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CONFIDENTIAL (For use of Fellows of the Academy only)

The National Academy of Sciences, India

NOMINATIONS Valid for Consideration for Election to

Fellowship – 2019

Section of Physical Sciences BOOK II

CHEMICAL SCIENCES (Analytical, Inorganic, Organic, Physical, Theoretical Chemistry,

Applied Chemistry)

MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

(Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Computer/Information Science)

5, Lajpatrai Road, Prayagraj-211002

The National Academy of Sciences, India

NOMINATIONS Valid for Consideration for Election to

Fellowship – 2019

Section of Physical Sciences BOOK II

CONTENTS

CHEMICAL SCIENCES 250 - 358 (Analytical, Inorganic, Organic, Physical, Theoretical Chemistry, Applied Chemistry) MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES 359 - 403 (Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Computer/Information Science)

5, Lajpatrai Road, Prayagraj-211002

(I)

CHEMICAL SCIENCES

ADHIKARI, Satrajit 268

AHMAD, Sharif 313

AIDHEN, Indrapal Singh 269

ARYA, Ashok Kumar 314

ASWAL, Vinod K. 270

ATHAWALE, Anjali Anand 315

ATHINARAYANAN, Sundaresan 250

BALASUBRAMANIAN, Gopalan 341

BALLA, Rajakumar 271

BHALLA, Vandana 272

BHANAGE, Bhalchandra Mahadeo 292

BHOWMICK, Anil Kumar 293

BRAHMACHARI, Goutam 273

CHAKRABORTY, Sudipta 316

CHANDA, Nripen 251

CHATTOPADHYAY, Arun 317

CHELLAPPAN, Retna Raj 294

CHILLA, Malla Reddy 274

CHOWDHURY, Chinmay 275

DANDIA, Anshu 252

DE, Goutam 318

DEKA, Ramesh Chandra 342

DHANARAJ, Gopi 319

DHEVALAPALLY, Ramachary Buchi 253

DOLUI, Swapan Kumar 295

EAGAMBARAM, Murugan 296

GHOSH, Narendra Nath 276

GHOSH, Pradyut 320

GHOSH, Sunil Kumar 297

GHOSH, Surajit 298

GOSWAMI, Debabrata 277

GOVINDASAMY, Sekar 299

GULLAPALLI, Kumaraswamy 300

GUPTA, Kailash Chandra 321

GUPTA, Rajeev 322

GUPTA, Virendra Kumar 278

HARAM, Santosh Krishna 343

HASSAN, Puthusserickal Abdulrahiman 344

HULLURU, Rao Surya Prakash 345

IYER, Parameswara Krishnan 254

JAGIRDAR, Balaji Rao 323

JAISANKAR, Parasuraman 279

JANA, Nikhil Ranjan 324

KANT, Rama 346

KAPOOR, Sudhir 255

KHAN, Farid 301

KOMMU, Nagiah 302

KULATHU IYER, Sathiyanarayanan 303

KUMAR, Atul 325

KURESHY, Rukhsana I. 347

LINGAMALLU, Giribabu 348

MALKHEDE, Dipalee Dileep 280

MANDAL, Swadhin Kumar 281

MARAVANJI, Balakrishna Shivaramaiah 349

MAURYA, Mannar Ram 256

MEHTA, Surinder Kumar 326

MISHRA, Lallan 350

MISRA, Arvind 257

MISRA, Rajneesh 258

MUKHERJEE, Partha Sarathi 351

MUKHOPADHYAY, Balaram 282

NAGARAJAN, Rajamani 259

NATH, Sukhendu 352

NEGI, Arvind Singh 304

NETHI, Sekar Nagiyan 327

PANDA, Gautam 305

PANNURU, Venkatesu 328

PARIDA, Kulamani 329

PATEL, Anjali Uday 330

PATHAK, Tanmaya 353

PATIL, Nitin T. 283

PATIL, Rahul Chandrakant 306

PATIL, Satish Amrutrao 331

PATRA, Chandra Nath 307

POLSHETTIWAR, Vivek 332

PRABHU, Kandikere Ramaiah 333

PRAJAPATI, Dipak 334

RAO, P.R. Vasudeva 260

RAWAT, Diwan S. 308

RIAZ, Ufana 309

RODE, Chandrashekhar Vasant 335

ROY, Ram Kinkar 261

ROY, Soumyajit 284

SAHOO, Akhila Kumar 285

SARKAR, Pranab 262

SARKAR, Sabyasachi 336

SELVAM, Parasuraman 286

SENAPATI, Sanjib 263

SHAHI, Vinod Kumar 310

SHARMA, Yogesh Chandra 354

SHELKE, Manjusha Vilas 287

SHUNMUGAM, Raja 264

SINGH, Kunwar Pal 355

SINGH, Ramendra Kumar 337

SINGH, Ravindra Nath 338

SINGH, Vandana 339

SINGHA, Nikhil Kumar 356

SK, Musharaf Ali 265

SRIVASTAVA, Ashwini Kumar 266

SUBRAMANYAN, Vasudevan 357

SURESHAN, Kana Meethaleveetil 340

THIMMAIAH, Govindaraju 288

THOMAS, K.R. Justin 289

TRIPATHI, Indra Prasad 267

UPADHYAY, Kaushal Kumar 290

VANDANAPU, Jagannadham 291

VASANTHAKUMARAN, Sudarsan 311

VERMA, Akhilesh Kumar 312

VINU, Ajayan 358

(II)

MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

ANSARI, Qamrul Hasan 372

BALI, Raj 373

BHARGAVA, Rama 379

BHATTACHARYYA, Somnath 380

BHATTACHARYYA, Tirthankar 359

CHAKRABORTY, Subenoy 360

CHAKRAVERTY, Snehashish 381

CHANDRAN LEEA, Sunil 374

CHANDRASEKARAN, Pandu Rangan 398

CHATTOPADHYAY, Asis Kumar 388

DAS, Pratulananda 389

DATTA, Sanjib Kumar 361

DEEP, Kusum 375

JAIN, Kanchan 382

JAVAGAL, Keshavaiah Sridhar 362

JAWALI, Umavathi Channabasappa 363

KHARE, Brij Behari 399

KOIJAM, Manihar Singh 376

KUMAR, Manoj 364

KUNNUMMAL, Muralidharan 400

LALITHA, C.S. 390

MISHRA, Shashi Kant 365

MISRA, Arvind Kumar 391

MOKKALA, Padmavathamma 401

NADUVINAMANI, Neminath Bhujappa 366

NANDA, Asok Kumar 402

NARESH, Ram 367

NATARAJ, Neela 383

NATARAJAN, Saradha 384

PALANIAPPAN, Vellaisamy 385

PATIDAR, Kailash Chandra 386

PATIL, Prabhugouda Mallanagouda 368

PEETTAKANDY, Ratnakumar 377

PRASAD, Amritanshu 392

PYNE, Saumyadipta 387

RAMASUBRAMANIAN, Sundereswaran 403

RAVINDRANATHAN, Thangadurai 393

SAHA RAY, Santanu 369

SAHOO, Trilochan 394

SASTRY, N.S. Narasimha 395

SENAPATHI, Eswara Rao 370

SHARMA, Rajendra Kumar 378

TRIPATHI, Amitabha 396

UPADHYAY, Aashish 371

UPADHYAY, Ranjit Kumar 397

(III)

250

CHEMICAL SCIENCES (Analytical, Inorganic, Organic, Physical, Theoretical Chemistry,

Applied Chemistry)

ATHINARAYANAN, SUNDARESAN (b 1963), Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur P.O., Bangalore

Member of the NASI: No (YON 2019, Chemical Sciences)

Dr. A. Sundaresan is an internationally renowned solid state chemist in India. He has made significant contribution to the field of superconductivity, magnetism, giant magnetoresistance, ferroelectrics and multiferroics. His work not only involves synthesis and structural characterization but equally on the study of physical properties. He has demonstrated microwave filter performance in Tl-1223 cuprate superconductors in double sided 1-inch thin films. He also suggested a simple way to measure critical current density in large area thin films. His finding of universal surface magnetism and its implications to dilute magnetic oxide semiconductors is one of his major contributions. From this new finding of universal surface ferromagnetism he answered the extrinsic origin of ferromagnetism in dilute magnetic oxide semiconductors. This pioneering work has received more than 1100 citations according to google scholar citations analysis. He has contributed to the understanding of temperature induced magnetization reversal in several mixed transition metal oxides exhibiting weak ferromagnetism. He reported for the first time that the A-site magnetic spinel exhibit linear magnetoelectric effect. Also, he discovered new families of pyroelectric multiferroics, which he classifies as type-III multiferroics. He has published all his papers in very good journals and the papers are well cited. We consider him an excellent solid state chemist who richly deserves to be elected as a Fellow of NASI.

Proposer: Prof. C.N.R. Rao, Seconder: Prof. A.K. Tyagi

Ten Best Publications:

1. A. Sundaresan, R. Bhargavi, N. Rangarajan, U. Siddesh and C. N. R. Rao, (2006) Ferromagnetism as a universal feature of nanoparticles of the otheriwise nonmagnetic oxides, Phy. Rev. B., 74, 161306 R (if=3.8, ci=1109)

2. C. Madhu, A. Sundaresan and C. N. R. Rao, (2008) Room-temperature ferromagnetism in undoped GaN and CdS semiconductor nanoparticles, Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Commun), 77, 201306 (if=3.8, ci=147)

3. A. Sundaresan and C. N. R. Rao, (2009) Ferromagnetism as a universal feature of nanoparticles, Nanotoday, 4, 096 - 106 (if=6.45, ci=351)

4. A. Sundaresan, C. N. R. Rao, (2009) Implications and consequences of ferromagnetism universally exhibited by inorganic nanoparticles, Solid State commun., 149, 1197 - 1200 (if=1.55, ci=71)

5. P. Mandal, Venkata Srinu Bhadram, Chandrabhas Narayana, Y. Sundarayya, A. Sundaresan and C. N. R. Rao, (2011) Spin-reorientation, ferroelectricity and magnetodielectric effect in YFe1-xMnxO3 (0.1 < x < 0.4), Phys. Rev. Lett., 107, 137202 - 137206(if=8.84, ci=91)

6. Somnath Ghara, Byung-Gu Jeon, Kyongjun Yoo, Kee Hoon Kim and A. Sundaresan, (2014) Re-entrant Spin-glass and Magnetodielectric effect in the Spiral Magnet BiMnFe2O6, Phys. Rev. B, 90, 024413 - 024419 (if=3.8, ci=19)

7. Chandan De and A. Sundaresan, (2015) Coexistence of cycloidal phases, Magnetic field reversal of polarization and memory effect in multiferroic R0.5Dy0.5MnO3 (R=Eu and Gd), Appl. Phys. Lett., 107, 52902 - 52906 (if=3.5, ci=05)

8. Rana Saha, Somnath Ghara, E. Suard, D. H. Jang, K. H. Kim, Nikita Ter-Oganessian and A. Sundaresan, (2016) Magnetoelectric effect in simple collinear antiferromagnetic spinels, Phys. Rev. B, 94, 14428 - 14434 (if=3.8, ci=11)

9. Somnath Ghara, E. Suard, F. Fauth, T. T. Tran, Shiv Halasyamani, A. Iyo, Juan Rodriguez-Carvajal and A. Sundaresan, (2017) Ordered aeschynite-type polar magnets RFeWO6 (R=Dy, Du, Tb and Y): A new family of type-II multiferroics, Phys. Rev. B, 95, 22(if=3.8, ci=07)

10. Chandan De, Angel M Arevalo-Lopez, Fabio Orlandi, Pascal Manuel, J. Paul Attfield and A. Sundaresan, (2018) Isovalent cation ordering in the polar rhombohedral perovskite Bi2FeAlO6, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 57, 16099 - 16103 (if=12.1, ci=00)

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CHANDA, NRIPEN (b 1974), Senior Scientist; CSIR-Central Mechanical Research Institute, Durgapur 713209, West Bengal


The scientific contribution of the nominee is broad and encompasses many areas that fall under the domains of chemical science and nanotechnology. With the profound knowledge in chemistry, he started his research activities that include the design and development of micro/nanoscale materials and study their catalytic, transport properties in the microfluidic environments for healthcare, environmental and energy applications that open up new opportunities for interdisciplinary research. He established a relatively new methodology for the synthesis of polycyclic aromatic compounds in the presence of the transition-metal-based catalyst (JACS 2005). Later, he was involved in the fabrication of biocompatible metallic nanoparticles to use as image-contrast enhancement agents to visualize abnormal tissues using computed tomography imaging (J. Mater. Chem. 2009; Nano Lett 2009; PNAS (USA) 2010 and 2012). The study aimed to improve the clinical methods for the detection of primary tumors and metastases with minimum invasive strategies for early cancer detection. Currently, he is actively involved in developing a variety of sensing devices for the detection of biologically relevant molecules for example protein, uric acid and toxic ions for healthcare and environmental applications (Analyst 2015; ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 2018). He is pursuing research in designing microfluidic systems to develop low-cost, integrated chip-based devices to improve the clinical diagnostic methods. Such devices contain all necessary components, e.g., sensing chip and communications systems to facilitate the signaling process. His areas of research also include developing water purification systems and various microfluidic platforms for energy generation (Lab Chip 2016).

Proposer: Prof. Goutam Kumar Lahiri, Seconder: Prof. Gautam Biswas


1. Priyadarshni N, Nath P, Chanda N, 2018, “DMSA-Functionalized Gold Nanorod on Paper for Colorimetric Detection and Estimation of Arsenic (III and V) Contamination in Groundwater” ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 6 (5), pp 6264–6272. (if=6.140, ci=04)

2. Singh P, Nath P, Arun R K, Mandal S, Chanda N, 2016, “Novel synthesis of a mixed Cu/CuO–reduced graphene oxide nanocomposite with enhanced peroxidase-like catalytic activity for detection of glutathione in solution and paper strip” RSC Adv., 6, 92729 (if=2.936, ci=13)

3. Kumar A, Hens A, Arun RK, Chatterjee M, Mahato K, Layek K, Chanda N, 2015, “A paper based microfluidic device for easy detection of uric acid using positively charged gold nanoparticles” Analyst., 140, 1817-1821 (if=3.864, ci=50)

4. Arun RK, Halder S, Chanda N, Chakraborty S., 2014, “A paper based self-pumping and self-breathing fuel cell using pencil stroked graphite electrodes” Lab on a Chip, 14, 1661-1664 (if=5.995, ci=42)

5. Shukla R, Chanda N et al, 2012, "Laminin receptor specific therapeutic gold nanoparticles (198AuNP-EGCg) show efficacy in treating prostate cancer" Proc Natl Acad Sci (PNAS) USA, 109, 12426-31. (if=9.423, ci=152)

6. Chanda, N.; Kan, P et al., 2010, “Bombesin Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles Show In vitro/In vivo Gastrin Releasing Peptide Receptor Specificity: Implications in Molecular Imaging and Therapy” PNAS (USA), 107, 8760-8765. (if=9.423, ci=244)

7. Chanda N, Kan P et al., “Radioactive gold nanoparticles in cancer therapy: therapeutic efficacy studies of (198) AuNP-GA nanoconstruct in prostate tumor-bearing mice” Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, 6, 201-9. (if=6.5, ci=162)

8. Chanda N, Shukla R, Katti K V, Kannan R, 2009, “Gastrin Releasing Protein Receptor –Specific Gold Nanorods: Breast and Prostate Tumor-avid Nanovectors for Molecular Imaging” Nano Letters, 9, 1798. (if=12.08, ci=107)

9. Nune, S K, Chanda, N et al., 2009, “Green nanotechnology from tea: phytochemicals in tea as building blocks for production of biocompatible gold Nanoparticles” J. Mater. Chem., 19, 2912. (if=5.976, ci=289)

10. Shukla R, Nune S K, Chanda N et al., 2008, “Soybeans as a phytochemical reservoir for the production and stabilization of biocompatible gold nanoparticles” Small, 4, 1425. (if=8.64, ci=167)

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DANDIA, ANSHU (b 1957), UGC-BSR Faculty Fellow, Department of Chemistry University of Rajasthan, Jaipur

Member of the NASI: Yes (YON 2019, Chemical Sciences)

Prof. Dandia’s contributions to chemical research and education touch the field of green chemistry including the synthesis of medicinally important fluorinated heterocyclic and value added materials. Her high quality publications (H-Index = 31; I. F. = 222.57; Citation = 3233) are enough to judge her significant contributions at various research angles. Her Group focuses on exploring new frontiers/ tools for organic synthesis, including new reagents, catalysts, and strategies to rapidly generate molecular complexity, forming densely functionalized molecules in a stereodefined fashion. She has efficiently explored the emerging field of nanocatalysis and demonstrated the use of graphene based and other nanomaterials for selective synthesis of value added materials in sustainable manner. Recent investigation described the unprecedented role of imposed hydrophobic interactions by NaCl for various synthetic organic reactions. Current core area of interest includes: (i) Structure tailoring and catalytic activity assessment of advanced materials (ii) Imposed hydrophobic interactions by NaCl: Accountable attribute for the synthetic organic chemistry in aqueous medium (iii) Sustainable construction of C-N, C-C and C-O bonds: Synthesis of value added heterocycles in regio, chemo, diastereoselective manner (iv) Moving towards sustainable future of chemistry on the wheels of green technology: From beaker to business, Relevant references Green Chem. 2016, 18, 2488; 2011, 13, 2135; 2011, 13, 1852. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2013, 1, 1303.Tetrahedron Lett. 2017, 58, 1170. RSC Adv. 2018, 8, 30280. ChemistrySelect 2018, 3, 9785. Cat. Comm. 2015, 61, 88. Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2017, 27, 2873–2880.J. Mol. Catal. A: Chem. 2018, 459, 97.

Proposer: Prof. A.K. Tyagi, Seconder: Dr. Raghumani S. Ningthoujam


1. A. Dandia,R. Singh,S. Khaturia,C. Mérienne,G. Morgant, A. Loupy, 2006, Efficient microwave enhanced regioselective synthesis of a series of benzimidazolyl/triazolyl spiro(indole-thiazolidinones) as potent antifungal agents and crystal structure of spiro[3H-indole-3,2'-thiazolidine]-3'(1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)-2,4'(1H)-dione, Bioorg. Med. Chem.14, 2409 (if=2.88, ci=229)

2. A. Dandia, V. Parewa, A. K. Jain and K. S. Rathore, 2011, Step-economic, efficient, ZnS nanoparticle-catalyzed synthesis of spirooxindole derivatives in aqueous medium via Knoevenagel condensation followed by Michael addition, Green Chem., 13, 2135(if=8.58, ci=136)

3. A. Dandia, R. Singh, S. Bhaskaran and S. D. Samant, 2011, Versatile three component procedure for combinatorial synthesis of biologically relevant scaffold spiro[indole-thiazolidinones] under aqueous conditions, Green Chem., 13, 1852. (if=8.58, ci=70)

4. A. Dandia, A. K. Jain, D. S. Bhati and A.K. Laxkar, 2013, Synthesis and stereochemical investigation of highly functionalized novel dispirobisoxindole derivatives via [3+2] cycloaddition reaction in ionic liquid, Tetrahedron, 69, 2062. (if=2.64, ci=39)

5. A. Dandia, V. Parewa, S. L. Gupta and K. S. Rathore, 2013, Cobalt doped ZnS nanoparticles as a recyclable catalyst for solvent-free synthesis of heterocyclic privileged medicinal scaffolds under infrared irradiation, J. Mol. Catal. A: Chem., 373, 61. (if=4.21, ci=34)

6. A.Dandia, V. Parewa and K. S. Rathore, 2012, Synthesis and characterization of CdS and Mn doped CdS nanoparticles and their catalytic application for chemoselective synthesis of benzimidazoles and benzothiazoles in aqueous medium, Cat. Comm., 28, 90.(if=3.46, ci=34)

7. A. Dandia, V. Parewa, S. L. Gupta, A. Sharma, K. S. Rathore and A. Sharma, 2015, Microwave-assisted Fe3O4 nanoparticles catalyzed synthesis of chromeno[1,6]naphthyridines in aqueous media, Cat. Comm., 61, 88. (if=3.46, ci=19)

8. A. Dandia, V. Parewa, S. Kumari, S. Bansal and A. Sharma, 2016, Imposed hydrophobic interactions by NaCl: Accountable attribute for the synthesis of spiro[acenaphthylene-1,5′-pyrrolo[1,2-c]thiazole] derivatives via 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction in aqueous medium, Green Chem. 2016, 18, 2488 (if=8.58, ci=14)

9. A. Dandia, S. L. Gupta, V. Parewa, A. Sharma, K. S. Rathore and A. Sharma, 2013, ‘‘On-water’’ synthesis of 3-substituted indoles via Knoevenagel/ Michael addition sequence catalyzed by Cu doped ZnS NPs, Tetrahedron Lett., 54, 5711. (if=2.12, ci=11)

10. A. Dandia, A. Sharma, V. Parewa, B. Kumawat, K. S. Rathore and A. Sharma, 2015, Amidic C-N bond cleavage of isatin: Chemoselective synthesis of pyrrolo[2,3,4-kl]acridin-1-ones using Ag NPs decorated rGO composite as an efficient and recoverable catalyst under microwave irradiation, RSC Adv., 5, 91888. (if=2.96, ci=7)

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DHEVALAPALLY, RAMACHARY BUCHI (b 1973), Professor, School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad


Ramachary has made seminal contributions in developing new, novel, and green reactions of both achiral and chiral version of organocatalytic reductive coupling reaction, dienamine-catalysis, aminoenyne-catalysis, base induced ring opening (BIRO) reaction, asymmetric supramolecular-organocatalysis, an enamine- and enolate-mediated organocatalytic azide–carbonyl [3+2]-cycloaddition reactions through organocatalysis. These findings have received wide attention of researchers world-wide; it is expected that they will pave way to utilize for the design and synthesis of new drugs and natural products in more economical manner and also will give inspiration for the development of new reactions with enhanced selectivity and reactivity. Recently, Ramachary’s reductive coupling protocol has been exploited by pharma major Pfizer to synthesize the anti-viral drug filibuvir for pilot plant scale production (Org. Process Res. Dev. 2014, 18, 45-56). Recently, his group discovered the number of new sequential one-pot reactions for the diversity oriented synthesis (DOS) of natural products, polycyclic natural product-like compounds, drugs and drug-like molecules by employing various complexity generating reactions such as asymmetric organocatalytic aldol, Michael, Mannich, Diels-Alder, amination, reductive coupling, reflexive-Michael reactions, click reaction and other organocatalytic reactions on simple starting materials (Org. Biomol. Chem. 2011, 9, 1277-1300; Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2012, 865–887). Ramachary’s group has undertaken another challenging research program by looking at the trapping of king size pre- or post-transition states of asymmetric reactions through “supramolecular-organocatalysis”. Utilization of large-size supramolecular rings in the pre-transition state (pre-TS) of enamine-based Michael reactions for high asymmetric induction is described in his recent work (Chem. Eur. J. 2012, 18, 8008–8012).

