Amrendra Singh Email & Phone Number

Indore, Mp, In

Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

Indore

Indore Area, India

East Lansing, Mi, Usa

As a postdoctoral fellow at MSU my work primarily include research efforts towards Ru-complexes with metal-ligand multiple bonds involving N-donor ligands. This work has led to the synthesis of a rare example of a 4-coordinate Ru(II)-imido complex and its reactivity studies. Study of donor abilities of ligands in high-valent early transition metals using organometallic derivatives of Cr(VI) complexes as models. Currently, I am working on development of catalysts for conversion of ammonia to dinitrogen and dihydrogen in order to use ammonia as a convenient hydrogen storage medium.

Design and synthesis of new transition metal hydride clusters with chiral phosphine ligands & their applications in asymmetric hydrogenation & hydroformylation reactions. This work provides, for the first time, strong evidence of chiral induction from intact chiral cluster in asymmetric hydrogenation reactions. The diastereomeric pairs of chalcogen-bridged triruthenium hydride clusters with a single enantiomer of diphosphine ligand were shown to exhibit enantioselectivity reversal in catalytic hydrogenation reactions.

High yield catalytic synthesis of α,β-vinylesters and alkoxy substituted γ-lactones from acetylenes and alcohols in presence of iron pentacarbonyl and carbon monooxide: A one pot synthesis of ferrocenyl and phenyl based α,β-unsaturated esters, lactone and quinone was demonstrated, through the iron pentacarbonyl assisted photochemical route.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemistry

During my doctoral research, I investigated activation of C-H bonds of N-methyl groups of trimethylamine oxide, coupling reactions.

Msc, Chemistry

Bsc, Chemistry, Botany