Saigal

About

Saigal is currently working as a Research Associate at the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, NIPER Guwahati. He has previously worked at the Department of Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, under the supervision of Dr. Md. Musawwer Khan. His research interests span Green Chemistry, Catalysis, Heterocycle synthesis, and Biological evaluation of small heterocycles. His current projects focus on advanced methodologies in organic and medicinal chemistry.
He qualified CSIR-JRF-2014 AIR-51 and GATE-2014.
Disciplines
Green Chemistry, Catalysis, Organic Chemistry, C-H activation,
Skills and expertise
(i) HPLC, UV, IR, LC-MS, (ii) JULABO, (iii) Rotary evaporator, (iv) Sonicator, (v) Parallel synthesizer, (iii) Microwave synthesizer, (iv) Flash chromatography, (v) Glove box

Employment

• National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research Post Doc. (RA-I)
  2024 - 2027

Education

• Aligarh Muslim University Ph.D
  2015 - 2021
• Aligarh Muslim University M.Sc (Organic Chemistry)
  2012 - 2014
• Aligarh Muslim University B.Sc (Hons) Chemistry
  2009 - 2011

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (23)

• Natural Biodegradable Lemon Juice-Catalyzed One-Pot Pseudo-Four-Component Synthesis of Functionally Rich 4,5-Dihydro-1H-pyrrol-5-ols and 1,4-Dihydropyridines: Quantity of Reaction Components and Their Addition Sequence Determine Selectivity Switch betwee…
  The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.5c02646
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• Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Three-Component One-Pot Regiospecific Synthesis of Functionalized N-Fused 6-Aryl-N-aryl-imidazo[2,1-b][1,3,4]thiadiazol-5-amine and 5-Aroyl-5,7,8,9-tetrahydro-6H-[1,3,4]thiadiazolo[2,3-b]quinazolin-6-one: N- vs C-Nucleophile Contr…
  The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.6c00683
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• Facile Chemodivergent Synthesis of Fused Indolo[2,3-b]quinoxalines and Benzo[4,5]imidazo[1,2-c]quinazolin-6(5H)-ones: An Organocatalytic Trifluoromethanesulfonic Acid-Controlled Mechanistic Switch between Condensation and Ring Expansion of the Isatin Core
  ACS Omega 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.5c10483
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• The Ru(II)-Catalyzed Catalytic Additive-Controlled Selectivity Switch between Mono-olefination and Dehydrogenative Annulation of 3-Aryl-4(3H)-quinazolinone: Access to Products of Different Chemotypes
  The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.5c02240
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• Lemon Juice as a Natural Biodegradable Catalyst for an Ecofriendly One-Pot Pseudo-Three-Component Synthesis of N,1-Dimethyl-6-(methylsulfanyl)-3,5-dinitro-1,4-dihydropyridine-2-amines
  Synlett 2025 DOI: 10.1055/a-2499-3563
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• “In-Water” Three-Component One-Pot Reaction for the Facile Synthesis of Densely Functionalized 2,3-Dihydro-1H-pyrrol-2-ols and Mechanistic Insight
  ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.4c05293
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• Synthesis of novel nitro functionalized 1,4-dihydropyridines under neat condition: Spectral characterization, crystallographic study and ADMET predictions
  Journal of Molecular Structure 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2023.137193
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• Synthesis, characterization, X-ray crystallographic study and in silico ADME predictions of functionalized nitropyrrole derivatives
  Journal of Molecular Structure 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2021.131655
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• Microwave assisted novel one-pot three-component reaction for synthesis of 3-aminoimidazopyridines using molecular iodine
  Tetrahedron Letters 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2021.153452
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• Synthesis, Biological Evaluation and Docking Studies of Functionalized Pyrrolo[3,4-b]pyridine Derivatives
  ChemistrySelect 2021 DOI: 10.1002/slct.202004781
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