Dr. Venkatram R. Mereddy

Assistant professor
Office: 233 Chemistry Building

Phone (218) 726-6766 - Fax: (218) 726-7394

e-mail: vmereddy@d.umn.edu

Medicinal Chemistry, Organic Chemistry

Ph. D. 1996 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Purdue University

Representative Publications

1. P. V. Ramachandran, Debarshi Pratihar, Debanjan Biswas, Amit Srivastava, "Syntheses of Novel Functionalized Trisubstituted Allylboronates via Hosomi-Miyaura Borylation of Functionalized Allyl Acetates" Org. Lett. 2004 , 6 , 481.
2. P. V. Ramachandran, Boduri Prabhudas, J. Subash Chandra, M. Venkatram Reddy Diastereoselective dihydroxylation and regioselective deoxygenation of dihydropyranones: A novel protocol for the stereoselective synthesis of C 1 -C 8 and C 15 -C 21 subunits of (+)-Discodermolide.  J. Org. Chem. 2004 , 69 , 6294.
3. P. V. Ramachandran, Kamlesh J. Padiya, Vivek Rauniyar, M. Venkatram Reddy, Herbert C. Brown   "Asymmetric Synthesis of g -Perfluorinated Butyrolactones via Organoboranes"   Tetrahedron Lett . 2004 , 44 , 1015.
4. P. V. Ramachandran, Bodhuri Prabhudas, J. Subash Chandra, M. Venkatram Reddy, Herbert C. Brown "Preparative-Scale Synthesis of Both Antipodes of B- g , g -Dimethylallyldiisopinocampheylborane: Application for the Synthesis of C 1 -C 6 Subunit of Epothilone" Tetrahedron Lett . 2004 , 44 , 1011.
5. P. V. Ramachandran, Michael T. Rudd, Thomas E. Burghardt, M. Venkatram Reddy "Vinylalumination for the Synthesis of Functionalized Allyl Alcohols, Vinylepoxides, and ?-Alkylidene-?-hydroxy- g -lactones" J. Org. Chem. 2003 , 68 , 9310.

Education

• Ph.D., Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 1996
• M.S., Chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India, 1990
• B.S., Forestry, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, 1987

Jobs and Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, (July 2004 – Present)
• Assistant Research Scientist, Herbert C. Brown Center for Borane Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (2001–2004)
• Research Associate, Herbert C. Brown Center for Borane Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (2000– 2001)
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (1997 – 2000