Proposer: Prof. Goverdhan Mehta, Seconder: Prof. Anunay Samanta


1. Ramachary, D. B.*; Kishor, M. (2007) Organocatalytic Double Cascade Asymmetric Synthesis of Wieland-Miescher Ketone Analogs from a Knoevenagel/Hydrogenation/Robinson Annulation Sequence: Scope and Applications of Organocatalytic Bio-Mimetic Reductions. J. Org. Chem. 72, 5056-5068. (if=4.805, ci=160)

2. Ramachary, D. B.*; Ramakumar, K.; Narayana, V. V. (2008) Amino acid-Catalyzed Cascade [3+2]-Cycloaddition/Hydrolysis Reactions Based on the Push-Pull Dienamine Platform: Synthesis of Highly Functionalized NH-1,2,3-Triazoles. Chem. Eur. J. 14, 9143-9147.(if=5.454, ci=141)

3. Ramachary, D. B.*; Reddy, Y. V. (2010) A General Approach to Chiral Building Blocks via Direct Amino Acid-Catalyzed Cascade Three-Component Reductive Alkylations: Formal Total Synthesis of HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors, Antibiotic Agglomerins, Brefeldin A, and (R)-γ-Hexanolide. J. Org. Chem. 75, 74–85. (if=4.805, ci=48)

4. Ramachary, D. B.*; Jain, S. (2011) Sequential one-pot combination of multi-component and multi-catalysis cascade reactions: an emerging technology in organic synthesis. Org. Biomol. Chem. 9, 1277-1300 (Invited). (if=3.423, ci=200)

5. Ramachary, D. B.*; Venkaiah, Ch.; Krishna, P. M. (2012) Discovery of 2-aminobuta-1,3-enynes in asymmetric organocascade catalysis: construction of drug-like spirocyclic cyclohexanes having five to six contiguous stereocenters. Chem. Commun. 48, 2252-2254 (Invited). (if=6.29, ci=57)

6. Ramachary, D. B.*; Sakthidevi, R.; Shruthi, K. S. (2012) Asymmetric Supramolecular Catalysis: A Bio-Inspired Tool for the High Asymmetric Induction in the Enamine-Based Michael Reactions. Chem. Eur. J. 18, 8008-8012. (if=5.831, ci=48)

7. Ramachary, D. B.*; Venkaiah, Ch.; Krishna, P. M. (2013) Stereoselective Synthesis of Five-Membered Spirooxindoles through Tomita Zipper Cyclization. Org. Lett. 15, 4714-4717. (if=6.492, ci=45)

8. Ramachary, D. B.*; Shashank, A. B.; Karthik, S. (2014) An Organocatalytic Azide–Aldehyde [3+2] Cycloaddition: High-Yielding Regioselective Synthesis of 1,4-Disubstituted 1,2,3-Triazoles. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 53, 10420-10424. (if=12.102, ci=109)

9. Ramachary, D. B.*; Pasha, Md. A.; Thirupathi, G. (2017) Organocatalytic Asymmetric Formal [3+2] Cycloaddition as a Versatile Platform to Access Methanobenzo[7]annulenes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 56, 12930–12934. (if=12.102, ci=11)

10. Kumar, A. S.; Thirupathi, G.; Reddy, G. S.; Ramachary, D. B.* (2019) Stereoselective Insertion of Benzynes into Lawsones: Synthesis of Biologically Important Benzannulated Bicyclo[3.3.0]octanes. Chem. Eur. J. 25, 1177-1183. (if=5.160, ci=1)

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IYER, PARAMESWAR KRISHNAN (b 1973), Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati


The nominee’s work in interdiscipliniary areas, involved the strategic design and development of conjugated organic materials for optoelectronic devices mainly related to white light emitting diodes, bulk heterojunction solar cells and thin film transistors and their application to chemical and biosensor devices including latent finger printing. The importance of these works can be judged by the commercialization and technology transfers (upto 08 patents) to a multinational company for the development of flexible electronic devices and conducting inks. In addition the nominee has reported development of theranostic molecules and label-free, water-soluble, non-toxic properties that demonstrated high inhibitory modulation of toxic amyloid intermediates, inhibitory impacts towards (amyloid beta) Aβ fibrillation and diminished amyloid cytotoxicity by templating with it very efficiently working closely with GNRC hospital. This involved the development of a novel class of multi colour fluorescent molecules with remarkable properties such as dual state emission, nanoparticle formation, multi-color imaging, biocompatibility, selective cell imaging and killing, drug transport (doxorubicin-DOX) and delivery to melanoma cancer cells (in vitro) and in mouse melanoma tumor models (in vivo) with high efficiency and superior anticancer effects. Further, major fundamental breakthrough research has been reported from his laboratory on developing a new class of aggregation induced emission molecules by simple tuning of the functional group that allowed the traditional aggregation caused quenching molecules to be converted to bright molecules that have been utilized for cancer theranostics, organic volatile contaminant sensing for prevention of lung disorders and for chemical vapor sensing for the first time.

Proposer: Prof. Gautam Biswas, Seconder: Prof. Bhisma Kumar Patel


1. Meher, N.; Iyer, P. K.* (2018) Spontaneously self-assembled naphthalimide nanosheets: Aggregation induced emission and Unveiling a-PET for sensitive detection of organic volatile contaminants in water. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 57, 8488–8492. (if=12.102, ci=09)

2. Meher, N.; Panda, S.; Kumar, S.; Iyer, P. K.* (2018) Aldehyde group driven aggregation-induced enhanced emission in naphthalimides and its application for ultradetection of hydrazine on multiple platforms. Chemical Science, 9, 3978-3985. (if=9.063, ci=14)

3. Chowdhury, S. R.; Mukherjee, S.; Das, S.; Patra, C.; Iyer, P. K.* (2017) Multifunctional (3-in-1) cancer theranostics applications of hydroxyquinoline-appended polyfluorene nanoparticles. Chemical Science, 8, 7566-7575. (if=9.063, ci=4)

4. Gopikrishna, P.; Meher, N.; Iyer, P. K.* (2018) Functional 1, 8-naphthalimide AIE/AIEEgens: Recent advances and prospects. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 10, 27603-27611. (if=8.097, ci=18)

5. Malik, A.; Iyer, P. K.* (2017) Conjugated polyelectrolyte based sensitive detection and removal of antibiotics tetracycline from water. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 9, 4433-4439. (if=8.097, ci=17)

6. Malik, A. H.; Kalita, A.; Iyer, P. K.* (2017) Development of Well Preserved, Substrate-Versatile Latent Fingerprints by Aggregation Induced Enhanced Emission Active Conjugated Polyelectrolyte. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9, 37501–37508. (if=8.097, ci=15)

7. Malik, A. H.; Hussain, S.; Kalita, A.; Iyer, P. K.* (2016) Conjugated polymer nanoparticles for the amplified detection of nitro-explosive picric acid on multiple platforms ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 7, 26968-26976. (if=8.097, ci=51)

8. Soni, S. S.; Fadadu, K. B.; Vaghasiya, J. V. Solanki, B. G.; Sonigara, K. K. Singh, A.; Das, D.; Iyer, P. K.* (2015) Improved molecular architecture of D–π–A carbazole dyes: 9% PCE with a cobalt redox shuttle in dye sensitized solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 3, 21664-21671. (if=9.931, ci=52)

9. Hussain, S.; Malik, A. H.; Afroz, A. M.; Iyer, P. K.* (2015) Ultrasensitive detection of nitroexplosive–picric acid via a conjugated polyelectrolyte in aqueous media and solid support. Chemical Communications, 51, 7207-7210. (if=6.319, ci=62)

10. Vasimalla, S.; Senanayak, S.; Sharma, M.; Narayan, K. S.;* Iyer, P. K.* (2014) Improved performance of solution-processed n-type organic field-effect transistors by regulating the intermolecular interactions and crystalline domains on macroscopic scale. Chemistry of Materials, 26, 4030-4037. (if=9.890, ci=29)

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KAPOOR, SUDHIR (b 1959), Head, Radiation & Chemistry Division, Associate Director (D), Chemistry Group, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai


Dr. Sudhir Kapoor is pursuing basic and applied research in the challenging areas of short lived intermediates at the solid/liquid interface, surface chemistry coupled with Raman spectroscopy as well as in catalytic reactions. Dr. Kapoor has been actively involved in designing novel plasmonic nanostructures not only for the fundamental understanding of metal-molecule interactions but also for developing nanosensors for societal applications. Dr. Kapoor has recently developed polymeric thin film based nanosensors for the detection of fungicide. By exploring the surface catalyzed oxidation of bio-compound functionalized silver nanoparticles, he has demonstrated the potential to develop novel sensors for the detection of hypoxia in cells. His research involving the synthesis of pH sensitive gold nanoparticles using L-tryptophan for potential applications in radiosensitization, studies on the selective colorimetric and Raman detectionof traces of toxic heavy metal ions, Hg (II) and Pb (II) in drinking water in addition to the detection of milk adulterant “melamine” in real milk samples are of direct relevance to societal applications. He has demonstrated enhanced stability of drugs over SiO2 nanosurface. Recently, he has shown successfully that by using Cu nanoparticles the reaction time under normal conditions for Click reaction can be reduced drastically. His work has resulted in publication of 180 high quality research papers in reputed and high-impact international journals resulting in a total number of citations of more than 3000. In view of the excellent contributions by Dr. Kapoor to the above-mentioned thrust areas, I very strongly recommend that NASI Fellowship be conferred on Dr. Sudhir Kapoor.

Proposer: Prof. A.K. Tyagi, Seconder: Prof. J.P. Mittal


1. Preparation, characterization and surface modification of silver particles, S. Kapoor, Langmuir 14, 1021 (1998) (if=3.789, ci=205)

2. Protection of radiation induced protein damage by curcumin, S. Kapoor and K.I. Priyadarsini, Biophys. Chem. 92, 119 (2001) (if=1.870, ci=79)

3. Photochemical formation of copper nanoaprticles in poly (N-vinylpyrrolidone), S. Kapoor and T. Mukherjee, Chem. Phys. Letts. 370, 83 (2003) (if=1.860, ci=75)

4. Synthesis of nanosize silver colloids by microwave dielectric heating, Kirti Patel, Sudhir Kapoor, D. P. Dave and Tulsi Mukherjee, J. Chemical Science 117, 53 (2005) (if=1.254, ci=103)

5. Synthesis of Pt, Pd Pt/Ag, and Pd/Ag nanoparticles by microwave-polyol method, Kirti Patel, Sudhir Kapoor, D. P. Dave and Tulsi Mukherjee, J. Chem. Sci. 117, 311 (2005) (if=1.254, ci=84)

6. Synthesis of silver nanoprisms in formamide, Anjana Sarkar, Sudhir Kapoor and Tulsi Mukherjee, J. Coll. Inter. Sci. 287, 496 (2005)(if= 5.09, ci=56)

7. PVP-stabilized copper nanoparticles: A reusable catalyst for ‘click’ reaction between terminal alkynes and azides in non-aqueous solvents, Anjana Sarkar, Tulsi Mukherjee and Sudhir Kapoor, J. Phys. Chem. C 112, 3334 (2008) (if=4.484, ci=166)

8. In vitro studies on the binding, antioxidant, and cytotoxic actions of punicalagin, A. P. Kulkarni, H. S. Mahal, S. Kapoor and S. M. Aradhya, J. Agric. Food Chem. 55, 1491, (2007) (if=3.154, ci=78)

9. Role of phenol derivatives in the formation of silver nanoparticles, Jasmine A. Jacob, Harbir S. Mahal, Nandita Biswas, Tulsi Mukherjee and Sudhir Kapoor, Langmuir 24, 528, (2008) (if=3.789, ci=64)

10. Interaction between quantum dots of CdTe and reduced graphene Oxide: Investigation Through Cyclic Voltammetry and Spectroscopy Ganesh B Markad, Shateesh Battu, Sudhir Kapoor, and Santosh K. Haram J. Phys. Chem. C 117 (2013) 20944−20950(if=4.484, ci=42)

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MAURYA, MANNAR RAM (b 1958), Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee


Prof. Maurya has taken up the challenge of developing structural and functional models of active site of haloperoxidases. He has designed a whole range of artificial synthetic mimics of vanadium haloperoxidases and studied their reactivity of these models in order to explore the intermediate species involved in the catalytic oxidation reactions of haloperoxidases and sulfide-peroxidase activity of the enzymes. These studies also helped in developing, hitherto less explored coordination chemistry associated with oxidovanadium (V) and dioxidovanadium(V). Applications of structural models have been extended to function similarities and the catalytic oxidative halogenation as well as other catalytic oxidation reactions have also been explored. He has also demonstrated that replacing vanadium by its diagonal neighbor molybdenum, the synthetic molybdenum analogues work equally good and all catalytic reactions can also be carried out with them. Grafting of these model complexes in polymer matrices and zeolite-Y enhanced the applicability of these complexes for industrial usages as polymer behaves as protein mantle of the enzymes and polymer-grafted complexes behave as heterogeneous catalysts which could be recycled several times. His group has also been successful in using vanadium and/or molybdenum complexes as functional mimics of catechol oxidase, polyphenol oxidase, trans hydroxylase, etc. All these contributions have made a good impact globally on the chemistry of vanadium and molybdenum.

Proposer: Prof. M.S. Singh, Seconder: Prof. Anil Kumar


1. M.R. Maurya, A. Kumar, M. Abid, A. Azam, C. Bader and D. Rehder (2006), Dioxo- and oxovanadium(V) complexes of thiohydrazone ONS donor ligands: Synthesis, characterization, reactivity and antiamoebic activity, Inorg. Chem., 45, 1260 – 1269. (if=4.7, ci=123)

2. M.R. Maurya, A. Kumar, M. Ebel and D. Rehder (2006), Synthesis, characterization, reactivity and catalytic potential of model vanadium (IV & V) complexes with benzimidazole derived ONN donor ligands, Inorg. Chem., 45, 5924 – 5937. (if=4.7, ci=134)

3. M. R. Maurya, A. Arya, U. Kumar, F. Avecilla, A. Kumar and J. Costa Pessoa (2009), Polymer-bound oxidovanadium(IV) and dioxidovanadium(V) complexes: synthesis, characterization and catalytic application for the hydroamination of styrene and vinyl (if=4.099, ci=75)

4. M. R. Maurya, A. Arya, A. Kumar, M.L. Kuznetsov, F. Avecilla and J. Costa Pessoa (2010), Polymer-bound oxidovanadium(IV) and dioxidovanadium(V) complexes as catalysts for the oxidative desulfurization of model fuel diesel, Inorg. Chem., 49, 6586– (if=4.7, ci=86)

5. M. R. Maurya, M. Bisht, A. Kumar, M.L. Kuznetsov, F. Avecilla and J. Costa Pessoa (2011), Synthesis, characterization, reactivity and catalytic activity of oxidovanadium(IV), oxidovanadium(V) and dioxidovanadium(V) complexes of benzimidazole modi (if=4.099, ci=65)

6. M.R. Maurya, C. Haldar, A. Kumar, M.L. Kuznetsov, F. Avecilla and J.Costa Pessoa (2013), Effect of coordination sites on vanadium complexes having [VO]2+, [VO]3+ and [VO2]+ cores with hydrazones of 2,6-diformyl-4-methylphenol: Synthesis, character (if=4.099, ci=57)

7. M.R. Maurya, B. Uprety, F. Avecilla, P. Adão and J. Costa Pessoa (2015), Vanadium(V) complexes of a tripodal ligand, their characterisation and biological implication, Dalton Trans., 44, 17736 –17755. (if=4.099, ci=23)

8. M R. Maurya, B. Sarkar, F. Avecilla and I. Correia (2016), Vanadium(IV and V) complexes of pyrazolone based ligands: Synthesis, structural characterization and catalytic application, Dalton Trans., 45, 17343–17364. (if=4.099, ci=5)

9. M.R. Maurya, R. Tomar, L. Rana, and F. Avecilla (2018), Trinuclear dioxidomolybdenum(VI) complexes of tritopic phloroglucinol-based ligands and their catalytic applications for the selective epoxidation of olefins, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2952–2964 (if=2.057, ci=xx)

10. M.R. Maurya, N. Jangra, F. Avecilla, and I. Correia (2019), 4,6-Diacetyl resorcinol based vanadium(V) complexes: Reactivity and catalytic applications, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 314–329. (if=2.057, ci=xx)

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MISRA, ARVIND (b 1973), Professor, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Science Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi - 221005


The research activity of the nominee broadly covers organic and applied chemistry (Chemical Sciences). Currently his works are mainly focused on design and synthesis of some novel fluorescent organic scaffolds, organo-metallic framework, and functional optical materials. The potential molecules have been utilized to develop good chromogenic and fluorogenic chemosensors and biosensors to detect heavy and transition metal ions and anions which are known for their biologically/pathologically important activities as well as hazardous to the environment. Some of these materials have shown great sensitivity to detect metal ions and anions in organic, aqueous, semiaqueous, biological, surfactant media and living cells. The optoelectronic behaviors of molecules have been utilized to construct logic devices such as, logic gates and molecular security keypad lock systems. His work also focused on the development of good biosensors to recognize some biomolecules like important amino acids, nucleic acids, protein and carboxylic acids. The contribution made by him showed deep understanding of chemistry, organic electronics, photophysical studies which can be widely applied in molecular recognition and detection of different analytes. His earlier contribution includes synthesis of some nucleoside analogues and covalent attachment of fluorophores with oligonucleotide (DNA/RNA) for homogeneous hybridization studies in DNA diagnostics and related biophysical studies. He has also developed some heterobifunctional reagents to immobilize oligonucleotide strands on the solid (glass) surface and construction of oligonucleotide microarrays for diagnostic purposes. It shows that the problem selected by the candidate in the concern areas has wide prospective and directly concern to the common man in day-to-day life.

