Rakesh K. Saunthwal

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Assistant Professor
  2024 - Present
• Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi Assistant Professor
  2023 - 2024
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Postdoctoral Research Associate
  2021 - 2023
• University of Bristol Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
  2019 - 2021
• University of Bristol SERB Overseas Postdoctoral Fellow
  2018 - 2018

Education

• University of Delhi Ph.D.
  2012 - 2017
• University of Rajasthan Master of Science
  2009 - 2011
• University of Rajasthan Bachelor of Science
  2006 - 2009

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (49)

• Enantioselective [4 + 2] Annulation Reaction of C1-Ammonium Enolate and Azadiene for 3,4-Dihydroquinolinones Synthesis
  Organic Letters 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5c04917
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• Harnessing the Reactivity of Alkyne by Cu‐Catalyst: Assembly of Highly Functionalized Five‐Membered N‐Heterocycles
  Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis 2025 DOI: 10.1002/adsc.70170
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• Cooperative iridium and organocatalysis: a new frontier in asymmetric chemistry
  Organic Chemistry Frontiers 2025 DOI: 10.1039/D4QO02430C
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• A machine-learning tool to predict substrate-adaptive conditions for Pd-catalyzed C–N couplings
  Science 2023 DOI: 10.1126/science.adg2114
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• Enantioselective Intramolecular α‐Arylation of Benzylamine Derivatives: Synthesis of a Precursor to Levocetirizine
  Angewandte Chemie 2023 DOI: 10.1002/ange.202216758
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• Expedient Access to Polyaromatic Biaryls by Unconventional Ag-Catalyzed Cycloaromatization of Alkynylthiophenes and Au-Catalyzed Double C–H Activation
  Organic Letters 2022 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.2c01665
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• Enantioselective one-carbon expansion of aromatic rings by simultaneous formation and chromoselective irradiation of a transient coloured enolate
  Chemical Science 2022 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc06684f
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• Tandem 6π-Azatriene Electrocyclization of Fused Amino-cyclopentenones: Synthesis of Functionalized Pyrrolo- and Indolo-quinoxalines
  Organic Letters 2021 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.1c02782
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• Transition‐Metal‐Free Reverse Reactivity of (2‐Alkynyl)‐Arylaldimines: Assembly of Functionalized Amino‐Indinones
  Chemistry – A European Journal 2020 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201904294
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• Synthesis of cyclopentaquinolinone and cyclopentapyridinone from ortho-alkynyl-N-arylaldehyde via superbase-promoted C–N, C–O and C–C bond formation
  Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2020 DOI: 10.1039/d0ob01281e
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