Welcome to Kishor Handore Research Group

                              (Total Synthesis, Synthetic Methodologies, Medicinal Chemistry, Crop-Protection)

We are a chemistry group based at the Organic Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), in Pune, INDIA. We are dedicated to advancing organic chemistry through the development of innovative strategies and tactics for the synthesis of natural products and biologically important molecules. Our research is inspired by the beautifully complex structures of unusual natural products, which guide us towards creative solutions. If you are interested in joining our group, please find details here.

 

 

News and Update: 

 

Aug 2025: Research paper titled “Efficient Synthesis of Functionalized Alkylidenephthalides, Butenolides, Pyranones, and Isocoumarins via  Synthesis of Thunberginols A and F” accepted in Org. Biomol. Chem (OBC). https://doi.org/10.1039/D5OB01153A

  

July 2025: Research paper titled “Diastereoselective Synthesis of Cyclic and Spirocyclic Quaternary Carbons via Iron-Catalyzed Ring Contraction of Cyclic Ketones: A Formal Synthesis of Perhydrohistrionicotoxin” accepted in Organic Letters. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.5c02888

 

                

 

July 2025: Research paper titled “Synthesis of Readily Modifiable Amides from Aldehydes via an Organocatalytic Approach Using a CTAB Surfactant” accepted in The Journal of Organic Chemistry (JOC). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.5c01290

 

June 2025: Research paper titled “Scalable and Sustainable Reductive Amidation of Nitroarenes, Nitroalkenes, and Nitroalkyls with Acyl Saccharins in Aqueous Media” accepted in Communications Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-025-01464-8 

 

Feb 2025: Research paper titled “Stereoselective Strategies for the Synthesis of Functionalized Cis-Hydrindanes in Natural Product Synthesis” accepted in European Journal of Organic Chemistry (EJOC). https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202500006

 

 

 

May 2024: Research paper titled “Synthesis of N-Hydroxysuccinimide Esters, N-Acylsaccharins, and Activated Esters from Carboxylic Acids Using I₂/PPh₃” accepted in The Journal of Organic Chemistry (JOC). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.4c00272

 

 

April 2024: Research paper titled “Highly Stereoselective Diels–Alder-Based Strategy for the Synthesis of 3-epi-Formicin A and 1-epi-Formicin B” accepted in Organic Letters. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.4c01209

 

 

 

 

Oct 2023:  Research paper titled “Total Synthesis of the 2,5-Disubstituted γ-Pyrone E1 UAE Inhibitor Himeic Acid A” accepted in Organic Letters. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.3c02761