Office: ES&T 2316
Email: ssamser3@gatech.edu
What is your favorite food, or food genre? Biryani
Favorite Nobel Laureate? Prof. Benjamin List
Educational Background
Ph.D. National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar, India
Advisors
Christopher W. Jones
Project
Design of sorbent systems for CO2 capture from ambient air
Publications
8. Samser, S.; Biswal, P.; Meher, S. K.; Venkatasubbaiah, K., Palladium mediated one-pot synthesis of 3-aryl-cyclohexenones and 1, 5-diketones from allyl alcohols and aryl ketones. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2021, 19, 1386-1394.
7. Samser, S.; Mohapatra, O; Biswal, P.; Venkatasubbaiah, K., Palladiummediated tandem isomerization–methylenation of allyl alcohols: One-Pot Synthesis of 1,5-Diketones. J. Org. Chem., 2021, 86, 13744-13753.
6. Biswal, P.; Siva Subramani, M.; Samser, S.; Chandrasekhar, V.; Venkatasubbaiah, K. Ligand-Controlled Ruthenium-Catalyzed Borrowing-Hydrogen and Interrupted-Borrowing-Hydrogen Methodologies: Functionalization of Ketones Using Methanol as a C1 Source J. Org. Chem. 2022
5. Biswal, P.; Samser, S.; Meher, S.K.; Chandrasekhar, V.; Venkatasubbaiah, K. (2021), Palladium-Catalyzed Synthesis of α-Methyl Ketones from Allylic Alcohols and Methanol. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2022, 364, 413
4. Biswal, P.; Samser, S.; Nayak, P.; Chandrasekhar, V.; Venkatasubbaiah, K., Cobalt (ii) porphyrin mediated selective synthesis of 1, 5-diketones via an interrupted-borrowing hydrogen strategy using methanol as a C1 source. J. Org. Chem. 2021, 86, 6744- 6754
3. Mamidala, R.; Biswal, P.; Subramani, M. S.; Samser, S.; Venkatasubbaiah, K., Palladacycle-phosphine catalyzed methylation of amines and ketones using methanol. J. Org. Chem 2019, 84, 10472-10480
2. Mamidala, R.; Subramani, M. S.; Samser, S.; Biswal, P.; Venkatasubbaiah, K., Chemoselective alkylation of aminoacetophenones with alcohols by using a palladacycle‐phosphine catalyst. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2018, 2018, 6286-6296.
1. Mamidala, R.; Samser, S.; Sharma, N.; Lourderaj, U.; Venkatasubbaiah, K., Isolation and characterization of regioisomers of pyrazole-based palladacycles and their use in α-alkylation of ketones using alcohols. Organometallics 2017, 36, 3343-3351.