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Prof.Sunil Pulletikurti

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Email: pulletikurtis[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in

Contact Number: 0000000000

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Research Interest: Synthesis of Phospholipids and their role as a microreactors, small and mRNA drug carriers and Lipid Oxidation, Synthesis of antioxidants, Chemical Origins of Life.

Curriculum
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Publications

Teaching

Teaching Asstistant for the CHL 117 Course at IIT Bombay, 2015-2017

Academics

Ph.D., (2014-2020), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), Mumbai, India

M. Sc in Organic Chemistry, (2010-2012), Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India

B. Sc (2007-2010), Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India

 

Position

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2020 to 2025) at The Scripps Research Institute, California, USA

Awards and Honors

NASA Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2025

Publications

List Of Research Publications (only in Peer-reviewed Journals)

2025

  1. Abiotic Aldol Reactions of Formaldehyde with Ketoses and Aldoses – Implications for the Prebiotic Synthesis of Sugars by the Formose Reaction. Sutton, S.S.; Pulletikurti, S.; Lin, H.; Krishnamurthy, R.*; Liotta, Ch. L.* CHEM, 2025, doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102553.

2024

  1. Protocol for Preparing Cyclic-Phospholipid Decanoate and Glyceryl-didecanoate-phosphate Containing Vesicles. Kollery, V. S.; Pulletikurti, S.; Deniz, A. A.; Krishnamurthy, R.* Star Protocols, 2024, 5, 103283.
  2. Experimentally Modelling the Emergence of Prebiotically Plausible Phospholipid vesicles. Pulletikurti, S.; § Kollery, V. S.; § Yadav, M.; Deniz, A. A.; Krishnamurthy, R.* CHEM, 2024, 10, 1839-1867. doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2024.02.007 (§Authors contributed equally; *Corresponding author).

2022

  1. Synthesis and Hydrolytic Stability of Cyclic Phosphatidic Acids: Implications for Synthetic- and Proto-cell Studies. Egas, V. O; Pulletikurti, S; Kollery, V. S.; Krishnamurthy R.*. Chem. Commun. 2022, 58, 6231.
  2. Prebiotic Synthesis of α-Amino Acids and Orotate from α-Ketoacids Potentiates Transition to Extant Metabolic Pathways. S. Pulletikurti§, M. Yadav§, R. Krishnamurthy*. Nat. Chem. 2022, 14, 1142. (§Authors contributed equally; *Corresponding author).
  3. Cyanide as a Primordial Reductant enables a Protometabolic Reductive Glyoxylate Pathway. M. Yadav§, S. Pulletikurti§, J. R. Yerabolu, R. Krishnamurthy*. Nat. Chem. 2022, 14, 170. (§Authors contributed equally; *Corresponding author).

2021

  1. Synthesis of Polycycles and Oxacycles by Tandem Metathesis of endo–norbornene Derivatives. S. Kotha*, S. Pulletikurti, Fatma, A., Dhangar, G., and Naidu, G. S. Synthesis 2021, 53, 1931. (*Corresponding author).

2020

  1. Synthetic approach to oxa-triquinanes via olefin metathesis as a key step. S. Kotha* and S. Pulletikurti. Indian J. Chem. Sect. B 2020, 59, 1868. (*Corresponding author).
  2. Synthesis of spiro-annulated cyclobutane derivatives through ketene [2+2] cycloaddition and ring-rearrangement metathesis. S. Kotha* and S. Pulletikurti Indian J. Chem. Sect. B 2020, 59, 1875. http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/55774. (*Corresponding author).
  3. Lewis acid-mediated synthesis of indalozidine derivatives. S. Kotha* and S. Pulletikurti Heterocycles, 2020, 101, 717. (*Corresponding author).

2019

  1. A metathetic approach to [5/5/6] aza-tricyclic core of dendrobine, kopsanone and lycopalhine A type of alkaloids. S. Kotha* and S. Pulletikurti Synthesis 2019, 51, 3981. (*Corresponding author).
  2. Ring-opening metathesis of N-alkenyl ꞵ-lactams. S. Kotha*, S. Pulletikurti and Y. Dommaraju Heterocycles. 2019, 98, 79. (*Corresponding author).

2018

  1. Synthesis of propellanes containing a bicyclo[2.2.2]octene unit via the Diels–Alder reaction and ring-closing metathesis as key steps. S. Kotha* and S. Pulletikurti RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 14906. (*Corresponding author).

Papers in conference abstract volumes / presented

2019

1. Heterogeneous Protocells: Physical Properties and Compartmentalization, S Pulletikurti, VK Suresh, R Krishnamurthy*, A Deniz*, 2024 Astrobiology Science Conference, Rhode Island, USA. 

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