Prof. B.C. Ranu

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 Name: BRINDABAN CHANDRA RANU
 Date of Birth: August 1, 1949
 Address: Department of Organic Chemistry
                  Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
                  Jadavpur, Calcutta- 700032
 E-mail: ocbcr@iacs.res.in
 Fax: 91-33-2473-2805
 Phone: 91-33-2473-4971, Ext. 404

 Academic and Professional Career:
                 · M.Sc. from Calcutta University
                 · Ph.D. from Jadavpur University
                 · Postdoctoral work with Prof. T. Hudlicky at Virginia Tech, USA during 1982-85
                 · Senior Lecturer at IACS during 1984-89
                 · Reader at IACS during 1989-96
                 · Professor at IACS from 1996 to 2005
                 · Senior Professor at IACS from 2005 till date
                 · Head of the department of Organic Chemistry for the period of 2003-2008

 Awards and Honours:
                 · Received Professor N.S. Narasimhan Endowment Award for Creativity in Organic Chemistry in 1993
                 · Recieved Chemical Research Society of India Silver Medal in 2010.
                 · Recieved Chemical Research Society of India Bronze Medal in 2001.
                 · Elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1995
                 · Elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 2007
                 · Selected for J.C. Bose fellowship in 2008
                 · Visiting Professor at Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain, during July, 1995-March, 1996
                 · Invited by Professor L. Ghosez, Guest Editor, Tetrahedron, to contribute an article on Strain
                   Assisted Synthesis for Tetrahedron Symposia-in-Print
                 · Invited by Morton International Inc., USA to write a Review on "Selective Reduction with Zinc
                   Borohydride" for their periodical, The Alembic
                 · Invited by Professor K.P.C. Vollhardt, Editor-in Chief, SYNLETT, to contribute an Account on some
                   aspects of recent works
                 · Invited by Professor M.J. Hearn, Associate Editor, Organic Preparations and Procedures
                   International, to write a Review on "Dealkylation of Ether"
                 · Invited by Dr. Karen Hindison, Coordinating Managing editor, European Journals, to write a
                   Microreview for European Journal of Organic Chemistry on Indium-mediated Reactions
                 . Delivered 4th RK Borua Memor al Lecture at Gauhati University
                 .Invited by Prof. Leo Paquette to write an article on Zinc Tetrafluoborate and another on Indium Iodide
                  for Electronic Encyclopedia for Reagents in Organic Synthesis

 Ph.D. Students supervised: 23+ (degree awarded)
 Research Publications : 212+

 

 


 

 

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