Research Interests
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Metal catalyzed organic transformation towards the synthesis of bio-active molecules
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Asymmetric catalysis
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Green synthesis
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Heterocyclic chemistry
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Synthesis of Fluorescent molecules for sensing and photo-physical applications
Books & Monographs:
(3) Book Chapter: Nandi, G. C.* S. Ravindra, C. P. Irfana Jesin, P. Sasikumar, and K. V. Radhakrishnan* Cu-catalyzed Homocoupling reactions. 2020 (Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA).
(2) Book Chapter: P. Sasikumar, T. S. Priyadarshini, Sanjay Varma, Nandi, G. C. and K. V. Radhakrishnan* Cu - Catalyzed Carbonylation Reactions 2020 (Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA).
(1) Monograph: Multicomponent Reactions: Applications of β-Naphthol, β-oxodithioesters and N,S-aryl aminoacetals; Nandi, G. C.; Lambert Academic Publishing; 2013. ISBN No. 978-3-659-32149-8
Articles:
YEAR 2025
(69) Electrooxidative S-Sulfoximination of Sulfenamide: A Metal-/Catalyst-Free Green Approach
Padma Priya V. R., Sugapriya S., Antony Haritha Mercy A., Natarajan K., Ramesh Kataria, Ganesh Chandra Nandi*, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2025, 13, 3, 1196-1202
YEAR 2024
(68) Solvent Controlled Chemodivergent Sulfonyl Addition into Enynones: Synthesis of α‑Furyl Sulfones and Stereodefined Vinyl Sulfones
Antony Haritha Mercy A., Padma Priya V. R., Natarajan K., Ramesh Kataria., Ganesh Chandra Nandi*, J. Org. Chem. 2025, 90, 1, 830-839
(67) A Rapid, Mild and Direct Route to Sulfonimidoyl Fluoride from Sulfenamide
Padma Priya V. R., Antony Haritha Mercy A., Natarajan K., Sugapriya S., Ganesh Chandra Nandi*, J. Org. Chem. 2024, 89, 22, 16426 - 16432
(66) Tunable Photoresponsive Behavior of Organic Materials by Polymorphic Variation: Topochemical [2 + 2] Cycloaddition vs E–Z Isomerization
Arivalagan Shabashini, Prasenjit Giri, Sathiaraj Richard, Ahmad Husain, Manas K. Panda*, and Ganesh Chandra Nandi*
Cryst. Growth Des. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.4c00759)
(65) Effect of dipolar state on J-type aggregation of acceptor group modified pyrene-based push-pull systems
Arivalagan Shabashini, Sathiaraj Richard, Trupti Solanky, Arnab Biswas, Sumit Kumar*,Sumit Kumar Panja *,Ganesh Chandra Nandi*
J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem. 2025, 458, 1145971
(64) InCl3 Catalyzed Simultaneous Reductive Sulfoximination and O-silylation: Synthesis of Silyloxy Benzylsulfoximine
Natarajan K., Jayakumar V., Padma Priya V. R., Antony Haritha Mercy A., Ganesh Chandra Nandi*, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2024, 22, 6699-6702
(63) 1,2 - Difunctionalization of Aryne with Sulfenamide and Organohalide: A Mild and Metal-Free access to S-(o-halo)aryl sulfilimines
Padma Priya V. R., Antony Haritha Mercy A., Natarajan K., Ravindra S., Ganesh Chandra Nandi*, J. Org. Chem. 2024, 89, 12, 9043-9050
(62) A near-infrared (NIR) organic probe for rapid naked-eye detection of fluoride ions in aqueous medium
Richard. S., Shabashini. A., Panja. S. K., Ganesh Chandra Nandi*, Anal. Methods 2024,16, 3306-3310
(61) Sulfonimidamide as Directing Group for Pd-mediated ortho C-H Chlorination of Arenes
Ravindra. S., Irfana Jesin. C. P., Hariprasad. R., Natarajan. K., Padmapriya. V. R., Ganesh Chandra Nandi*, ChemistrySelect 2024, 9 (3), e202304253.