Proposer: Prof. Krishna Misra, Seconder: Prof. Daya Shankar Pandey


1. S.K. Dwivedi, R.C.Gupta, R.Ali, P. Srivastava, P. Singh, B.Koch, B. Maiti, A. Misra 2018, Dual Fluorophore containing efficient PET based molecular probe for selective detection of Cr3+ and PO43- ions through fluorescence “Turn–On–Off” response in partial aqueous & biological medium:Live cell imaging & Logic application, Anal. Chem.,90,10974−10981 (if=6.042, ci=02)

2. R. C. Gupta, S. S. Razi, R. Ali, S. K. Dwivedi, P. Srivastava, P. Singh, B. Koch and A. Misra, 2017, An Efficient Hg2+ Ensemble Based on a Triazole bridged Anthracene and Quinoline system for Selective Detection of Cyanide through Fluorescence Turn–Off–On Response in Solution and Live cell. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 251, 729-738 (if=5.667, ci=12)

3. S. S. Razi, R. Ali, P. Srivastava and A. Misra, 2015, A coumarin-derived useful scaffold exhibiting Cu2+ induced fluorescence quenching and fluoride sensing (On-Off-On) via copper displacement approach, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 209, 162-171.(if=5.667, ci=59)

4. P. Srivastava, S. S. Razi, R. Ali, S. Srivastav, S. Patnaik, S. Srikrishna and A. Misra, 2015, Cell permeable and organelle specific smart turn-on photoinduced electron transfer blue fluorescent probe to detect Mitochondria and ATP, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 69, 175-789. (if=8.173, ci=23)

5. P. Srivastava, S. S. Razi, R. Ali, R. C. Gupta, S. S. Yadav, G. Narayan and A. Misra, 2014, Selective naked-eye detection of Hg2+ through an efficient turn-on PET fluorescent probe and its real applications, Analytical Chemistry, 86, 8693−8699 (if=6.042, ci=81)

6. P. Srivastava, R. Ali, S. S. Razi, M. Shahid and A. Misra, 2013, Thiourea based molecular dyad (ANTU): Fluorogenic Hg2+ selective chemodosimeter exhibiting blue-green fluorescence in aqueous-ethanol environment. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 181, 584-595(if=5.667, ci=39)

7. M. Shahid, S. S. Razi, P. Srivastava, R. Ali and A. Misra, 2012, A useful scaffold based on acenaphthene exhibiting Cu2+ induced excimer fluorescence and sensing cyanide via Cu2+ displacement approach. Tetrahedron, 44, 9076-9084. (if=2.817, ci=64)

8. R. Pandey, P. Kumar, A. K. Singh, M. Shahid, Pei-zhou Li, S. K. Singh, Q. Xu, A. Misra and D. S. Pandey. 2011, Fluorescent zinc (II) complex exhibiting “On-Off-On” switching toward Cu2+ and Ag+ ions, Inorganic Chem. 50, 3189–3197 (if=4.794, ci=73)

9. A. Misra and M. Shahid, 2010, Photophysical properties of some azonaphthol derivatives for selective recognition of mercury ion in aqueous medium, J. Phys. Chem. C, 114, 16726-16739 (if=4.835, ci=57)

10. A. Misra, M. Shahid and P. Dwivedi, 2009, An efficient thiourea-based colorimetric chemosensor for naked-eye recognition of fluoride and acetate anions: UV-Vis and 1HNMR studies. Talanta, 80, 532-538. (if=4.244, ci=61)

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MISRA, RAJNEESH (b 1980), Professor, IIT, Indore


Rajneesh Misra’s research focuses on the design and synthesis of conjugated organometallic/organic molecules for optoelectronic applications. Specifically, he has contributed significantly on donor-acceptor (D-A) molecular systems for organic photovoltaics, electroluminescence and stimuli responsive devices. He has designed various strategies for tuning the optoelectronic properties of D-A systems. His latest reports has opened up a new avenue for tuning the band gap in donor-acceptor molecular systems by [2+2] cycloaddition-retrolectrocyclisation reactions (J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 4940 and J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 12440). These donor-acceptor molecular systems have been explored for n-channel and p-channel semiconductors for bulk heterojuction organic solar cells, which has shown a very respectable power conversion efficiency as an acceptor in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells (Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 2017–2024, Chem. Asian J., 2017, 12, 2908–2915 J. Mater. Chem. A, 2017,5, 3311-3319).The results obtained here provide a better alternative of fullerene derivatives in solar cell applications. He has further shown the design strategy of molecular systems with deeper HOMO levels, which is responsible for high open circuit voltage (Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, 17, 26580- 26588). Dr. Misra has showed the acceptor strength plays a crucial role in D-A systems for stimuli responsive/mechanochromic materials, which are explored in electroluminescence devices (Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 9076-9078, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015, 3, 9063-9068, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2016, 120, 18487-18495, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2016, 120, 24030-24040.)

Proposer: Prof. T. K. Chandrashekar, Seconder: M. Lakshmi Kantam


1. Rajneesh Misra*, Thaksen Jadhav, Bhausaheb Dhokale, and Shaikh M. Mobin, 2014, Reversible mechanochoromism and enhanced AIE in triphenylethene substituted phenanthroimidazoles,Chem Commun., 50, 9076-9078 (if=6.29, ci=115)

2. Bhausaheb Dhokale, Thaksen Jadhav, Shaikh M. Mobin, and Rajneesh Misra*,2014,Meso enamine substituted BODIPYs, Chem Commun., 50, 9119-9121 (if=6.29, ci=20)

3. Rajneesh Misra*, Prabhat Gautam, Thaksen Jadhav, S. M. Mobin, 2013, Donor acceptor ferrocenyl substituted benzothiadiazoles: Synthesis, Structure, and properties.J. Org. Chem, 78, 4940–4948. (if=4.8, ci=40)

4. Rajneesh Misra*, Bhausaheb Dhokale, Thaksen Jadhav, S. M. Mobin, 2014, Heteroatom connected ferrocenyl BODIPYs: synthesis, structure and properties Organometallics, 33, 1867–1877. (if=4.05, ci=36)

5. Thaksen Jadhav, Bhausaheb Dhokale, Yuvraj Patil, Shaikh M. Mobin, and Rajneesh Misra*, 2016, Multi-Stimuli Responsive Donor–Acceptor Tetraphenylethylene Substituted Benzothiadiazoles J. Phys. Chem. C, 120(42), 24030–24040. (if=4.48, ci=32)

6. Madhurima Poddar, Vinay Sharma, S. M. Mobin, Rajneesh Misra*, 2018, 1,8‐Naphthalimide Substituted BODIPY Dyads: Synthesis, Structure, Properties and Live‐Cell Imaging, Chem. Asian J., 13(19)2881–2890. (if=3.69, ci=2)

7. Yogajivan Rout, Prabhat Gautam and Rajneesh Misra*, 2017, Unsymmetrical and symmetrical push–pull phenothiazines, J. Org. Chem., 82, 6840–6845 (if=4.80, ci=7)

8. Rekha Sharma, Michael Thomas, Rajneesh Misra, Francis D'Souza, 2019, Strong Ground and Excited State Charge Transfer in C3-Symmetric Truxene Derived, Low- Band Gap, Phenothiazine-Tetracyanobutadine (TCBD) and Expanded TCBD Conjugates, (if=12.01, ci=0)

9. Rajneesh Misra, R. Kumar, T. K. Chandrashekar*, C. H. Suresh, A. Nag, D Goswami, 2006, 22π Smaragdyrin Molecular Conjugates with Aromatic Phenylacetylenes and Ferrocenes; Syntheses, Electrochemical and Photonic Properties J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 1608(if=14.35, ci=69)

10. Rajneesh Misra, T. K. Chandrashekar*, 2008, Structural Diversity in Expanded Porphyrins Acc. Chem. Res., 41, 265–279. (if=20.95, ci=189)

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NAGARAJAN, RAJAMANI (b 1965), Professor, Delhi University, Delhi


The nominee has been working under the theme of molecules to materials or the bottom-up approach of building the condensed matter. The use of double oxalates to produce metal titanates has been exemplified in Polyhedron 2009, 28, 579-585. To overcome the difficulties during the synthesis of silver containing oxides by solid state reactions, use of ultrasound has been demonstrated in J. Solid State Chem. 2009, 182, 1283-1290. Simple, scalable and low phonon energy matrix doped with rare-earths has been highlighted to be an efficient upconversion phosphor (Opt. Mater. 2010, 33, 42-47). Hexagonal modification of it has been made by judicious choice of reactants (Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 12748-12754). Heavily F-doped SnO2 has been produced by a novel oxidation approach (Inorg. Chem. 2011, 50, 5637-5645). The control of red-ox chemistry by the counter anion of metal-thiourea precursors has been proved to be an additional handle to maneuver stoichiometry in metal sulphides (Inorg. Chem. 2011, 50, 3065-3070) and further enhanced understanding for the judicious choice of precursors to synthesize CuFeS2 in wurtzite structure for the first time (Chem.Commun. 2013, 49, 7316-7318).The ability of mercapto functionality to produce crystalline metal chalcogenides at room temperature has been highlighted to be cost effective and energy efficient procedure (Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 7945-7947). The precise control of composition in the Cu-S system using an oxidative deintercalation procedure has been demonstrated (Inorg. Chem. 2011, 50, 9204-9206). Anion (fluoride) doped ceria nanocrystals have been demonstrated to be good catalysts for oxidative coupling reactions (Inorg. Chem. 2014, 53, 2030-2039).

Proposer: Prof. A.K. Tyagi, Seconder: Dr. A.C. Bhasikuttan


1. YK Sharma, M Kharkwal, S Uma, R Nagarajan, Synthesis and characterization of titanates of the formula MTiO3 (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, and Cd) by co-precipitation of mixed metal oxalates. Polyhedron 2009, 28, 579-585 (if=2.067, ci=75)

2. R Nagarajan, N Tomar, Ultrasound assisted ambient temperature synthesis of ternary oxide AgMO2 (M= Fe, Ga). J. Solid State Chem. 2009, 182, 1283-1290. (if=2.179, ci=27)

3. N Tyagi, AA Reddy, R Nagarajan, KLaF4: Er An efficient up conversion phosphor, Opt. Mater. 2010, 33, 42-47. (if=2.320, ci=33)

4. V Kumar, A Govind, R. Nagarajan, Optical and photocatalytic properties of heavily F-doped SnO2 nanocrystals by a novel single source precursor approach. Inorg. Chem. 2011, 50, 5637-5645. (if=4.700, ci=86)

5. P Kumar, M Gusain, R Nagarajan, Synthesis of Cu1.8S and CuS from copper-thiourea containing precursors; Anionic (Cl-, NO3-, SO42-) influence on the product stoichiometry. Inorg. Chem. 2011, 50, 3065-3070. (if=4.700, ci=89)

6. P Kumar, R Nagarajan, An elegant room temperature procedure for the precise control of composition in the Cu-S system. Inorg. Chem. 2011, 50, 9204-9206. (if=4.700, ci=42)

7. S Ahmad, GV Prakash, R Nagarajan, Hexagonally ordered KLaF4 host: Phase controlled synthesis and luminescence studies. Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 12748-12754. (if=4.700, ci=33)

8. P Kumar, M Gusain, R Nagarajan, Solvent mediated room temperature synthesis of highly crystalline Cu9S5 (Cu1.8S), CuSe, PbS and PbSe from their elements. Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 7945-7947. (if=4.700, ci=21)

9. P Kumar, S Uma, R Nagarajan, Precursor driven one pot synthesis of wurtzite and chalcopyrite CuFeS2. Chem.Commun. 2013, 49, 7316-7318. (if=6.290, ci=28)

10. S Ahmad, K Gopalaiah, SN Chandrudu, R Nagarajan, Anion (Fluoride)-doped ceria nanocrystals: Synthesis, characterization, and its catalytic application to oxidative coupling of benzylamines. Inorg. Chem. 2014, 53, 2030-2039. (if=4.700, ci=32)

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RAO, P.R. VASUDEVA (b 1953), VC, Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai


Prof. (Dr.) Vasudeva Rao led the R & D programme on chemical aspects of fast reactors and their fuel cycle at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam. He is internationally renowned for his work on actinide separations and especially his study on third phase formation in the extraction of plutonium and thorium. The studies carried out by him have been invaluable in finalising the flow sheets for reprocessing of the uranium plutonium mixed carbide fuel at IGCAR. Prof. Rao developed alternate extractants and diluents for fuel reprocessing and nuclear waste management. He developed an indigenous diluent for reprocessing, and supplied it for use in a reprocessing plant for the first time in India. He developed the solvent triamylphosphate for reprocessing of fast reactor fuels and demonstrated the recovery of uranium and plutonium. His group synthesised extractants for the recovery of long lived actinide elements such as americium and curium from the high level liquid waste generated in fuel reprocessing and demonstrated the recovery process with actual high level liquid waste. The unsymmetrical diglycolamide extractant developed by his group has been shown to have a number of important advantages over the other reported amide extractants. Prof. Rao was also the first to demonstrate the supercritical fluid extraction technique for quantitative recovery of uranium, plutonium and americium from various matrices. His group also synthesized a unique macroporous bifunctional phosphinic acid resin capable of extracting uranium from a variety of media, and realized commercial manufacture of this resin.

Proposer: Prof. J. P. Mittal , Seconder: Prof. Srikumar Banerjee


1. P. R. Vasudeva Rao, and Z. Kolarik (1996), “A Review of Third Phase Formation in Extraction of Actinide Ions by Neutral Organophosphorous Extractants”, Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange, 14(6) pp.955-993. (if=2.034, ci=191)

2. P. R. Vasudeva Rao (1998), “Extraction of Actinides by Trialkyl Phosphates”, Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review, Vol. 18, pp. 309-331. (if=2.117, ci=7)

3. R. Kumaresan, K. N. Sabharwal, T. G. Srinivasan, P. R. Vasudeva Rao and GuneshDhekane (2006), “Evaluation of New Anion Exchange Resins for Plutonium Processing”, Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange Vol. 24, pp. 589-602. (if=2.034, ci=18)

4. R. Kumar, N. Sivaraman, K. Sujatha, T. G. Srinivasan and P. R. Vasudeva Rao (2007), “Removal of Plutonium and Americium from Waste Matrices by Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Extraction”, Radiochim. Acta, Vol. 95, pp. 577-584. (if=1.202, ci=19)

5. P. R. Vasudeva Rao, K. A. Venkatesan and T. G. Srinivasan(2008), “Studies on Applications of Room Temperature Ionic Liquids”, Progress in Nuclear Energy, Vol. 50 pp. 449-455. (if=1.308, ci=50)

6. M. P. Antony, R. Kumaresan, A. S. Suneesh, R. Rajeswari, B. Robertselvan, V. Sukumaran, R. Manivannan, K V. Syamala, K. A. Venkatesan, T. G. Srinivasan and P. R. Vasudeva Rao (2011), “Development of a CMPO Based Extraction Process for Partitioning of Minor Actinides and Demonstration with Genuine Fast Reactor Fuel Solution, Radiochim.Acta 99, 207 (if=1.202, ci=29)

7. Kitheri Joseph, R.Asuvathraman, R.Venkata Krishnan, T.R.Ravindran, R.Govindaraj, K.V.Govindan Kutty and P.R.Vasudeva Rao (2014), Characterization and Comparison With Pristine Iron Phosphate Glass, Journal of Nuclear Materials, 452, 273-280 (if=2.048, ci=14)

8. Ashish Jain, S Anthonysamy, K. Ananthasivan, R. Ranganathan, Vinit Mittal, S. V. Narasimhan and P. R. Vasudeva Rao (2008), “Characterization of Electrodeposited Elemental Boron”, Materials Characterization, 59, 890-900 (if=2.892, ci=23)

9. P. R. Vasudeva Rao, K. A. Venkatesan, A. Rout, T. G Srinivasan and K. Nagarajan (2012), “Potential Applications of Room Temperature Ionic Liquids for Fission Products and Actinide Separation”, Separation Science and Technology, 47, 204-222. (if=1.200, ci=118)

10. B. Sreenivasulu, A. Suresh, S. Subramaniam, K. N. Sabharwal, N. Sivaraman, K. Nagarajan, T. G. Srinivasan and P. R. Vasudeva Rao (2015), “Separation of U(VI) and Pu(IV) from Am(III) and Trivalent Lanthanides with Tri-iso-amyl Phosphate (TiAP) as the Extractant by Using an Ejector Mixer-Settler”, Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange, Vol. 33,120 (if=2.034, ci=10)

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ROY, RAM KINKAR (b 1964) Professor; Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan


The research area of Prof. Ram Kinkar Roy is formal and conceptual development of density functional reactivity theory (DFRT). His major contributions have been on proposing two new reactivity descriptors (‘relative electrophilicity’ and ‘relative nucleophilicity’) as well as in depth analysis on the aspects of non-negativity of Fukui function indices. He has proposed ‘One-into-Many’ Model to predict the regioselectivity of large chemical and biological systems using DFRT based parameters. He has also analytically investigated the N (i.e., number of electrons) dependence problem of local hardness descriptor and suggested the ways to circumvent this problem. Another major contribution by Prof. Roy is the decomposition of stabilization energy into energy-raising and energy-lowering components and exploiting them to study kinetics and thermodynamics of both reactive and non-reactive interactions. Very recently he has developed a theoretical model of covalent bonding (in terms of DFRT) while investigating charge transfer limit of a chemical adduct. This formalism is also extended to take care of the solvent effect on stabilization energy when a chemical adduct is formed. Apart from working on formal and conceptual development of DFRT he helps the experimental chemists whenever the situation is warranted for. Thus he has collaborated in verifying the crystal structure of co-ordination complexes, explaining charge transfer absorption bands as well as ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic coupling phenomena, in explaining hybridization of bonded atoms in complexes, studying photo-physical properties of Aggregation Induced Emissive (AIE) materials.

Proposer: Prof. Sourav Pal, Seconder: Prof. Swapan Kumar Ghosh

Ten Best Publications: 1. R. K. Roy , S. Krishnamurty, P. Geerlings and S. Pal (1998), Local Softness and Hardness based Reactivity Descriptors for Predicting Intra and Intermolecular Reactivity Sequences of Carbonyl Compounds; J. Phys. Chem. A. 1998, 102, 3746-3755 (if= 2.836, ci= 271) 2. R. K. Roy, S. Pal and K. Hirao (1999), On Non-Negativity of Fukui Function Indices; J. Chem. Phys. 1999, 110, 8236-8245 (if= 2.843, ci= 228) 3. R.K. Roy, K. Hirao and S .Pal (2000); On Non-Negativity of Fukui Function Indices –II; J. Chem. Phys., 113, 1372-1379 (if= 2.843, ci= 103) 4. R. K. Roy, K. Hirao, S. Krishnamurty and S. Pal (2001); Mulliken Population Analysis Based Evaluation of Condensed Fukui Function Indices Using Fractional Molecular Charge ; J. Chem. Phys., 115, 7, 2901-2907 (if= 2.843, ci= 78) 5. P. W. Ayers, R. C. Morrison and R. K. Roy (2002); Variational Principles For Describing Chemical Reactions: Condensed Reactivity Indices; J. Chem. Phys., 116, 873 (if= 2.843, ci=183) 6. S. Saha and R. K. Roy (2007); One-into-Many’Model: An Approach on DST Based Reactivity Descriptor to Predict the Regioselectivity of Large Systems J. Phys. Chem. B, 111, 9664-9674 (if= 3.14, ci= 36) 7. Soumen Saha and Ram Kinkar Roy (2008); N-dependence Problem of Local Hardness Parameter; Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 10, 5591-5598 (if=3.906, ci=30) 8. Priyanka Bagaria, Soumen Saha, Siva Murru, Veerababurao Kavala, Bhisma K. Patel and Ram Kinkar Roy (2009); A Comprehensive Decomposition Analysis of Stabilization Energy (CDASE) and its Application in Locating the Rate Determining Step in Multi-step Reactions Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 11, 8306-8315 (if= 3.906, ci= 33) 9. Soumen Saha, Rituparna Bhattacharjee, and Ram Kinkar Roy (2013); Hardness Potential Derivatives and Their Relation to Fukui Indices; Journal of Computational Chemistry, 34, 662-672 (if= 3.221, ci= 14) 10. Aabid Hamid, Atul Anand and Ram Kinkar Roy (2017), The charge transfer limit of a chemical adduct: the role of perturbation on external potential; Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2017, 19, 10905-10912 (if= 3.906, ci= 1)

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SARKAR, PRANAB (b 1969), Professor, Department of Chemistry, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan


The major scientific contribution of Prof. Sarkar is in the field of computational materials science, giving special emphasis on solar energy harvesting materials. He has developed semiempirical tight-binding self-consistent-charge density functional (SCC-DFTB) parameter sets for Zn- and Cd-chalcogenides [JCTC 7(2011)2262, JCC 33(2012)1165], which are essential for performing large scale simulations on such materials. His research unravel the role of the size of quantum dot (QD) and also the effect of thickness in core/shell QD or nanowire (NW) for controlling the efficiency of solar cell, by qualitative or semi-quantitative prediction of charge transfer and recombination dynamics [JCP 123(2005)044311; JMC 22(2012)10716; JPCC 116(2012)21601; 117(2013)15890]. His works on organic dye-sensitized solar cells also pave numerous advancement in the fundamental understanding of the concerning charge transfer processes [JPCC 121(2017)2574; 122(2018)14296]. Currently, he is involved in studying the excited state charge carrier dynamics by using nonadiabatic molecular dynamics simulation (NAMD) in conjunction with SCC-DFTB. Besides, his recent works on doped and/or defective graphenes, especially on their charge and spin transport properties, are remarkable in the field of electronic/spintronic materials [JPCC 116(2012)18064; PCCP 15(2013)21001]. His prediction over penta-graphene nanoribbons has attracted a tremendous attention in research community [Carbon 100(2016)118]. In another nice article, Prof. Sarkar has explained the stability and unusual metallic behavior of β0-PC monolayer from a very basic understanding of chemical bonding [JPC Lett. 8(2017)747]. The intuitive idea of a two-dimensional metal-organic-framework, led by Prof. Sarkar [PCCP 17(2015)17437], has been verified recently by an experimental research group [Nat.Com. 9(2018)2637].

