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Gopinath Purushothaman

Associate Professor

Department of Chemistry, IISER Tirupati

Email: gopi@iisertirupati.ac.in

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Research Interests

Developing new synthetic strategies: Visible light photoredox catalysis, Transition metal catalysis & Dual catalysis.
Asymmetric synthesis, Total synthesis of natural products, drugs and bioactive compounds.
Prebiotic Chemistry, Biomimetic chemistry.

Educational and Professional Career

Associate Professor (Jul, 2022 ~): Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, India
Assistant Professor (Feb, 2017 - Jul, 2022): Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, India
Postdoctoral Research Scientist (Dec, 2013 - Feb, 2017): Columbia university, New York, U.S.A
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow (April, 2011 - Nov, 2013): Institute of Microbial Chemistry, Tokyo, Japan
Ph.D (2011): Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Honours and Awards

JSPS Postdoctoral fellow, Japan Society for the promotion of Science, Japan
Ramanujan fellowship, SERB
Early Career Research Award, SERB

Selected Publications

Purushothaman Gopinath, Vijayakumar Ramalingam, Ronald Breslow. "Magnesium Pyrophosphates in Enzyme Mimics of Nucleotide Synthases and Kinases and in their Prebiotic Chemistry" , Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2015, 112, 12011-12014

Purushothaman Gopinath, Lu Wang, Hikaru Abe, Gandamala Ravi, Takashi Masuda, Takumi Watanabe, Masakatsu Shibasaki. "Catalytic Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (+)-Caprazol", Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 3364-3367

Purushothaman Gopinath, Takumi Watanabe, Masakatsu Shibasaki " Studies on Catalytic Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Caprazamycin B: Construction of the Western Zone ", J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 9260-9267

Purushothaman Gopinath, Takumi Watanabe, Masakatsu Shibasaki. " Catalytic Enantioselective Desymmetrization of meso-Glutaric Anhydrides using a Stable Ni2-Schiffbase catalyst", Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 1358-1361

Purushothaman Gopinath, Srinivasan Chandrasekaran " Synthesis of Functionalized Dihydrothiophenes from Doubly Activated Cyclopropanes using Tetrathiomolybdate as the Sulfur Transfer Reagent ", J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 700-703

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