Development of Green Synthetic Methodologies, Electrochemical Organic Synthesis, Fluoroalkylation Reactions, Iodine-Catalysis, Synthesis of New Drug Molecules, Visible-light Photocatalysis
B-202 (Office), Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani Hyderabad Campus Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal Dist.-Medchal-500 078 Telangana, India
Research Professor: Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea (March 2015 - November 2017). Research area: Visible-light photocatalysis. Supervisor : Prof. Eun Jin Cho
Post-doctoral Fellow: Hanyang University, Ansan, South Korea (September 2014 - February 2015). Research area : Merging visible-light photoredox with transition-metal catalysis. Supervisor : Prof. Eun Jin Cho
Post-doctoral Fellow: Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata, India (January 2014 - August 2014). Research area : Green catalysis using supported metals (continuation of Ph.D work). Supervisor : Prof. Brindaban C. Ranu.
Education:
Ph.D. in Synthetic Organic Chemistry : Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata, India (July 2009 - December 2013). Thesis Title : Green synthesis using benign solvents, reagents and catalysts. Supervisor : Prof. Brindaban C. Ranu
M.Sc. in Chemistry : Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD), New Delhi, India (2007 - 2009). Thesis Title : Studies towards the synthesis of pentenomycin from tri-O-acetyl-D-glucal. Supervisor : Prof. N. G. Ramesh
B.Sc. in Chemistry (Honours) : The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India (2004 - 2007)