Manmohan Kapur

Organic Chemistry
Professor
Phone: +91 755 269 1331, 669 1331
mk@iiserb.ac.in

  • Associate Professor (June 2015 -), Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal
  • Assistant Professor (July 2009-May 2015),Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India.
  • Group Leader (Jan 2007- July 2009), Jubilant Chemsys Ltd., Noida, INDIA.
  • Senior Research Scientist (April 2006 - Jan 2007), Chembiotek Research International Pvt Ltd., Pune, INDIA.
  • Post-Doctoral (Oct 2004 - March 2006), Research Associate (AvH Post Doc Fellow) Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Tübingen, GERMANY. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Martin E. Maier.
  • Post-Doctoral (July 2003 - June 2004), Research Associate Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA. Advisor: Prof. Jin K. Cha.
  • Ph. D. (July 1997 - Dec 2002), in Chemistry (National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, INDIA). Advisor: Dr. Ganesh Pandey.
  • Enantioselective synthesis of substituted heterocyclic natural products using C-H functionalization as the key step.
  • Transition metal catalysis
  • # Authors Title Journals Year
    1 Saptarshi Mukherjee
    Sajeev T. K.
    Paritosh Mahato
    Nandkishor Prakash Khot
    Manmohan Kapur
    Rh(III)-Catalyzed C(7)-H Alkylation of Quinolines in the Synthesis of Angular pi-Extended Pyrroloquinolines for Single Component White Light Emission Organic Letters 2022
    2 Manmohan Kapur
    Pravin Kumar
    Ruthenium-Catalyzed Oxidative Coupling of Vinylene Carbonate with Isoxazoles: Access to Fused Anthranils Chemical Communications 2022
    3 Nandkishor Prakash Khot
    Nitish Kumar Deo
    Manmohan Kapur
    A Switch to Vinylogous Reactivity of Vinyl Diazo Esters for the C-H Allylation of Benzamides by Merging Cobalt and Photoredox Catalysis Chemical Communications 2022
    4 Suchithra Madhavan
    Santosh Kumar Keshri
    Manmohan Kapur
    Catalyst-Controlled Chemodivergent Reactivity of Vinyl Cyclopropanes: A Selective Approach Towards Indoles and Aniline Derivatives Organic Letters 2022
    5 Pooja Sah
    Ajit Prabhakar Kale
    Govind Goroba Pawar
    Manmohan Kapur
    Total Synthesis of Resorcylic Acid Lactone (-)-Neocosmosin A Using Palladium-Catalyzed ?-Arylation of Enones as the Key Step Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2022
    6 Dean J. Tantillo
    Luigi Cavallo
    Supreeth Prasad
    Manoj V. Mane
    Prajyot Jayadev Nagtilak
    Manmohan Kapur
    Merging Rh-catalyzed C-H Functionalization and Cascade Cyclization to Enable Propargylic Alcohols as Three-Carbon Synthons Chemistry - A European Journal 2022
    7 Tapasi Chand
    Laxmikanta Khamari
    Deepak Chopra
    Saptarshi Mukherjee
    Manmohan Kapur
    Rh(III)-catalyzed one-step synthesis of ortho-alkynylated perylene imide dyes: Optical and electrochemical properties of new derivatives Chemistry - A European Journal 2022
    8 Santosh Kumar Keshri
    Suchithra Madhavan
    Manmohan Kapur
    Transition Metal-Mediated Functionalization of Isoxazoles: A Review Asian J. Org. Chem 2021
    9 Pravin Kumar
    Prajyot Jayadev Nagtilak
    Manmohan Kapur
    Transition metal-Catalyzed C-H Functionalizations of Indoles New Journal of Chemistry 2021
    10 Manmohan Kapur
    Santosh Kumar Keshri
    Pravin Kumar
    Ru(II)-catalyzed and Cu(II)-mediated Carbene Migratory Insertion in the Synthesis of Trisubstituted Pyrroles from Isoxazoles. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2021
    11 Paridhi Saxena
    Roushan Prakash Singh
    Neha Jha
    Iridium(III)-catalyzed C(3)-H Alkylation of Isoquinolines via Metal Carbene Migratory Insertion Organic Letters 2021
    12 Manmohan Kapur
    Gaurav Saini
    Palladium-Catalyzed Functionalizations of Acidic and Non-acidic C(sp3)-H Bonds-Recent Advances Chemical Communications 2021
    13 Nandkishor Prakash Khot
    Neha Jha
    Manmohan Kapur
