Name: MURALI MOHAN GURU
Email: mmguru@iiserkol.ac.in
Mobile No.: 8768080520
Education:
2007: Bachelor of Science [Chemistry (Hons.)],Vidyasagar University, India.
2009: Master of Science (Chemistry), Vidyasagar University, India.
2013: PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India.
(Supervisor: Prof. Tharmalingam Punniyamurthy).
Current Status:
N-PDF Fellow in Department of Chemical Science, IISER Kolkata
(Research Interest: Transition metal for C-H functionalization reaction, Asymmetric catalysis, Metal free Catalysis)
Research Experience:
(2013-2016): Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Organometallic ChemistryLaboratory, Advance Catalysis Research Group, RIKEN, Wako-shi, Saitama, Japan.
(Advisor: Prof. Zhaomin Hou)
PhD Thesis Title:
“Study of Copper(II) Based Oxidative C–HFunctionalization/C– C/N–N/C–N/C–O Bonds Formation for Synthesis of Substituted Azoles.”
Publication:
1. Guru, M. M.; Shima, T.; Hou, Z. “Conversion of Dinitrogen to Nitriles at a
Multinuclear Titanium Framework” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 12316-
12320 (Selected as Hot Paper).
2. Guru, M. M.; Punniyamurthy, T. “Copper(II)-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative
Synthesis of Substituted 1,2,3- and 1,2,4-Triazoles from Bisarylhydrazones via
C–H Functionalization/C–C/N–N/C–N Bonds Formation” J. Org. Chem. 2012,
77, 5063-5073 (Highlighted in Synfacts 2012, 958).
3. Guru, M. M.; Ali, M. A.; Punniyamurthy, T. “Copper-Mediated Synthesis of
Substituted 2-Aryl-N-benzylbenzimidazoles and 2-Arylbenzoxazoles via C–H
Functionalization/C–N/C–O Bond Formation” J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 5295-
5308 (Highlighted in ChemInform 2011, 42).
4. Guru, M. M.; Ali, M. A.; Punniyamurthy, T. “Copper(II)-Catalyzed Conversionof Bisaryloxime Ethers to 2-Arylbenzoxazoles via C–H Functionalization/C–N/C–O Bonds Formation” Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 1194-1197 (Highlighted in Synfacts 2011, 479).
5. Biswajit K. Barman, Murali M. Guru, Gaurav K. Panda, Biplab Maji* and Ratheesh K. Vijayaraghavan.*
Pyrene affixed triazoles: A new class of molecular semiconductors for robust, non-volatile resistive memory devices
Chem. Commun., DOI: 10.1039/C8CC10185J.
6. Pradip Ramdas Thorve, Murali Mohan Guru, Biplab Maji
Manganese-Catalyzed Divergent Markovnikov Addition and [2+2+2] Cycloaddition of 2-Carbonyl Indanone with Terminal Alkyne
J. Org. Chem. 2019, Just accepted, DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b01173.
7. Murali Mohan Guru, Sriman De, Sayan Dutta, Debasis Koley*, Biplab Maji*
B(C6F5)3-Catalyzed Dehydrogenative Cyclization of N-Tosylhydrazones and Anilines via a Lewis Adduct: A Combined Experimental and Computational Investigations
Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 7964-7974