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Publications

Revisited Synthesis of Trispyrazolylborate Aluminum Halides

Suban Kundu, Raju Chambenahalli, Alex P. Andrews and Ajay Venugopal

European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry

2024

 

Quest for Active Species in Al/B-Catalyzed CO2 Hydrosilylation

S K Bisht,  D Sharma, R Kannan, T Rajeshkumar, L Maron,  A Venugopal

Inorganic Chemistry 62 (37), 14828–14832

2023 

From Sn(II) to Sn(IV): Enhancing Lewis Acidity Via Oxidation

Rini Prakash, Jerin Joseph, Alex P. Andrews, Babu Varghese, and Ajay Venugopal

Inorganic Chemistry 62 (37), 14828–14832

2023 

Mechanistic Investigations on Bismuth Catalysed Reduction of Ketones and Phosphine Oxides

A Benny, D Sharma, Ankur, T Rajeshkumar, L Maron, A Venugopal

Chemistry–A European Journal 29, e202300588

2023

Reactivity of a quasi-four-coordinate butylmagnesium cation

Ankur, D Sharma, AP Andrews, A Venugopal

Dalton Transactions 52 (6), 1533-1537

2023

Computational Insights on Periodicity in Bonding and Lewis Acidity and Basicity of the p‐Block Trispyrazolylborate Complexes

R Prakash, A Mohamed, ED Jemmis, A Venugopal

European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 26 (2), e202200585

2023

 

Crystallographic evidence for a continuum and reversal of roles in primary–secondary interactions in antimony Lewis acids: applications in carbonyl activation

D Sharma, A Benny, R Gupta, ED Jemmis, A Venugopal

Chemical Communications 58 (78), 11009-11012

2022

 

Magnesium Complexes in Organic Synthesis

Ankur, S Kundu, S Banerjee, A Venugopal

Elsevier

2022

 

[(Me6TREN)MgOCHPh2][B(C6F5)4]: A Model Complex to Explore the Catalytic Activity of Magnesium Alkoxides in Ketone Hydroboration

Ankur, R Kannan, R Chambenahalli, S Banerjee, Y Yang, L Maron, A Venugopal

European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2021 (45), 4632-4638

2021

Reversing Lewis acidity from bismuth to antimony

D Sharma, S Balasubramaniam, S Kumar, ED Jemmis, A Venugopal

Chemical Communications 57 (71), 8889-8892

2021

Cationic Zinc Hydride Catalyzed Carbon Dioxide Reduction to Formate: Deciphering Elementary Reactions, Isolation of Intermediates, and Computational Investigations

R Chambenahalli, RM Bhargav, KN McCabe, AP Andrews, F Ritter, A Venugopal

Chemistry–A European Journal 27 (26), 7391-7401

2021

 

Electrophilic Organobismuth Dication Catalyzes Carbonyl Hydrosilylation

R Kannan, S Balasubramaniam, S Kumar, R Chambenahalli, ED Jemmis, A Venugopal

Chemistry–A European Journal 26 (56), 12717-12721

2020  (Cover Feature) https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202002006

 

trans‐Influence in Heavy Main Group Compounds: A Case Study on Tris(pyrazolyl)borate Bismuth Complexes

S Balasubramaniam, S Kumar, AP Andrews, ED Jemmis, A Venugopal

European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2020 (26), 2530-2536

2020

 

Probing the Lewis acidity of heavier pnictogen trichlorides

JA Johnson, A Venugopal

Journal of Chemical Sciences 131, 1-6

2019

 

A dicationic bismuth (III) lewis acid: catalytic hydrosilylation of olefins

S Balasubramaniam, S Kumar, AP Andrews, B Varghese, ED Jemmis, A Venugopal

European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2019 (28), 3265-3269

2019  (Front Cover) 

 

Bismuth (III) dication trapped on a chlorobismuthate

S Balasubramaniam, B Varghese, A Venugopal

Journal of Coordination Chemistry 72 (8), 1417-1423

2019

 

Organoaluminum cations for carbonyl activation

R Kannan, R Chambenahalli, S Kumar, A Krishna, AP Andrews, A Venugopal

Chemical Communications 55 (97), 14629-14632

2019

Amidomagnesium cations

S Banerjee, Ankur, AP Andrews, B Varghese, A Venugopal

Dalton Transactions 48 (21), 7313-7319

2019

 

Terminal hydridozinc cation

R Chambenahalli, AP Andrews, F Ritter, J Okuda, A Venugopal

Chemical Communications 55 (14), 2054-2057

2019

A disguised hydride in a butylmagnesium cation

S Banerjee, Ankur, A Andrews, A Venugopal

Chemical Communications 54 (45), 5788-5791

2018

 

Consequence of Ligand bite angle on bismuth lewis acidity

R Kannan, S Kumar, AP Andrews, ED Jemmis, A Venugopal

Inorganic Chemistry 56 (16), 9391-9395

2017

 

Neutral and Cationic β‐Ketoiminato Bismuth Complexes

JA Johnson, A Ashokan, AK Chalana, AP Andrews, A Venugopal

Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie 643 (9), 607-611

2017

 

2, 6‐Diisopropylanilinium Bromobismuthates

S Pandey, A Nair, AP Andrews, A Venugopal

European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2017 (4), 798-804

2017

 

Manifestation of helicity in one-dimensional iodobismuthate

S Pandey, AP Andrews, A Venugopal

Dalton Transactions 45 (21), 8705-8707

2016

 

Molekulare Seltenerdmetallhydride in Nicht‐Cyclopentadienyl‐Umgebungen

W Fegler, A Venugopal, M Kramer, J Okuda

Angewandte Chemie 127 (6), 1744-1757

2015

 

Molecular Rare‐Earth‐Metal Hydrides in Non‐Cyclopentadienyl Environments

W Fegler, A Venugopal, M Kramer, J Okuda

Angewandte Chemie International Edition 54 (6), 1724-1736

2015

 

Structurally characterized α-diimine complexes of s-and p-block elements

A Raghavan, A Venugopal

Journal of Coordination Chemistry 67 (15), 2530-2549

2014

 

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