Proposer: Prof. Pratim Kumar Chattaraj, Seconder: Prof. Swapan Kumar Pati


1. S. Sarkar, S. Pal, P. Sarkar*, A. L. Rosa and Th. Frauenheim, (2011), Self-consistent-charge density-functional tight-binding parameters for Cd-X (X = S, Se, Te) compounds and their interaction with H, O, C, and N, J. Chem. Theory Comput., 7, 2262 (if=5.399, ci=34)

2. S. Sarkar, S. Pal and P. Sarkar*, (2012), “Electronic structure and band gap engineering of CdTe Nanowires”, J. Mater. Chem., 22, 10716 (if=6.626, ci=17)

3. A. Pramanik, S. Sarkar and P. Sarkar*, (2012), “Doped GNR p-n junction as high performance NDR and rectifying device”, J. Phys. Chem C, 116, 18064 (if=4.484, ci=53)

4. S. Saha, S. Sarkar, S. Pal and P. Sarkar*, (2013), Tuning the Energy Levels of ZnO/ZnS Core/Shell Nanowires To Design an efficient Nanowire-Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell, J. Phys. Chem. C, 117, 15890 (if=4.484, ci=39)

5. B. Rajbanshi, S. Sarkar and P. Sarkar*, (2014), “Band gap engineering of Graphene-CdTe quantum dot hybrid nanostructures”, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2, 8967 (if=5.976, ci=20)

6. S. Biswas, A. Pramanik and P. Sarkar*, (2016), Computational studies on the reactivity of alkyl halide over (Al2O3)n nanoclusters: An approach towards room temperature dehydrohalogenation, Nanoscale, 8, 10205 (if=7.233, ci=10)

7. B. Rajbanshi, S. Sarkar, B. Mandal and P. Sarkar*, (2016), Energetic and electronic structure of penta-graphene nanoribbons, Carbon, 100, 118 (if=7.082, ci=33)

8. C. Chakravarty, B. Mandal and P. Sarkar*, (2016), “Bis(dithioline) based metal-organic frameworks with superior electronic and magnetic properties: spin frustration to spintronics and gas sensing”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 120, 28307 (if=4.484, ci=17)

9. B. Rajbanshi and P. Sarkar*, (2017), Is the metallic phosphorus carbide (β0‐PC) monolayer stable? An answer from a theoretical perspective, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 8, 747 (if=8.709, ci=12)

10. M. Kar, R. Sarkar, S. Pal and P. Sarkar*, (2019), Pathways for improving the photovoltaic efficiency of porphyrin and phosphorene antidot lattice nanocomposite: an insight from theoretical study, J. Phys. Chem. C, 123, 5303 (if=4.484, ci=0)

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SENAPATI, SANJIB (b 1972), Professor, IIT Madras, Chennai


Sanjib’s interdisciplinary research is finding significant impact in the area of computational drug discovery. His molecular dynamics (MD) simulation studies of the conformational changes of cyclin-dependent kinases and their interactions with small molecule inhibitors by protein-ligand docking are yielding new insights for rational design of cancer drugs (Sci. Rep. 2016; Biochemistry 2014). By detailed MD simulations and network analysis, his research group has also unraveled the structural plasticity and existence of a long core-tunnel in CETP that facilitates the transfer of neutral lipids between HDL and LDL. Subsequently, this understanding was used to explain the drug-resistance mechanism of CETP (JBC 2016; Sci. Rep. 2017; JPCB 2016). This work is of potentially great importance in the management of cardiovascular diseases. Sanjib’s work on drug resistance mechanism of HIV-1 protease mutants and its extension on the discovery of novel inhibitors has established the concept that specific HIV protease mutants could be resistant to drugs, but functionally active for substrate cleavage (Biochemistry 2016; Biochemistry 2017; Biochemistry 2008; JACS 2009). DNA undergoes denaturation at room temperature in few weeks time. Sanjib’s research group has shown that DNA stored in Ionic Liquid (IL)/Water binary mixtures at room temperature remains chemically and structurally stable over many years. By combining experimental techniques and MD simulation methods, his research group has shown that it’s the strong binding of the IL molecules to DNA minor groove and consequent disruption of DNA spine-of-hydration by ILs that prevent DNA hydrolysis and the consequent denaturation (JACS 2012, NAR 2018).

Proposer: Prof. T. Pradeep, Seconder: Prof. A.K. Mishra


1. S. Senapati and A. Chandra, 2001, “Dielectric constant of water confined in a nanocavity”, J. Phys. Chem. B. 105, 5106-5109.(if=3.15, ci=221)

2. V. S. V. Chaitanya and S. Senapati, 2008, "Self-assembled Reverse Micelles in Supercritical CO2 Entrap Protein in Native State ", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 1866. (if=14.36, ci=39)

3. C. Aneesh, K. Prakash and S. Senapati, 2010, "Self-assembled Inverted Micelles Stabilize Ionic Liquid Domains in Supercritical CO2", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132, 12511. (if=14.36, ci=43)

4. C. Aneesh, D. Ghoshdastidar, 2012, S. Senapati, Groove binding mechanism of Ionic liquids: A key factor in long-term stability of DNA in hydrated Ionic liquids? J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134, 20330. (if=14.36, ci=87)

5. S. L. Rath, S. Senapati, 2014, "Why Are the Truncated Cyclin Es More Effective CDK2 Activators than the Full-Length Isoforms?" Biochemistry 53, 4612-4624. (if=3.01, ci=12)

6. V.Chirasani, P.D. Revanasiddappa, S. Senapati, 2016, "Structural plasticity of cholesteryl ester transfer protein assists its lipid transfer activity", J. Biol. Chem. 291, 19462-19473 (if=4.01, ci=14)

7. R. Appadurai, S. Senapati, 2016, "Dynamical Network of HIV-1 Protease Mutants Reveals the Mechanism of Drug Resistance and Unhindered Activity", Biochemistry 55, 1529-1540 (if=3.01, ci=14)

8. D. Ghoshdastidar, S. Senapati, 2016, "Ion-Water Wires in Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquid/Water Solutions Induce Unique Trends in Density", Soft Matter 12, 3032-3045 (if=3.89, ci=13)

9. D. Ghoshdastidar, D. Ghosh, S. Senapati, 2016, "High Nucleobase-Solubilizing Ability of Low-Viscous Ionic Liquid/Water Mixtures: Measurements and Mechanism", J. Phys. Chem. B. 120, 492-501 (if=3.15, ci=11)

10. D.Ghoshdastidar and S. Senapati, 2018, "Dehydrated DNA in B-form: Ionic Liquids in Rescue," Nucleic Acids Res. 46, 4344-4353(if=11.56)

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SHUNMUGAM, RAJA (b 1974) Professor, IISER, Kolkata


Dr. Raja Shunmugam is a full Professor in the Department of Chemical Sciences since October 2018. Institute is very happy to nominate his application for the prestigious NASI-fellowship for his Application Oriented Innovative research that he has been practicing over the years since joining IISER Kolkata. Prof. Shunmugam's group is on the development of "Unique Norbornene Polymer Based "In-Field" Sensor for As (III)". An innovative approach has been implemented by the combination of colorimetry and fluorometry in aqueous environment to come out with a norbornene derived rhodamine monomer (Nor-Rh) that responds very selectively and sensitively to As (III) in presence of potassium iodate and hydrochloric acid. The response time is instantaneous even at ppb level of As (III) and the redox reaction is very specific to As (III). Prof. Shunmugam group has also demonstrated norbornene attached thiol monomer and it's polymer for As (lIl) removal. As expected, the ability of the polymer in removing As (III) was 10 times greater than that of its corresponding monomer due to the availability of more number of functional groups in polymer to bind arsenic. Institute has encouraged filing an International Patent for this work (PCT/IB2015/051113). Most importantly, this work has been awarded with Joint Runner-Up in the 6th National Award for Technology Innovation under the Polymeric Materials category, 20 January 2016. The Award winning technology has been transferred to a commercialized product to sense as well as remove Arsenic in collaboration with ADO Additives Ltd., Kolkata (Annexure 2 &3).

Proposer: Prof. Sourav Pal, Secodner: Prof. P.K. Panigrahi Ten Best Publicatons: 1. Santu Sarkar and Raja Shunmugam*, 2014, "Polynorbomene derived 8-hydroxyquinoline paper strips for ultrasensitive chemical nerve agent surrogate sensing" Chem. Commun., ,50,8511-8513. (if= 6.29; ci= 25) 2. Sourav Bhattacharya, Santu Sarkar and Raja Shunmugam* 2013, "Unique norbomene polymer based "in-field" sensor for As(III)" J. Mater. Chem. A, 1, 8398-8405. (if= 9.93; ci= 12) 3. Sarkar S., Mondal, A., Tiwari, A. K. and Shunmugam, R. * 2012, "Unique Emission from Norbomene Derived Terpyridine - A Selective Sensor for G-type Nerve Agent Surrogates" Chem. Comm. 48, 4223-4225. (if= 6.29; ci= 37) 4. Santu Sarkar and Raja Shunmugam*, 2013, "Unusual Red Shift of the Sensor While Detecting the Presence of Cd2+ in Aqueous Environment" ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 7379-7383. (if= 8.09; ci= 5l) 5. Vijaykameswara Rao, N.; Shivshankar, M.; Abhinoy, K.; Das Sarma, J*.; Shunmugam, R.* 2012, "Norbomene Derived Doxorubicin Copolymers as Drug Carriers with pH Responsive Hydrazone Linker" Biomacromolecules, 13 (1), 221-230,. (Listed in "Most Read Article" published by Biomacromolecules). (if= 5.7; ci= 89) 6. Mukherjee, Saikat, Dinda, Himadri, Shashank, Litesh, Chakraborty, Ipsita, Bhattacharyya, Rangeet, Das Sarma, Jayasri, and Raja Shunmugam,* 2015, "Site specific amphiphilic magnetic copolymer nano-aggregates for dual imaging" Macromolecules, 48(19), 6791-6800. 5.554; (ci= 6) 7. Mutyala Naidu Ganivada, Vijayakameswara Rao N, Himadri Dinda, Pawan Kumar, Jayasri Das Sarma#, and Raja Shunmugam*, 2014,"Biodegradable Magnetic Nanocarrier for Stimuli Responsive Drug Release" Macromolecule, 47(8), pp 2703-271l. (if= 5.554; ci= 18) 8. Shiv shankar, M; Vijaykameswara Rao, N.; Shunmugam, R.* 2012, "Reversible pH- and Lipid-Sensitive Vesicles from Amphiphilic Norbomene-Derived Thiobarbiturate Homopolymers" ACS Macro Letters, 1(4), 482-488,. (Listed in "Most Read Article" published by ACS Macro Letters). (if= 5.766;ci= 22). 9. Shivshankar, M; Vijaykameswara Rao, N.; Koushik, C.; Himadri, D.; Soma, N.; Abhinoy, K.; Das Sarma, J* .;Shunmugam, R. * 2012, "Amphiphilic Homopolymer Vesicles as Unique Nano-Carriers for Cancer Therapy" Macromolecules,45(19), 8037-8042. (if= 5.554; ci= 25). 10. Vijayakameswara Rao N, Mutyala Naidu Ganivada, Santu Sarkar, Himadri Dinda, Koushik Chatterjee, Tanmoy Dalui1#, Jayasri Das Sarma#, and Raja Shunmugam*, 2014, "Magnetic Norbomene Polymer as Multiresponsive Nanocarrier for Site Specific Cancer Therapy" Bioconjugate Chem., 25 (2), pp 276-285. (if= 4.500; ci= 16).

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SK, MUSHARAF ALI (b 1971), Scientific Officer G, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai


Dr. Ali was involved in the extension of mode coupling theory (MCT) for the determination of self-, cross-, tracer diffusivity and shear viscosity. Based on MCT and MD simulations, he has established a universal scaling law connecting diffusivity and excess entropy for bulk and confined fluids and fluid mixtures. He has also developed a computational scheme for the design and screening of novel ligands, adsorbents and diluents for solvent extraction of metal ions and isotope separation using the density functional theory (DFT). He has carried out extensive screening of ligands and adsorbents using DFT for lithium, gadolinium and zinc isotope separation validated by performing experiments. He has demonstrated theoretically that calix-crown6 is the best candidate for Cs removal and successfully demonstrated the dual mode of extraction for Cs+ and Na+ ions in ionic liquids using DFT and experiments. He has also established the extraction mechanism of radionuclide with diglycolamide using DFT. Further, he has demonstrated ultrafast flow of water through CNT using 2 phase thermodynamic method (2PT) and MD simulations . It is imperative to declare that all of his research works have been and are carried out at Indian Laboratories. His developed methodology has directly helps in the intensification of various chemical processes which not only saves time and money but also helps in the fundamental level understanding of complex chemical process like isotope and radionuclide separation. I am pleased to nominate him for the fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India in the Chemical Science.

Proposer: Prof. Dilip K. Maity, Seconder: Prof. P.K. Mohapatra


1. Sk. Musharaf Ali, Alok Samanta and Swapan K. Ghosh, (2001) Mode coupling theory of self and cross diffusivity in a binary fluid mixture: Application to Lennard-Jones systems, J. Chem. Phys, 114, 10419-10429. (if=2.843, ci=44)

2. Alok Samanta, Sk. Musharaf Ali, and Swapan K. Ghosh (2001) Universal Scaling Laws of Diffusion in a Binary Fluid Mixture, Phys. Rev. Lett., 87, 245901-4. (if=8.839, ci=81)

3. Sk. Musharaf Ali, S. De, and D. K. Maity, (2007) Microhydration of Cs+ ion: A density functional theory study on Cs+–(H2O)n clusters n=1–10. J. Chem. Phys., 127, 044303 (if=2.843, ci=24)

4. Sk. Musharaf Ali*, D.K. Maity, S. De and M.R.K. Shenoi, (2008) Ligands for selective metal ion extraction: A molecular modeling approach, Desalination, 232, 2008, 181-190 (if=6.603, ci=29)

5. A. Boda and Sk. Musharaf Ali*, (2012) Density Functional Theoretical Investigation of Remarkably High Selectivity of the Cs+ Ion over the Na+ Ion toward Macrocyclic Hybrid Calix-Bis-Crown Ether, J. Phys. Chem. A, 116, 8615−8623. (if=2.836, ci=25)

6. Sk. Musharaf Ali*, (2014) Thermodynamical Criteria of the Higher Selectivity of Zirconium Oxycations over Hafnium Oxycations towards Organophosphorus Ligands: Density Functional Theoretical Investigation, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2014, 1533-1545. (if=2.444, ci=14)

7. A.K. Singha Deb, Sk. Musharaf Ali*, K. T. Shenoy and S. K. Ghosh, (2014) Nano cavity induced isotope separation of zinc: Density functional theoretical modeling, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 59, 2472-2484. (if=2.196, ci=6)

8. P. Sahu and Sk. Musharaf Ali* (2015), The entropic forces and dynamic integrity of single file water in hydrophobic nanotube confinements, J. Chem. Physics, 143, 184503. (if=2.843, ci=8)

9. Sk. Musharaf Ali*, S. Pahan, A. Bhattacharyya and P.K. Mohapatra (2016), Complexation thermodynamics of diglycolamide with f-elements: Solvent extraction and density functional theoretical analysis, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18, 9816-9828. (if=3.906, ci=23)

10. P. Sahu, Sk. Musharaf Ali*, K.T. Shenoy (2017), Test of Universal Scaling Law for Molecular Diffusion of Liquids in Bulk and Nanotube Confinement, J. Phys. Chem. C 121, 11968−11974 . (if=4.484, ci=2)

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SRIVASTAVA, ASHWINI KUMAR (b 1953), Professor (Retired), UGC-BSR Faculty Fellow, University of Mumbai, Mumbai


Professor A. K. Srivastava has made pioneering contributions in the areas of electrochemical sensors, bio-sensors and transducers to target a variety of species including metals, vitamins, pharmaceuticals and biomolecules. Further, he has made noteworthy contributions in the area of energy storage materials.The highlights of his contributions are: (i) Synthesized functional materials based sensors for recognition of multi drugs namely analgesics, anthelmentic, anti-tuberculosis, cardiovascular, antipsychotics and anti-allergic, antibiotic and gastrointestinal drugs at ultra-trace levels; the speciality here has been the recognition of multiple types of drugs by a single sensor. These have received tremendous attention in the biomedical field as ‘screen printed electrode based disposable sensors’. (ii) The energy storage materials for symmetric / asymmetric supercapacitors developed by him achieved large energy density. Certain nanocomposites consisting of metal organic frameworks, carbon based materials and conduction polymers were found to achieve high specific capacitance along with excellent energy and power density. All his research has been published in high impact international journals and have received very large number of citations by peers. It is creditable that he has been declared as ‘author with highest number of citations’ in the field of Analytical Chemistry, which earned him the ‘Thomson Reuters Research Excellence India Citation Award – 2015’. Thus Professor Srivastava richly deserves to be elected to the Fellowship of NASI.

Proposer: Prof. Ramakrishna V. Hosur, Seconder: Prof. Swapan K. Ghosh


1. V. D. Vaze and A. K. Srivastava*, 2007, Electrochemical behaviour of folic acid at calixarene based chemically modified electrodes and its determination by adsorptive stripping voltammetry, Electrochim. Acta, 53, 1713 – 1721 (if=5.116, ci=115)

2. B.J. Sanghavi and A. K. Srivastava*, 2010, Simultaneous voltammetric determination of acetaminophen, aspirin and caffeine using in situ surfactant modified multiwalled carbon nanotube paste electrode. Electrochim. Acta, 55, 8638 - 8648 (if=5.116, ci=353)

3. S. M. Mobin, B. J. Sanghavi, A. K. Srivastava, P. Mathur and G. Lahiri, 2010, A Novel Biomimetic Sensor for Certain Phenols Employing a New copper(II) Complex, Anal. Chem. 82, 5983 - 5992 (if=6.04, ci=83)

4. B.J. Sanghavi and A. K. Srivastava*, 2011, Adsorptive stripping differential pulse voltammetric determination of venlafaxine and desvenlafaxine employing Nafion–carbon nanotube composite glassy carbon electrode. Electrochim. Acta., 56, 4188-4196 (if=5.116, ci=175)

5. B. J. Sanghavi and A. K. Srivastava*, 2011, Simultaneous voltammetric determination of acetaminophen and tramadol using Dowex50wx2 and gold nanoparticles modified glassy carbon paste electrode”, Anal. Chim. Acta, 706, 246-254 (if=5.123, ci=117)

6. B. J. Sanghavi, G. Hirsch, S. P. Karna, A. K. Srivastava*, 2012, Potentiometric stripping analysis of methyl and ethyl parathion employing carbon nanoparticles and halloysite nanoclay modified carbon paste electrode, Anal. Chim. Acta, 735, 37– 45 (if=5.123, ci=105)

7. B. J. Sanghvi, S. M. Mobin, P. Mathur, G. K.Lahiri, A. K. Srivastava*, 2013, Biomimetic sensor for certain catecholamines employing copper(II) complex and silver nanoparticle modified glassy carbon paste electrode, Biosens. Bioelectron., 39, 124-32 (if=8.173, ci=236)

8. B. J. Sanghavi and A. K. Srivastava*, 2013, Adsorptive stripping voltammetric determination of imipramine, trimipramine and desipramine employing titanium dioxide nanoparticles and amberlite XAD-2 modified glassy carbon paste electrode, Analyst, 138, 1395-1404 (if=3.864, ci=129)

9. P. K. Kalambate, R. A. Dar, S. P. Karna and A. K. Srivastava*, 2015, High performance supercapacitor based on graphene-silver nanoparticles-polypyrrole nanocomposite coated on glassy carbon electrode, J. Power Sources. 276, 262 - 270 (if=6.945, ci=110)

10. C. R. Rawool and A. K. Srivastava*, 2019, A dual template imprinted polymer modified electrochemical sensor based on Cu metal organic framework/mesoporous carbon for highly sensitive and selective recognition of rifampicin and isoniazid, Sensors and Actuators, B. 288, 493-506 (if=5.667)

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TRIPATHI, INDRA PRASAD (b 1966), Dean and Former Pro-Vice-Chancellor Faculty of Science and Environment, ahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramodaya Vishwavidyalya, Chitrakoot


Prof. Indra Prasad Tripathi is Dean, Faculty of Science and Env.and former Pro Vice Chancellor of MGCGV, Chitrakoot. He has made outstanding contribution towards research and re-standardization of traditional formulation of antidiabetic, antiseptic and dengue drugs using new techniques and methods. He has made remarkable contributions towards the syntheses, characterization of metal complexes with their antidiabetic, antioxidant, superoxide dismutase mimicking, free radical scavenging activities, carbon nanotubes etc. He made carbon nanotubes through metal complexes with natural proteins like spinach, egg albumins. His innovative contribution in the field of water, air and diffuse chemical pollution of Bundelkhand and Vindhan Plateau of the country is appreciable. Prof. Tripathi has been invited as speaker and Chair of the Session in the 3rd ICC for Sustainable Development: Indian Prospective, UAE, 3rd IC on ASET, Nepal and 104th ISC India. He has also organized 25 national level seminars/workshops and activities for rural masses, student's, research scholars and scientists. He has been honored with a number of awards viz. Prof.RD Desai 80th Birthday Comm. Award, Research Board of Advisors, Bioved Fellowship Award, Best Science Research Award etc. He is currently Chief Editor, Editor and Edit.Board Member of many Journals. He has published 160 research papers and his Google Scholar citation-256, h index-10, i10 index-09 and RG value-17.93. He is a founder member of BER Chapter, NASI and Organizing Secretary of 88th Annual Session of NASI and Symposium on Science, Technology and Ecosystem for Sustainable Rural Development and actively engaged in the chapter activities.

