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Prof. Rajesh Manda

PhD (CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology)

Assistant Professor Gr-II

Department of Chemistry

Room No: CY510 +91-870-2462676
rmanda@nitw.ac.in
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Research Areas

 Alkyne Chemistry

 C-H Functionalization

 Organic Synthesis

 Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras

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  • ORC ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8106-6527
  • ISI Researcher ID: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/HHD-2154-2022
  • SCOPUS ID: https://www.scopus.com/feedback/author/reviewAuthorProfile.uri?authorIds=57033819200
  • Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=HMiYP4oAAAAJ&hl=en


  • Visible-Light-Induced Insertion of Siloxycarbene into Amide N–H Bonds: Synthesis of Carbinolamides from Acylsilanes and Amides, By Praveen Dharavath, Raju Vaggu, Rajesh Manda, René Grée and Saibal Das*, ACS, The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol.90, pp.1727–1732, 2025
  • Development of a new class of potent and highly selective G protein-coupled receptor kinase 5 inhibitors and structural insight from crystal structures of inhibitor complexes, By Yueyi Chen, Amol Sonawane, Rajesh Manda, Ranjith Kumar Gadi, John J.G. Tesmer, Arun K. Ghosh*, ELSEVIER, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, vol.264, pp.115931, 2024
  • Recent Progress in Arylmetalative Cyclization/Annulation of Functionalized Alkynes with Organoboranes, By Manda Rajesh* and G. Ranjith Kumar* , Wiley Online Library, Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol.12, pp.e202300106, 2023
  • Acylsilane Directed Rh-Catalyzed Arene C−H Alkylation with Maleimides and Visible-Light-Induced Siloxycarbene-Amide Cyclization, By Vaggu Raju, Nagender Thadem, Manda Rajesh René Grée and Saibal Das*, ACS, Organic Letters, vol.25, pp.2594, 2023
  • Propargylic Alcohols as Coupling Partners in Transition‐Metal‐Catalyzed Arene C‐H Activation, By G. Ranjith Kumar, Manda Rajesh, Shuimu Lin and Shouping Liu*, Wiley Online Library, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, vol.362, pp.5238, 2020
  • A Sequential Activation of Alkyne & C-H Bonds for the tandem Cyclization & Annulation of Alkynols and Maleimides through Cooperative Sc (III) and Cp* Free Co (II) Catalysis, By G. Ravi Kumar, Manda Rajesh (equal first authorship), S. M. K. Reddy, B. Sridhar and Maddi Sridhar Reddy*, ACS, Organic Letters, vol.22, pp.5326, 2020
  • Lewis Acid Catalyzed Decarboxylative Annulation of 2-Aminoindole-3-Carboxylate with Ynals Involving [3+2] Spirocycloaddition and 2,3-Aza Migration, By Manda Rajesh, Ravi Kumar, Surendra Puri, N. Jagadish Babu and Maddi Sridhar Reddy*, ACS, Organic Letters, vol.22, pp.1117, 2020
  • Nickel Catalyzed syn-Selective Aryl Nickelation and Cyclization of Aldehyde/Enone-Tethered Terminal Alkynes with Arylboronic Acids, By Manda Rajesh, S. Maneesh Kumar Reddy, Surendra Puri, B. Sridhar and Maddi Sridhar Reddy*. , ACS, The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol.83, pp.15361, 2018
  • Ag-Catalyzed Intramolecular Sequential Vicinal Diamination of Alkynes with Isocyanates: Synthesis of Fused Indole-Cyclic Urea Derivatives, By Manda Rajesh, Surendra Puri, Ruchir Kant and Maddi Sridhar Reddy*, ACS, The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol.82, pp.5169, 2017
  • Synthesis of Substituted Furan/Pyrrole-3-carboxamides through a Tandem Nucleopalladation and Isocyanate Insertion , By Manda Rajesh, Surendra Puri, Ruchir Kant and Maddi Sridhar Reddy*. , ACS, Organic Letters, vol.18, pp.4332, 2016


  • CSIR-CDRI Incentive Award 2016
  • CSIR-CDRI Incentive Award 2018
  • NOST-SAILIFE Best Thesis Award-2021, India
  • Sri Gopalkishanrao Vepachedu Memorial Award