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List of works by Raghavan B. Sunoj

2,5-Dioxido-1,4-benzoquinonediimine (H2L2-), a hydrogen-bonding noninnocent bridging ligand related to aminated topaquinone: different oxidation state distributions in complexes [{(bpy)2Ru}2(mu-H2L)]n (n=0,+,2+,3+,4+) and [{(acac)2Ru}2(mu-H2L)]m (m=

scientific article published in August 2005

A computational insight into a metal mediated pathway for the ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of lactides by an ionic {(NHC)2Ag}(+)X(-) (X = halide) type N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complex

scientific article published on 30 August 2011

A new approach to evaluating the extent of Michael adduct formation to PAH quinones: tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) thermochemolysis with GC/MS.

scientific article published in November 2003

A new coordination mode of the photometric reagent glyoxalbis(2-hydroxyanil) (H2gbha): bis-bidentate bridging by gbha2- in the redox series [(mu-gbha)[Ru(acac)2]2]n (n = -2, -1, 0, +1, +2), including a radical-bridged diruthenium(III) and a Ru(III)/

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A phosphomide based PNP ligand, 2,6-{Ph2PC(O)}2(C5H3N), showing PP, PNP and PNO coordination modes

scientific article published on 01 March 2015

A quantification scheme for non-covalent interactions in the enantio-controlling transition states in asymmetric catalysis

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

A unified machine-learning protocol for asymmetric catalysis as a proof of concept demonstration using asymmetric hydrogenation

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

Ab initio and density functional theory evidence on the rate-limiting step in the Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction

scientific article published on 09 October 2007

Aliphatic C(sp3)-H Bond Activation Using Nickel Catalysis: Mechanistic Insights on Regioselective Arylation

scientific article published on 15 August 2017

Anomalous excited-state dynamics of lucifer yellow CH in solvents of high polarity: evidence for an intramolecular proton transfer

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

Asymmetric Cooperative Catalysis in a Three-Component Reaction: Mechanism and Origin of Enantio- and Diastereoselectivities

scientific article published on 22 July 2016

Axial coordination dichotomy in dirhodium carbenoid catalysis: a curious case of cooperative asymmetric dual-catalytic approach toward amino esters.

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Axially chiral imidodiphosphoric Acid catalyst for asymmetric sulfoxidation reaction: insights on asymmetric induction

scientific article published on 18 March 2014

Bicyclic proline analogues as organocatalysts for stereoselective aldol reactions: an in silico DFT study

scientific article published on 20 March 2007

Chemo-, regio-, and diastereoselectivity preferences in the reaction of a sulfur ylide with a dienal and an enone

scientific article published on January 21, 2011

Computational investigations on the general reaction profile and diastereoselectivity in sulfur ylide promoted aziridination

scientific article published in January 2007

Conformational and isomeric preferences of six-membered inorganic heterocycles [EtNP(E)(OR)]3 (E = Lone Pair, O, S, or Se): a synthetic, spectroscopic, structural, and computational study

scientific article published on 01 March 2009

Conformational mapping and energetics of saccharide-aromatic residue interactions: implications for the discrimination of anomers and epimers and in protein engineering

scientific article published on 24 April 2012

Cooperativity and serial ligand catalysis in an allylic amination reaction by Pd(ii)-bis-sulfoxide and Brønsted acids

scientific article published on 06 August 2019

Cyclopalladation of dimesityl selenide: synthesis, reactivity, structural characterization, isolation of an intermediate complex with C-H···Pd intra-molecular interaction and computational studies

scientific article published on 20 June 2013

Deciphering the Origin of Stereoinduction in Cooperative Asymmetric Catalysis Involving Pd(II) and a Chiral Brønsted Acid

scientific article published on 09 June 2015

Deciphering the origin of cooperative catalysis by dirhodium acetate and chiral spiro phosphoric acid in an asymmetric amination reaction

scientific article published on 14 October 2014

Density functional theory and atoms-in-molecule study on the role of two-electron stabilizing interactions in retro Diels-Alder reaction of cycloadducts derived from substituted cyclopentadiene and p-benzoquinone

scientific article published on 27 September 2006

Density functional theory investigations on sulfur ylide promoted cyclopropanation reactions: insights on mechanism and diastereoselection issues

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Directing group assisted meta-hydroxylation by C-H activation.

scientific article published on 21 January 2016

Enamine versus oxazolidinone: what controls stereoselectivity in proline-catalyzed asymmetric aldol reactions?

scientific article published on August 2010

Enantio- and diastereoselectivities in chiral sulfur ylide promoted asymmetric aziridination reactions

scientific article published on 09 October 2008

Enhanced diastereoselectivity via confinement: diastereoselective photoisomerization of 2,3-diphenyl-1-benzoylcyclopropane derivatives within zeolites.