Proposer: Prof. K.B. Pandeya , Seconder: Prof. Satya Deo


1. Ram N. Patel, Yogendra Singh, Yogendra P. Singh, R. J. Butcher, Arti Kamal, I. P. Tripathi,2016, Copper(II) and nickel(II) complexes with N'-[(Z)phenyl (pyridin-2-yl) methylidene] aceto- hydrazide: Synthesis, Crystal Structures, DFT calculations and Antioxidant effects, Polyhedron, Vo. 117, PP. 20-34 . (if=2.067, ci=FIZ Karlsruhe Research Alert Current Contents/ Physics, Chemical, & Earth Sciences SciSearchChemical Abstracts BIOSIS INSPEC Scopus Science Citation Index)

2. Vivek Dhar Dwivedi, Indra Prasad Tripathi, Shiv Bharadwaj, A.C. Kaushik and S. K. Mishra, 2016, Identification of new potent inhibitors of dengue virus NS3 protease from traditional Chinese medicine database, Virus Disease, 6, Vol. 27 (3) PP. 220-225 .(if=0.364, ci=PubMedCentral, SCOPUS, EMBASE, Google Scholar, AGRICOLA, BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, EBSCO Discovery Service, OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service, ProQuest Biological Science Database, ProQuest Natural Science Collection, ProQuest SciTech Premium Collection, )

3. Vivek Dhar Dwivedi, Indra Prasad Tripathi & Sarad Kumar Mishra, 2016, In silico evaluation of inhibitory potential of triterpenoids from Azadirachta indica against therapeutic target of dengue virus, NS2B-NS3 protease, J. Vector Borne Dis., Vol. 53, PP. 156-161. (if=0.364, ci=SCOPUS, EMBASE, Google Scholar)

4. Krishna Bihari Pandeya, Indra Prasad Tripathi, Mahendra Kumar Mishra, Neelesh Dwivedi, Yogesh Pardhi, Arti Kamal, Priyanka Gupta, Nupa Dwivedi, Chinmayi Mishra, 2013, A Critical Review on Traditional Herbal Drugs: An Emerging Alternative Drug for Diabetes,International Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 3, PP. 1-22 . (if=0.54, ci=Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) CNKI SCHOLAR Cross Ref Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Index Copernicus Journal of TOCs National Science and Technology Library (NSTL) Ohio LINK (OAJSE))

5. Arvind Prasad Dwivedi, I. P. Tripathi and M. Suresh Kumar, 2013, Assessment of Soil and ground Water Quality in Rewa District of Vindhya Plateau India,Journal of Environmental Science and Engg., Vol.55(1)PP.51-64. (if=0.45, ci=SCOPUS, Google Scholar National Science and Technology Library (NSTL))

6. I. P. Tripathi, Mahendra Kumar Mishra, Arti Kamal, Chinmayi Mishra, Ruchita Tripathi, Laxmi Kant Shastri and K. B. Pandeya, 2013,Synthesis, Characterization of some Antidiabetic Copper Complexes with Ethylenediamine, Research Journal of Chemical Sciences,Vol. 3(12), PP. 54-59 . (if=5.87, ci=ABC Chemistry, Chemical Abstract, I2OR, COSMOS, ICJIF, SIS, IFJ)

7. Indra Prasad Tripathi, M. Suresh Kumar and Arvind Prasad Dwivedi, 2013, Charecterization of Diffuse Chemical Pollution in Satna District of Vindhya Region, India, Int. Res. J. Environment Sci., Vol. 2(11), PP.46-60 . (if=5.611, ci=ABC Chemistry, Chemical Abstract, I2OR, COSMOS, ICJIF, SIS, IFJ)

8. Seema Tiwari, I. P. Tripathi and H. L. Tiwari, 2013, Effects of Lead on Environment, International Journal of Emerging Research in Management & Technology,Vol. 2(6), PP. 1-5 . (if=3.969, ci=SCOPUS, Google Scholar National Science and Technology Library (NSTL))

9. A. K. Tiwari, R. P. Dixit, I. P. Triphati, and S. K. Chaturvedi, 2003, Fluoride Content in Drinking Water and Ground Water Quality in Rural Area of Tahsil Mau, District Chitrakoot, Indian J.Env. Protection 23 (9) PP. 1045-1050. (if=0.18, ci=SCOPUS, Google Scholar )

10. Mohammad Athar, Som D. Sharma, Mohammad Iqbal, Sarwat Sultana, K.B Pandeya and I. P. Triphati, 1996, Coordination of Copperpolyamine Complex with Imidazoles Potentiates its Superoxide Dismutase Mimicking Activity and Abolishes its Interaction with Albumin, Biochem. Molecul. Biology International, Vol. 39 (4) PP. 813-821. (if=1.318, ci=Pubmed, Pubmed central, Google scholar)

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ADHIKARI, SATRAJIT (b 1965), Senior Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata


Adhikari has developed an accurate analytical theory for constructing molecular symmetry adapted diabatic potential energy surfaces of molecules even in the presence of strong non-adiabatic coupling among three or more electronic states and an approximate yet useful single surface extended Born Oppenheimer equation for such systems. Such an approach is extensively used for calculating cross sections of spectroscopic and scattering processes. His parallelized TDDVR methodology has led to accurate predictions of high resolution UV-IR photoelectron spectra of many organic molecules and scattering cross sections of diatom-metal surface collision. An effective molecule surface scattering Hamiltonian incorporating the effect of non-zero surface temperature through appropriately chosen distribution function for surface phonons proposed by Adhikari has led to the correct prediction of thermal effects on the sticking probabilities in H2/D2 - Cu/Ni surface collisions. A 3D coupled wave packet approach formulated in hyperspherical coordinate has enabled Adhikari to predict reaction cross sections for atom-diatom collisions for large J values even when multiple electronic states are involved. The effort of his group in tackling the much sought after coherent control of a selective bond breaking event through clever laser pulse shaping by naturally-biased random search methods that seek to maximize the time integrated flux along a bond or population in a targeted vibrational level. Recently, it has been depicted that cubic perturbed centrifugally stabilized eigen spectrum of excited state for coupled electron-nuclear Jahn-Teller systems (LaMnO3 complex) are the responsible ones for the low temperature phase transition.

Proposer: Prof. Debashis Mukherjee, Seconder: Prof. Sourav Pal


1. Authors: B. Barkakaty, S. Adhikari Year: 2003 Title: Time-dependent discrete variable representation method in a tunneling problem Journal: The Journal of Chemical Physics Volume: 118 Issue: 12 Page no: 5302-5318 (if=2.965, ci=28)

2. Authors: P. Puzari, B. Sarkar, S. Adhikari Year: 2004 Title: Quantum-classical dynamics of scattering processes in adiabatic and diabatic representations Journal: The Journal of Chemical Physics Volume: 121 Issue: 2 Page no: 707-721 (if=2.965, ci=43)

3. Authors: P. Puzari, R. S. Swathi, B. Sarkar, S. Adhikari Year: 2005 Title: A quantum-classical approach to the photoabsorption spectrum of pyrazine Journal: The Journal of Chemical Physics Volume: 123 Issue: 13 Page no: 134317 (if=2.965, ci=32)

4. Authors: B. Sarkar, S. Adhikari Year: 2006 Title: Extended Born-Oppenheimer equation for a three-state system Journal: The Journal of Chemical Physics Volume: 124 Issue: 7 Page no: 074101 (if=2.965, ci=76)

5. Authors: P. Puzari, B. Sarkar, S. Adhikari Year: 2006 Title: A quantum-classical approach to the molecular dynamics of pyrazine with a realistic model Hamiltonian Journal: The Journal of Chemical Physics Volume: 125 Issue: 19 Page no: 194316 (if=2.965, ci=40)

6. Authors: B. Sarkar, S. Adhikari Year: 2008 Title: Curl Condition for a Four-State Born− Oppenheimer System Employing the Mathieu Equation Journal: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A Volume: 112 Issue: 40 Page no: 9868-9885 (if=2.847, ci=28)

7. Authors: A. K. Paul, S. Sardar, B. Sarkar, S. Adhikari Year: 2009 Title: Single surface beyond Born–Oppenheimer equation for a three-state model Hamiltonian of Na3 cluster Journal: The Journal of Chemical Physics Volume: 131 Issue: 12 Page no: 124312 (if=2.965, ci=28)

8. Authors: S. Sardar, A. K. Paul, R. Sharma, S. Adhikari Year: 2009 Title: The multistate multimode vibronic dynamics of benzene radical cation with a realistic model Hamiltonian using a parallelized algorithm of the quantumclassical approach Journal: The Journal of Chemical Physics Volume: 130 Issue: 14 Page no: 144302 (if=2.965, ci=19)

9. Authors: A. K. Paul, S. Ray, D. Mukhopadhyay, S. Adhikari Year: 2011 Title: Ab initio calculations on the excited states of Na3 cluster to explore beyond Born-Oppenheimer theories: Adiabatic to diabatic potential energy surfaces and nuclear dynamics Journal: The Journal of Chemical Physics Volume: 135 Issue: 3 Page no: 034107 (if=2.965, ci=28)

10. Authors: S. Mukherjee, S. Bandyopadhyay, A. K. Paul, S. Adhikari Year: 2013 Title: Construction of Diabatic Hamiltonian Matrix from ab Initio Calculated Molecular Symmetry Adapted Nonadiabatic Coupling Terms and Nuclear Dynamics for the Excited States of Na3 Cluster Journal: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A Volume: 117 Issue: 16 Page no: 3475-34 (if=2.847, ci=28)

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AIDHEN, INDRAPAL SINGH (b 1960), Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036


Professor Indrapal Singh Aidhen’s performance over last 23 years at IIT-Madras reflects high degree of maturity in maintaining a fine balance between research and teaching. This balance is highly essential in an academic institute. He has to his credit 80 research publications and four patents at this juncture of time. The publications are in international journals of high repute and impact factor, like Organic Letters, Journal of Organic Chemistry, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Synlett, Tetrahedron, Tetrahedron Letters, and Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis. During last six years, he has been passionately involved in promoting the medicinal chemistry research and teaching. During 2017, he took a lead role in convening MEDCHEM-2017 with focus on Neurology. His collaboration with Helmholtz Infection Research Institute, Germany towards a search of novel anti-mitotic agent has started yielding good results and new directions (Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 1066–1075). Novel analogues of amorfrutin developed in his laboratory (Indian Patent) have attracted the attention of Scientists at Max-Planck Institute, Berlin, towards biological studies with PPARγ (peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma), nuclear receptor, which plays a key role in glucose metabolism (Organic Letters, 2015, 17, 194-197). For past 23 years, he has been consistently rated extremely high as a teacher. His highest score in evaluation by students (on a scale of 0-1) is 0.980, while the average is around 0.910. I strongly vouch for his NASI-Fellowship.

Proposer: Dr. J.S. Yadav, Seconder: Dr. G.V.M. Sharma


1. Aidhen, I.S. et. al., 2002, Umpolung Strategy for the Synthesis of 2-Deoxy-C-aryl glycosides: A serendipitous efficient route for C-Furanoside Analogues., Org. Lett., 4, 1739-1742. (if=6.492, ci=16)

2. Aidhen, I. S., et. al. 2015, A common building block for the synthesis of Amorfrutin and Cajaninstilbene acid libraries toward efficient binding with peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors., Org. Lett., 17, 194-197. (if=6.42, ci=8)

3. -aroylacetones, J. Org. Chem., 71, 349-351-Bromoacetone equivalent: Convenient and New route to Aidhen, I. S. et. al., 2006, Propargyl bromide as an excellent (if=4.805, ci=11)

4. Aidhen, I. S., et. al. 2010, Weinreb amide based synthetic equivalents for convenient access to 4-aryl-1, 2, 3, 4-tetrahydroiso-quinolines., Tetrahedron, 3723-3729. (if=2.645, ci=7)

5. Aidhen, I. S., et. al. 2010, Synthesis of (+)-Varitriol Analogues via Novel and Versatile Building Blocks Based on Julia olefination., Eur. J. Org. Chem., 555-564. (if=2.882, ci=21)

6. Aidhen, I. S., et. al., 2010, Weinreb amide based building blocks for convenient access to analogues of Phenstatin., Eur. J. Org. Chem., 4991-5003. (if=2.882, ci=9)

7. Aidhen, I. S., et. al., 2013, Convenient Access to Acyl-substituted Bis-styrylbenzenes using Building Blocks Based on Julia olefination &Weinreb-amide Chemistry., Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2013, 2216-2229. (if=2.882, ci=5)

8. Aidhen. I. S., et. al., 2013, Study of chemoselectivity of Grignard additions to Substrates containing both nitrile and Weinreb amide functionality., Eur. J. Org. Chem., 4918-4932. (if=2.882, ci=5)

9. Aidhen. I. S., et. al., 2015, Synthesis of 3-Aryl Isocoumarins Using Acyl Anion Chemistry and Synthesis of Thunberginol A, Cajanolactone A., Eur. J. Org. Chem., 1797 - 1803. (if=2.882, ci=10)

10. Aidhen. I. S., et. al., 2016, Inhibition of the enzymes in the leukotriene and prostaglandin pathways in inflammation by 3- aryl isocoumarins. Eur. J. Med. Chem., 124, 428-434 (if=4.816, ci=4)

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ASWAL, VINOD KUMAR (b 1971), Scientific Officer (H), Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai


Dr. V.K. Aswal is an expert of small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) and its application to soft matter. He has developed SANS facilities at research reactors, BARC and extensively worked in popularizing the use of these facilities among many University researchers. Dr. Aswal has made pioneering contributions in elucidating the structure-property relationship in different soft matter systems. He has worked on important constituents of soft matter (surfactants, proteins and nanoparticles) and their conjugates under ambient and non-ambient solution conditions. The unique possibility of contrast variation in SANS is employed by him to study the complex structures of these systems. The phase behavior and microstructure are shown to be governed by the delicate interplay of both DLVO and non-DLVO interactions as combination of short/long-range attractive/repulsive forces. The tuning of macroscopic properties is correlated with the structures formed over a wide range nano to micron length scales. This work has found applications in drug delivery, phase separation process and synthesis of functional materials. Dr. Aswal is recipients of number of Awards including IUMRS Young Research (1998), IPA Best Thesis (1999), Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2000-2005), IPA Satyamurthy Young Scientist (2001), Scopus Young Scientist (2007), DAE-SSPS-2007 Young Achiever, DAE-Scientific & Technical Excellence (2008), DAE Group Achievement (2009), DAE-SRC Outstanding Investigator (2012), Homi Bhabha Science & Technology (2012) and Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences (2014). He has published more than 300 research papers in different journals having h-index of 43 and total citations around 8000.

Proposer: Prof. Jayesh Bellare, Seconder: Prof. Swapan K. Ghosh


1. V.K. Aswal and P.S. Goyal, 2000, Counterions in the growth of ionic micelles in aqueous electrolyte solutions: A SANS study, Phys. Rev. E 61, 2947. (if=2.366, ci=147)

2. J. Haldar, V.K. Aswal, P.S. Goyal and S. Bhattacharya, 2001, Molecular modulation of surfactant aggregation in water: Effect of incorporation of multiple head groups on micellar properties, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 40, 1228. (if=11.994, ci=78)

3. R. Gilardi, J. Mesot, A. Drew, U. Divakar, S.L. Lee, E.M. Forgan, O. Zaharko, V.K. Aswal, C.D. Dewhurst, R. Cubitt, N. Momono and M. Oda, 2002, Direct evidence for an intrinsic square vortex lattice in the overdoped high Tc superconductor LSCO, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88(21): 217003 (if=8.462, ci=125)

4. V.K. Aswal and P.S. Goyal, 2003, Selective counterion condensation in ionic micellar solutions, Phys. Rev. E 67, 051401. (if=2.366, ci=58)

5. R. Ganguly, V.K. Aswal, P.A. Hassan, I.K. Gopalakrishnan and S.K. Kulshreshtha, 2006, Effect of SDS on the self-assembly behavior of the PEO-PPO-PEO triblock copolymer (EO)20(PO70(EO)20, J. Phys. Chem. B 110, 9843. (if=3.177, ci=105)

6. A. Pal, H. Basit, S. Sen, V.K. Aswal and S. Bhattacharya, 2009, Structure and properties of two component hydrogels comprising lithocholic acid and organic amines, J. Mat. Chem. 19, 4325. (if=6.626, ci=100)

7. D. Ray, V.K. Aswal and J. Kohlbrecher, 2011, Synthesis and characterization of high concentration block copolymer-mediated gold nanoparticles, Langmuir 27, 4048. (if=3.833, ci=48)

8. S. Kumar, V.K. Aswal and J. Kohlbrecher, 2012, Size-dependent interaction of silica nanoparticles with different surfactants in aqueous solution, Langmuir 28, 9288. (if=3.833, ci=42)

9. A. Mishra, S.K. Singh, D. Dash, V.K. Aswal, B. Maiti, M. Misra and P. Maiti, 2014, Self-assembled aliphatic chain extended polyurethane nanobiohybrids: Emerging hemocompatible biomaterials for sustained drug delivery, Acta Biomaterialia 10, 2133. (if=6.025, ci=29)

10. P. Pramanik, D. Ray, V.K. Aswal and S, Ghosh, 2017, Supramolecularly engineered amphiphilic macromolecules: molecular interaction overrules packing parameters, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 56, 3516. (if=11.994, ci=3)

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BALLA, RAJAKUMAR (b 1971), Professor IIT Madras, Chennai


Prof. Rajakumar Balla has initiated a unique research program in the area of atmospheric chemistry after he has joined the Department of Chemistry at IIT Madras in May 2006. In the professional journey as a researcher for the past 12 years, he had built a supersensitive spectrometer called Cavity Ring Down Spectrometer (CRDS) to probe the transient species in the Earth’s atmosphere at the levels of as low as ppb. This spectrometer was built for the first time in our country, right from the scratch. He has utilized the in-built facilities to measure the absorption cross-sections of propenyl, phenyl and haloxy radicals in the visible region. He has also measured the reaction kinetics of the atmospherically important oxidizing species such as OH radicals and Cl atoms with varieties of volatile orgonic hydrocarbons, biofuels and CFC substitutes in the gas phase. Yet another important area is combustion chemistry, in which he has been working to understand the degradation of varieties of VOCs and biofuels. For this purpose, he has built a Single Pulse Shock Tube (SPST) facility and the necessary diagnostics. Overall, Dr. Rajakumar has been very instrumental in building up these unique facilities, required to understand the physical and chemical processes those happen in the atmosphere and combustion. In a single line, one can get complete fate of a molecule in the atmosphere. Research in this unique and important area demands world class expertise in instrumentation, spectroscopy and computations which have been amply demonstrated by Dr. Rajakumar Balla.

