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Radhey S. Srivastava is the Boudreaux/BoR Distiguished Professor at the Department of Chemistry, �鶹ҹ��. He was awarded outstanding Professor Award, Ray Authement College of Sciences 2013. He started his academic journey after graduating from India and Japan. Following several years as professor of inorganic chemistry in India and as a research associate in leading organometallic/ catalysis research groups in Japan, Canada, France and Italy he joined with Professor K.M. Nicholas in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma as a senior research scientist on homogeneous catalysis. He has enjoyed working with several distinguished scientists in the field around the globe. This interaction offered him an excellent opportunity to perform high quality research in inorganic and organometallic chemistry. My research involved the use of modern analytical methods to monitor chemical reactions. Our projects cover a wide range of subjects in the area of inorganic chemistry, biological chemistry, organometallic chemistry, homogeneous catalysis, and biomass energy. Included are studies to understand and improve ruthenium anticancer drugs, metal-catalyzed deoxydehydration of polyols and epoxides the synthesis of organometallic complexes, metal-catalyzed C-H nitrogenation of hydrocarbons. We widely use selective oxidations, reductions, stereoselective reactions, hydrocarbon activation and isomerization, enantioselective synthesis. Our group utilizes extensively all the modern spectroscopic and analytical tools in organic product identification, metal complexes and organic structure characterization as well as in mechanistic studies.

B.S., 
University of Gorakhpur

Ph.D., 
University of Gorakhpur.

Diploma, Organometallic Chemistry
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

• Organometallic: Transition Metal-catalyzed Nitrogenation of Hydrocarbons. We discovered that Cu-salts and related complexes catalyze olefins with arylhydroxylamine to produce allyl amines. The reactions occur with remarkable regioselectivity with respect to the alkene and the products are valuable as synthetic intermediates and bioactive targets. Most recently, we discovered asymmetric allylic mination catalyzed by Cu.
• Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry: Ruthenium-based Metallopharmaceuticals Primarily we are tackling problems related to the synthesis of ruthenium complexes with various heterocyclic amines and their assay on various cancer cell-lines. Another area of development in medicinal inorganic chemistry is the development of ruthenium-based anticancer drugs and strategy to overcome drug resistance.
• Renewable Biomass Energy: Metal-catalyzed Conversion of Cellulosic Biomass for fuels and value-added chemicals We aim to develop new more robust and economically viable catalytic systems for efficient, selective, economical deoxydehydration reactions of cellulosic biomass. Reactivity studies will test the effectiveness of the new reductants and catalysts, identify and quantify the reaction products, and use this information to develop new processes for valuable products and fuels.

• S. Murru, C. S. Lott, B. McGough and R. S. Srivastava,”Fe-Catalyzed Synthesis of Substituted N-Aryl Oxazolidines and N-Aryl Amino Alcohols.” Organic & Bimolecular Chemistry, 2016, 14, 3681.
• S. Murru, C. S. Lott, F. R. Fronczek, R. S.  Srivastava, “Fe-Catalyzed Direct α C-H Amination of Carbonyl Compounds”, Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 2122-2125. Siva Murru, Brandon McGough, R. S.  Srivastava,” Synthesis of Substituted Quinolines via Allylic Amination and Intramolecular Heck-Coupling”, Organic & Bimolecular Chemistry, 2014, 12, 9133. (cover-page article)
• J. Davis, R. S. Srivastava, “Oxorhenium-Catalyzed Deoxydehydration of Cellulosic Biomass”, tetrahedron Lett. 2014, 55, 4178.
• S. Murru, R.S. Srivastava, “Iron-Catalyzed Selective Allylic C-H Amination of substituted 1,3-Dienes”, Eur. J. Org. Chem , 2014, 2174-2181 (Highlighted in
• S. Murru, August A. Gallo and R.S. Srivastava,” Direct synthesis of ß-alkyl N-Aryl Aza Baylis-Hillman Adducts via Nitroso-Ene reaction”, J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 7119.