Research Publications

1.  Avoiding Drug Resistance by Substrate Envelope-Guided Design: Toward Potent and Robust HCV NS3/4A Protease Inhibitors. Ashley N. Matthew, Jacqueto Zephyr, Desaboini Nageswara Rao, Mina Henes, Wasih Kamran, Klajdi Kosovrasti, Adam K. Hedger, Gordon J. Lockbaum, Jennifer Timm, Akbar Ali, Nese Kurt Yilmaz, Celia A. Schiffer* mBio March 2020, 11, e00172-20 (impact factor: 6.75).

2. Cobalt-Catalyzed Regioselective Ortho C(sp2)-H Bond Nitration of Aromatics through Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Assistance. Desaboini Nageswara Rao, Sk. Rasheed, Gaurav Raina, Qazi Naveed Ahmed, Chaitanya Kumar Jaladanki, Prasad V. Bharatam, and Parthasarathi Das* J. Org. Chem., 2017, 82, 7234-7244 (impact factor: 4.85).

3. Copper (II)-Catalyzed Chan-Lam Cross-Coupling: Chemoselective N-arylation of aminophenols. A. Siva Reddy, K. Ranjith Kumar, Desaboini Nageswara Rao, Partick Y. S. Lam, and Parthasarathi Das* Org. Biomol. Chem.  2017, 15, 801-806 (impact factor: 3.56).

4. Palladium/Silver Synergistic Catalysis in Direct Aerobic Carbonylation of C(sp2)-H Bonds Using DMF as a Carbon Source: Synthesis of Pyrido-Fused Quinazolinones and Phenanthridinones. Desaboini Nageswara Rao, Sk. Rasheed, and Parthasarathi Das* Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 3142–3145 (impact factor: 6.73).

5. Copper-Catalyzed C-NH2-Arylation of 2-Aminobenzimidazoles and related C-Amino-NH-Azoles. Desaboini Nageswara Rao, Sk. Rasheed, K. Anil kumar, A. Siva Reddy, and Parthasarathi Das* Adv. Synth. Catal. 2016, 358, 2126–2133 (impact factor: 6.45).

6. Cobalt (II)-Catalyzed C-N Bond Formation: Synthesis of Arylsubstituted Imidazo[1,2-a] pyridines. Sk. Rasheed, Desaboini Nageswara Rao, and Parthasarathi Das* Asian J. Org. Chem. 2016, 5, 1213-1218 (impact factor: 3.32).

7. Nickel-Catalyzed C(Aryl)-O Bond Activation/Cross-Coupling Reaction of Carbazoles with Methyl Grignard: Synthesis of Ellipticine. Sk. Rasheed, Desaboini Nageswara Rao, and Parthasarathi Das* Asian J. Org. Chem. 2016, 5, 1499-1507 (impact factor: 3.32).

8. Nickel-Catalyzed Chan-Lam Cross-Coupling: Chemoselective N-Arylation of 2-Aminobenzimidazoles. K. Anil kumar, Prakash Kannaboina, Desaboini Nageswara Rao, and Parthasarathi Das* Org. Biomol. Chem.  2016, 14, 8989-8997 (impact factor: 3.56).

9. Copper-Catalyzed Inter- and Intramolecular C-N Bond Formation: Synthesis of Benzimidazole-Fused Heterocycles. Sk. Rasheed, Desaboini Nageswara Rao, and Parthasarathi Das* J. Org. Chem., 2015, 80, 9321-9327 (impact factor: 4.85).

10. Sulphuric acid Immobilized on Silica Gel (H2SO4-SiO2) as An Eco-Friendly Catalyst for Transamidation. Sk. Rasheed, Desaboini Nageswara Rao, A. siva Reddy, Ravi Shankar, Ram A. Vishwakarma, and Parthasarathi Das* RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 10567–10574 (impact factor: 3.84).

11. Copper-Catalyzed Sequential N-Arylation of C-Amino-NH-Azoles. Desaboini Nageswara Rao, Sk. Rasheed, Ram A. Vishwakarma, and Parthasarathi Das* Chem.Commun., 2014, 50, 12911-12914 (impact factor: 6.83).

12. Hypervalent Iodine(III) Catalyzed Oxidative C-N Bond Formation in Water: Synthesis of Benzimidazole-Fused Heterocycles. Desaboini Nageswara Rao, Sk. Rasheed, Ram A. Vishwakarma, and Parthasarathi Das* RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 25600–25604 (impact factor: 3.84).

13. C-N Bond Formation via Cu-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling with Boronic acids Leading to Methyl Carbazole-3-carboxylate: Synthesis of Carbazole Alkaloids. Sk. Rasheed, Desaboini Nageswara Rao, K. Ranjith Reddy, S. Aravinda, Ram A. Vishwakarma, and Parthasarathi Das* RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 4960–4969 (impact factor: 3.84).

14. Base and Ligand free Copper-Catalyzed N-Arylation of 2-Amino-N-Heterocycles with Boronic acids in Air. Desaboini Nageswara Rao, Sk. Rasheed, S. Aravinda, Ram A. Vishwakarma, and Parthasarathi Das* RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 11472–11475 (impact factor: 3.84).