The Parasram Lab

Complementing the McMurry Coupling and Alkene Metathesis: Photocatalytic denitrative homo- and cross-coupling of nitroalkanes towards the synthesis of alkenes: dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemr…. See the parallel submission by @ParasramLab, the same but not the same 😀

Check out what our lab and the @reiser_group stitched together contemporaneously. Both labs report a new olefination method via denitrative cross-coupling of readily accessible nitroalkanes on @ChemRxiv Parasram (image): chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.26…. Reiser: chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.26…

Thank you to all the past and present members of the Parasram Lab for making this award possible. Professor Parasram is a Sloan Fellow! #sloanfellow #parasramlab #organicchemistry @SloanFoundation @nyuchemistry @nyuniversity sloan.org/fellowships/20…

Congrats to the 126 early-career scholars awarded a 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship, whose creativity and innovation set them apart as the next generation of scientific leaders! Our Fellows represent 7 fields and 44 institutions across the US and Canada. sloan.org/fellowships/20…

Congrats to Marvin Parasram on receiving a Sloan Fellowship! nyu.edu/about/news-pub…

The Parasram Lab reports a new approach, “PCET-Enabled Decarboxylative Oxygenation Promoted by Photoexcited Nitroarenes.” Read more in Chem:  authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S24… @ParasramLab @NYUchemistry #photochemistry #nitroarenes #coolchemistry #Orgo #GreenChemistry #radical

Check out our recent collaborative work published in @Chem_CP with the @VetticattGroup on the first example of using photoexcited nitroarenes for PCET-enabled decarboxylative oxygenation of acids. @nyuniversity @nyuchemistry #PCET #synthesis #photochem cell.com/chem/fulltext/…

Online now: PCET-enabled decarboxylative oxygenation promoted by photoexcited nitroarenes dlvr.it/TQlkdF

The Parasram Lab reports a new method on the "Photoinduced Cleavage of Alkenyl Fluorides for Nucleophilic Acyl Substitution.” Read more in Organic Letters: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… @ParasramLab @NYUchemistry

Now online: News & Views on the Article by Tehshik P. Yoon & co-workers @UWMadisonChem nature.com/articles/s4416… Skeletal editing of C(sp3)–C(sp3) bonds via photoinduced oxidative oxygen migration by Ajay H. Bansode & Marvin Parasram @ParasramLab nature.com/articles/s4416… ($)

Thankful to see our work published in @JOC_OL on the in-situ generation of reactive acyl fluorides via the oxidative cleavage of alkenyl fluorides promoted by photoexcited nitroarenes. Happy Thanksgiving! #synthesis #organicchemistry #nyu #nyuchemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

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Check out our recent paper in @ACSCatalysis on using oxime directing groups for photocontrolled C–H difunctionalization of spatially distinct C–H bonds using hypervalent iodine reagents as tandem electophiles. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… #NYUchemistry #organicchemistry #Parasramlab

Save the Date! Oct. 15th at 12noon ET will be our next Virtual Symposium ft. Prof. Marvin Parasram (NYU) and Prof. Brian Stoltz (CalTech). Many thanks to Beyond CCHF for hosting! Free to watch! Youtube: orgn.link/watch Zoom: emory.zoom.us/j/185635071

Congrats to Afra, Mahmoud and Melissa for passing their PhD candidacy exam! Well done!

Introducing Lifeng (Dimo) Yin, M.S.! Congrats to Dimo for successfully defending his Master’s thesis! We are very proud of you! @nyuniversity @nyuchemistry @ParasramLab

Congrats to graduate student Joshua Mitchell for winning the highly competitive Ted Keusseff Dissertation Award! Great job! @nyuniversity @nyuchemistry @ParasramLab

Congrats to graduate student Joshua Paolillo for winning three prestigious awards: NYU GSAS Teaching Award, NYU CAS Teaching Award, and the Margaret and Herman Sokol Fellowship! Amazing! @nyuniversity @nyuchemistry @ParasramLab

Kudos to undergraduate Alex Reyes for winning the highly competitive ACS Organic Division SURF award! Way to go, Alex! @nyuniversity @ParasramLab #ACS

Congratulations to Dr. Marvin Parasram (@Mp_Chemist), @nyuniversity, for being named a 2025 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar! @ParasramLab @nyuchemistry #DreyfusAwards