Varattur D. Reddy
Associate Professor
Kingsborough College/CUNY

Chemistry Doctoral faculty
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
(212) 817-8135
vreddy@gc.cuny.edu

Varattur D. Reddy has taught a variety of courses in the Physical Sciences and currently teaches Organic chemistry courses that he developed and expanded over the years. He serves as a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility Director in the department and incorporates new NMR experiments in different courses. He is the Principal Investigator of several research projects and serves as a member of the Chemistry Doctoral Faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has several years of teaching experience at different colleges and universities, and industrial experience before joining Kingsborough.

Organic Chemistry 1 (CHM 31)

Organic Chemistry 2 (CHM 32)

Chemistry and Environment (SCI 51)

Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai                       1990

Postdoctoral: CUNY Hunter College and Queens College          

Organic Chemistry 1 and 2 for chemistry majors, health related programs.

Chemistry and Environment.

1. Reddy, V. D.; Szalda, D.J. Syntheis, Structures, and Reactivity of ruthenium carbonyl cluster containing two maltol  ligands. Organometallics. 2010 summitted.
2. Dayal, D.; Cosenza, S.C.; Reddy. M.V. R.; Pearl. Jr., W.C.; Adams, R.D. “Glycal ruthenium carbonyl clusters: Synthesis, characterization, and anticancer activity,” J. Organomet. Chem, 2009, 694, 959.
3. Reddy, V. D. “Synthesis, characterization, and reactivity of a novel ruthenium carbonyl cluster containing tri-O-benzyl-D-glucal as a chiral carbohydrate ligand,” J. Organomet. Chem, 2006, 691, 27.
4. Varattur D. Reddy, A Miniscale and Microscale Approach to Experiments in Organic Chemistry I, 2nd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
5. Varattur D. Reddy, A Miniscale and Microscale Approach to Experimental Organic Chemistry II, 1st Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
6. Reddy, V.D.; Franck, R.W. “Cleavage and Activation of Benzylidene Lactones with N-Bromosuccinimide,” J. Org. Chem. 1993, 58, 6911.
7. Mathur, P.; Reddy, V.D.; R. Bohra, “Addition of methylene groups to Fe₃(CO)₉(Te)₂,” J. Organomet. Chem., 1991, 40, 339.
8. Mathur, P.; Reddy, V.D.; Das, K.; Sinha, U.C. “ Synthesis and structural characterization of a new methylene bridged double butterfly shaped complex [(CH₃Te)Fe₂(CO)₆]₂[Te-CH₂-Te],” J. Organomet. Chem., 1991, 409, 255.
9. Mathur, P.; Reddy, V.D. “Reduction of Fe₂Te₂(CO)₆ and the reaction of dianion formed with metaldihalides, LMCl2, (L=(PPh₃)₂, M=Pt, Pd, Ni; L=C₅H₅; L=Me, n-Bu, M=Sn). J. Organomet. Chem., 1990, 385, 363.
10. Mathur, P.; Reddy, V.D. ”Insertion of methylene group into the Te-Te bond of Fe₂Te₂(CO)₆,” J. Organomet. Chem., 1990, 387, 193.
11. Mathur, P.; Chakraborty, D.; Mavunkal, I.J.; Reddy, V.D.; Rugmini V.; Thimmappa, B.H.S. “Role of Tellurium in Cluster Synthesis,” Metalloorg. Kim, 1990, 3, 7.

1. Synthesis of biologically active compounds. Synthesis of glycoamino acids, glycal-heterocyclic compounds, and glycal-ferrocenyl compounds for anticancer activity.
2. Mild and selective C-H and N-H bond activations for C-C bond formation and C-N bond formation reactions. These fundamental organic transformations reaction are of importance in synthetic organic chemistry that remains a critical challenge for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals, polymers, and essential commodity chemicals.
3. Synthesis of chiral catalysts: ruthenium hydrides containing chiral carbohydrate ligands for enantioselective reduction of ketones, enamines, and substituted alkenes (tiglic acid, etc).
4. Reduction of carbon dioxide by organometallic catalysis.

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