Yalla Kiran Kumar

About

Dr. Kiran Kumar Yalla is a synthetic and medicinal chemist with expertise in nucleoside, nucleotide, and heterocyclic chemistry. He is currently a Research Scientist-II at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, focusing on the design and synthesis of dual-targeting androgen–HDAC inhibitors for prostate cancer therapy. He earned his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Jawaharlal Nehru University (CSIR-CDRI, India) and has over seven years of research and process development experience, nine publications, and international postdoctoral training in Belgium and China.

Employment

• Georgia Institute of Technology Research Scientist-II
  2023 - Present
• SAI Life Sciences Ltd Research Scientist
  2021 - 2022
• Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Postdoctoral Research
  2019 - 2020
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Post doctorate Research
  2016 - 2019

Education

• Central Drug Research Institute Ph.D.
  2011 - 2016
• Pondicherry University Master of sciences
  2008 - 2010

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (9)

• A direct access to isoxazoles from ynones using trimethylsilyl azide as amino surrogate under metal/catalyst free conditions
  Chemical Communications 2016 DOI: 10.1039/c6cc02047j
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• Hg/Pt-catalyzed conversion of bromo alkynamines/alkynols to saturated and unsaturated gamma-butyrolactams/lactones via intramolecular electrophilic cyclization.
  Organic & biomolecular chemistry 2016 DOI: 10.1039/c5ob02125a
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• Synthesis of benzofuranyl and indolyl methyl azides by tandem silver-catalyzed cyclization and azidation
  Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 2016 DOI: 10.1039/c6ob00191b
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• Synthesis of 3-Sulfonylamino Quinolines from 1-(2-Aminophenyl) Propargyl Alcohols through a Ag(I)-Catalyzed Hydroamination, (2 + 3) Cycloaddition, and an Unusual Strain-Driven Ring Expansion
  Organic Letters 2015 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5b00832
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• Cu-catalyzed conversion of propargyl acetates to e-a,β-unsaturated amides via ketenimine formation with sulfonyl azides
  Journal of Organic Chemistry 2014 DOI: 10.1021/jo402570t
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• Selective 5-exo-dig cyclization of in situ synthesized N-Boc-2-aminophenyl ethoxyethynyl carbenols: Synthesis of multifunctional indoles and their derivatives
  Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis 2014 DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201301002
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• Tandem Cu-catalyzed ketenimine formation and intramolecular nucleophile capture: Synthesis of 1,2-dihydro-2-iminoquinolines from 1-(o-acetamidophenyl) propargyl alcohols
  Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry 2014 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.10.125
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• A new synthesis of γ-butyrolactones via AuCl 3- or Hg(II)-catalyzed intramolecular hydroalkoxylation of 4-bromo-3-yn-1-ols
  Organic Letters 2012 DOI: 10.1021/ol2033493
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• A quick and efficient route to substituted quinolines by electrophilic cyclization of 1-(2-aminoaryl)-2-yn-1-ols
  RSC Advances 2012 DOI: 10.1039/c2ra20213a
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