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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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