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Enhanced diastereoselectivity via confinement: photoisomerization of 2,3-diphenylcyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid derivatives within zeolites.

scientific article published in October 2004

Exploration of CH···π mediated stacking interactions in saccharide: aromatic residue complexes through conformational sampling

scientific article published on 05 September 2012

Exploring the Mechanism and Stereoselectivity in Chiral Cinchona-Catalyzed Heterodimerization of Ketenes

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Face-selective Diels-Alder reactions between unsymmetrical cyclohexadienes and symmetric trans-dienophile: an experimental and computational investigation

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Harnessing Noncovalent Interactions in Dual-Catalytic Enantioselective Heck-Matsuda Arylation

scientific article published on 28 December 2018

Hypercoordinate iodine for catalytic asymmetric diamination of styrene: insights into the mechanism, role of solvent, and stereoinduction

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

Importance of ligand exchanges in Pd(II)-Brønsted acid cooperative catalytic approach to spirocyclic rings

scientific article published on 4 November 2014

Importance of the nature of α-substituents in pyrrolidine organocatalysts in asymmetric Michael additions.

scientific article published on November 2010

Insights on co-catalyst-promoted enamine formation between dimethylamine and propanal through ab initio and density functional theory study

scientific article published on 27 September 2007

Intramolecular interactions between chalcogen atoms: organoseleniums derived from 1-bromo-4-tert-butyl-2,6-di(formyl)benzene

scientific article published in April 2005

Is silver a mere terminal oxidant in palladium catalyzed C-H bond activation reactions?

scientific article published on 13 November 2019

Isomeric ruthenium terpyridine complexes [Ru(trpy)(L)Cl]n+ containing the unsymmetrically bidentate acceptor L=3-amino-6-(3,5-dimethylpyrazol-1-yl)-1,2,4,5-tetrazine. Synthesis, structures, electrochemistry, spectroscopy and DFT calculations

scientific article published on 24 February 2005

Keto-Enol Thermodynamics of Breslow Intermediates

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Light-induced geometric isomerization of 1,2-diphenylcyclopropanes included within Y zeolites: role of cation-guest binding

scientific article published in December 2002

Machine learning for predicting product distributions in catalytic regioselective reactions

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Mechanism and Origin of Enantioselectivity in Nickel-Catalyzed Alkyl-Alkyl Suzuki Coupling Reaction

scientific article published on 25 July 2019

Mechanism and Stereoselectivity in an Asymmetric N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon Bond Activation Reaction

scientific article published on 09 November 2016

Mechanism and electronic effects in nitrogen ylide-promoted asymmetric aziridination reaction

scientific article published on 02 February 2011

Mechanism and reactivity in the Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction: the challenge of accurate computations

scientific article published on 8 November 2017

Mechanism and stereoselectivity of biologically important oxygenation reactions of the 7-dehydrocholesterol radical

scientific article published on 5 July 2013

Mechanism of catalytic functionalization of primary C-H bonds using a silylation strategy

scientific article published on 7 August 2013

Mechanism of cooperative catalysis in a Lewis acid promoted nickel-catalyzed dual C-H activation reaction

scientific article published on 16 August 2012

Mechanistic insights and the role of cocatalysts in Aza-Morita-Baylis-hillman and Morita-Baylis-Hillman reactions

scientific article published in September 2009

Mechanistic insights into the role of chiral ligands in asymmetric diamination reactions

scientific article published on 09 May 2012

Mechanistic insights on N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed annulations: the role of base-assisted proton transfers

scientific article published on 13 June 2011

Mechanistic insights on cooperative asymmetric multicatalysis using chiral counterions

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Mechanistic insights on iodine(III) promoted metal-free dual C-H activation involved in the formation of a spirocyclic bis-oxindole

scientific article published on 24 November 2014

Mechanistic insights on organocatalytic enantioselective decarboxylative protonation by epicinchona-thiourea hybrid derivatives

scientific article published on 27 November 2012

Mechanistic insights on platinum- and palladium-pincer catalyzed coupling and cyclopropanation reactions between olefins

scientific article published on 30 May 2012

Microsolvated transition state models for improved insight into chemical properties and reaction mechanisms

scientific article published on 14 August 2012

Mixed-valent metals bridged by a radical ligand: fact or fiction based on structure-oxidation state correlations

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Multiple one-electron oxidation and reduction of trinuclear bis(2,4-pentanedionato)ruthenium complexes with substituted diquinoxalino[2,3-a:2′,3′-c]phenazine ligands

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N-heterocyclic carbene catalyzed asymmetric intermolecular Stetter reaction: origin of enantioselectivity and role of counterions

scientific article published on 13 September 2013

NaI/CuI–II heterometallic cages interconnected by unusual linear 2-coordinate OCN-Cu(I)-NCO links: synthesis, structural, magnetostructural correlation and computational studies

scientific article published on 18 September 2009

New bisphosphomide ligands, 1,3-phenylenebis((diphenylphosphino)methanone) and (2-bromo-1,3-phenylene)bis((diphenylphosphino)methanone): synthesis, coordination behavior, DFT calculations and catalytic studies

scientific article published on 01 July 2013

Non-innocent additives in a palladium(II)-catalyzed C-H bond activation reaction: insights into multimetallic active catalysts

scientific article published on 7 April 2014

Noninnocent role of N-methyl pyrrolidinone in thiazolidinethione-promoted asymmetric aldol reactions

scientific article published on 01 November 2012

On the activation of hypercoordinate iodine(iii) compounds for reactions of current interest