(60) Synthesis of Sulfonimidamide-Based 1,2-Benzothiazines by [4+2] Oxidative Annulation of Sulfonimidamides and Alkynes in Water under Visible Light
K. Natarajan, S. Ravindra, V. R. Padma Priya, Ramesh Kataria, Ganesh Chandra Nandi*, Eur. J. Org. Chem, 2024, 27 (6), e202301217
(59) Facile synthesis of N-(α-furanyl) alkyl sulfoximines via gold catalyzed Michael addition/cyclization of enynones and sulfoximines
Mercy, A. A. H., Priya, V. R. P., Hariprasad, R., Gayathri, K., Ravindra, S., Ramesh, K., Nandi, G.C.* Org. Biomol. Chem. 2024, 22, 945-949
(58) Real-time visualization of latent fingermarks with level 3 details based on a solid state emissive organic fluorophore using the powder dusting method
Shabashini. A., Richard. S., Panda, M. K.*, Panja. S.K.*, Ganesh Chandra Nandi*, Mater. Adv., 2024, 5, 1099-1105
YEAR 2023
(57) Visible Light Mediated Co‐Catalyzed Isocyanide Insertion with Sulfonyl Azide: Synthesis of Sulfonyl Carbamimidic Azide and Sulfonyl Aminotetrazole via Carbodiimide Intermediate
Ravindra. S., Natarajan. K., Padmapriya. V. R., Kataria. R., Ganesh Chandra Nandi*, Chem. Eur. J. 2023, 29 (72), e202303153
(56) Sulfoximines as S-Aryl Surrogates: A Photocatalytic Rapid, Metal-Free, Mild Protocol to Access 3-Arylsulfenyl Indoles
V. R. Padma Priya, A. Antony Haritha Mercy, K. Natarajan, Ganesh Chandra Nandi*, Synlett, 2024; 35(03): 279-284
(55)Tricyanopyrroline-based colorimetric NIR probe for rapid ‘naked-eye’ fluoride ion detection
Shabashini. A., Richard. S., Panja. S.K., Ganesh Chandra Nandi*, Dyes Pigm. 2023, 216,111376
(54) Ni-Catalyzed Mild Synthesis of Sulfonylurea via Tandem Coupling of Sulfonyl Azide, Isocyanide, and Water
Ravindra. S., Dubey. S. K., Kataria. R., Ganesh Chandra Nandi*, J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88, 11, 7477–7482
YEAR 2022
(53) Synthesis of α-Sulfoximino Tetrazoles via Azido-Ugi 4-Component Reaction
Irfana Jesin C. P., Kataria, R. Ganesh Chandra Nandi*, SynOpen, 6 (04), 319-328 (Invited Article).
(52) A One-Pot Tandem Synthesis of Sulfoximine-Based Urea From Organic Acid via Curtius Rearrangement.
Irfana Jesin C. P., Priya V. R. P., Kataria R., Alisha V., Vimalkumar P. S., Joseph A. G., Ganesh Chandra Nandi* ChemistrySelect, 2022, 7 (39), e202202898.
(51) One-pot Synthesis of Novel α-sulfoximinophosphonate via Kabachnik–Fields Reactions
K. Natarajan, Suraj Sharma, Irfana Jesin C. P., Ramesh Kataria, Ganesh Chandra Nandi Org. Biomol. Chem. 2022, 20, 7036-7039
(50) Transition-metal-free N-(o-halo)arylation of sulfoximines / sulfonimidamides
V. R. Padmapriya, C. P. Irfana Jesin, Ganesh Chandra Nandi Synlett, 2023, 34, 678-682 (invited article)
(49) ICT based photoacid probe for microsolvation and H-bonding assisted proton transfer process from solute to solvents
Shabashini. A., Panja. S.K., Biswas. A., Bera. S, Ganesh Chandra Nandi J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem. 2022, 432, 114087
(48) Advances in the photoredox catalysis of S(VI) compounds
Padma Priya V. R., Natarajan, K., Nandi G. C.* Tetrahedron 2022, Article no. 132711
(47) Direct Synthesis of Sulfonimidoyl Guanidines from Sulfonimidoyl Azides under Dual (Cobalt and Photoredox) Catalysis
Ravindra, S., Abinash Nayak., Jesin, C. P. I., Nandi G. C.* Adv. Synth. Catal. 2022, 364, 1144-1149
YEAR 2021
(46) Design and Synthesis of Triphenylamine Based Cyano Stilbenes for Picric Acid Sensing and Two Photon Absorption Applications
Shabashini, A., Ramar, V., Karthikeyan, B. Panda, M. K. Nandi G. C.* Chemistry Select 2021, 6, 12300– 12308
