Category: Publications

Have a look at our recent paper entitled “Halide assisted electrophilic C-H activation in aqueous acid and salt solutions for the synthesis of Ru(III)-abnormal-NHC complexes” published in Organometallics Abstract Synthesis of Ru(III)-aNHC complexes 1a’ and 1b’ has been achieved in the aqueous acid medium at ambient temperature. The abnormal binding mode of NHC through Read More …

Have a look at our recent paper entitled “Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Photophysical and Biological Properties of Tetrafluoroacridine” published in Chemistryselect Abstract 1,4,5,8-Tetrafluoroacridine was successfully synthesized from 1,4,5,8-tetrafluoroacridone through transfer hydrogenation using an in-house ruthenium pincer catalyst followed by in situ dehydration. The synthetic protocol involves the copper-catalyzed coupling Read More …

Have a look at our recent paper entitled “Phosphine-free Ru(II)-CNC pincer complexes with mixed protic- and classical-NHCs in the same molecule for hydrogen production via oxidant-free benzyl alcohol dehydrogenation to benzoic acids” published in New J. Chem. Abstract Following our recent strategy of using suitably substituted ligand precursors for the Read More …

Have a look at our recent paper entitled “Unravelling the kinetics of electro- and photochemical S→O linkage isomerization in Ru(II)-NHC-DMSO complexes utilised for photoinduced substitution reactions” published in Dalton Trans. Abstract Our recently reported Ru(III)–NHC complexes 1a and 1b were utilized as suitable precursors to prepare new Ru(II)–NHC–(DMSO)2 complexes 2a and 2b. Complexes 2a and 2b reacted with 2,2′-bipyridine to give complexes 3a and 3b, Read More …

Have a look at our recent paper entitled “Substrate-Assisted Product Release Facilitated by Hemilabile Pyridine in Ru(II)-NNC Pincer Complex and Enhanced Activity of Protic-NHC Ligand in Hydrogenation of Potential LOHCs” published in Catal. Sci. Technol. Abstract An interesting mechanism of product release similar to substrate-assisted product release found in enzyme Read More …

Have look at our recent paper entitled “Protic- or anionic-NHCs with a classical-NHC in a single [Ru(CNC)(PPh3)2Cl]Cl pincer complex: direct comparison of structure & electronic properties and heterolytic H2 splitting” published in Dalton Trans. Abstract Herein, we report the first set of pincer complexes 1 and 2 with the general formula [Ru(CNC)(PPh3)2Cl]Cl having a protic- Read More …

Our paper entitled “Mechanistic Insights and Comparative Analysis of Ru(II)-NNC Pincer Complexes with Anionic-, Protic-, and Classical-NHCs for Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones.” has been published in Catalysis Science & Technology (DOI: 10.1039/D3CY01383A). In this paper, a comparative analysis of the catalytic activity of Ru(II)-NNC pincer-type complexes bearing anionic-, protic- and classical-NHC Read More …

One of our most awaited papers is now online, published in Dalton Transactions. Role of ancillary ligands in selectivity towards acceptorless dehydrogenation versus dehydrogenative coupling of alcohols and amines catalyzed by cationic ruthenium(ii)–CNC pincer complexes – Dalton Transactions (RSC Publishing) In this paper, we have described the unexpected reversal in Read More …

Our paper entitled “Cationic Ruthenium(II)-CNC Pincer Complexes as Phosphine-free Catalysts for Nitrile Hydration to Amides in Aqueous Medium” has been published in the Molecular Catalysis (DOI link). Congratulations to Rahul for his first first-author paper from PhD thesis work! Congratulations to all the co-authors!!

Our paper entitled “Insights into the effect of contact ion-pairs on C-H bond activation for the synthesis of Ru(III)-NHC complexes: A combined experimental and computational study” has been published in the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jorganchem.2023.122802). This is the first computational paper from our group which reports a DFT Read More …