Proposer: Dr. Jai Pal Mittal, Seconder: Prof. Asok Kumar Mishra


1. Dash, M.R., Rajakumar, B., 2012, Abstraction kinetics of H-atom by OH radical from pinonaldehyde (C 10H 16O 2): Ab initio and transition-state theory calculations, J. Phys. Chem. A. 116 (24), pp. 5856-5866. (if=2.847, ci=12)

2. Srinivasulu, G., Rajakumar, B. 2015, Gas Phase Kinetics of 2,2,2-Trifluoroethylbutyrate with the Cl Atom: An Experimental and Theoretical Study, J. Phys. Chem. A. 119(35), pp. 9294-9306. (if=2.847, ci=12)

3. Balaganesh, M., Dash, M.R., Rajakumar, B. 2014, Experimental and computational investigation on the gas phase reaction of ethyl formate with Cl atoms. J. Phys. Chem. A. 118 (28), pp. 5272-5278. (if=2.547, ci=15)

4. Rajakumar, B., Flad, J.E., Gierczak, T., Ravishankara, A.R., Burkholder, J.B., 2007, Visible absorption spectrum of the CH3CO radical, J. Phys. Chem. A. 111 (37), pp. 8950-8958. (if=2.847, ci=19)

5. Rajakumar, B., Burkholder, J.B., Portmann, R.W., Ravishankara, A.R. 2005, Rate coefficients for the OH 4- CFH2CH2OH reaction between 238 and 355 K Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 7 (12), pp. 2498-2505. (if=4.129, ci=21)

6. Balaganesh, M., Rajakumar, B. 2012, Rate coefficients and reaction mechanism for the reaction of OH radicals with (E)-CF 3CH=CHF, (Z)-CF 3CH=CHF, (E)-CF 3CF=CHF, and (Z)-CF 3CF=CHF between 200 and 400 K J. Phys. Chem. A,116 (40), pp.9835-9842. (if=2.847, ci=26)

7. Dash, M.R., Rajakumar, B., 2013, Experimental and theoretical rate coefficients for the gas phase reaction of β-Pinene with OH radical, Atmospheric Environment, 79, pp. 161-171. (if=3.629, ci=24)

8. Srinivasulu, G., Rajakumar, B. 2013, Theoretical investigations on the kinetics of H-abstraction reactions from CF3CH(OH)CF3 by OH radicals, J. Phys. Chem. A, 117 (22), pp. 4534-4544. (if=2.847, ci=26)

9. Rajakumar, B., Gierczak, T., Flad, J.E., Ravishankara, A.R., Burkholder, J.B.2008, The CH3CO quantum yield in the 248 nm photolysis of acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, and biacetyl, J. Photochem. and Photobio. A: Chem. 199 (2-3), pp. 336-344. (if=2.625, ci=34)

10. Vijayakumar, S., Rajakumar, B., Kinetic investigations on the chlorine atom sensitized photo-oxidization reactions with a series of 1-alkenes in troposphere, Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. 2018, 25, pp. 4387-4405 (if=2.800, ci=5)

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BHALLA, VANDANA (b 1971), Associate Professor, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar


Dr. Vandana Bhalla has made significant contributions in the area of organic/ physical-organic chemistry. Her research interests include molecular recognition/ sensing of small biologically significant molecules/ions as well designing novel catalytic/photocatalytic systems for carrying out various organic transformations under mild and ecofriendly conditions. Dr. Bhalla believes that designer molecules or supramolecular assemblies with predictive photoinduced processes are crucial to address key scientific problems. She could successfully utilize the principles of supramolecular chemistry for developing a variety of materials having specific functional groups as reactors for preparation of metal nanoparticles, alloy NPs and core shell NPs. These nano-materials have been utilized as efficient catalytic/ photocatalytic systems for carrying out various transformations such as Sonogashira coupling, Suzuki coupling, Click reaction, Heck coupling, Beckmann rearrangement and C-H activation. Results of these studies are crucial for developing new catalytic systems, which may have a great potential for sustainable chemical industry. Dr. Bhalla has published 176 papers in high impact journals of international repute. These contributions have earned her bronze medal by CRSI, Bangalore (2015), Thomson Reuters Research Excellence India Citation Award 2015, Bhagya-Tara award (2015) and first Shiv Nath Rai Kohli Memorial Mid-Career Best Scientist award (2018) both instituted by Panjab University Chandigarh, Prof. S.S.Sandhu endowment award by Indian Chemical Society( 2017) and Rajib Goyal award for young scientists (2016-17) chemical sciences by Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. She is also an Associate Editor of RSC Advances. Dr. Bhalla, in my opinion is a passionate academician and this fellowship will be an added encouragement to her.

Proposer: Dr. Amitava Das, Seconder: Prof. Bhisma K. Patel


1. Mandeep Kaur, Subhamay Pramanik, Manoj Kumar, Vandana Bhalla*, 2017, Encapsulated Bimetallic Au-Fe3O4 Nano-Hybrid Materials: A Potential Tandem Photocatalytic System for Non-Directed C(sp2)-H Activation for the Synthesis of Quinoline Carboxylates, ACS Catal., 7, 2007-2021. (if= (I.F. = 11.384), ci=10)

2. Sandeep Kaur, Manoj Kumar and Vandana Bhalla*, 2016, Supramolecular ensemble of PBI derivative and copper nanoparticles: a light harvesting antenna for photocatalytic C(sp2)–H functionalization. Green Chem. 18, 5870-5883. (if= (I.F. = 9.125), ci=8)

3. Radhika Chopra, Manoj Kumar and Vandana Bhalla*, 2016, Development of supramolecular ensemble of AIEE active hexaphenylbenzene derivative and Ag@Cu2O core-shell NPs: An efficient photocatalytic system for C-H activation. Chem. Commun., 52, 10179-10182. (if= (I.F. = 6.319), ci=4)

4. Harnimarta Deol, Subhamay Pramanik, Manoj Kumar, Imran A. Khan, and Vandana Bhalla*, 2016, Supramolecular ensemble of TICT-AIEE active pyrazine derivative and CuO NPs: a potential photocatalytic system for Sonogashira couplings. ACS Catal., 6, 3771–3783.(if=(I.F. = 11.384)., ci=22)

5. Gurpreet Singh, Manoj Kumar, Kamaldeep Sharma and Vandana Bhalla*, 2016, Supramolecular ensemble of PBI derivative and Cu2O NPs: Potential photo catalysts for Suzuki and Suzuki type coupling reactions, Green Chemistry, 18, 3278-3285. (if= (I.F. = 9.125), ci=17)

6. Meenal Kataria, Subhamay Pramanik, Manoj Kumar and Vandana Bhalla*, 2016, Ferromagnetic α-Fe2O3 NPs: a potential catalyst in Sonogashira Hagihara cross coupling and Hetero-Diels-Alder reactions. Green Chem. 18, 1495-1505. (if=(I.F. = 9.125)., ci=12)

7. Preet Kamal Walia, Manoj Kumar and Vandana Bhalla*, 2015, Aggregates of hetero-oligophenylene derivative as reactors for the generation of palladium nanoparticles: a potential catalyst in sonogashira coupling reaction under aerial conditions. Chem. Commun, 51, 17253. (if= (I.F. = 6.319), ci=9)

8. Sandeep Kaur, Manoj Kumar and Vandana Bhalla*, 2015, Aggregates of perylene bisimide stabilized superparamagnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles: an efficient catalyst for the preparation of propargylamines and quinolines via C-H activation. Chem. Commun. 51, 16327.(if= (I.F. = 6.319), ci=25)

9. Kamaldeep Sharma nee Kamaldeep, Sandeep Kaur, Vandana Bhalla*, Manoj Kumar and Ankush Gupta, 2014, Pentacenequinone derivatives for preparation of gold nanoparticles: Facile Synthesis and Catalytic Application. J. Material Chem. A, 2, 8369. (if=(I.F. = 8.867)., ci=19)

10. Gurpreet Singh, Manoj Kumar and Vandana Bhalla, 2018, Ultrafine hybrid Cu2O–Fe2O3 nanoparticles stabilized by hexaphenylbenzene-based supramolecular assemblies: a photocatalytic system for the Ullmann–Goldberg coupling reaction, Green Chem., 20, 5346-5357. (ci=Recently published hence not been cited )

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BRAHMACHARI, GOUTAM (b 1969), Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Siksha-Bhavana, VISVA-BHARATI (A Central University), Santiniketan-731235


We are really very pleased to mark Prof. Brahmachari as a perfect blending of a passionate teacher, an innovative independent researcher, a skillful author and editor of an unprecedentedly huge number of major references (22 in number so far) from the leaders in publishing world (Royal Society of Chemistry, Elsevier, Academic Press, Wiley-VCH, CRC Press, World Scientific, etc.). During the last Two Decades of his professional career in a well-regarded Central University, he has been serving truly the field of Chemical Sciences, very particularly in Bioactive Natural Products, and Green and Sustainable Chemistry, through meaningful research outcomes published in reputed international journals. As a natural product chemist, he has unearthed chemical profiles of a number of important and traditionally used Indian medicinal plants, studied their chemistry and biology, and thus presented novel naturally occurring leads of interests. Simultaneously, Prof. Brahmachari has also contributed significantly by designing a considerable number of distinct and innovative green protocols for biologically relevant organic scaffolds based on his views ‘Benign by Design’ as part of his green and sustainable chemistry research programme (as recorded in The Chemical Record, 2016, 16, 98-123). All such credentials are clearly reflected from his 200 scientific publications including original research papers, review articles, books and invited book chapters in edited volumes in the field of natural products and green chemistry-directed organic synthesis. He guided 12 PhD students so far. He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, and serving as series editor of Elsevier ‘Natural Product Drug Discovery’.

Proposer: Dr. Arun Kumar Sinha, Seconder: Dr. Pradeep Kumar


1. Goutam Brahmachari*, M Mandal, I Karmakar, K Nurjamal and B Mandal (2019). Ultrasound-Promoted Expedient and Green Synthesis of Diversely Functionalized......pyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-diones via One-Pot Multicomponent Reaction....at Ambient Conditions. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 7, 6369−6380. (if=6.140, ci=00)

2. Goutam Brahmachari*, I Karmakar and K Nurjamal (2018). Ultrasound-Assisted Expedient and Green Synthesis of a New Series of Diversely Functionalized….chromeno[4,3-d]pyrido[1,2-a]pyrimidin-6(7H)-ones via One-Pot Multicomponent Reaction….at Ambient Conditions. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 6, 11018–11028. (if=6.140, ci=03)

3. Goutam Brahmachari*, K Nurjamal, I Karmakar, S Begam, N Nayek and B Mandal (2017), Development of a water-mediated and catalyst-free green protocol……densely functionalized pyrido [2,3-d:6,5-d'] dipyrimidines via one-pot multicomponent reaction under ambient conditions. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 5, 9494-9505. (if=6.140, ci=15)

4. Goutam Brahmachari* and B Banerjee (2016), Facile and chemically sustainable one-pot synthesis of a wide array of fused O- and N-heterocycles catalyzed by trisodium citrate dihydrate under ambient conditions. Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, 5, 271-286.(if=2.496, ci=33)

5. Goutam Brahmachari* (2016), Designing of organic transformations at ambient conditions: our sincere efforts to the cause of green chemistry practice. The Chemical Record, (Personal Account Invited), 16, 98-123. (if=4.891, ci=18)

6. Goutam Brahmachari*, S P Das, M Biswas (Sinha), A Kumar, A K Srivastava and N Misra (2016). 3,5,7-Trimethoxyphenanthrene-1,4-dione: a new biologically relevant natural phenanthrenequinone derivative from Dioscorea prazeri and studies on its single X-ray crystallographic.... physico-chemical properties. RSC Advances, 6, 7317-7329. (if=2.936, ci=03)

7. Goutam Brahmachari* (2015). Sulfamic acid-catalyzed one-pot room temperature synthesis of biologically relevant bis-lawsone derivatives. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 3, 2058-2066. (if=6.140, ci=15)

8. Goutam Brahmachari* (2015). Room Temperature One-Pot Green Synthesis of Coumarin-3-Carboxylic Acids in Water: A Practical Method for the Large-Scale Synthesis. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 3, 2350-2358. (if=6.140, ci=36)

9. Goutam Brahmachari* and B Banerjee (2014). Facile and one-pot access to diverse and densely functionalized 2-amino-3-cyano-4H-pyrans and pyran-annulated heterocyclic scaffolds via an eco-friendly multicomponent reaction at room temperature using urea as a novel organo-catalyst. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2, 411-422. (if=6.140, ci=164)

10. Goutam Brahmachari* and B Banerjee (2014). Facile and one-pot access of 3,3-bis(indol-3-yl)indolin-2-ones and 2,2-bis(indol-3-yl)acenaphthylen-1(2H)-one derivatives via an eco-friendly pseudo-multicomponent reaction at room temperature using sulfamic acid as an organo-catalyst. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2, 2802-2812. (if=6.140, ci=40)

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CHILLA, MALLA REDDY (b 1975), Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata


I am pleased to highlight the following key contributions of Dr. Reddy, which in my opinion have both fundamental and practical importance: (i) understanding mechanical deformation in molecular crystals based on single crystal structures and dimensionality of intermolecular interactions. This very basic contribution has far reaching implications, for instance to improve processing (milling, granulation, tabletting) of pharmaceuticals and to enhance durability of organic optoelectronics (Cryst Eng Comm, 2010, 12, 2296 (Review); Adv. Funct. Mater. 2013, 23, 1422); (ii) He was first to demonstrate elastic flexibility in molecular crystals (by bending a crystal into loop; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, 51, 10319) which is notable in an old field like crystallography as such flexibility was unprecedented before, and this could be attractive for flexible organic electronics, bio-implantables etc. Symmetry breaking due to nonlinear deformation of structure in elastic bent crystals could also lead to certain interesting physical properties. (iii) His investigations involving spatially resolved analysis of plastically flexible crystals using high end techniques (synchrotron & micro-Raman facility at IISERK) has led to fundamental understanding of plastic deformation in molecular crystals (Nature Chem., 2015, 7 (1), 65); (iv) His general model for designing plastically deformable molecular crystals (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 13561) by using weak intermolecular interactions (to generate slip planes) has paved the way for designing organic crystals with improved mechanical properties. (v) His contributions to mechanical actuation based on phase transformations (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 13843) or photopolymerization (Chem. Mater., 2018, 30, 577) in crystals are also noteworthy.

Proposer: Prof. Sourav Pal, Seconder: Dr. Amitava Das


1. Samanta R, Ghosh S, Devarapalli R, Reddy CM*, 2018, Visible Light Mediated Photopolymerization in Single Crystals: Photomechanical Bending and Thermomechanical Unbending, Chem. Mater., 30(3), 577–581. (if=9.5, ci=1)

2. Krishna GR, Devarapalli R, Lal G, Reddy CM*, 2016, Mechanically flexible organic crystals achieved by introducing weak interactions in structure: supramolecular shape synthons, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138(41), 13561-13567 (if=13.8, ci=26)

3. Panda MK, Ghosh S, Yasuda N, Moriwaki T, Mukherjee GD, Reddy CM*, P Naumov* 2015, Spatially resolved analysis of short-range structure perturbations in a plastically bent molecular crystal, Nature Chem., 7 (1), 65-72. (if=25.3, ci=59)

4. Krishna, G.R., Kiran, M.S.R.N., Fraser, C.L., Ramamurty, U.,* Reddy, C.M.,* 2013, The Relationship of Solid-State Plasticity to Mechanochromic Luminescence in Difluoroboron Avobenzone Polymorphs, Adv. Funct. Mater. 23, 1422-1430. (if=12.1, ci=67)

5. Sahoo, S.C., Sinha, S. B., Kiran, M. S. R. N., Ramamurty, U., Dericioglu, A. F., Reddy, C. M.* Naumov*, P., 2013, Kinematic and Mechanical Profile of the Self-Actuation of Thermosalient Crystal Twins of 1,2,4,5-Tetrabromobenzene: A Molecular Crystalline Analogue of a Bimetallic Strip. J. Am. Chem. Soc.,135 (37),13843–13850 (if=13.8, ci=54)

6. Ghosh, S., Mondal, A., Kiran, M. S. R. N., Ramamurty, U.,* Reddy, C. M.,* 2013, The Role of Weak Interactions in the Phase Transition and Distinct Mechanical Behavior of Two Structurally Similar Caffeine Co-crystal Polymorphs Studied by Nanoindentation. Cryst. Growth Des., 13(10), 4435–4441 (if=4.0, ci=50)

7. Ghosh, S. Reddy, C.M.,* 2012, Elastically bendable caffeine co-crystals: implications for flexible organic materials design, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51, 10319-10323 (if=11.9, ci=85)

8. Bag, P.P., Chen, M., Sun C.C.,* Reddy, C.M.,* 2012, Direct correlation among crystal structure, mechanical behaviour and tabletability in a trimorphic molecular compound, Cryst Eng Comm, 14, 3865–3867. (if=3.5, ci=44)

9. Ghosh, S., Bag, P.P., Reddy, C.M.* 2011, Co-crystals of sulfamethazine with some carboxylic acids and amides: co-former assisted tautomerism in an active pharmaceutical ingredient and hydrogen bond competition study, Cryst. Growth Des., 11, 3489 (if=4.0, ci=81)

10. Reddy, C.M.,* Krishna, G.R., Ghosh, S., 2010, Mechanical properties of molecular crystals—applications to crystal engineering, Cryst Eng Comm, 12, 2296–2314 (if=3.5, ci=106)

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CHOWDHURY, CHINMAY (b 1966), Principal Scientist & Deputy Head; Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata


Dr. Chowdhury’s research efforts were focused on two major areas: (a) developing methodologies for easily accessing novel heterocycles and (b) identifying anti-cancer lead(s) based on indigenous natural products. He has made seminal contributions in palladium-catalyzed heteroannulations as documented in journals of international repute (e.g., J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81, 10987-10999 & J. Org. Chem. 2012, 81, 5108-5119 etc.). One of publications (Org. Biomol. Chem. 2014, 12, 741-748) was highlighted on the cover page. He has also demonstrated (J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81, 6596-6608) convenient synthesis of 2-(α-styryl)quinazolin-4(3H)-ones, analogs of β-styryl derivatives identified as highly potent antibacterial lead in literatures (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 1738-1741, J. Med. Chem. 2016, 59, 5011–5021). The antibiotic potency of the synthesized compounds is being explored. In Medicinal Chemistry, Dr. Chowdhury has generated several analogue libraries of important natural products (e.g., andrographolide, betulinic acid etc.) by employing rational drug design approach. When the products were screened against different cancer cells, compound BC-2c (out of approx. 500 molecules), in which C3 hydroxy of betulinic acid is attached with a 1,2,3-triazole moiety through linker, emerged as highly potent against colon cancer while being non-toxic towards normal cells. PLGA nanoformulations of BC-2c enhanced its potency dramatically and are being tested in collaboration for targeted drug delivery and preclinical studies. Preliminary results were published (Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2015, 102, 93-105 & Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2014, 85, 95-106).

Proposer: Prof. Amit Basak, Seconder: Dr. Hemanta K. Majumder


1. A. Mondal, P. Kundu, C. Chowdhury*, 2018, Palladium-catalysed stereoselective synnthesis of........: expedient access to 4-substituted isoquinolin-1(2H)-ones and isoquinolines, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 16, 963-980. (if=3.56, ci=0)

2. M. Jash, B. Das, C. Chowdhury*, 2016, One-Pot access to benzo[a]carbazoles via palladium(II)-catalyzed hetero- and carboannulations, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 81, 10987-10999. (if=4.85, ci=8)

3. P. Kundu, A. Mondal, C. Chowdhury*, 2016, A Palladium-Catalyzed Method for the Synthesis of 2-(α-Styryl)-2,3-dihydroquinazolin-4-ones........ -1,1-dioxide, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 81(15), 6596-6608 (if=4.85, ci=4)

4. P. Kundu, A. Mondal, B. Das, C. Chowdhury*, 2015, A straightforward approach......... palladium/charcoal-catalyzed reactions, Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, 357, 3737-3752. (if=5.64, ci=5)

5. R. Preet, B. Chakraborty, S. Siddharth, P. Mohapatra, D. Das, S.R. Satapathy, S. Das, N.C. Maiti, P.R. Maulik, C. N. Kundu, C. Chowdhury*, 2014, "Synthesis........... analogues as anti-cancer agents, Euro. J. Med. Chem. 85, 95-106. (if=4.52, ci=17)

6. B. Das, P. Kundu, C. Chowdhury*, 2014, Facile synthesis…… palladium-catalyzed heteroannulations of 2-(2-propynyl)aniline and 2-(2-propynyl)tosylanilides, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry,12, 741-748 (appeared as a cover page of the journal). (if=3.56, ci=12)

7. B. Das, S. Mukherjee, B. Achari, C. Chowdhury*, 2012, Palladium catalyzed approach for the general synthesis of …….. to 2-substituted indoles and quinolines, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 77, 5108-5119. (if=4.85, ci=21)

8. K. Brahma, A.K. Sasmal, C. Chowdhury*, 2011, An efficient strategy for the general synthesis of............... pyrazolo[1,5-a][1,4]benzodiazepin-6(4H)-ones”, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 9, 8422-8429. (if=3.56, ci=13)

9. C. Chowdhury*, S. Mukherjee, B. Chakraborty, B. Achari; 2011, A rapid and facile method for the general synthesis of……….their ring fused analogues, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 9, 5856-5862. (if=3.56, ci=17)

10. C. Chowdhury,* S. Mukherjee, B. Das, B. Achari, 2009, Expedient and rapid Synthesis of …… through palladium-copper catalysis, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 74, 3612-3615. (if=4.85, ci=34)

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GHOSH, NARENDRA NATH (b 1970), Associate Professor (Chemistry), Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus, Goa


Dr. N N Ghosh’s major contribution in the field of Chemical Science is the development of novel synthetic methodologies for preparation of various nanostructured multifunctional materials with demonstration of their various applications. A brief enumeration of the developments made by Dr. Ghosh and his students is as follows: 1. A simple but cost-effective aqueous solution based chemical method to prepare a wide range of ferrite nanoparticles with interesting properties. 2. A novel One-pot synthetic methodology for preparation of hard-soft ferrite nanocomposites, having exotic magnetic properties as well as tunable microwave absorption properties in the X-band region. 3. Chemical methodologies for varieties of mesoporous materials, which exhibit excellent performances for two applications (i) as an absorber for fluoride removal from water, and (ii) as magnetically separable advanced catalysts. These catalysts exhibit versatile catalytic activities towards (i) multiple organic reactions, which are very important for the synthesis of several drug molecules, (ii) degrading of dyes and used to address water pollution related issues. 4. Mechanically flexible magnetic polymer composites using Polybenzoxazine. 5. Novel synthetic methodologies for preparation of multifunctional graphene (RGO) - ferrite nanoparticle nanocomposites. These nanocomposites have exhibited their potential to become a smart candidate as high performing, lightweight microwave absorber in stealth technology. Moreover, they also demonstrated excellent performance as magnetically separable, versatile catalysts for many organic reactions. Recently his group also developed high performing supercapacitor using this nanocomposite. In view of these excellent contributions, I enthusiastically nominate Dr. N N Ghosh for the election to the Fellowship of the Academy.