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(45) A Metal-free Petasis reaction towards the synthesis of N-(a-substituted)alkyl sulfoximines / sulfonimidamides
Natarajan, K., Jesin, C P I., Mercy, A. A. H., Nandi G. C.* Org. Biomol. Chem. 2021, 19, 7061- 7065
(44) Applications of Carbon Dots (CDs) in Latent Fingerprints Imaging
Shabashini, A., Panja, S. K. Nandi G. C.* Chem. Asian J. 2021, 16, 1057-1072 (HOT PAPER)
(43) Recent Advances in the Preparations and Synthetic Applications of Oxaziridines and Diaziridines
Ravindra, S, Jesin, C. P. I., Shabashini, A., Nandi G. C.* Adv. Synth. Catal. 2021, 363, 1756–1781
(42) Advances in the Synthesis and Applications of Three Membered Sila-, Sila-Aza/-Phospha/-Oxa/-Thia Cyclopropanes
Nandi G. C.* Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2021, 587-606
YEAR 2020
(41) Mild and Metal-Free Protocol toward the Synthesisof Triarylmethanes by Reactions of (Hetero) Arylboronic Acids and ortho-Hydroxyarylaldehydes
Jesin, I. C. P.; Mercy A. A. H.; Ravindra S.; Kataria R.; Nandi G. C.* J. Org. Chem., 2020, 85, 5, 3000
YEAR 2019
(40) Sulfonimidoyl Azide: A Novel Precursor for the Direct and Rapid Access to N-Aryl Sulfonimidamides via Cu–Catalyzed Chan-Evans-Lam Reaction with Boronic Acids under Mild And Efficient Condition
Ravindra, S.; Rohith, J.; Jesin, I. C. P.; Kataria, R.; Nandi, G. C.* Chemistry Select 2019, 4, 14004.
(39) Catalyst-Controlled Dual Reactivity of Sulfonimidamides: Synthesis of Propargylamines and N-Propargyl Sulfonimidamides
Jesin I. C. P.; Nandi, G. C.* Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 14, 743
(38) Sulfonimidamide as a directing agent for Palladium-catalyzed regioselective oxidative C-H acyloxylation of arenes
Jesin, I. C. P.; Ravindra, S.; Nandi, G. C.* Tetrahedron 2019, 75, 130622.
(37) Recent Advances in the A3 Coupling Reactions and their Applications
Jesin, I.; Nandi, G. C.* Eur. J. Org Chem. 2019, 16, 2704
YEAR 2018
(36) Direct Synthesis of N‐Acyl Sulfonimidamides and N‐Sulfonimidoyl Amidines from Sulfonimidoyl Azides
Nandi, G. C.* Jesin, I. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2018, 360, 2465
(35) Sulfonimidamides: Synthesis and Applications in Preparative Organic Chemistry.
Nandi, G. C.* Arvidsson P. I.* Adv. Synth. Catal. 2018, 360, 2976
YEAR 2017/2016
(34) Cu-Catalyzed Mild Synthesis of N-Imidoyl/Oxoimidoyl Sulfonimidamides via Three Component Coupling of Sulfonimidamides, Azides and Alkynes
Nandi, G. C.* Eur. J. Org Chem. 2017, 45, 6633-6638.
(33) CuBr/TBHP-mediated synthesis of N-acyl sulfonimidamides via the oxidative cross-coupling of sulfonimidamides and aldehyde.
Nandi, G. C.* Raju, C. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2017, 15, 2234
(32) Catalyst controlled straight forward synthesis of pyrrole/furan via propargylation/cycloisomeriza tion of alpha-oxoketene-N,S-acetals.
Nandi, G. C.* Soumini K. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81, 11909.
(31) p-TSA/Base Promoted Propargylation/Cyclization of - Ketothioamides for the Regioselective Synthesis of Highly Substituted (hydro)Thiophenes
Nandi, G. C.* M. S. Singh. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81, 5824.
(30) An efficient Cu-catalyzed microwave-assisted synthesis of diaryl sulfones
Nandi, G. C.* Synthetic Communications 2017, 47, 319
Post-doc and PhD work related publications
(29) Nandi, G. C.; Kota, S. R.; Wakchaure, P. B.; Chinthakindi, P.; Govender, T.; Kruger, H. G.; Naicker, T.; Arvidsson, P. I. Pd-catalyzed C–N coupling of vinylbromides and sulfonimidamides: a facile synthesis of N-vinylsulfonimidamides. RSc Adv. 5, 62084–62090, 2015.
