Representative Publications

  1. Siva Murru, Charles Seth Lott, Frank R. Fronczek, R. S. Srivastava, “Fe-Catalyzed Direct C-H Amination of Carbonyl Compounds”, Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 2122-2125.
  2. Siva Murru, Brandon McGough, R. S. Srivastava,” Synthesis of Substituted Quinolines via Allylic Amination and Intramolecular Heck-Coupling”, Organic & Bimolecular Chemistry, 2014, 12, 9133. DOI: 10.1039/C4OB01614A. (cover-page article)
  3. Jacqkis Davis, R. S. Srivastava, “Oxorhenium-Catalyzed Deoxydehydration of Cellulosic Biomass”, tetrahedron Lett. 2014, 55, 4178. (DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2014.05.044).
  4. S. Murru, R.S. Srivastava, “Iron-Catalyzed Selective Allylic C-H Amination of substituted 1,3-Dienes”, Eur. J. Org. Chem , 2014, 2174-2181 (DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.2013019)(Highlighted in)
  5. S. Murru, August A. Gallo, R.S. Srivastava,” Direct synthesis of alkyl N-Aryl Aza Baylis-Hillman Adducts via Nitroso-Ene reaction”, J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 7119-7123. (Highlighted in Organic Chemistry Portal - ID: J42-Y2012-2730)
  6. S. Murru, K.M. Nicholas, R.S. Srivastava,” Ruthenium (II) Sulfoxide-Catalyzed Hydrogenolysis of Glycols and Epoxides, J. Mol. Catalysis A, 2012, 364-365, 460-464.
  7. Solene David, R. S. Perkins, F. R. Fronczek, S. Kasiri, S. S. Mandal, R. S. Srivastava, Synthesis, characterization, and anticancer activity of ruthenium pyrazole complexes, J. Inorg. Biochem. 2012, 111, 33-39.
  8. S. Stanowski, K. M. Nicholas, R. S. Srivastava,” [Cp*Ru(CO)2]2-Catalyzed Hydrodeoxygenation and Hydrocracking of Diols and Epoxides”, Organometallics, 2012, 31, 515-518
  9. R. S. Srivastava, F. R. Fronczek, R. S. Perkins, T. Fukuyama and Wu Xu, “Anticancer Activities of Ruthenium (II, III) Carboxylato, Amido and Pyridine Complexes”, Int. J. Oncology, 2010, 36, 1591-1598.
  1. R. S. Srivastava, F. R. Fronczek ,"The first report on specific binding mode of diethylmalonate acting as a bridging ligand between ruthenium (II) ions stabilized by intramolecular hydrogen bonds, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2009, 362, 2650.
  2. J. Zhang, S. Rana, R. S. Srivastava, and R.D.K. Misra, "On the Chemical Synthesis and Drug Delivery Response of Folate Receptor Activated Polyethylene Glycol-Functionalized Magnetite Nanoparticles," Acta Biomaterialia, 2008, 4, 40-48.
  3. R. S. Srivastava, N.R. Tarver and K. M. Nicholas, Mechanistic Studies of Copper(I)Catalyzed Allylic amination, J. Am. Chem. Soc, 2007, 129, 15250.
  4. R. S. Srivastava, F. R. Fronczek, N. R. Tarver and R. S. Perkins, Synthesis of mer-[RuCl3(DMSO)(bpy)], reactivity and electrochemistry of mer-[RuCl3(DMSO)(bpy)] and mer-[RuCl3(TMSO)(bpy)] complexes, Polyhedron, 2007, 26, 5389.
  5. R. S. Srivastava, M. A. Khan and K. M. Nicholas, Nitrosoarene-Cu(I) Complexes are Intermediate in Copper-Catalyzed Allylic Amination, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 7278.
  6. R. S. Srivastava and K. M. Nicholas, Kinetics of Allylic Amination of olefins by Nitroarenes catalyzed by [CpFe(CO)2]2, Organometallics, 2005, 24, 1563.
  7. R. S. Srivastava and K. M. Nicholas, On the Mechanism of Allylic Amination Catalyzed by Iron Salts, J. Am. Chem. Soc 1997, 119, 3302-3310.
  8. R. S. Srivastava and M. A. Khan and K. M. Nicholas, A Novel Intermediate in Allylic Amination Catalyzed by Iron Salts, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1996, 118, 3311.
  9. R. S. Srivastava and K. M. Nicholas, Molybdenum-Catalyzed Allylic Amination of Olefins by Ary1 amine/tBuOOH, J. Chem.Soc., Chem. Comm. 1996, 2335.