-Butoxycarbonyl) Amines.
P. G. Reddy, T. V. Pratap, G. D. K. Kumar, S. K. Mohanty and S. Baskaran
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2002, 3740. 

A Chemoselective Method for the Reductive N-Formylation of Aryl Azides under Catalytic Transfer Hydrogenation Conditions.
P. Ganapati Reddy and S. Baskaran
Tetrahedron Lett. 2002, 43, 1919-1922. 

Ciprofloxacin@SiO2: fluorescent nanobubbles
M. J. Rosemary, V. Suryanarayanan, P. G. Reddy, I. Maclaren, S. Baskaran, T. Pradeep.
Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Chem. Sci.) 2003, 115, 703-709.

Epoxide Initiated Electrophilic Cyclization of Azides: A Novel Route for the Stereoselective Construction of Azabicyclic Ring Systems and Total Synthesis of (+) Indolizidine 167B and 209D.
P. G. Reddy, B. Varghese and S. Baskaran
Organic Letters 2003, 5, 583-585.

Opening of N-tosyl aziridines with nucleophiles catalyzed by phosphomolybdic acid supported on silica gel
G. D. K. Kumar and S. Baskaran
SYNLETT 2004, 1719-1722. 

Self Association of Newkome Type Protected Second Generation Dendrimers at Nanomolar Level Concentrations in Aqueous Solution
S. K. Mohanty, S. Thirunavukarasu, S. Baskaran and A. K. Mishra
Macromolecules 2004, 37, 5364-5369. 

Epoxide Initiated Cationic Cyclization of Azides: A Novel Method for the Stereoselective Construction of 5-Hydroxymethyl Azabicyclic Compounds and Application in the Stereo- and Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (+)- and (-)-Indolizidine 167B and 209D.
P. G. Reddy and S. Baskaran
J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69, 3093-3101. 

A novel and efficient method for aziridination of olefins catalyzed by heteropoly acids in presence of Chloramine-T
G. D. K. Kumar and S. Baskaran
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1026-1027.

A Highly Regio- and Chemoselective Reductive Cleavage of Benzylidene Acetals with EtAlCl 2 – Et 3 SiH
V. Balakumar, A. Aravind and S. Baskaran
SYNLETT 2004, 647-650. 

Fluorescent nanobubbles
M. J. Rosemary, V. S. Nair, P. G. Reddy, I. Maclaren, S. Baskaran, T. Pradeep.
Trans. Mat. Res. Soc. Jpn 2004, 29, 33-36.

Ciprofloxacin protected gold nanoparticles
R. T. Tom, V. Suryanarayanan, P. G. Reddy, S. Baskaran and T. Pradeep
Langmuir 2004, 20, 1909-1914.

An unusual solvent effect in the cuprate displacement reaction of indolizidin-5-yl-methyl p-toluenesulphonate: Stereoselective synthesis of indolizidine alkaloids 167B and 209D.
P. G. Reddy, M. G. Sankar and S. Baskaran
Tetrahedron Lett. 2005, 46, 4559-4561.

A facile, catalytic and environmentally benign method for chemoselective deprotection of –OTBDMS ether by PMA supported on Silica gel.
G. D. K. Kumar and S. Baskaran
J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 4520-4523.

Regioselective Cleavage of the bis-benzylidene acetal of D-mannitol under oxidative and reductive conditions: a new approach to C 2 -symmetric chiral ligands.
A. Aravind, T. V. Pratap, S. K. Mohanty and S. Baskaran
Tetrahedron Lett. 2005, 46, 2965-2968. 

1,3:4,6-Di-O-benzylidene-D mannitol as a source for novel chiral intermediates through regioselective reductive cleavage
A. Aravind and S. Baskaran
Tetrahedron Lett. 2005, 46, 743-745.

Bathochromic shift of the fluorescence spectral maximum with increasing generation of dansyl labeled Newcome type dendrimers.
S. K. Mohanty, S. Baskaran and A. K. Mishra
Eur. Polym. Jour. 2006, 42, 1893-1898. 

Photophysical properties ofNewkome-type dendrimers in aqueous medium
S. K. Mohanty, U. Subuddhi, S. Baskaran and A. K. Mishra
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2007, 6, 1164-1169.

Synthesis of crispine A analogues via an intramolecular Schmidt reaction.
A. Kapat, P. S. Kumar and S. Baskaran
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3, 49.

Regioselective oxidative cleavage of benzylidene acetals: synthesis of highly functionalized chiral intermediates.
M. Senthilkumar, A. Aravind and S. Baskaran
Tetrahedron Lett. 2007, 48, 1175-1178.