(28) Nandi, G. C.; Kota, S. R.; Naicker, T.; Govender, T.; Kruger, H. G.; Arvidsson, P. I. Cu(OAc)2-Catalysed Oxidative Dual C–H/N–H Activation of Terminal Alkynes and NDeprotected Sulfonimidamides: An Easy Access to N-Alkynylated Sulfonimidamides. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2861–2867, 2015.
(27) Nandi, G. C.; Kota, S. R.; Govender, T.; Kruger, H. G.; Arvidsson, P. I. Cu(OAc)2 Promoted Chan-Lam-Evans C-N cross coupling reactions on the N-nitrogen and N’-nitrogen atoms of sulfonimidamides with aryl boronic acids. Tetrahedron, 70, 5428-5433, 2014.
(26) Nandi, G. C.; Bunge, S. D. Laali, K. K.* Selectfluor-mediated mild oxidative halogenation and thiocyanation of 1-aryl-allenes with TMSX (X = Cl, Br, I, NCS) and NH4SCN. Tetrahedron Lett, 55, 2401-2405, 2014,
(25) Nandi, G. C.; Borosky, G. L.; Kumar, G. G. K. S. N.; Laali, K. K.* Electrophilic Addition of Propargylic Cations to Allenes: Formation of Crowded Chloro- and AzidoEnynes by Trapping of the Resulting Allylic Cations with TMSX (X = Cl, N3): A Synthetic and Computational Study. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 5455-5463, 2013.
(24) Nandi, G. C.; Rathman, B. M.; Laali, K. K. Mild conversion of propargylic alcohols to α,β-unsaturated enones in ionic liquids (ILs); a new ‘metal free’ life for the Rupe rearrangement. Tetrahedron Lett. 54, 6258-6263, 2013.
(23) (Review Article) Nandi, G. C.; Chanda, T.; Singh, M. S.* β-Oxodithioesters: A New Frontier for Diverse Heterocyclic Architectures. R.Sc Adv. 3, 14183-14198, 2013.
(22) Nandi, G. C.; Laali, K. K. Schmidt Reaction in Ionic Liquids: Highly Efficient and Selective Conversion of Aromatic and Heteroaromatic Aldehydes to Nitriles with [BMIM(SO3H)][OTf] as Catalyst and [BMIM][PF6] as Solvent. Tetrahedron Lett. 54, 2177- 2179, 2013.
(21) Nandi, G. C.; Samai, S.; Singh, M. S.* DABCO-Promoted three-component regioselective synthesis of functionalized chromen-5-ones and pyrano[3,2-c]chromen-5-ones via direct annulation of -oxoketene-N,S-arylaminoacetals under solvent-free conditions Green Chem. 14, 447-455, 2012,
(20) Nandi, G. C.; Singh, M. S.; Ila, H. Highly regioselective one-pot three component synthesis of 1-aryl-3,4-substituted/annulated-5-N-(cycloamino)/alkyl aminopyrazoles from βoxodithioesters Eur. J. Org. Chem. 967-974, 2012.
(19) Nandi, G. C.; Samai, S.; Singh, M. S. One-pot two-component [3 + 2] cycloaddition/annulation protocol for the synthesis of highly functionalized thiophene derivatives. J. Org. Chem. 76, 8009–8014, 2011.
(18) Nandi, G. C.; Samai, S.; Kumar, R.; Singh, M. S.* Silica-gel-catalyzed efficient synthesis of quinoxaline derivatives under solvent-free conditions. Synth. Commun. 41, 417- 425, 2011.
(17) Nandi, G. C.; Samai, S.; Singh, M. S.* Biginelli and Hantzsch-type reactions leading to highly functionalized dihydropyrimidinone, thiocoumarin, and pyridopyrimidinone frameworks via ring annulation with β-oxodithioesters. J. Org. Chem. 75, 7785-7795, 2010.
(16) Nandi, G. C.; Samai, S.; Singh, M. S.; First InCl3-catalyzed, three-component coupling of aldehydes, β-naphthol, and 6-amino-1,3-dimethyluracil to functionalized naphthopyranopyrimidines. Synlett. 1133-1137, 2010.
(15) Nandi, G. C.; Samai, S.; Kumar, R.; Singh, M. S. An efficient one-pot synthesis of tetrahydrobenzo[a]xanthene-11-one and diazabenzo[a]anthracene-9,11-dione derivatives under solvent-free condition. Tetrahedron 65, 7129-7134, 2009.
