Sagadevan Arunachalam, Ph.D.

Visible light Transition-metal Photoredox-catalyzed Organic Transformations, including C-C, C-N cross-couplings and C-H bond activation reactions.

Meta-Selective C-H Activation of Arenes at Room Temperature Using Visible Light: Dual-Function Ruthenium Catalysis
S. Arunachalam Sagadevan, M. Greaney
Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2019, (2019)
Copper Photoredox Catalyzed A3’ Coupling of Arylamines, Terminal Alkynes, and Alcohols through a Hydrogen Atom Tran...
S. Arunachalam, V. Kishore Kumar Pampana, K. Chu Hwang
Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 3838, (2019)
Visible Light Copper Photoredox-catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative Coupling of Phenol and Terminal alkynes: Regioselective...
S. Arunachalam , V.Pramod Charpe, A. Ragupathi and K. Chu Hwang
J. Am. Chem. Soc.2017, 139, 2896, (2017)
One-Pot Room Temperature Green Conversion of Cyclohexane to Adipic Acid by Ozone/UV Light
K. Chu Hwang, S. Arunachalam
Science 2014, 346, 1495, (2014)
Singlet Oxygen-mediated Selective C-H bond Hydroperoxidation of Ethereal Hydrocarbons
S. Arunachalam, K. Chu Hwang, M.-D. Su
Nature Commun. 2017, 8, 1812, (2012)
Photoinduced Copper-Catalyzed Regioselective Synthesis of Indoles: Three-Components Coupling of Arylamines, Termina...
S. Arunachalam, A. Ragupathi, K. Chu Hwang
Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 15, 13896, (2015)
Visible Light-Induced Excited-State Transition-Metal Catalysis
R. Kancherla, K. Muralirajan, S. Arunachalam, M. Rueping
Trends in Chemistry, 2019, (2019)

Nov. 2018 - Present: Postdoctoral fellow, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
May 2017 - Nov. 2018: EPSRC Postdoctoral fellow, The University of Manchester, UK.
Aug. 2013 - March 2017: Postdoctoral fellow, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

Feb. 2017 Best Postdoctoral Research Fellow Award from Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan.

Organic Synthesis Organic Photochemistry catalysis Green Chemistry