    Transition-metal-catalyzed C-H bond functionalization of arenes/heteroarenes via tandem C-H activation and subsequent carbene migratory insertion strategy. The Chemical Record 2021
    14 Manmohan Kapur
    Pravin Kumar
    Ru(II)- and Cu(II)-mediated Synthesis of Trisubstituted Pyrroles from Isoxazoles and Acrylate esters. Asian J. Org. Chem 2020
    15 Manmohan Kapur
    Pravin Kumar
    Unusual Reactivity of 4-Vinyl Isoxazoles in the Copper-Mediated Synthesis of Pyridines, Employing DMSO as a One-Carbon Surrogate. Organic Letters 2020
    16 Manmohan Kapur
    Akanksha Santosh Deshpande
    Nandkishor Prakash Khot
    Riki Das
    Catalyst-control in Switching the Site-Selectivity of C-H Olefinations of 1,2-dihydroquinolines: An Approach to Positional-selective Functionalization of Quinolines. Chemistry - A European Journal 2020
    17 Manmohan Kapur
    Gangam Srikanth Kumar
    Diksha Singh
    Oxazolinyl-Assisted Ru(II)-Catalyzed C-H Allylation with Allyl Alcohols and Synthesis of 4-methyleneisochroman-1-ones The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2019
    18 Manmohan Kapur
    Neha Maida
    Paridhi Saxena
    Dioxazolones as Masked Ester Surrogates in the Pd(II)-Catalyzed Direct C-H Arylation of 6,5-Fused Heterocycles Chemical Communications 2019
    19 Gaurav Saini
    Arpan Mondal
    Manmohan Kapur
    Palladium-Mediated Remote Functionalization in gamma- and epsilon-Arylations and Alkenylations of Unblocked Cyclic Enones Organic Letters 2019
    20 Nandkishor Prakash Khot
    Gangam Srikanth Kumar
    Manmohan Kapur
    Oxazolinyl-assisted Ru(II)-Catalyzed C-H Functionalization Based on Carbene Migratory Insertion: A One-pot Three-component Cascade Cyclization Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis 2019
    21 Manmohan Kapur
    Virendra Kumar Tiwari
    Catalyst-controlled positional-selectivity in C-H Functionalizations (review) Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2019
    22 Manmohan Kapur
    Pravin Kumar
    Catalyst-control in Positional-selective C-H Alkenylation of Isoxazoles and a Ruthenium-mediated Assembly of Trisubstituted Pyrroles. Organic Letters 2019
    23 Manmohan Kapur
    Akanksha Santosh Deshpande
    Nandkishor Prakash Khot
    Riki Das
    Ruthenium-Catalyzed Directed C(3)-H Olefination of N-acetyl 1,2-dihydroisoquinolines: A method to achieve C3-olefinated isoquinolines Synthesis 2019
    24 Chiranjit Ghosh
    Prajyot Jayadev Nagtilak
    Manmohan Kapur
    Rhodium(III)-catalyzed directed C-H dienylation of anilides with allenes leads to highly conjugated systems. Organic Letters 2019
    25 Arunraj Kizhakkayil Mangadan
    Gangam Srikanth Kumar
    Pravin Kumar
    Gaurav Saini
    Manmohan Kapur
    Palladium-Catalyzed α-Arylation of Silylenol Ethers in the Synthesis of Isoquinolines and Phenanthridines Organic Letters 2018
    26 Manmohan Kapur
    Paridhi Saxena
    Cobalt-Catalyzed C-H Nitration of Indoles Employing a Removable Directing Group Chemistry -Asian Journal 2018
    27 Manish Kumar
    Diksha Singh
    Gangam Srikanth Kumar
    Manmohan Kapur
    Palladium-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative Coupling of Allylic Alcohols with Anilines in the Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2018
    28 Manmohan Kapur
    Riki Das
    Transition Metal-Catalyzed Site-selective C-H Halogenation Reactions (Review) Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry 2018
    29 Manmohan Kapur
    Riki Das
    Transition Metal-Catalyzed C-H Functionalization Reactions of pi-Deficient Heterocycles (Review) Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry 2018
    30 Diksha Singh
    Tapasi Chand
    Gangam Srikanth Kumar
    Manmohan Kapur
    Ruthenium-Catalyzed C-H Functionalization of Benzoic Acids with Allyl Alcohols: A Controlled Reactivity Switch between C-H Alkenylation and C-H Alkylation Pathways Organic Letters 2018
    31 Manmohan Kapur
    Akanksha Patel
    Sujit Pal
    Chiranjit Ghosh
    Total Synthesis of Proposed Structure of Mycobactin J. Organic Letters 2018
