DEWANJI RESEARCH GROUP

Development of newer and more efficient catalytic manifolds is the path towards more sustainable organic synthesis. The current research interest of our group lies in developing unprecedented co-operative catalytic systems to successfully achieve novel organic transformations, with an emphasis on carbon-carbon bond forming reactions. In the last few decades, method development in organic synthesis has been largely dominated by transition metal-catalyzed reactions where carbon-carbon bond formation occupied the central stage. While there is still scope for the development of newer TM-catalyzed reactions, TM-free catalytic systems have tremendously complemented them since the advent of organocatalysis. We seek to develop novel catalytic organic transformations using transition metals, simple organic molecules, organic radicals and main group elements in presence or absence of photoirradiation.