Publications at NYU
17) Gogarnoiu, E. S; Griffin, M. S.; Bansode, A. H.;‡ Paolillo, J. M.;‡ Bergen, J. M.; Parasram, M.* Photoinduced Cleavage of Alkenyl Fluorides for Nucleophilic Acyl Substitution via In Situ-Generated Acyl Fluorides. ChemRxiv 2025, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-jgr1s. ‡Equal Contributions.
16) Duke, A. D.; Banerjee, S.; Thupili, A. P.; Pradhan, D. R.; Vetticatt, M. J.;* Parasram, M.* Decarboxylative Oxygenation Enabled by O–H Bond Selective Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Ability of Photoexcited Nitroarenes. ChemRxiv 2025, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-s55n1.
15) Saleh, M. R.;‡ Afrasi, M. A.;‡ Bansode, A. H.; Ghosh, P.; Wise, D. E.; Parasram, M.* Photochromic Oxime Directing Groups for Spatially Controlled C–H Difunctionalization with Tandem Electrophiles. ACS Catal. 2025, DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5c05469. ‡Equal Contributions.
14) Yin, L.; Kozloff, B. S.; Deng, N.; Persaud, P.D.; Bansode, A. H.; Wise, D. E.; Martinez, J.S.;* Parasram, M.* Photoexcited Nitroarenes for the Anaerobic Cleavage of Alkenes. Org. Syn. 2025, 102, 114-127.
13) Paolillo, J. M.; Saleh, M. R.; Junk, E. W.; Parasram, M.* Merging Photoexcited Nitroarenes with Lewis Acid Catalysis for the Anti-Markovnikov Oxidation of Alkenes. Org. Lett. 2025, 27, 2011-2015.
Most Read OL Article (Feb 2025)
12) Bansode, A. H.; Yin, L.; Deng, N.; Afrasi, M.; Zhu; Y.; Parasram, M.* Accessing Azetidines via Magnesium-Mediated Nitrogen Atom Transfer from Iminoiodinane to Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202420485.
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11) Mitchell, J. K.; Hussain, W. A.; Bansode, A. H.; O’Connor, R. M.; Parasram, M.* Aziridination via Nitrogen-Atom Transfer to Olefins from Photoexcited Azoxy-Triazenes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 9499–9502.
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10) Paolillo, J. M.; Xie, C.; Parasram, M.* 2-Chloro-4-Nitropyridine. In Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (EROS), 2024.
09) Duke, A. D.; Kim, M. M.; Parasram, M.* 1-Nitro-3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)benzene. In Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (EROS), 2024.
08) Hussain, W. A.; Parasram, M.* Recent Advances in Photoinduced Oxidative Cleavage of Alkenes. Synthesis. 2024, 56, 1775-1786.
07) Mitchell, J. K.;‡ Hussain, W. A.;‡ Bansode, A. H.;§ O’Connor, R. M.;§ Wise, D. E.; Choe, M. H.; Parasram, M.* Photoinduced Nitroarenes as Versatile Anaerobic Oxidants for Accessing Carbonyl and Imine Derivatives. Org. Lett. 2023, 25, 6517–6521. ‡Equal Contributions. §Equal Contributions.
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06) Aguilar, G. A.; Lis, P. A.; Wise, D. E.; Martinez, J. S.* Parasram, M.* Safe and Practical Ex-Situ Chlorination of Electronically Diverse π-Systems. Tetrahedron Lett. 2023, 124, 154591.
05) Wise, D. E.; Parasram, M.* Photoexcited Nitroarenes as Anaerobic Oxygen Atom Transfer Reagents. Synlett 2023, 34, 1655-1661.
04) Bansode, A. H.; Parasram, M.* Photoinduced Nickel-Catalyzed Carbonylation of Alkyl Halides to Acid Chlorides. Chem. Catal. 2023, 3, 100600. (Highlight).
03) Paolillo, J. M.;‡ Duke, A. D.;‡ Gogarnoiu, E. S.;§ Wise, D. E.;§ Parasram, M.* Anaerobic Hydroxylation of C(sp3)–H Bonds Enabled by the Synergistic Nature of Photoexcited Nitroarenes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 2794-2799. ‡Equal Contributions. §Equal Contributions.