    32 Manmohan Kapur
    Gangam Srikanth Kumar
    Riki Das
    Amides as Weak-Coordinating Groups in Proximal C-H Bond Activation Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2017
    33 Manmohan Kapur
    Neha Kamal
    Virendra Kumar Tiwari
    One substrate, two modes of C-H Functionalization: A Metal-Controlled Site-selectivity Switch in C-H arylation reactions Organic Letters 2017
    34 Manmohan Kapur
    Riki Das
    Palladium-catalyzed, ortho-Selective C-H Halogenation of Benzyl Nitriles, Aryl Weinreb Amides and Anilides. The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2017
    35 Gangam Srikanth Kumar
    Pravin Kumar
    Manmohan Kapur
    Traceless Directing-Group Strategy in the Ru-Catalyzed Formal [3 + 3] Annulation of Anilines with Allyl Alcohols: A One-Pot Domino Approach for the Synthesis of Quinolines Organic Letters 2017
    36 Abhilashamole Brahmanandan
    Govind Goroba Pawar
    Manmohan Kapur
    Palladium(II)-Catalyzed, Heteroatom-Directed, Regioselective C−H Nitration of Anilines Using Pyrimidine as a Removable Directing Group Organic Letters 2016
    37 Manmohan Kapur
    Gangam Srikanth Kumar
    Ruthenium-Catalyzed, Site-Selective C−H Allylation of Indoles with Allyl Alcohols as Coupling Partners Organic Letters 2016
    38 Riki Das
    Manmohan Kapur
    Product Control using Substrate Design: Ruthenium-catalyzed Oxidative C-H Olefinations of Cyclic Weinreb Amides Chemistry - A European Journal 2016
    39 Arun Raj Kizhakkayil Mangadan
    Gangam Srikanth Kumar
    Ajit Prabhakar Kale
    Manmohan Kapur
    Palladium-Catalyzed α-Arylation of Enones in the Synthesis of 2-alkenyl Indoles and Carbazoles Organic Letters 2015
    40 Neha Kamal
    Virendra Kumar Tiwari
    Manmohan Kapur
    Ruthenium-Catalyzed Heteroatom-Directed Regioselective C−H Arylation of Indoles Using a Removable Tether Organic Letters 2015
    41 Manmohan Kapur
    Himanshu Sekhar Jena
    Virendra Kumar Tiwari
    Govind Goroba Pawar
    Heteroatom-Guided, Palladium-Catalyzed, Site-Selective C-H Arylation of 4H-Chromenes: Diastereoselective Assembly of the Core Structure of Myristinin B through Dual C-H Functionalization Chemistry - A European Journal 2015
    42 Manmohan Kapur
    Riki Das
    Fujiwara–Moritani Reaction of Weinreb Amides using a Ruthenium-Catalyzed C-H Functionalization Reaction Chemistry -Asian Journal 2015
    43 Gangam Srikanth Kumar
    Ajit Prabhakar Kale
    Manmohan Kapur
    Palladium-catalyzed Synthesis of 2-Alkenyl-3-Arylindoles via Dual alpha-Arylation Strategy: Formal Synthesis of the Antilipemic Drug Fluvastatin Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2015
    44 Manmohan Kapur
    Himanshu Sekhar Jena
    Govind Goroba Pawar
    Virendra Kumar Tiwari
    Palladium catalyzed, heteroatom-guided C–H functionalization in the synthesis of substituted isoquinolines and dihydroisoquinolines Chemical Communications 2014
    45 Nirmal Kumar Das
    Narayani Ghosh
    Ajit Prabhakar Kale
    Ramakanta Mondal
    Uttam Anand
    Subhadip Ghosh
    Virendra Kumar Tiwari
    Manmohan Kapur
    Saptarshi Mukherjee
    Temperature Induced Morphological Transitions from Native to Unfolded Aggregated States of Human Serum Albumin J. Phys. Chem. B 2014
    46 Manmohan Kapur
    Amit Adhikary
    Riki Das
    Govind Goroba Pawar
    Virendra Kumar Tiwari
    Heteroatom-Guided, Palladium-Catalyzed Regioselective C-H Functionalization in the Synthesis of 3‑Arylquinolines Organic Letters 2013
    47 Virendra Kumar Tiwari
    Gaurav Singh
    Govind Goroba Pawar
    Manmohan Kapur
    Dehydrogenative Heck Reaction (Fujiwara–Moritani Reaction) of Unactivated Olefins with Simple Dihydropyrans under Aprotic Conditions Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis 2013
    48 Govind Goroba Pawar
    Ajit Prabhakar Kale
    Manmohan Kapur
    Regioselectivity Switch Achieved in the Palladium Catalyzed alpha-Arylation of Enones by Employing the Modified Kuwajima-Urabe Conditions. Organic Letters 2012