Post Doctoral Research

RRL (CSIR), Trivandrum, India,
Universite de Nantes, France
University of Leuven, Belgium

Research Areas

Development of new synthetic methods based on multifunctionalized intermediates, Synthesis and photophysical studies of double picket fence porphyrins, Multiporphyrin arrays, Porphyrin dendrimers, Organic Photochemistry.

Research Grants: DST, UGC, CSIR, STED (Kerala)

Collaborating Institutions

Photochemistry Research Unit, RRL (CSIR), Trivandrum, India
Laboratoire de Synthese Organique, Universite de Nantes, France
Department of Chemistry, University of Leuven, Belgium

Research Publications (selected)

1. Sterically encumbered triarylcorrols from aryldipyrromethanes and aromatic aldehydes. C. V. Asokan, S. Smeets, W. Dehaen, Tetrahedron Lett. 2001, 42, 4483

2. Vilsmeier-Haack reactions of a-hydroxyketenedithioacetals: A facile synthesis of substituted pyridines, Ajith Dain Thomas and C. V. Asokan Tetrahedron Lett. 2002, 43, 2273

3. Highly Facile and Stereospecififc Intramolecular [2+2]Photocycloadditions of Bis(alkenoyl) ketenedithioacetals S. Deepa, D Viswam, P. Chandran, C. V. Asokan, B. Joseph, B. Joseph, C. S. Sudarshan, Chem. Commun 2002, 736

4. Vilsmeier - Haack Reactions of Carbonyl Compounds: Synthesis of Substituted Pyrones and Pyridines. Ajith Dain Thomas, Josemin Josemin, C. V. Asokan, Tetrahedron, 2004, 60, 5069

5. Cyclization of functionalized ketene-N,S-acetals to substituted pyrroles: Applications in the synthesis of marine pyrrole alkaloids, Mathew, P. Asokan, C. V., Tetrahedron Lett. 2005, 46, 475