Education and Experiences

2017.03-2019.05    National Post-Doctoral Fellow, CSIR-IICT, India (Advisor: Prof. Srivari Chandrasekhar)

2011.09-2017.03    Ph.D.  Organic Chemistry,  Madurai Kamaraj University, India (Advisor: Prof. Kasi Pitchumani).

Publications

1. Copper(I)–Y zeolite catalyzed N-sulfonylketenimine mediated annulation of hydroxynaphthoquinones: syntheses of naphtho[2,1-b]furan-2,5-diones and benzo[de]chromene-2,6-diones, Devenderan Ramanathan, Kayambu Namitharan and Kasi Pitchumani, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 8436.

2. Copper(I)-Y Zeolite-Catalyzed Regio- and Stereoselective [2+2+2] Cyclotrimerization Cascade: An Atom- and Step-Economical Synthesis of Pyrimido[1,6-a]quinoline, Devenderan Ramanathan and Kasi Pitchumani, J. Org. Chem., 2015, 80 (20), 10299.

3. Copper (I)-Catalyzed One-Pot Synthesis of Highly Functionalized Pyrrolidines from Sulfonyl Azides, Alkynes, and Dimethyl 2-(Phenylamino)maleate, Devenderan Ramanathan and Kasi Pitchumani, Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2015, 463.

4. Metal-free, base promoted sp2 C–H functionalization in the sulfonamidation of 1,4-naphthoquinones, Devenderan Ramanathan and Kasi Pitchumani, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2018, 16, 5294-5300.