(14) Nandi, G. C.; Samai, S.; Kumar, R.; Singh, M. S.* Atom-efficient and environmentfriendly multicomponent synthesis of amidoalkyl naphthols catalyzed by P2O5. Tetrahedron Lett. 50, 7220-7222, 2009.
(13) Chinthakindi, P. K.; Nandi, G. C.; Govender, T; Kruger, H. G.; Naicker, T.; Arvidsson, P. I. An Efficient Protecting-Group-Free Synthesis of Vinylic Sulfoximines via Horner– Wadsworth–Emmons Reaction. Synlett 27, 1423-1427, 2016.
(12) Koley, S.; Chowdhury, S.; Chanda, T.; Ramulu, B. J.; Nandi, G. C.; Singh, M. S.* Iron Promoted Domino Annulation of -Enolic dithioesters with Ninhydrin Under Solvent-Free Conditions: Chemoselective Direct Access to Indeno[1,2-b]thiophenes. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 5501-5508, 2014.
(11) Chowdhury, S.; Chanda, T.; Nandi, G. C.; Koley, S.; Pandey, S. K.; Singh, M. S.* Y(OTf)3 catalyzed substitution dependent oxidative C(sp3 )–C(sp3 ) cleavage and regioselective dehydration of β-allyl-β-hydroxydithioesters: alternate route to α,β-unsaturated ketones and functionalized dienes. Tetrahedron 69, 8899-8903, 2013.
(10) Ramulu, B. J.; Chanda, T.; Chowdhury, S.; Nandi, G. C.; Singh, M. S.* Organocatalyzed straightforward synthesis of highly fluorescent 3,5-disubstituted 2,6- dicyanoanilines via domino annulation of -enolicdithioesters with malononitrile. RSc Adv. 3, 5345-5349, 2013.
(9) Samai, S.; Nandi, G. C.; Singh, M. S.* Highly convergent one-pot four-component regioselective synthesis of 4H-benzo[f]chromenes via annulation of -oxodithioesters. Tetrahedron 68, 1247-1252, 2012.
(8) Chowdhury, S.; Nandi, G. C.; Samai, S.; Singh, M. S.* Regioselective synthesis of tetrahydrothiochromen-5-ones via a one-pot three-component solvent-free domino protocol. Org. Lett.13, 3762-3765, 2011.
(7) Samai, S.; Nandi, G. C.; Chowdhury, S.; Singh, M. S.* L-Proline catalyzed synthesis of densely functionalized pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidines via three-component one-pot domino Knoevenagel aza-Diels–Alder reaction. Tetrahedron 67, 5935-5941, 2011.
(6) Samai, S.; Nandi, G. C.; Singh, P.; Gupta, A.; Singh, M. S.* Microwave assisted synthesis, chemiluminescent and theoretical studies of bromoalkyl esters of acridine-9- carboxylic acid. Ind. J. Chem. 50B, 580-586, 2011.
(5) Samai, S.; Nandi, G. C.; Singh, M. S.* An efficient and facile one-pot synthesis of propargylamines by three-component coupling of aldehydes, amines, and alkynes via C–H activation catalyzed by NiCl2. Tetrahedron Lett. 51, 5555-5558, 2010.
(4) Kumar, R.; Nandi, G. C.; Verma, R. K.; Singh, M. S.* A facile approach for the synthesis of 14-aryl- or alkyl-14H-dibenzo[a,j]xanthenes under solvent-free condition. Tetrahedron Lett., 51, 442-445, 2010.
(3) Singh, P; Tripathi, R; Verma, R. K.; Nandi, G. C.; Gupta, A; Singh, M. S.* Synthesis of New Benzosubstituted Dioxaphosphonines Containing Quinoxaline Subunit. Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements 185, 2142–2151, 2010.
(2) Samai, S.; Nandi, G. C.; Kumar, R.; Singh, M. S.* Multicomponent one-pot solvent-free synthesis of functionalized unsymmetrical dihydro-1H-indeno[1,2-b]pyridines. Tetrahedron Lett. 50, 7096-7098, 2009.
(1) Samai, S.; Nandi, G. C.; Singh, P.; Singh, M. S.* L-Proline: an efficient catalyst for the one-pot synthesis of 2,4,5-trisubstituted and 1,2,4,5-tetrasubstituted imidazoles. Tetrahedron 65, 10155-10161, 2009