WELCOME TO THE PALANI GROUP

Department of Organic Chemistry
Indian Institute of Science

WELCOME TO THE PALANI GROUP

Department of Organic Chemistry
Indian Institute of Science

We are a team of enthusiastic scientists trying to unravel unorthodox strategies to enable facile synthesis of bioactive molecules—drive to solving key mechanistic questions will complement the development of these reactions.

As a team, we strongly believe in embracing diversity within the group. All team members will have an equal voice regardless of their social or economic background.

For any queries, please contact Vignesh!

 

Recent publications

Strain-inducing positional alkene isomerization.

Stereochemical editing logic powered by the epimerization of unactivated tertiary stereocenters.

Catalytic, contra-thermodynamic positional alkene isomerization.

Latest Events

25 Feb 2026
Kudos on a remarkably polished and incisive presentation Guhan !! News and Updates

Kudos on a remarkably polished and incisive presentation Guhan !!

February 25, 2026 4:00-5:00pm RBM lecture hall

Guhan presented his Graduate Colloquium on the topic entitled as “Cross Dehydrogenative Coupling: A platform for sustainable synthesis”  a concise…

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04 Feb 2026
Great job Mukul on your excellent presentation! News and Updates

Great job Mukul on your excellent presentation!

February 4, 2026 4:00-5:00pm RBM lecture hall

Mukul presented his Graduate Colloquium on the topic entitled as Organic synthesis via electrophotocatalysis. A short description of his talk…

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02 Aug 2025
01 Aug 2025
19 Jul 2025
Rahul bids adieu News and Updates

Vignesh Palani

Assistant Professor
Department of Organic Chemistry,
Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore 560 012, INDIA

Phone : +91-80-2293- 3843(O)
E-mail: vpalani@iisc.ac.in