Research

Publications

Below, you’ll find my writing organized by publication type and year. For questions on any specific publication, feel free to message my office, and a teaching staff member will respond as soon as possible.

Papers

Polydopamine: A Bioinspired Catalyst for the Metal-Free Synthesis of Quinazolinones using DMSO as a Carbon Synthon

Tetrahedron, January 23, 2026

Shweta A Pawar, A Vijay Kumar

Sodium Copper Chlorophyllin: A Sustainable Bioinspired Catalyst for the Aerobic Oxidative Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles and the Oxidative Cyanation of Tertiary Amines

ChemistrySelect, October 29, 2024

SA Pawar, S Gije, C Kalantre, V H Dalvi, A V Kumar

Metal‐Free One‐Pot Domino Synthesis of Oxazolidinone Derivatives

Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, January 21, 2022

Prashant S Mandal, A V Kumar

N-Aryl iminochromenes inhibit cyclooxygenase enzymes via π–π stacking interactions and present a novel class of anti-inflammatory drugs

RSC Advances, September 2, 2021

Ha Thi Nguyen, Thien-Y Vu, A Vijay Kumar, Vo Nguyen Huy Hoang, Pham Thi Ngoc My, Prashant S Mandal, Vinay Bharadwaj Tatipamula

A room temperature one-pot Knoevenagel-Chan-Evans-Lam coupling reaction for synthesis of N-aryl-2-Iminocoumarins in bio-mass-derived green solvent 2-methylTHF

Tetrahedron Letters, September 12, 2019

Prashant S Mandal, A Vijay Kumar

Bioinspired palladium nanoparticles supported on soil-derived humic acid coated iron-oxide nanoparticles as catalyst for C–C cross-coupling and reduction reactions

Catalysis Letters, May 1, 2019

Anurag N Chinchole, Abhishek V Dubey, A Vijay Kumar

Polydopamine: an amine oxidase mimicking sustainable catalyst for the synthesis of nitrogen heterocycles under aqueous conditions

ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, March 20, 2019

Shweta A Pawar, Ayushi N Chand, A Vijay Kumar

Cu (II)–glucose: Sustainable catalyst for the synthesis of quinazolinones in a biomass-derived solvent 2-methylTHF and application for the synthesis of diproqualone

ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, October 15, 2018

Abhishek V Dubey, A Vijay Kumar

Biomimetic Clauson-Kass and Paal-Knorr Pyrrole Synthesis Using β-Cyclodextrin-SO3H under Aqueous and Neat Conditions - Application to Formal Synthesis of Polygonatine

ChemistrySelect, September 11, 2018

Rani N Patil, A Vijay Kumar

Cobalt(II)/N-hydroxyphthalimide Catalyzed Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling Reaction at Room Temperature Under Aerobic Condition

Journal of Organic Chemistry, March 27, 2018

Mahendra R Patil, Noopur P Dedhia, Anant R Kapdi, A V Kumar

Three-component one-pot synthesis of N-arylsulfonyl-2-iminocoumarins

Tetrahedron, April 12, 2018

Prashant S Mandal, A V Kumar

A Recyclable Supramolecular - Ruthenium Catalyst for the Selective Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols on Water: Application to Total Synthesis of Brittonin A

ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, January 22, 2018

Mahendra Ramesh Patil, Anant R Kapdi, A V Kumar

Unprecedented Concomitant Formation of Cu2O–CD Nano-Superstructures During the Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols and Their Catalytic Use in the Propargylamination Reaction: A Simultaneous Catalysis and Metal Waste Valorization (SCMWV) Method

ACS Omega, October 5, 2017

Rani N Patil, A V Kumar

Glycerol as a Recyclable Solvent for Copper-Mediated Ligand-Free C-S Cross-Coupling Reaction: Application to Synthesis of Gemmacin Precursor

ChemistrySelect, June 19, 2017

Abhishek V Dubey, Siddhesh B Gharat, A V Kumar

A biomimetic magnetically recoverable Palladium nanocatalyst for Suzuki cross-coupling reaction

RSC Advances, 2016

Abhishek Dubey, A V Kumar

Copper-Catalyzed Imino C–N Bond Formation with Aryl Boronic Acids under Aerobic Conditions

Synlett, February 18, 2016

A Vijay Kumar, Prashant S Mandal

Machine loading in flexible manufacturing system

Int J Eng Sci Invent Res Dev, 2015

A Kumar, K Rao

Magnetically recyclable iron oxide nanoparticles for the α-cyanation of amines under acid-free conditions and the formal synthesis of praziquantel

RSC Advances, 2015

Anant R. Kapdi and A. Vijay Kumar Mahendra Patil