Proposer: Prof. Pratim Kumar Chattaraj, Seconder: Prof. Indranil Manna


1. NN Ghosh, J Clark, G Eldridge and CE Barnes, (2004) Building block syntheses of site-isolated vanadyl groups in silicate oxides. Chemical Communications 856-857. (if=6.319, ci=14)

2. NN Ghosh, B Kiskan and Y Yagci, (2007) Polybenzoxazines - New high performance thermosetting resins: Synthesis and properties, Progress in Polymer Science 32, 1344- 1391. (if=25.766, ci=728)

3. B Naik, S Hazra, VS Prasad and NN Ghosh*, (2011) Synthesis of Ag nanoparticles within the pores of SBA-15: an efficient catalyst for reduction of 4-nitrophenol, Catalysis Communications 12, 1104–1108. (if=3.330, ci=128)

4. S Hazra, MK Patra, SR Vadera and NN Ghosh*, (2012) A novel but simple ‘one-pot’ synthetic route for preparation of (NiFe2O4)x-(BaFe12O19)1-x nanocomposites, Journal of the American Ceramic Society 95 [1], 60–63. (if=2.841, ci=29)

5. D Dayananda, VR Sarva, SV Prasad, J Arunachalam and NN Ghosh* (2014) “Preparation of CaO loaded mesoporous Al2O3: Efficient adsorbent for fluoride removal from water” Chemical Engineering Journal 248,430–439 (if=6.216, ci=48)

6. D Dayananda, VR. Sarva, SV Prasad, J Arunachalam, P Parameswaran, NN Ghosh*,(2015) Synthesis of MgO nanoparticle loaded mesoporous Al2O3 and its defluoridation study Applied Surface Science 329 1-10 (if=3.387, ci=15)

7. S Hazra, H Joshi, BK Ghosh, A Ahmed, T Gibson, P Millner and NN Ghosh* (2015) Development of a novel and efficient H2O2 sensor by ...SBA15 RSC Advances 5, 34390- 34397. (if=3.108, ci=4)

8. D Moitra, M Chandel, BK Ghosh, R K Jani, MK Patra, SR Vadera, NN Ghosh*, (2016) ‘A Simple ‘in situ ’Co-precipitation Method for Preparation of Multifunctional... Dye Degradation.’ RSC Advances 6, 76759- 76772. (if=3.108, ci=10)

9. BK Ghosh, S Hazra and NN Ghosh* (2016) Synthesis of Cu@[email protected] 'Click reaction Catalysis Communications. 80, 44–48. (if=3.330, ci=7)

10. D Moitra, S Dhole, BK Ghosh, M Chandel, RK Jani, MK Patra, SR Vadera, and NN Ghosh*, (2017) ‘Synthesis and Microwave Absorption Properties of BiFeO3 Nanowire-RGO …..Electronic Structures.’ The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 121, 21290-21304. (if=4.536, ci=2)

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GOSWAMI, DEBABRATA (b 1964), Professor HAG, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur - 208016


Dr. Goswami works at the frontiers of interdisciplinary research embodying theoretical and experimental developments in the fundamental aspects of femtosecond laser-matter interactions. He has pioneered the femtosecond Fourier domain pulse shaping that is ubiquitous in applications ranging from quantum computation to novel biomedical devices. He was the first to propose how the phase of a laser pulse can be critical in Quantum Computing. He was also the first to propose how thermal lens introduced by high repetition rate femtosecond lasers (HRRFL) dissipate additionally through convection process that, in turn, result in molecular structure distinction. He developed self-calibrated femtosecond optical tweezers (SCFOT) that can directly detect colloidal assembly, their structure, and orientation. He used the novel SCFOT method to provide a direct measure and control of 'in situ' temperature, and viscosity at micro-scale volumes. He also managed to show how to distinguish overlapping fluorophores in multi-photon imaging microscopy by exploiting repeated excitation and de-excitation processes with HRRLS that help to distinguish and eventually eliminate abnormal (cancerous) cells from healthy (normal) cells. His overall efforts have been recognized through several honours, Fellowships, and prizes, the latest being the 2018 ICO Galileo Galilei Medal. He has been elected Fellow of four societies, namely, the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), the Institute of Physics (UK), the Optical Society of America (OSA), and the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). His research contributions have resulted in over 140 peer-reviewed publications, numerous conference proceedings and patents that have received huge citations.

Proposer: Prof. Amalendu Chandra, Seconder: Prof. Sandeep Verma


1. S. Abbas Hosseini and Debabrata Goswami (2001): “Coherent control of multiphoton transitions with femtosecond pulse shaping”, Phys. Rev. A 64(3), 033410. (if=2.9, ci=59)

2. Debabrata Goswami (2002): “Laser phase modulation approaches towards ensemble quantum computing”, Physical Review Letters, 88, 177901. (if=7.18, ci=31)

3. Debabrata Goswami (2003): “Optical pulse shaping approaches to coherent control”, Physics Reports, 374, 385-481. (if=20.263, ci=294)

4. Alok Srivastava and Debabrata Goswami (2003): “Control of supercontinuum generation with polarization of incident laser pulses”, Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, 77(2-3), 325. (if=1.785, ci=25)

5. Arijit Kumar De, Debjit Roy, and Debabrata Goswami (2009): “Stable Optical Trapping of Latex Nanoparticles with Ultrashort Pulsed Illumination”, Applied Optics, 48(31) G33. (if=1.65, ci=56)

6. Amit Nag and Debabrata Goswami (2009): “Solvent effect on Two-Photon Absorption and Fluorescence of Rhodamine dyes”, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 206(2-3), 188. (if=2.495, ci=58)

7. A. Nag, D. Goswami (2010): “Polarization induced control of single and two-photon fluorescence”, Journal of Chemical Physics, 132(15), Article No. 0154508. (if=3.05, ci=22)

8. I. Bhattacharyya, P. Kumar, Debabrata Goswami (2011): “Probing Intermolecular Interaction through Thermal-Lens Spectroscopy”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 115(2), 262. (if=4.09, ci=17)

9. Pardeep Kumar, Sirshendu Dindha, Atanu Chakraborty and Debabrata Goswami (2014): “Unusual behaviour of thermal lens in alcohols”, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 16,12291. (if=4.123, ci=7)

10. Dipankar Mondal and Debabrata Goswami (2015): “Controlling local temperature in water using femtosecond optical tweezer”, Biomedical Express, 6(9), 3190. (if=3.337, ci=12)

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GUPTA, VIRENDRA KUMAR (b 1960) Sr. Vice President & Head, R&D Polymer, Reliance R&D Centre, Reliance Industries Ltd., Navi Mumbai


Dr Virendra Kumar Gupta is, undoubtedly, the most accomplished practitioner of the science and technology of ethylene and propylene polymerization catalysis in India. His scientific career, spent entirely in industry, is characterized by a rare sense of focus and commitment. His inventions include, development of a spheroidal magnesium alkoxide which is used to support active titanium centers resulting in a catalyst with extraordinary morphological control of polymers and a study of the role of external and internal electron donors and their beneficial role in determining the ultimate properties of polypropylene. His team has also developed a silica supported titanium catalyst for LLDPE. Some of these catalyst technologies have been implemented and validated in world scale operating plants at Hazira and Jamnagar (2.4 million ton PP/annum and 600,000 tons of LLDPE/annum) in gas phase fluidized bed reactors. By any standards these are extraordinary accomplishments. His sustained contribution has resulted in a large number of patents (granted and applied) worldwide and have propelled RIL to a position of leadership in this very competitive area of technology. The catalyst system developed by him is also protected by three Indian trademarks RELCATTM (ZN Catalysts), RELDTM (ZN Donor), RELSTM (ZN Catalyst Precursor). He has also been very active in peer reviewed scientific publications and has to his credit over 50 papers and numerous chapters in books. Dr Gupta has blended original scientific research with a keen eye on practical applications which makes him a unique scientist in this country.

Proposer: Prof. S. Sivaram, Seconder: Prof. Ashok Misra Ten Best Publications: 1. Jugal Kumawat, Virendra Kumar Gupta, and Kumar Vanka; 2018 Role of the (104) MgCl2 Lateral Cut in Ziegler−Natta Catalysis: A Computational Investigation; J. Phys. Chem. C, 122, 285. 2. Jugal Kumawat, Virendrakumar Gupta, Kumar Vanka, 2016 Effect of donors on the activation mechanism in Ziegler – Natta catalysis: A computational studies; Chem. Cat. Chem., 8, 1809. 3. Jugal Kumawat, Virendra Kumar Gupta, Kumar Vanka, 2014 Donor Decomposition by Lewis Acids in Ziegler-Natta Catalyst Systems: A Computational Investigation. Organometallics, 33, 4357. 4. Jugal Kumawat, Virendra Kumar Gupta, Kumar Vanka, 2014 The Nature of the Active Site in Ziegler-Natta Olefin Polymerization Catalysis Systems: A Computational Investigation, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 29, 5063. 5. Umesh C Makwana, Kamlesh J Singala, Rajendra B Patankar, Saurabh C Singh, Virendra K. Gupta; 2012 Propylene Polymerization Using Supported Ziegler- Natta Catalyst Systems With Mixed Donors; Journal of Applied Polymer Science,125, 896. 6. Harshad R. Patil, Dhananjay G. Naik, Virendrakumar Gupta, 2011 Broad Molecular Weight Polypropylene Synthesis Using Mixed Internal Donor Incorporated Catalyst; Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part A: Pure And Applied Chemistry, 48, 227. 7. Mukesh K Yadav, Ajay V Kothari And Virendra K Gupta; 2011 Preparation And Characterization Of Bi- And Trimetallic Titanium Based Oxides, Dyes And Pigments 89, 149. 8. K Vanka, VK Gupta, G Singh, D Iyer; 2010 A DFT Study of Lewis Base Interactions With The MgCl2 Surface In The ZieglerNatta Catalyst System: Expanding The Role of The Donors, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 114, 157. 9. MK Panda, S Kaur, AR Reddy, MM Shaikh, RJ Batcher, VK Gupta, P Ghosh; 2010 Titanium Isopropoxide Complexes Of A Series Of Sterically Demanding Aryloxo Based [N2O2]2- Ligands As Precatalysts For Ethylene Polymerization, RSC Dalton Transactions 39, 11060. 10. S Kaur, G Singh, D Naik, VK Gupta, 2010 Evolutionary Computing Approach for Evaluating Floury Distribution Curves in GPC: Study on Poly (1-Octene) System, J Appl. Polym. Sci. 117, 3379.

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JAISANKAR, PARASURAMAN (b 1966), Chief Scientist, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata


One of the land mark achievement of Prof. Jaisankar is for the first time that the existence of axial chirality in 3, 3’-bipyrroles was discovered in his laboratory (Org. Lett. 2008, 10, 1373–1376). Thermodynamic stability of these axially chiral 3,3′-bipyrroles was explored (RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 71245-71249). Dr. Jaisankar’s latest achievement in the field of asymmetric synthesis includes successful application of a phospholane-based phosphinic acid as an efficient chiral Brønsted acid catalyst that mediates the asymmetric Friedel–Crafts alkylation of indoles with enediones with high enantioselectivity (Org. Lett., 2017, 19, 13, 3426–3429). Dr. Jaisankar has contributed in developing lead molecules having anti-cancer, anti-leishmanial, anti-parkinsonian, anti-bacterial and anti-ulcer properties specifically targeting LdTOPO I & II (Pharmacol. Res. & Perspec. (2014, 12/2014; 2, 6), Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, (2014, 58, 2186-2201), Biochemical Pharmacology (2013, 86, 1673-87), and JNK (PLoS ONE 09/2013 8(9):e73672, Antimicrob. Agents and Chemother., (2016, 60, 10, 6281-6293), etc. He has identified an enzyme from Daucus carota root which catalyzed Henry reaction, assymetric cross aldol reactions (Tet. Lett., 2018, 59, 7, 663-666, Tet. Lett., 2016, 57, 39, 4382-4385). The Lignan Niranthin has been found to poison Leishmania donovani topoisomerase IB and favours a Th1 immune response in mice EMBO, Mol. Med., 2012, 4, 10, 1126-43. A hand held portable device has been developed by Dr. Jaisankar and his group for quantitative estimation of citral content in essential oils which will greatly empower the farmers who are engaged in cultivating aroma plants for getting fair price for their crops.

Proposer: Prof. Tapas K. Kundu, Seconder: Prof. K.S. Narayan


1. Chatterjee, S.; Hintermann, L.; Mandal, M.; Achari, A.; Gupta, S.; Jaisankar, P.* 2017. Fiaud’s Acid: A Brønsted Acid Catalyst for Enantioselective Friedel–Crafts Alkylation of Indoles with 2-Alkene-1,4-diones, Organic Letters, 19, 3, 3426. (if=6.579, ci=01)

2. Dey, S., Pal, C., Nandi, D., Giri, V. S., Zaidlewicz, M., Krzeminski, M., Smentek, L., Jaisankar, P.* 2008. Lewis Acid-Catalyzed One-Pot, Three-Component Route to Chiral 3,3'-Bipyrroles. Organic Letters, 10, 7, 1373. (if=6.579, ci=35)

3. Jaisankar, P.; Tanaka, S.; Kitamura, M. 2011. Catalytic Dehydrative S-Allylation of Cysteine Containing Peptides in Aqueous Media toward Lipopeptide Chemistry. J. Org. Chem., 76, 1894. (if=4.849, ci=12)

4. Chatterjee, S.; Butterfoss, G. L.; Mandal, M.; Paul, B.; Gupta, S.; Bonneaud, R.; Jaisankar, P.* 2016. Racemization barriers of atropisomeric 3,3′-bipyrroles: an experimental study with theoretical verification. RSC Advances, 6, 71245. (if=3.108)

5. Chowdhury, S.; Mukhopadhyay, S.; Jaisankar, P.; Majumder, H. 2014. Disuccinyl betulin triggers Metacaspase Dependent Endonuclease G Mediated Cell death in Unicellular Protozoan Parasite Leishmania donovani. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother., 58, 2186. (if=4.476, ci=14)

6. Chaudhuri, J.; Acharya Chowdhury A.; Jaisankar, P.; Bandyopadhyay, S. 2014. Superoxide activates mTOR–eIF4E–Bax route to induce enhanced apoptosis in leukemic cells. Apoptosis, 19, 135. (if=3.833, ci=10)

7. Chowdhury, S.; Mukherjee, T.; Chattopadhyay, S.; Jaisankar, P.; Roy, S.; Majumder, H. 2012. The Lignan Niranthin poisons Leishmania donovani topoisomerase IB and favours a Th1 immune response in mice. EMBO, Mol. Med., 4, 10, 1126. (if=9.249, ci=25)

8. A. Roy, S. Bosedasgupta, A. Ganguly, P. Jaisankar, H. K. Majumder. 2009. Topoisomerase I gene mutations at F270.......Leishmania donovani towards 3,3'-Diindolylmethane (DIM):, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother., 53, 6, 2589. (if=4.476, ci=7)

9. Biswas, N.; Mahato, S. K.; Jaisankar, P.; Bandyopadhyay, S. 2012. ICB3E induces iNOS expression by JNK and ERK activation for apoptosis of leukemic cells:, Apoptosis, 17, 6, 612. (if=3.833, ci=19)

10. A. Roy, A. Ganguly, S. Bose Dasgupta, B. B. Das, C. Pal, P. Jaisankar, H. K. Majumder. 2008, Mitochondria dependent ROS-mediated......FoF1-ATP synthase in unicellular protozoan parasite Leishmania donovani; Molecular Pharmacology, 74, 5, 1292. (if=4.128, ci=126)

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MALKHEDE, DIPALEE DILEEP (b 1968), Professor, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune


Prof. Dipalee Dileep Malkhede has been contributing significantly in host-guest chemistry and material science. The host-guest interactions with macrocyclic host-p-sulfonatocalix(n)arenes were investigated by using ground state absorption, steady state, time resolved fluorescence, and 2D NMR measurements. The obtained results will be useful in off/on switch and ion sensitive electrodes, antiproliferative activities etc. Time resolved fluorescence anisotropy studies can be carried out for knowing the size and structural arrangements of the complex. Fluorescence regeneration was used as an indicator displacement assay to characterize the binding mechanism and affinity of alkaline metal ions with SC6 and SC8. Single crystal structure of the complex revealed sandwitch of guest between two aromatic moieties of hosts and held together by hydrogen bonding, CH...π and π…π interactions which can be explored in its potential application as fluorescence probe in biological labelling. A simple method for the synthesis of calixarene-doped polypyrrole-TiO2/ZnO nanocomposite for significant electrochemical activity for sensing formaldehyde, unique architecture Grphene-MoS¬2SC8 for loading of a large amount of active Ni nanoparticles and enhances electron transfer kinetics. The composite catalyst shows high Oxygen Evaluation activity. The role of calixarene in the present study paves the way for the application of alike materials in composite super capacitors for energy storage applications.

Proposer: Prof. Dileep D. Dhavale, Seconder: Prof. Sulabha K. Kulkarni


1. A Jadhav, VS Kalyani, N Barooah, Dipalee D. Malkhede*, J Mohanty*, 2014, Molecular-Recognition-Assisted pKa Shifts and Metal-Ion-Induced Fluorescence Regeneration in p-Sulfonatocalix[6]arene-Encapsulated Acridine, Chem Phy Chem https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201402591 (if=3.36., ci=09)

2. Nilesh Vasram Rathod, Ankita Rao, Pradeep Kumar, Karanam Lakshmi Ramakumar, Dipalee Dileep Malkhede, 2014, Complexation with Calixarene and Efficient Supercritical CO2 Extraction of Pb(II) from acidic medium, New J Chem (RSC), 38, 5331-5340. (if=3.16., ci=02)

3. B J Waghmode, Z Husain, M Joshi, S D Sathaye, K R Patil, Dipalee D. Malkhede, 2016, Synthesis and Study of Calixarene Doped Polypyrrole-TiO2/ZnO Composites: Antimicrobial Activity and Electrochemical Sensors, J Polymer Res, doi: 10.1007/s10965-016-0921-9 (if=1.92, ci=02)

4. Sanhita V. Patil, Sulakshana V. Athare, Ashok Jagtap, Kisan M. Kodam, Shridhar P. Gejji and Dipalee D. Malkhede, 2016, Encapsulation of rhodamine-6G within psulfonatocalix[n]arenes: NMR, photophysical behaviour and biological activities, RSC Adv., 6, 110206-110220 (if=3.108, ci=03)

5. Nilesh V. Rathod, Kranti Joshi, Ankita Jadhav, Vrashali Kalyani, K. Selvraj, Dipalee D. Malkhede, 2017, A Novel Interaction study of Th(IV) and Zr(IV)with 4-sulfonatocalix[6]arene: Experimental and Theoretical Investigation, Polyhydron, 137, 207-216 (if=2.23)

6. B J Waghmode, S N Bhange, S M Unni, K R Patil and Dipalee D. Malkhede, 2017, In situ grown nickel

nanoparticles in a calixarene nanoreactor on a graphene–MoS2 support for, efficient water electrolysis, Sustainable Energy & Fuels 1, 1329-1338 (ci=03)

7. Babasaheb J Waghmode, Roby Soni, Kashinath Rangu Patil, Dipalee Malkhede, 2017, Calixarene based nanocomposite materials for high performance supercapacitor electrode, New J Chem., 41, 9752-9761, (if=3.217)

8. R G Thorave, D N Lande, S V Athare, S P Gejji, R G Gonnade, Dipalee D. Malkhede, 2017, X-ray structure, spectral characteristics, thermal and redox behavior of quinoline encapsulated in sulfonatocalix[4]arene, Journal of Molecular Liquids DOI 10.1016/j.molliq.2017.09.061 (if=3.468)

9. N Lavande, A Acuña, N Basílio, V Francisco, Dipalee D. Malkhede, L Garcia-Rio, 2017, A journey from calix[4]arene to calix[6] and calix[8]arene reveals more than a matter of size. Receptor concentration affects the stability……..complexes. Phys Chem Chem Phys 19, 13640-13649 (if=4.123, ci=01)

10. V S Kalyani, J Mohanty, Dipalee D Malkhede, 2017, Cylcodextrin-assisted Modulation in the Photophysical Properties and Acidity Constant of Pyrene-armed Calix[4]arene, Phys Chem Chem Phys, 19, 21, 382-389, (if=4.123)

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10965-016-0921-9

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MANDAL, SWADHIN KUMAR (b 1973) Associate Professor, IISER, Kolkata, Mohanpur, Nadia


The nominee has made an original and significant contribution in the area of developing a new concept in catalysis making the process more cost-effective. His major contribution may be broadly divided into two areas. One is the development of catalysts based on the new type of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) that was isolated for the first time in 2009 (known as abnormal or non-classical NHC) and another area of using a small organic molecule phenalenyl to store and transfer the electron(s) in designing catalysts. The nominee’s group is the first one to establish the application of an isolated abnormal N-heterocyclic carbene (aNHC) in a variety of organic transformations which includes conversion of a greenhouse gas (CO2) into fuel leading to the best efficacy without using any metal under ambient conditions. Also nominee’s work paves the way towards a new approach of long-standing challenges how to mimic transition metals without using any metals particularly in reactions where transition metal catalysis does not have any alternative. Recently, the nominee’s contribution in this area has been recognized by publication in the prestigious journal Accounts of Chemical Research.