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02) Li, Y.;‡ Wise, D. E.;‡ Mitchell, J. K.; Parasram, M.* Cascade Synthesis of Phenanthrenes under Photoirradiation. J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88, 717-721. ‡Equal Contributions.
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01) Wise, D. E.;‡ Gogarnoiu, E. S.;‡ Duke, A. D.;§ Paolillo, J. M.;§ Vacala, T. L.;§ Hussain, W. A.; Parasram, M.* Photoinduced Oxygen Transfer using Nitroarenes for the Anaerobic Cleavage of Alkenes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 15437–15442. ‡Equal Contributions. §Equal Contributions.
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Publications Prior to NYU
13) Wang, J. Y.; Stevens, J. M.; Kariofillis, S. K.; Tom, M.-J.; Golden, D. L.; Li, J.; Tabora, J. E.; Parasram, M.; Shields, B. J.; Primer, D. N.; Hao, B.; Del Valle, D.; DiSomma, S.; Furman, A.; Zipp, G. G.; Melnikov, S.; Paulson, J.; Doyle, A. G., Identifying general reaction conditions by bandit optimization. Nature 2024, 626, 1025-1033.
12) Lau, S. H.; Borden, M. A.; Steiman, T. J.; Wang, L. S.; Parasram, M.; Doyle, A. G., Ni/Photoredox-Catalyzed Enantioselective Cross-Electrophile Coupling of Styrene Oxides with Aryl Iodides. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 15873-15881.
11) Shields, B. J.; Stevens, J.; Li, J.; Parasram, M.; Damani, F.; Alvarado, J. I. M.; Janey, J. M.; Adams, R. P.; Doyle, A. G., Bayesian Reaction Optimization as a Tool for Chemical Synthesis. Nature 2021, 590, 89-96.
10) Parasram, M.; Shields, B. J.; Ahmad, O.; Knauber, T.; Doyle, A. G. “Regioselective Cross-Electrophile Coupling of Epoxides and (Hetero)aryl Iodides via Ni/Ti/Photoredox Catalysis.” ACS Catal. 2020, 10, 5821–5827.
09) Chuentragool, P.; Yadagiri, D.; Morita, T.; Sarkar, S.; Parasram, M.; Wang, Y.; Gevorgyan, V. “Aliphatic Radical Relay Heck Reaction at Unactivated C(sp3)–H Site of Alcohols.” Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 1794–1798.
08) Chuentragool, P.; Parasram, M.; Shi, Y.; Gevorgyan, V. “General, Mild, and Selective Method for Desaturation of Aliphatic Amines.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 2465–2468.
07) Ratushyy, M.; Parasram, M.; Wang, Y.; Gevorgyan, V. “Pd-catalyzed Atom-Transfer Radical Cyclization at Remote C–H sites Enabled by Hydrogen Atom Transfer of Hybrid Vinyl Pd-Radical Intermediates.” Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 2712–2715.
06) Parasram, M.; Chuentragool, P.; Wang, Y.; Shi, Y.; Gevorgyan, V. “General, Auxiliary-Enabled Photoinduced Pd-Catalyzed Remote Desaturation of Aliphatic Alcohols.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 14857–14860.
05) Kurandina, D.; Parasram, M.; Gevorgyan, V. “Visible Light-Induced Room Temperature Intermolecular Reaction of Functionalized Alkyl Iodides with Vinyl Arenes/Heteroarenes.” Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 14212–14216.
04) Parasram, M.; Gevorgyan, V. “Visible Light-Induced Transition Metal-Catalyzed Transformations: Beyond Conventional Photosensitizers.” Chem. Soc. Rev. 2017, 46, 6227–6240. (Review)
03) Parasram, M.; Gevorgyan, V. “Silicon-Tethered Strategies for C–H Functionalization Reactions.” Acc. Chem. Res. 2017, 50, 2038–2053. (Review)
02) Parasram, M.;† Chuentragool, P.;† Sarkar, D.; Gevorgyan, V. “Photoinduced Formation of Aryl Hybrid Pd-Radical Species Capable of 1,5-HAT. Selective Oxidation of Silyl Ethers in Silyl Enol Ethers.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 6340–6343. (†Equal Contributions)
01) Parasram, M.; Iaroshenko, V. O.; Gevorgyan, V. “Endo-Selective Pd-Catalyzed Silyl Methyl Heck Reaction.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 17926–17929.
