Discovery of new Methodologies and Control of Stereochemistry in Organic Synthesis.
Synthesis of Natural as well as aesthetically pleasing unnatural products.
Selected publications
- A Ruthenium catalyzed, novel
and facile procedure for the conversion of vicinal dihaloalkenes to
a-diketones F. A. Khan, B. Prabhudas, J. Dash and N. Sahu, J. Am. Chem. Soc
. 2000, 122, 9558.
- 1,2,3,4-Tetrachloro-5,5-dimethoxy-cyclopenta-1,3-diene: Diels-Alder
Reactions and Applications of the Products Formed. F. A. Khan, B. Prabhudas and Jyotirmayee
Dash, J. Prakt. Chem. 2000, 342, 512 .
- Synthesis of a Novel, Highly
Symmetric Bis-Oxa-Bridged Compound. F. A. Khan, J. Dash, J. Am. Chem.
Soc. 2002, 124, 2424.
- Regio- and Diastereoselective
Reduction of Non-enolizable a-Diketones to Acyloins Mediated by Indium
Metal. F. A.
Khan, J. Dash, N. Sahu and S. Gupta, Org. Lett. 2002, 4,
1015 .
- An Easy Access to
g-Lactone-fused Cyclopentanoids. F. A. Khan, J. Dash, N. Sahu and Ch.
Sudheer, J. Org. Chem., 2002, 67, 3783.



faiz@iitk.ac.in
F. A. Khan
Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur,Uttar Pradesh 208
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phone :
+91-512-597864