Dr. Padon Chuentragool

Name : Dr. Padon Chuentragool (Research Scientist)
Office Address : Room : R411 / R403A
Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry
54 Kamphaeng Phet 6 Talat Bang Khen, Lak Si, Bangkok 10210, Thailand
Tel : +66 2553 8555 (ext. -)
Email : [email protected]

Research Interests
Synthetic methodology
Photocatalysis
C-H functionalization

Education
2012 – 2018 Ph.D University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S.A.
2009 – 2011 M.Sc. Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
2003 – 2007 B.A. Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Work Experiences
2021 – present Research Scientist, Chulabhorn Research Institute, Thailand
2019-2021 Posdoctoral Researcher, University of Cambridge, UK

Publications
Selected Publications

1. Proctor, R. S. J.; Chuentragool. P.; Colgan, A. C.; Phipps, R. J. Hydrogen Atom Transfer-Driven Enantioselective Minisci Reaction of Amides. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 4928-4934.
2. Chuentragool, P.*; Yadagiri, D.*; Morita, T.*; Sarkar, S.; Parasram, M.; Wang, Y.; Gevorgyan, V. Aliphatic Radical Relay Heck Reaction at Unactivated C(sp3)-H Sites of Alcohols. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 1794-1798.  *Contributed equally
3. Chuentragool, P.; Parasram, M.; Shi, Y.; Gevorgyan, V. General, Mild, and Selective Method for Desaturation of Aliphatic Amines. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 2465-2468.
4. Parasram, M.*; Chuentragool, P.*; Sarkar, D.; Gevorgyan, V. Photoinduced Formation of Hybrid Aryl Pd-Radical Species Capable of 1,5-HAT: Selective Catalytic Oxidation of Silyl Ethers into Silyl Enol Ethers. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 6340-6343. *Contributed equally

Other Publications

1. Pearce-Higgins, R.*; Hogenhout, L. N.*; Docherty, P. J.*; Whalley, D. M.; Chuentragool, P.; Lee, N.; McGuir, T. M.; Valett, D.; Phipps, R. J. An Enantioselective Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling to Form Axially Chiral Biphenols. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 15026-15032.  *Contributed equally
2. Ngamnithiporn, A.; Chuentragool, P.; Ploypradith, P.; Ruchirawat, S. Syntheses of 3-Aryl Tetrahydroisoquinolines via an Intermolecular [4 + 2] Cycloaddition of Sultines with Imines. Org. Lett. 2022, 24, 4192–4196.
3. Colgan, A. C.*; Proctor, R. S. J.*; Gibson, D. C.; Chuentragool. P.; Lahdenperä, A. S. K.; Ermanis, K.; Phipps, R. J. Hydrogen Atom Transfer Driven Enantioselective Minisci Reaction of Alcohols. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022 (ASAP) DOI: 10.1002/anie.202200266. *Contributed equally
4. Fanourakis, A.; Docherty, P. J.; Chuentragool. P.; Phipps, R. J. Recent Developments in Enantioselective Transition Metal Catalysis Featuring Attractive Noncovalent Interactions between Ligand and Substrate. ACS Catal. 2020, 10, 10672-10714.
5. Kurandina D.*; Yadagiri, D.*; Rivas, M.*; Kavun, A.; Chuentragool, P.; Hayama, K.; Gevorgyan, V. Transition-Metal- and Light-Free Directed Amination of Remote Unactivated C(sp3)–H Bonds of Alcohols. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 8104-8109. *Contributed equally
6. Chuentragool, P.*; Kurandina, D.*; Gevorgyan, V. Catalysis by Visible Light Photoexcited Palladium Complexes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 11586-11598. *Contributed equally
7. Kurandina, D.*; Chuentragool, P.*; Gevorgyan, V. Transition Metal-Catalyzed Alkyl Heck-type Reactions. Synthesis. 2019, 51, 985-1005. *Contributed equally
8. Chuentragool, P.; Li, Z.; Randle, K.; Mahchi, F.; Ochir, I.; Assaf, S.; Gevorgyan, V. General synthesis of pyrido[1,2-a]indoles via Pd-catalyzed cyclization of o-picolylbromoarenes. J. Organomet. Chem. 2018, 867, 273-277.
9. Parasram, M.; Chuentragool, P.; Wang, Y.; Shi, Y.; Gevorgyan, V. General, Auxiliary-Enabled Photoinduced Pd-Catalyzed Remote Desaturation of Aliphatic Alcohols. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 14857-14860.
10. Chuentragool, P.; Vongnam, K.; Rashatasakhon, P.; Sukwattanasinitt, M.; Wacharasindhu, S. Calcium carbide as a cost effective starting material for symmetrical diarylethynes via Pd-catalyzed coupling reaction. Tetrahedron 2011, 67, 8177-8182.