Semisynthesis and antitumoral activity of 2-acetyl furanonaphtha- quinone and other naphthoquinone derivatives from Lapachol.
K. O. Eyong, P. S. Kumar, V. Kuete, G. N. Folefoc, E. A. Nkengfack and S. Baskaran
Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2008, 18, 5387-90.

A Truly Catalytic and Chemoselective Cleavage of Benzylidene Acetal with PMA Supported on Silica Gel.
P. S. Kumar, G. D. K. Kumar and S. Baskaran
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2008, 6063.

An intramolecular Schmidt reaction strategy for the synthesis of a methyl analogue of crispine A.
P.S. Kumar, A. Kapat and S. Baskaran
Tetrahedron Lett. 2008, 49, 1241-1243.

A regioselective reductive cleavage of benzylidene acetal: stereoselective synthesis of N-Boc protected cis-(2R,3S)-3-hydroxy pipecolic acid
P. S. Kumar and S. Baskaran
Tetrahedron Lett. 2009, 50, 3489-3492. 

Regioselective Reductive Cleavage of bis-Benzylidene Acetal: Stereoselective Synthesis of Anti-cancer Agent OGT2378 and Glycosidase Inhibitor 1,4-Dideoxy-1,4-imino-L-xylitol
A. Aravind, M. G. Sankar, B. Varghese and S. Baskaran
J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 2858-2861.

Regioselective oxidative cleavage of benzylidene acetals: Novel synthesis of α- and β-benzoyloxy carboxylic acids
P. S. Kumar, A. Banerjee and S. Baskaran
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 804-807.

A one-pot β-chloro-N-tosyl amidination of olefin with chloramine-T
A. Murali, S. K. Sen, S. Baskaran
Synthesis 2011, 1771-1776.

Efficient synthesis of 3,4-dihydropyrimidin-2-ones in low melting tartaric acid–urea mixtures
S. Gore, S. Baskaran and B. Koenig Green
Chem. 2011, 13, 1009-1013.

A Lewis Acid Mediated Schmidt Reaction of Benzylic Azide: Synthesis of Sterically Crowded Aromatic Tertiary Amines
A. Murali, P. Manohar, B. Varghese and S. Baskaran
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2011, 5297.

Diversity oriented synthesis of useful chiral building blocks from D- mannitol
A. Aravind, P. S. Kumar, M. G. Sankar, and S. Baskaran
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2011, 6980.

A Lewis acid initiated intramolecular cyclization of benzylidene acetal with azide: Novel synthesis of oxazolines and oxazines
A. Banerjee, P. S. Kumar and S. Baskaran
Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 12218.

Concise Enantioselective Construction of Bridged Azatricyclic Framework via Domino Semipinacol-Schmidt Reaction.
P. Manohar, A. Murali, and S. Baskaran
Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 5778

Cobalt mediated ring contraction reaction of lapachol and initial antibacterial evaluation of naphthoquinones derived from lapachol
K. O. Eyong, S. P. Kumar, V. Kuete, G. N. Folefoc, H. Langmi, M. J. J. Meyer, N. Lall, S. Baskaran
Med. Chem. Res. 2012, 2117-2122

Synthesis of Pyrimidopyrimidine-diones in a Deep Eutectic Reaction Mixture
S. Gore, S. Baskaran and B. Koenig
Adv. Synth. Catal. 2012, 254, 2368-2372

Fischer Indole Synthesis in Low Melting Mixtures
S. Gore, S. Baskaran and B. Koenig
Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 4568-4571.

A Mechanistic Study on the Hooker Oxidation: Synthesis of Novel Indane Carboxylic Acid Derivatives from Lapachol
K. O. Eyong, M. Puppala, S. P. Kumar, M. Lamshoft, G. N. Folefoc, M. Spiteller, S. Baskaran
Org. Bio. Chem. 2013, 11, 459-468.

Synthesis of substituted hydantoins in low melting mixtures
S. Gore, S. Baskaran and B. Koenig
Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 5052-5054.

Diversity Oriented One Pot Synthesis of Novel Iminosugar C-Glycosides
S. Senthilkumar, S. S. Prasad, P. S. Kumar and S. Baskaran
Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 1549-1551.

A Chemoselective Oxidation of Monosubstituted Ethylene Glycol: Facile Synthesis of Optically Active α-Hydroxy Acids.
K. Chinthapally and S. Baskaran
Org. Bio. Chem. 2014, 12, 4305-4309.

Conversion of lapachol to lomatiol : synthesis of novel naphthoquinone derivatives
K. O. Eyong, K. Chinthapally, S. Senthilkumar, M. Lamshöft, G. N. Folefoc and S. Baskaran
New J. Chem. 2015, 39, 9611.

One-pot Synthesis of Hydrophobically Modified Iminosugar C- Alkynylglycosides: Facile Synthesis of Polyhydroxy Tetrahydroindolizines
S. Senthilkumar, S. S. Prasad, A. Das and S. Baskaran
Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 15914.

