Professor
Prof. S Kotha
Areas Of Expertise
- Development of New Synthetic Methods
- Synthesis of unusual amino acids
- Organic synthesis,,Rongalite
- Organic Synthesis,Polycyclics
- [2+2+2] Cycloaddition
- Suzuki Cross-coupling
- Enyne metathesis
- Diels-Alder Reactions,Conformationally Constrained Amino Acids,post-trasnslational peptide modificatins,Gold nanoparticles
- artificial enzymes,metathesis
- Acetylthiophene
- Benzenethiophene exchange
- Chloro-methyl exchange
- Close-packing
- Crystal engineering
- Shape/size effects
- SiCl4
- Trimerisation
- Trinitrobenzene
- Amino acids
- Cycloaddition
- Diels-Alder
- Metathesis
- Combinatorial chemistry
- Drug design
- Peptides
- Peptidomimetics
- Amino acids and derivatives
- Cycloadditions
- Diels-Alder reaction drugs
- dienes
- Drug research
- Alkylation
- Benzocyclobutene
- Arylation
- Biaryls
- Boron and compounds
- Coupling reactions
- Palladium and compounds
- Suzuki reactions
- Diels-Alder reac
- Aib derivatives
- Bifurcated ??-interaction
- Dihydrogen bond
- Isofunctional hydrogen bonds
- Modified amino acid
- C-C coupling
- Cyclotrimerizations
- Nanostructures
- Polycycles
- Semi-empirical calculations
- Aromatization
- Dehydrogenation
- IBX
- Quinones
- Additives
- Crystal growth
- Inhibition
- Polymorphism
- And Grignard reactions
- Hydrogenation
- Polycyclic aliphatic compounds
- Polyquinanes
- Cyclotrimerization
- Heterocycles
- Strained molecules
- Transition metals
- Ring-closing metathesis
- Sulfones
- Sulfur heterocycles
- Allylation
- Boron
- Cross-coupling reaction
- Palladium
- Suzuki coupling
- Cyclophanes
- Olefin metathesis
- Ruthenium
- Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling
- Carbon-rich compounds
- SuzukiMiyaura coupling
- Tetraphenylmethane
- Isomerization
- Claisen rearrangement
- Diversity-oriented synthesis
- Meta-thesis
- Naphthoxepines
- spiro compounds
- Cage compounds
- Fenestranes
- Grubbs’
- Catalyst
- ROCM
- Spiro-diene
- Spirocycles
- Cross-coupling
- Sulphones
- Sultine
- Suzuki-Miyaura reaction
- Macrocycles
- Tandem reactions
- Bisoxazole
- TosMIC
- Trisoxazole
- Benzoannulation
- Benzocrown ethers
- Chromophores
- Diversity oriented synthesis
- Cross-enyne metathesis
- Ethylene
- Fullerenes
- Quinone-amino acid hybrids
- Conformationally constrained amino acids
- Conformationally constrained imino acids
- Peptidomemitics
- 2-naphthalene derivatives
- Diallylarenes
- 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline-3-carboxylic acid
- DL-4-boronophenylalanine
- Ethyl isocyanoacetate
- Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction
- Benzannulation
- Cyclization
- Rearrangement
- Suzuki coupling
- Metathesis
- Constrained amino acid
- Phenylalanine
- Ring closure
- 1,3,5-triphenylbenzene
- dendrimers
- Liquid crystals
- s-Triazine
- 1,3-Dicarbonyl compound
- Barbituric acid
- Meldrum’
- s acid
- Pyrazolone
- Spiro-annulation
- Tetronic acid
- C<sub>3</sub>-Symmetric amino acids
- C4-Symmetric amino acid
- Carbon-carbon bond
- Non-natural ?-amino acid derivatives
- Bis-armed amino acid
- Carbon-carbon bond formation
- Fluorescent amino acid
- 1-benzazepine
- Aza-claisen rearrangement
- 2,4,6-Triphenyl-1,3-5-s-triazine
- 1,3,5-triphenylbenzene
- Cyclotrimerization
- O-alkylation
- Induced cyclotrimerization reactions
- Liquid-crystalline materials
- Substituted s-triazines
- Photophysical properties
- Antibacterial activity
- Organic nitriles
- Complexes
- Molecules
- 1,3,5-triazine
- Coordination
- 2,4,6-triphenyl-l,3-5-s-triazine
- Oalkylation
- Amino-acid derivatives
- Diels-alder reactions
- Intramolecular cycloaddition reactions
- Sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate
- Natural-product hybrids
- Cross-coupling reaction
- Organic-synthesis
- Symmetric sulfones
- Synthetic approach
- Ortho-xylylenes
- Cross-coupling
- Cross-metathesis
- Natural products
- Ring-closing metathesis
- Ring-closing metathesis
- Asymmetric total-synthesis
- Olefin metathesis
- Arylboronic acids
- Claisen rearrangement
- Catalytic metathesis
- Buflavine analogs
- Concave reagents
- Nakadomarin-a
- efficient
- C-3-symmetric molecules
- Grubbs catalyst
- Benzene derivatives
- Depropargylation
- Cycloaddition reaction
- Olefin-metathesis
- Nobel lecture
- Trimerization
- Cyclotrimerization
- Cascade
- Route
- Diphenylalkanes
- Diversity-oriented approach
- Catalyzed alkyne cyclotrimerization
- Polysubstituted benzene-derivatives
- Transition-Metal-complexes
- 3 unsymmetrical alkynes
- Boron temporary tether
- Carbonyl-compounds
- Terminal alkynes
- Nickel-complexes
- spiro compounds
- Diels-alder reactions
- Domino reactions
- Radical reactions
- Ring closure
- Cycle 1-amino-1-carboxylic acids
- Carbocyclic spiro compounds
- Quaternary carbon centers
- Formal total-synthesis
- Diels-Alder reaction
- Fredericamycin-a
- Stereoselective construction
- Domino reactions
- Radical reactions
- Cross-metathesis
- Natural products
- Benzene derivatives
- C3-symmetric molecules
- Depropargylation
- Diels-Alder reaction
- Boronic Acid
- Building Block Approach
- Suzuki Coupling Reaction
- Unusual Amino Acid
- Alpha-amino-acid
- cyclobutane aromatic compounds
- Diversity-oriented approach
- ortho-quinodimethanes
- coupling reaction
- natural-products
- tic derivatives
- constrained phenylalanine derivatives
- strategic combination
- 2+2+2 cycloaddition
- Enyne metathesis
- Amino-acids
- Chemistry
- Rongalite
- Glycine equivalents
- Amino acids
- Isocyanides
- Phase-transfer catalysis
- Cycloadditions
- 2+2+2 cycloaddition strategy
- Crystal packing
- Metalated isocyanides
- Carboxylic-acids
- Glycine equivalents
- Isocyanides
- Phase-transfer catalysis
- Antiviral drug
- Molecule synthesis
- Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI)-Bronze Medal
- Prof Y.T. Thathachari award for Science
- Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi
- J C Bose Fellowship, The Department of Science and Technology, GoI
- Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore
- Fellow, The National Academy of Sciences, India (Allahabad)
- Prof. S. C. Bhattacharya Excellence Award in Pure Sciences
- IIT Bombay Research Paper Award / Research Publication Award (From 2015 onwards)
- IIT Bombay Review Paper Award / Research Dissemination Award (From 2015 onwards)
- IIT Bombay Review Paper Award / Research Dissemination Award (From 2015 onwards)