Among Nature's creation, terpenoids are more versatile and exciting natural products. In a remarkable display of synthetic ingenuity and creativity, nature has endowed terpenes with a bewildering array of carbocyclic ...

Chapter 1. An Overview of Bile Acid Science This chapter deals with an overview of bile acid science (cholanology) compiling elevant literature review, covering bile acid chemistry, biosynthesis, bile salt evolution, ...

This thesis, largely describing diverse studies in organic synthesis, is divided into three parts. Part I, titled ‘Heterocycles’, describes in two chapters studies directed towards elaborating certain thiazole and oxazole ...

This thesis, entitled “Iridium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Alkylation of Enols and their Surrogates” is divided into four chapters. In Chapter 1, the examples of the utilization of vinyl azide as amide and ketone enolate ...

This report concerns the development of a synthetic approach towards synthesis of seven-membered septanosides, such as, substituted oxepanes from protected 2-hydroxyglycals. Important precursors to the synthesis of the ...

This thesis, entitled “Stereocontrol through Catalytic Enantioselective C(sp2)−H and C(sp3)−H Alkylation: From Bifunctional Organocatalysis to Iridium-Catalysis” primarily deals with the development of various catalytic ...

Chemistry of Tetrathiomolybdate: Applications in Organic Synthesis K. R. Prabhu, Department of Organic Chemistry, IISc, Bangalore This thesis deals with the chemistry of benzyltriethylammonium tetrathiomolybdate, ...