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

On the mechanism of the dehydroaromatization of hexane to benzene by an iridium pincer catalyst

scientific article published on 31 January 2013

On the origin of regio- and stereoselectivity in singlet oxygen addition to enecarbamates

scientific article published on 22 February 2012

On the origin of reversible hydrogen activation by phosphine-boranes

scientific article published on 01 November 2009

On the origins of kinetic resolution of cyclohexane-1,2-diols through stereoselective acylation by chiral tetrapeptides

scientific article published on 01 August 2009

On the relative preference of enamine/iminium pathways in an organocatalytic Michael addition reaction

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Organoselenium chemistry: role of intramolecular interactions

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Origin of Kinetic Resolution of Hydroxy Esters through Catalytic Enantioselective Lactonization by Chiral Phosphoric Acids

scientific article published on 27 July 2016

Origin of Stereodivergence in Cooperative Asymmetric Catalysis with Simultaneous Involvement of Two Chiral Catalysts.

scientific article published on 4 December 2015

Origin of stereoselectivity in a chiral N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed desymmetrization of substituted cyclohexyl 1,3-diketones

scientific article published on 08 May 2012

Origin of stereoselectivity in the amination of alcohols using cooperative asymmetric dual catalysis involving chiral counter-ions

scientific article published on 25 June 2018

Palladium(II)-catalyzed direct alkoxylation of arenes: evidence for solvent-assisted concerted metalation deprotonation

scientific article published on 22 August 2011

Photochemistry of 1-(N,N-diethylamino)diazen-1-ium-1,2-diolate: an experimental and computational investigation

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Photoreactions with a Twist: Atropisomerism-Driven Divergent Reactivity of Enones with UV and Visible Light.

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Probing intramolecular interactions in arylselenides using a property descriptor based approach

scientific article published on 26 August 2008

Quantification of binding affinities of essential sugars with a tryptophan analogue and the ubiquitous role of C-H···π interactions

scientific article published on 02 March 2011

Quantification of intramolecular nonbonding interactions in organochalcogens

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

Rational design of catalysts for asymmetric diamination reaction using transition state modeling

scientific article published on 01 May 2014

Rearrangement pathways of 2-hydroxy-2-methylpropylidene: an experimental and computational study

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Refined transition-state models for proline-catalyzed asymmetric Michael reactions under basic and base-free conditions

scientific article published on 27 November 2012

Retro Diels-Alder reaction under mild conditions: experimental and theoretical studies

scientific article published on 12 April 2006

Reversing Enantioselectivity Using Noncovalent Interactions in Asymmetric Dearomatization of β-Naphthols: The Power of 3,3' Substituents in Chiral Phosphoric Acid Catalysts.

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Revisiting sesquiterpene biosynthetic pathways leading to santalene and its analogues: a comprehensive mechanistic study

Rhodium Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydroamination of Internal Alkynes with Indoline: Mechanism, Origin of Enantioselectivity, and Role of Additives

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Stereocontrol in proline-catalyzed asymmetric amination: a comparative assessment of the role of enamine carboxylic acid and enamine carboxylate

scientific article published on April 18, 2011

Synthesis of 3,3-Disubstituted Oxindoles by Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Intramolecular α-Arylation of Amides: Reaction Development and Mechanistic Studies.

scientific article published on 25 July 2013

Synthesis of azoaromatic dyes via redox driven C-N bond fusion

scientific article published on 01 August 2009

The mechanism of catalytic methylation of 2-phenylpyridine using di-tert-butyl peroxide

scientific article published on 30 May 2014

The mechanism of the NHC catalyzed aza-Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction: insights into a new substrate-catalyzed bimolecular pathway

scientific article published on 01 April 2014

The role of noninnocent solvent molecules in organocatalyzed asymmetric Michael addition reactions

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Theoretical and Experimental Evidence for a New Kind of Spin-Coupled Singlet Species: Isomeric Mixed-Valent Complexes Bridged by a Radical Anion Ligand

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

Transition State Models for Understanding the Origin of Chiral Induction in Asymmetric Catalysis

scientific article published on 21 April 2016

Transition state models for probing stereoinduction in Evans chiral auxiliary-based asymmetric aldol reactions.

scientific article published on September 2010

Transposed Paternò-Büchi Reaction.

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Two chiral catalysts in action: insights into cooperativity and stereoselectivity in proline and cinchona-thiourea dual organocatalysis

scientific article published on 17 September 2018

Unraveling high precision stereocontrol in a triple cascade organocatalytic reaction

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Water catalysis in the Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction: a mechanistic perspective

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

o-hydroxylmethylphenylchalcogens: synthesis, intramolecular nonbonded chalcogen...OH interactions, and glutathione peroxidase-like activity

scientific article published in November 2005