Dr. Utpal Das’s Research Group

Research Area: Organocatalytic C-H Oxidation; Spirocyclization of Quinone Methides, Asymmetric Catalysis; Photocatalytic                                reactions; Reaction methodology
 
 

Recent Publications of Our Group

• Archana Rai And Utpal Das*, Accessing meta-Enone-Substituted Anisoles using ArN2BF4 as Precatalyst via Rearrangement of Alkyne-Tethered Cyclohexadienones, Synthesis., 56, A - H (2024), DOI:10.1055/a-2331-9439.
• Pawan Kumar, Archana Rai, Manish Kumar, Gamidi Rama Krishna And Utpal Das*, Radical Cascade Cyclization of Unactivated Alkene-Tethered Indoles with Aryldiazonium Salt and Sodium Metabisulfite to Access Azo- and Sulfonylated-2,3-Dihyro-1H-pyrrolo[1,2-a]indoles, J. Org. Chem., 13, 9123 - 9129 (2023), DOI:10.1021/acs.joc.3c00759.
• Someshwar B. Kale, Manish Kumar, Dinesh R. Shinde, Gamidi Rama Krishna And Utpal Das* , Synthesis of N-functionalized 2,3-disubstituted benzofurans/naphthofurans from para-quinone methides and isocyanides via the [4 + 1] annulation pathway, Org. Chem. Front., 10, 3746 - 3751 (2023), DOI:10.1039/D3QO00048F.

 Current available position: Two PhD positions is available in our group*

Dr. Utpal Das 
Principal Scientist, Organic Chemistry Division
(Room 212, Main Building)
CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory
Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune - 411008, India
Phone: +91 20 2590 2303
E-mail u.das@ncl.res.in / dutpal10@gmail.com