Faculty

Janakiram Vaitla

Janakiram Vaitla
Designation
Associate Professor
Education
Ph. D.
E-mail
vaitla@chemistry.iitd.ac.in
Phone
01126591559
Office address
Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 India
Personal web page
janakiramncl.wixsite.com/vaitla-group
IRINS / Google Scholar profile
iitd.irins.org/profile/145176

M.Sc (2007-2009): Loyola Academy, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana
Ph.D (2010-2015): National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, Maharashtra (Research Supervisor: Prof. Ganesh Pandey)
Visiting Research Scholar (2013-2015): Centre of Biomedical Research, Lucknow.
Post Doc (2016-2018): University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway, Norway (Research Supervisors:Prof. Annette Bayer and Prof. Kathrin H. Hopmann)
Researcher (2018-2019): University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
Post Doc (2019-2020): Emory University, U.S.A (Research Supervisor: Prof. Huw M. L. Davies)
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, Feb-2020 – Nov-2024.

Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, Nov-2024 – Till date

Research group website: Vaitla Group

Research Interests
● Organic Synthesis using Ylide and carbene-mediated transformations
● Synthesis of natural products

 

Selected Publications

  1. D. S. Davas, L. Mallick, D. K. Gopalakrishnan, B. Chakraborty, and J. Vaitla, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2025, 64, e202507189.
  2. S. Bhardwaj, D. K. Gopalakrishnan, S. Deshwal, R. Sen, V. Tiwari, T. Karmakar, and J. Vaitla, ACS Catal., 2024, 14, 2805-2815.
  3. S. Bhardwaj, D. K. Gopalakrishnan, D. Garg, and J. Vaitla, JACS Au., 2023, 3, 252-260.
  4. J. Vaitla, A. Bayer and K. H. Hopmann Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 16180.
  5. J. Vaitla, A. Bayer and K. H. Hopmann Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2017, 56, 4277.

Research areas: Organic synthesis, Ylide and carbene-mediated transformations, and Synthesis of natural products

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