Dr. N. Dastagiri Reddy
About
Research Area
After receiving his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1999, Dr. Reddy pursued postdoctoral research at Purdue University, USA. He subsequently joined University of Göttingen, Germany, as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. He further expanded his research experience through additional postdoctoral appointments at University of Calgary, Canada, and Lehigh University, USA. In 2004, he joined the Department of Chemistry at Pondicherry University as a Lecturer and has been serving as a Full Professor since 2016. Dr. Reddy’s research career includes the supervision of seven Ph.D. scholars, the publication of around 40 research articles in highly reputed journals, and the successful completion of four sponsored research projects.
Notable & Recent Publications
CO2/Epoxide Coupling and the ROP of ε-Caprolactone: Mg and Al Complexes of γ-Phosphino-ketiminates as Dual-Purpose Catalysts. Beesam Raghavendra, P. V. S. Shashank, Madhusudan K. Pandey, and N. Dastagiri Reddy Organometallics 2018, 37, 1656−1664.
N-Benzoylbenzamidinate Complexes of Magnesium: Catalysts for the Ring-Opening Polymerization of ε-Caprolactone and CO2/Epoxide Coupling. B. Raghavendra, K. Bakthavachalam, Buthanapalli Ramakrishna, and N. Dastagiri Reddy Organometallics 2017, 36, 4005–4012.
Synthesis of zwitterionic palladium complexes and their application as catalysts in cross-coupling reactions of aryl, heteroaryl and benzyl bromides with organoboron reagents in neat water. V. Ramakrishna and N. Dastagiri Reddy Dalton Trans. 2017, 46, 8598 – 8610.
Insertion of Benzonitrile into Al–N and Ga–N bonds: Formation of Fused Carbatriaza-gallanes/alanes and Their Subsequent Synthesis from Amidines and Trimethyl-gallium/aluminum. K. Maheswari, A. Ramakrishna Rao and N. Dastagiri Reddy Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54, 2000 – 2008.
N-Benzoylbenzamidinate Complexes of Aluminium: Highly Efficient Initiators for the Ring-opening Polymerization of ε-Caprolactone. K. Bakthavachalam, Ashwene Rajagopal and N. Dastagiri Reddy Dalton Trans. 2014, 43, 14816 – 14823.