Benzylidene Acetal Protecting Group as Carboxylic Acid Surrogate: Synthesis of Functionalized Uronic Acids and Sugar Amino Acids
A. Banerjee, S. Senthilkumar and S. Baskaran
Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 902.

A Short and Efficient Synthesis of Iminosugar 2-Acyl Indolizidine
C. Kiran, R. Karthik, S. Senthilkumar and S.Baskaran
Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 533.

Iminosugar C-Nitromethyl Glycosides and Divergent Synthesis of Bicyclic Iminosugars
S. S. Prasad, S. Senthilkumar, A. Srivastava, S. Baskaran
Org. Lett. 2017, 17, 4403.

Novel One-pot Synthesis of Cyclopropane-fused Cyclic Amidines: An Oxidative Carbanion Cyclization
K. D. Veeranna, K. K. Das, S. Baskaran
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 16197.

Preparation of Propargyl Amines in a ZnCl2-Dimethylurea Deep Eutectic Solvent
M. Obst, A. Srivastava, S. Baskaran, B. Koenig
Synlett 2018, 29, 185

Iminosugar C-Nitromethyl Glycoside: Stereoselective Synthesis of Isoxazoline and Isoxazole Fused Bicyclic Iminosugars
S. S. Prasad and S. Baskaran
J. Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 1558.

One-pot Synthesis of Structurally Diverse Iminosugar Based Hybrid Molecules
S. S. Prasad, N. R. Reddy and S. Baskaran
J. Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 9604.

A Domino Aza-Piancatelli Rearrangement/ Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reaction: Stereoselective Synthesis of Octahydro-1H-cyclopenta[cd]isoindole,
S. Gouse, N. R. Reddy and S. Baskaran. 
Org. Lett. 2019, 19, 3822.

A Direct Method for the Efficient Synthesis of Benzylidene Acetal at Room Temperature.
N. R. Reddy, R. Kumar and S. Baskaran. 
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2019, 1548.

Silver oxide mediated novel SET oxidative cyclization: stereoselective synthesis of 3-azabicyclo[n.1.0]alkanes.
Kirana, D. V.; Das, K. K.; Baskaran, S. 
Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 7647.

Antiproliferative activity of naphthoquinones and indane carboxylic acids from lapachol against a panel of human cancer cell lines.
K. O. Eyong, H. L. Ketsemen, Z. Zhao, L. Du, A. Ingels, V. Mathieu, A. Kornienko, K. G. Hull, G. N. Folefoc, S. Baskaran and D. Romo. 
Med. Chem. Res. 2020, 29, 1058–1066.

Novel one-pot method for the stereoselective synthesis of tetrahydro-pyrimidinones in low melting mixture.
Devi, M. R. Lambu and S. Baskaran. 
Org. Biomol. Chem. 2020, 18, 4164-4168.

Reversal of polarity by catalytic SET oxidation: synthesis of azabicyclo[m.n.0]alkanes via chemoselective reduction of amidines.
Kirana, D. V.; Das, K. K.; Baskaran, S. 
Org. Biomol. Chem. 2021, 19, 4054-4059.

Synthesis of 5-unsubstituted dihydropyrimidinone-4-carboxylates from deep eutectic mixtures.
S. Gore, S. Baskaran and B. Koenig. 
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 331.

Domino Semipinacol/Iterative Aldol/Iso-Nazarov Cyclization to Triaryl-cyclopentenone: Enantioselective Synthesis of Combreta statin A‑4 Analogues.
N. R. Reddy, S. Gouse, S. Selvaraju, and S. Baskaran. 
Org. Lett. 2022, 24, 4240-4245.

Stereoselective Domino Semipinacol-Schmidt Reaction: Enantioselective Synthesis of 7a-epi- (+)-Lepadiformine C and Formal Synthesis of 7a-epi-(−)-Lepadiformine A,
M. Puppala,^[a] S. Gore^[a] K. O. Eyong and S Baskaran. 
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2023, e202201490.

One-pot Synthesis of 2-Aminoindole through SET Oxidative Cyclization: Concise Synthesis of Tryptanthrin & Phaitanthrin E.
A. Srivastava, L. Pazhanivel, and S. Baskaran. 
Chem. Eur. J. 2023, e202300828.

Stereoselective synthesis of Aza-quaternary Center via Intramolecular Schmidt Reaction of Azido-epoxide: Enantioselective Synthesis of Pyrrolizidine 223I.
A. Murali, P. Manohar and S. Baskaran. 
Submitted for Publication

Domino cation-olefin-azide cyclization: Stereo- and enantio selective synthesis of azapolycyclic ring systems.
M. G. Sankar, P. G. Reddy and S. Baskaran. 
Submitted for Publication