Chandu G Krishnan
Institute of Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (ICReDD)
Hokkaido University, Japan.
DOB. 25.06.1995
Nationality: India
Tel: +91-8848209392 Email: chandug2014@gmail.com
Education:
Integrated BS-MS (2014-2019): IISER Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India (Thesis Advisor: Dr.
Ramesh Rasappan).
Ph.D. (2019-2022): Osaka University, Japan (Thesis Advisor: Prof. Hiroaki Sasai,Supervisors: Prof. Takayoshi Suzuki, Prof. Shinobu Takizawa)Research Experience:▪

2023- present, post-doctoral fellow, Institute of Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery(ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
‘Development of novel free-radical-mediated transformations guided by quantum mechanicalcalculations’. Supervisor: Prof. Tsuyoshi. Mita▪

2019- 2022: Asymmetric photoswitchable catalysis. Supervisor: Prof. Hiroaki Sasai,Prof. Shinobu Takizawa)▪

March 2017-2019: Asymmetric transition metal catalyzed cross coupling reactions.
Supervisor: Dr. Ramesh Rasappan, Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of
Science Education and Research, Trivandrum, India)

Honors and Awards▪
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(2019-2022) MEXT Research Fellow, Osaka University, Japan (Advisor: Prof. TakayoshiSuzuki)
Received the Student Excellence Presentation Award (oral presentation) at the 142nd Annual
Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan (Nagoya).
Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE 2019)(2014- 2019) Inspire Fellow (Second most prestigious award for undergraduate students inIndia), IISER TVM, Kerala, India. (Advisor: Dr. Ramesh Rasappan)

Publications:
1. Light-controlled pKa Value of Chiral Brønsted Acid Catalysts in Enantioselective Aza-Friedel–Crafts Reaction.
Chandu G.Krishnan, Masaru.Kondo, Osamu. Yasuda, Duona. Fan, Kento. Nakamura, Y.
Wakabayashi, Hiroaki. Sasai, Shinobu. Takizawa.
Chemical. Communications., 2023, DOI:10.1039/D3CC02719H.

2. Photoswitchable Chiral Organocatalysts: Photocontrol of Enantioselective Reactions.
Masaru Kondo, Kento Nakamura, Chandu G. Krishnan, Hiroaki Sasai, Shinobu Takizawa,Chem. Rec., 2023, e202300040, DOI: 10.1002/tcr.202300040.
3. Photoswitchable Chiral Cation-Binding Catalyst: Photocontrol of Catalytic Activity on
Enantioselective Aminal Synthesis.
Chandu G.Krishnan, Masaru Kondo, Kento Nakamura, Hiroaki Sasai, and Shinobu Takizawa.
Org. Lett., 2022, 24, 14, 2670–2674.
4. Photoswitchable Chiral Phase Transfer Catalyst”, Masaru Kondo, Kento Nakamura, Chandu
G. Krishnan, Shinobu Takizawa, Hiroaki Sasai.
ACS Catal., 2021, 11, 3, 1863–1867.
5. Azopyridine-based chiral oxazolines with rare-earth metals for photoswitchable catalysis.
Masaru Kondo, Kento Nakamura, Chandu G. Krishnan, Shinobu Takizawa, Hiroaki Sasai.
Chemical Communications., 2021, 57 (60), 7414-7417.
6. A Free-Radical Reduction and Cyclization of Alkyl Halides Mediated by FeCl2.
Feba Thomas Pulikottil, Ramadevi Pilli, Vetrivelan Murugesan, Chandu G. Krishnan, Ramesh
Rasappan.
ChemCatChem., 2019,11, 2438–2442.
Conference contributions
International Conference
1. Molecular Chirality Asia 2020
Title: Photoswitchable Chiral Phase Transfer Catalyst
Chandu G. Krishnan (First author), Masaru Kondo, Kento Nakamura, Shinobu Takizawa,
Tsukasa Abe, Hiroaki Sasai.
2. 10 th JACI 2021
Title; Photoswitchable Chiral Cation Binding Catalyst.
Chandu G. Krishnan (First author), Masaru Kondo, Kento Nakamura, Shinobu Takizawa,
Tsukasa Abe, Hiroaki Sasai.
3. PSJ conference, Nagoya, Japan, 2022.
142nd Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan (Nagoya).
Title; Photoswitchable Chiral Cation Binding Catalyst.
Chandu G. Krishnan (First author), Masaru Kondo, Kento Nakamura, Shinobu Takizawa,Tsukasa Abe, Hiroaki Sasai.