Research Interest:

  • Total Synthesis
  • Catalysis and new methods
  • Inert bond Activation

Professional Experience

  • December 2011- Current Sr. Scientist, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
  • 2007-2011 Post Doctoral Associate, Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA. (Advisor: Prof. Li Deng)
  • 2005-2007 Post Doctoral Associate, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. (Advisor: Prof. E.J. Corey)
  • 2000-2005 Ph.D in Organic Chemistry, IIT Kanpur, India (Advisor: Prof. V.K. Singh)

Selected Publications

  • Nathaniel R. Campbell, Bingfeng Sun, Ravi P. Singh, and Li Deng. “ Cinchona alkaloid catalyzed enantioselective amination of a,b-unsaturated ketones: an asymmetric approach to D2-pyrazolines”. Adv. Synth. Catal., 2011, 353, 3123 - 3128
  • Yongwei Wu, Ravi P. Singh and Li Deng, “Enantioselective Isomerisation of b,g-unsaturated butenolides in presence of cinchona alkaloid catalyst”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 12458.
  • K. Bartelson, Ravi P. Singh and Li Deng. “Asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction of simple a,b-unsaturated nitro olefin with a cinchona alkaloid catalyst”, Chem. Sci., 2011, 2, 1940.
  • Ravi P. Singh; Li Deng, “Cinchona Alkaloid Organocatalysts”, Science of Synthesis, Houben-Weyl Methods of Molecular Transformations, 2011, 2, Asymmetric Organocatalysis, Maruoka, K., Ed. Georg Thieme Verlag, Chapter 2.1.2
  • Ravi P. Singh; Bruce M. Foxman and Li Deng, “Asymmetric vinylogous Aldol Reactions of Silyloxy Furans with a Chiral Organic Salt”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 12, 9558.
  • Xuri Gao, Ravi P. Singh and E. J. Corey. “Enantioselective Synthesis of a Chiral C3-Symmetric Bridgehead Amine”. Org. Lett., 2010, 12, 1812 - 1814.
  • Ravi P. Singh, K. Bartelson, Y. Wang, H. Su, X. Lu, Li Deng. “Enantioselective Diels-Alder reaction of simple , -unsaturated ketones with a cinchona alkaloid catalyst”. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130, 2422 - 2423.
  • Garg, Ravi P. Singh, Vinod K. Singh. “Asymmetric synthesis of (+)- Cardiobutanolide”. Tetrahedron, 2006, 62, 11240 - 11244.
  • Ghanshyam Pandey, Ravi P. Singh, Ashish Garg and Vinod K. Singh. “Synthesis of Mannich type products via a three-component coupling reaction”. Tetrahedron Lett., 2005, 46, 2137 - 2140.
  • Ravi P. Singh and Vinod K. Singh. “Facile one-step synthesis of -alkoxy lactone via sequential lactonization and 1,4-addition of alkoxide group: Total synthesis of all stereoisomers of dihydrokawain-5-ol”. J. Org. Chem., 2004, 69, 3425 - 3430.
  • "Ravi P. Singh, Rajesh M. Kamble, Kusum L. Chandra, P. Sarvanan and Vinod K. Singh. “An efficient method for aromatic Friedel-Crafts alkylation, acylation, benzoylation, and sulfonylation reactions”. Tetrahedron, 2001, 57, 241 - 247."