Dr. Vikas Kumar

Vikas’s research interests are focused on the NHC catalysed direct oxidative amidation of aldehydes and the development of chemoselective protection of amines.

'Synergistic Lewis base and anion-binding catalysis for the enantioselective vinylogous addition of deconjugated butenolides to allenoates'
V. Kumar and S. Mukherjee*, Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 11203.

'Catalytic asymmetric direct vinylogous Michael addition of γ-aryl deconjugated butenolides to nitroolefins and

N-phenylmaleimide'
V. Kumar, B. Ray, P. Rathi and S. Mukherjee*, Synthesis 2013, 45, 164.

Invited article

'Glycal-derived δ-hydroxy α,β-unsaturated aldehydes (Perlin aldehydes): A versatile building blocks in organic synthesis'
L. V. R. Reddy‡, V. Kumar‡, R. Sagar and A. K. Shaw*, Chem. Rev. 2013, 113, 3605. (‡Equal contribution).

'Catalytic enantioselective construction of quaternary stereocenters by direct vinylogous Michael addition of deconjugated butenolides to nitroolefins'
M. S. Manna, V. Kumar and S. Mukherjee* Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 5193.

'Highly diastereoselective Morita–Baylis–Hillman chemistry: a remote activation effect in the diastereoface selective synthesis of densely functionalized branched cyclic enones from D-glucose'
V. Kumar, P. Ghosal, P. Das and A. K. Shaw*, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2012, 23, 449.

'Syntheses of (-)-gabosine A, (+)-4-epi-gabosine A, (-)-gabosine E, and (+)-4-epi-gabosine E'
V. Kumar, P. Das, P. Ghosal and A. K. Shaw*, Tetrahedron 2011, 67, 4539.

'A convergent total synthesis of a new antiepileptic ceramide and its triacetyl derivative using olefin cross metathesis'
P. Ghosal, V. Kumar, A. K. Shaw*, Tetrahedron 2010, 66, 7504.

'A chiron approach to the total synthesis of cytotoxic (+)-muricatacin and (+)-5-epi-muricatacin from D-ribose'
P. Ghosal, V. Kumar and A. K. Shaw* Carbohydrate Research

2010, 345, 41.

'First total synthesis of (+)-varitriol'
V. Kumar and A. K. Shaw*, J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 7526.

'An iodocyclization approach toward diastereoselective synthesis of highly functionalized tetrasubstituted tetrahydrofurans with 2,5-trans and 2,5-cis relationships from pyranoside derived acyclic oximes'
V. Kumar, H. M. Gauniyal and A. K. Shaw*, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2007, 18, 2069.