Dr. Leon Prasanth K.

Fast track young scientist Fellowship (Project commenced from september 2013)

Senior research fellowship (2007-09) from (CSIR)

Junior research fellowship (2005-07) from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

Ph D Guide:  Guided 2 students(awarded) and Guiding 2 students

Magnetically recoverable Ir/IrO2@ Fe3O4 core/SiO2 shell catalyst for the reduction of organic pollutants in water Ramani Thekkathu, Devika Ashok, Pravisha K Ramkollath, Sandhyarani Neelakandapillai, Leon Prasanth Kurishunkal, MS Priyanka Yadav, Nandakumar Kalarikkal Chemical Physics Letters 742 2020, 137-147

Air stable colloidal copper nanoparticles: Synthesis, Charecterisation and their surface-enhanced Raman scattering properties Thekkathu Ramani, K Leon Prasanth, Bojja Sreedhar; Physica E, 77, 2016, 65-71

Synthesis, Characterization of Phosphines and Amine Stabilized Platinum Nanoparticles of 1-3 nm Size in Organic Medium, Thekkathu Ramani, Pravisha K. R Leon Prasanth K, Ankita Shah, Chauhan B. P. S  and Bojja SreedharJ Nanomater Mol Nanotechnol 2015, 4:4

Synthesis of ortho hydroxybenzophenones catalysed by magnetically retrievable Fe3O4 nanoparticle under ligand free conditions T. Ramani, P. umadevi, K. L. Prasanth, B. Sreedhar, Eur. J. Org. Chem.2013, 6021-6026.

Long Chain Silanes as Reducing Agents Part 1: A Facile, Efficient and Selective Route to Amine and Phosphine Stabilized Active Pd-Nanoparticles (2010) Chauhan B. P. S, Thekkathu R, Leon Prasanth K, Mandal M, Lewis K  Appl. Organometal. Chem. 24 222-22

Investigations of enantioreversal in both direct and directed enantioselective aldol reactions catalyzed by CuCl2[(−)-sparteine] and NiCl2[(−)-sparteine] complexes (2010) Maheswaran H, Amal Joseph P. J, Leon Prasanth K, Priyadarshini S, Satyanarayana P, Praveen R Likhar, Lakshmi Kantam M Tetrahedron Asymmetry 21 2158-2166

Bis(μ-iodo)bis((-)-sparteine)dicopper(I) : versatile catalyst for direct N-arylation of diverse nitrogen heterocycles with haloarenes (2008) Maheswaran H, Gopi Krishna G, Leon Prasanth K, Srinivas V, Krishna Chaitanya G, Bhanuprakash K (2008) Tetrahedron 64 2471-2479

Copper(I) Thiophene-2-carboxylate (CuTC): A Versatile Non-Nitrogen Ligand-Based Catalyst for Direct N-Arylation of Imidazole and Pyrazole Using Aryl Iodides, Aryl Bromides, and Aryl Chlorides (2008) Maheswaran H, Krishna G. G, Srinivas V, Prasanth K. L, Rajasekhar Ch. V Bull. Chem. Soc. Japan 81 515-517

Design and Development of a New Chelating Bis(phosphinite)-Based Palladium(II) Catalyst and Its Application to the Heck Reaction (2007) Pathak D. D, Maheswaran H, Leon Prasanth K, Lakshmi Kantam M Synlett 5 757-760

Selective oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides in water using 30% hydrogen peroxide catalyzed with a recoverable VO(acac)2 exchanged sulfonic acid resin catalyst (2007) Leon Prasanth K, Maheswaran H J. Mol.  Catal. A: Chemical 268 45-49

Enantioselective nitroaldol (Henry) reaction using copper(II) complexes  of (-)-sparteine (2006) Maheswaran H, Leon Prasanth K, Gopi Krishna G, Ravikumar K, Sridhar B, Lakshmi Kantam M Chem. Commun. 39 4066-4068

Catalytic Asymmetric Epoxidation of Unfunctionalised Olefins using Silica, LDH and Resin-Supported Sulfonato-Mn(salen) Complex (2006) Choudary B. M, Ramani T, Maheswaran H, Leon Prashant K, Ranganath K. V. S, Vijay Kumar K Adv. Synth. Catal. 348 493-498