Proposer: Prof. Sourav Pal, Seconder: Dr. Amitava Das

Ten Best Publications: 1. Samaresh Chandra Sau, Rameswar Bhattacharjee, Pavan K Vardhanapu Pradip Kumar Hota; G Vijaykumar; R. Govindarajan; Ayan Datta and Swadhin K Mandal. 2018 Metal-Free Capture of CO2 from Air and it’s Reduction into Alternative Fuel under Ambient Coditions. Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 1879-1884. (if=9.1, ci=0) 2. Jasimuddin Ahmed, Soumi Chakraborty, Anex Jose, Sreejyothi P and Swadhin K Mandal 2018. Integrating Organic Lewis Acid and Redox Catalysis: The Phenalenyl Cation in Dual Role J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 8330-8339 (if=14.4, ci=9) 3. Gonela Vijaykumar, Anand Pariyar, Jasimuddin Ahmed, Debashis Adhikari and Swadhin K Mandal* 2018 Tuning Redox Noninnocence of Phenalenyl Ligand toward Efficient Base-Metal Assisted Catalytic Hydrosilylation Chemical Science, 9, 2817-2825 (if=9.1, ci=5) 4. Jasimuddin Ahmed Sreejyothi P, Gonela Vijaykumar, Anex Jose, Manthan Raj and Swadhin K Mandal* 2017 New Face of Phenalenyl Based Radical in Transition Metal Free C-H Arylation of Heteroarenes at

Room Temperature: Trapping the Radical Initiator via C-C σ Bond Formation Chemical Science, 8, 7798-

7806 (if=9.1, ci=7) 5. Arup Mukherjee, Samresh Chandra Sau and Swadhin K Mandal* 2017 Exploring Closed-Shell Cationic Phenalenyl: From Catalysis to Spin Electronics Acct. Chem. Res., 50, 1679-1691. (if=20.3, ci=20) 6. Samaresh Chandra Sau, Rameswar Bhattacharjee, Pavan K. Vardhanapu, Gonela Vijaykumar, Ayan Datta and Swadhin K Mandal 2016 Metal Free Reduction of CO2 to Methoxyborane under Ambient

Conditions through Borondiformate Formation Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 55, 15147 –15151 (if=12, ci=19)

7. Anand Pariyar, Gonela V. Kumar, Mrinal Bhunia, Suman Dey, Santosh K. Singh, Sreekumar Kurungot, Swadhin K. Mandal* 2015 Switching Closed Shell to Open Shell Phenalenyl: Towards Designing Electroactive Materials J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137, 5955-5960 (if=13.9, ci=22) 8. Sudipta Raha Roy; A. Nijamudheen; Anand Pariyar; Anup Ghosh; Pavan K. Vardhanapu; Prasun K. Mandal; Ayan Datta; Swadhin K. Mandal* 2014 Phenalenyl in Different Role: Catalytic Activation through

the Nonbonding Molecular Orbital ACS Catalysis 4, 4307–4319 (if=10.6, ci=21)

9. Karthik V. Raman, Alexander M. Kamerbeek, Nicolae Atodiresei, Arup Mukherjee, Tamal K. Sen, Predrag Lazić, Vasile Caciuc, Reent Michel, Dietmar Stalke, Swadhin K. Mandal*, Stefan Blügel, Markus Münzenberg, Jagadeesh S. Moodera 2013 Interface-engineered templates for molecular spin memory devices Nature, 493, 509-513 (if=40.1, ci=274) 10. Subhankar Santra, Pradip Kumar Hota, Rangeet Bhattacharyya, Parthasarathi Bera, Prasenjit Ghosh, Swadhin K Mandal* 2013 Palladium Nanoparticles on Graphite Oxide: Highly Recyclable Catalyst for the

Synthesis Biaryl Cores. ACS Catalysis, 3, 2776−2789 (if=10.6, ci=71)

282

MUKHOPADHYAY, BALARAM (b 1972), Associate Professor, IISER, Kolkata


Dr. Balaram Mukhopadhyay is actively engaged in the field of synthetic carbohydrate chemistry for more than 12 years as an independent researcher. Of late, carbohydrates emerged as very important bio-molecule for various biological pathways and disease progression. Dr. Mukhopadhyay's group is involved in the total synthesis of biologically active oligosaccharides related to the infectious bacterial strains with the aim to develop synthetic vaccine candidates against these deadly pathogens. As a step towards the chemical synthesis of complex oligosaccharides, his group is developing novel methodologies for the protecting group manipulations and glycosylation, keeping the green chemistry and atom economy aspects in mind. Development of glyco-dendrimer based sensors for the detection of carbohydrate recognizing lectins through molecular recognition is also an area where the group is contributing significantly. Use of different dendrimeric scaffolds for the decoration of specific carbohydrate molecules to achieve glycoside cluster effect for enhanced molecular recognition is the prime motive towards this research. In recent times, Dr. Mukhopadhyay's group is significantly contributing towards the development of carbohydrate-based soft materials for diverse application. Phase selective low molecular weight gelators with excellent self healing properties are showing promising targets for further translation of the academic know-how to industrial applications. Simultaneously they are looking closely at the molecular basis of the mechanical properties of gels and crystals by analyzing the hydrogen bonding networks involved in the supramolecular architecture. So far, Dr. Mukhopadhyay has published 94 research papers in the journals of International repute and successfully guided 15 PhD students.

Proposer: Prof. Sourav Pal, Seconder: Prof. Prasanta K. Panigrahi


1. B. Mukhopadhyay, 2006, Sulfuric acid immobilized on silica: an efficient promoter for one-pot acetalation–acetylation of sugar derivatives, Tetrahedron Letters 47 (26), 4337-4341 (if=2.193, ci=74)

2. V. K. Rajput, B. Roy, B. Mukhopadhyay, 2006, Sulfuric acid immobilized on silica: an efficient reusable catalyst for selective hydrolysis of the terminal O-isopropylidene group of sugar derivatives, Tetrahedron letters 47 (39), 6987-6991 (if=2.193, ci=53)

3. B. Roy, B. Mukhopadhyay, 2007, Sulfuric acid immobilized on silica: an excellent catalyst for Fischer type glycosylation, Tetrahedron Letters 48 (22), 3783-3787 (if=2.193, ci=119)

4. S. Mandal, H. M. Gauniyal, K. Pramanik, B. Mukhopadhyay, 2007, Glycosylated N-sulfonylamidines: Highly efficient copper-catalyzed multicomponent reaction with sugar alkynes, sulfonyl azides, and amines, Journal of Organic Chemistry 72 (25), 9753-9756 (if=4.849, ci=26)

5. V. K. Rajput, B. Mukhopadhyay, 2008, Concise synthesis of a pentasaccharide related to the anti-leishmanial triterpenoid saponin isolated from Maesa balansae, Journal of Organic Chemistry 73(17), 6924-6927 (if=4.849, ci=37)

6. S. Mukherjee, B. Mukhopadhyay, 2012, Phase selective carbohydrate gelator, RSC Advances 2(6), 2270-2273 (if=3.108, ci=45)

7. P. R. Verma, S. Mandal, P. Gupta, B. Mukhopadhyay, 2013, Carbohydrate derived thiosemicarbazone and semicarbazone palladium complexes: homogeneous catalyst for C–C cross coupling reactions, Tetrahedron Letters 54 (36), 4914-4917 (if=2.193, ci=20)

8. R. Das, B. Mukhopadhyay, 2016, Chemical O‐Glycosylations: An Overview, ChemistryOpen 5 (5), 401-433 (if=2.918, ci=14)

9. K. B. Pal, V. Sarkar, B. Mukhopadhyay, 2016, Hydrogen bonding-induced conformational change in a crystalline sugar drrivative. Cryst Eng Comm 18 (7), 1156-1163 (if=3.474, ci=2)

10. M. K. Panda, K. B. Pal, G. Raj, R. Jana, T. Moriwaki, G. D. Mukherjee, B. Mukhopadhyay, P. Naumov, 2017, Flexibility in a Molecular Crystal Accomplished by Structural Modulation of Carbohydrate Epimers, Crystal Growth & Design 17 (4), 1759-1765 (if=4.055, ci=2)

283

PATIL, NITIN TUKARAM (b 1975), Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal


Dr. Patil’s research program is dedicated to the development and application of new reactivities in the area of gold catalysis. Once considered to be ‘catalytically dead’, gold has come a long way and the unexpected rise of gold catalysis is generally described as a “Black Swan event” in organic synthesis. When Dr. Patil started his independent career with gold catalysis, the field was still in its infancy and owing to his committed involvement over the span of 10 years, he has made an unparalleled contribution in the field. Exploiting gold’s ‘distinguished’ reactivity, his research ventures into three areas of interest: gold catalyzed carbophilic activations, cross-coupling reactions, and merged gold/metal and gold/organo-catalysis. His research further elaborated that gold catalysis can oscillate between two extremes of reactivities (π-activation and cross-coupling) in a controlled and predictable manner unlike any other transition metals. The attributes of the methodologies developed by him are of great academic interest, highly promising in their application in material science and biology and is expected to provide valuable guidelines for designing new reactions in future involving gold-catalysis. Clearly, his work is aimed at bringing gold catalysis into mainstream transition metal catalysis building on the unique catalytic behavior and organometallic reactivity patterns of gold.

Proposer: Prof. Vinod K. Singh, Seconder: Prof. Vishwakarma Singh


1. Pradip N. Bagle, Manoj V. Mane, Shashank P. Sancheti, Amol B. Gade, Samir R. Shaikh, Mu-Hyun Baik* and Nitin T. Patil,* 2019, Gold(I)-catalyzed Hydroxyl Group Assisted C(sp2)-H Alkylation of Enaminones with Diazo Compounds Yields 3-Substituted Chromones, Org. Lett., 21, 335-339 (if=6.579, ci=0)

2. Somsuvra Banerjee, Beeran Senthilkumar and Nitin T. Patil,* 2019, Gold(I)-catalyzed 1,2-Oxyalkynylation of N-Allenamides with Ethylnylbenzidoxolones, Org. Lett. 21, 180-184 (if=6.579, ci=0)

3. Amol B. Gade, Pradip N. Bagle, Popat S. Shinde, Vipin Bhardwaj, Subhrashis Banerjee, Ajit Chande and Nitin T. Patil,* 2018, Catalytic Enantioselective 1,3-Alkyl Shift in Alkyl Aryl Ethers: Efficient Synthesis of Optically Active 3,3'-Diaryloxindoles, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 57, 5735-5739 (if=11.994, ci=3)

4. Aslam C. Shaikh, Dnyanesh Ranade, P. R. Rajamohanan, Prasad P. Kulkarni and Nitin T. Patil,* 2017, Oxidative Intramolecular 1,2-Amino-oxygenation of Alkynes under Au(I)/Au(III)-Catalysis: Discovery of Pyridinium-Oxazole Dyad as Novel Ionic Fluorophore, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 56, 757-761 (if=11.994, ci=16)

5. Soumsurva Banerjee and Nitin T. Patil,* 2017, Exploiting the Dual Role of Ethynylbenziodoxolones in Gold-Catalyzed C(sp)-C(sp) Cross-Coupling Reactions, Chem. Commun., 53, 7937-7940 (if=6.319, ci=8)

6. Manjur O. Akram, Pramod S. Mali and Nitin T. Patil,* 2017, Cross-Coupling Reactions of Aryldiazonium Salts with Allylsilanes under Merged Gold/Visible Light Photoredox Catalysis, Org. Lett., 19, 3075-3078 (if=6.579, ci=15)

7. Pradip N. Bagle, Manoj V. Mane, K. Vanka, Dinesh R. Shinde, Samir R. Shaikh, Rajesh G. Gonnade and Nitin T. Patil,* 2016, Au(I)/Ag(I) Co-operative Catalysis: Interception of Ag-bound Carbocations with α-Gold(I) Enals in the Imino-alkyne Cyclizations with N-Allenamides, Chem. Commun., 52, 14462-14465 (if=6.319, ci=9)

8. Amol B. Gade and Nitin T. Patil,* 2016, Gold(I)-catalyzed Hydroaminaloxylation and Petasis-Ferrier Rearrangement Cascade of Aminaloalkynes, Org. Lett., 18, 1844-1847 (if=6.579, ci=8)

9. Popat S. Shinde, Aslam C. Shaikh and Nitin T. Patil,* 2016, Efficient Access to Alkynylated Quinalizinones via Gold(I)-catalyzed Aminoalkynylation of Alkynes, Chem. Commun., 52, 8152-8155 (if=6.319, ci=12)

10. Nitin T. Patil,* Valmik S. Shinde and Balasubramanian Sridhar, 2013, Relay Catalytic Branching Cascade: A Technique to Access Diverse Molecular Scaffolds (Selected as a Hot Paper), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 52, 2251-2255 (if=11.994, ci=49)

284

ROY, SOUMYAJIT (b 1976), Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Kolkata


It gives me pleasure to nominate Dr. Soumyajit Roy, FRSC, for the fellowship of the National Academy of Science. Dr. Roy has over the last years developed the inorganic colloid chemistry of soft-oxometalates (SOMs). The uniqueness of this chemistry lies in the ability of photo-chemically exciting millions of metal centres in SOMs for catalytic reactions that can enable diverse phenomena ranging from synthesis of active matter, patterning of catalytic surfaces to solving our present energy crisis by reducing green-house gases like CO2 into liquid fuels. His recent series of publications use SOMs for oxidation of water, couple it to reduce CO2 to formic acid, a liquid fuel, with highest turn-over numbers reported till date in the literature. This work can enable formic acid Fuel Cells to drive cars using water and CO2 in presence of light and has attracted attention. Taking leadership in the field he has edited three special issues in leading journals like NJC, Frontiers in Chemistry and JMEM. His other works on polymers exploring targeted drug delivery, strengthening of concrete, photo-polymerization and super swelling polymers also deserve mentioning. He has been conferred with positions of trust and has convened several sessions in leading ICCC conferences, conducted GIAN course on Polyoxometalates and delivered series of invited and key note lectures in international and national conferences. He has also organized the first international conference on Polyoxometalates in India in 2017. At present his laboratory is engaged in CO2 activation which is of practical importance.

Proposer: Prof. S. Pal, Seconder: Prof. P.K. Panigrahi


1. A. Müller, S. Roy, 2003, “En route from the mystery of molybdenum blue via the related manipulateable building blocks to aspects of materials science.” Coord. Chem. Rev. 245, 153. (if=13.324, ci=263)

2. A. A. Verhoeff, M. L Kistler, A. Bhatt, J. Pigga, J. Groenewold, M. Klokkenburg, S. Veen, S. Roy, T. Liu, W. K. Kegel, 2007, Charge regulation as a stabilization mechanism for shell-like assemblies of polyoxometalates, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 066104. (if=8.839, ci=91)

3. S. Roy, 2011, “Soft-Oxo Metalates (SOMs): A Very Short Introduction” Comments Inorg. Chem. 32, 113. (if=1.524, ci=52)

4. B. Roy, M. Arya, P. Thomas, J. Jürgschat, K. Rao , A. Banerjee, C. M. Reddy, S. Roy, 2013, "Self-Assembly of Mesoscopic Materials To Form Controlled and Continuous Patterns by Thermo-Optically Manipulated Laser Induced Microbubbles", Langmuir 29, 14733.(if=3.833, ci=32)

5. D. Chen, A. Sahasrabudhe, W. Peng, A. Dasgupta, R. Yuan, S. Roy, 2013, "Synthesis and properties of a novel quarternerized imidazolium [α-PW12O40] salt as a recoverable photo-polymerization catalyst" Dalton Trans. 42, 10587. (if=4.029, ci=32)

6. S. Roy, 2014, "Soft-oxometalates beyond crystalline polyoxometalates: formation, structure and properties", CrystEngComm 16 (2014) 4667. (if=3.474, ci=46)

7. P. Thomas, C. Pei, B. Roy, S. Ghosh, S. Das, A. Banerjee, T. Ben, S. Qiu, S. Roy, 2015, "Site specific supramolecular heterogeneous catalysis by optically patterned soft oxometalate–porous organic framework (SOM–POF) hybrid on a chip", J. Mater. Chem. A. 3, 1431.(if=9.931, ci=19)

8. S. Das, S. Biswas, T. Balaraju, S. Barman, R. Pochamoni, S. Roy, 2016, "Photochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide Coupled with Water Oxidation using Various Soft-oxometalate (SOM) based Catalytic Systems," J. Mater. Chem. A. 4, 8875. (if=9.931, ci=19)

9. S. Biswas, D. Melgar, A. Srimany, A. Rodrigues-Fortea, T. Pradeep, C. Bo, J. M. Poblet, S. Roy, 2016, "Direct Observation of the Formation Pathway of [Mo132] Keplerates", Inorg. Chem. 55, 8285. (if=4.857, ci=4)

10. S Biswas, E Mani, A Mondal, A Tiwari, S Roy, 2016, Supramolecular polyelectrolyte complex (SPEC): pH dependent phase transition and exploitation of its carrier properties, Soft-Matter, 12, 1989. (if=3.889, ci=6)

285

SAHOO, AKHILA KUMAR (b 1972), Professor, School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad


Professor Sahoo is one of the leading scientists of our country who has made many original contributions in the organic chemistry. His work has drawn much international attention and he is recognized as a leader in his field. Professor Sahoo has ingeniously introduced the concept of reusable/transformable directing groups (RDGs/TfDG) to the field of C-H activation, thus providing a novel direction to this area. His group has for the first time demonstrated the potential of sulfoximine based RDG [i.e. methylphenyl sulfoximine (MPS), methyl-2-pyridyl sulfoximine (MPyS)] for the functionalization of inert C-H bonds to the construction of C-C, C-O, C-N, C-halo bonds and annulations. The development of conceptually driven sequential/multiple functionalization of C(sp2/sp3)-H bonds is widely acclaimed. Other notable contributions include: acetoxylation of beta-C(sp3)-H bond, halogenations, and sequential halogenations-acetoxylation of multiple C(sp3)-H bonds and one-pot two-fold unsymmetrical C-H functionalization. The unprecedented direct annulation of phenols/ thiophenols with unactivated-alkynes for the benzofuran/benzothiophene synthesis and hydrophenoxylation of alkynes has been considered as a major advance. Sahoo’s group has devised elegant protocols for the cycloisomerization of yne-tethered-ynamide via the in-situ formed ketene aminals, umpolung and radical assisted cyclization and constructs unusual fused-heterocycles [dihydropyridinone, (spiro)pyrrolidone, benzo[f]dihydroisoquinolone, cyclobutene-fused-azepine, and 4-sulfinylated-pyrroles]. His other significant contributions include: the development of Au and Ag catalyzed regioselective hydration of alkynes and functionalization of N-substituted alkynes, and the design and development of N- and O-rich thermally stable insensitive energetic materials for DRDO-India. Overall, contributions of Professor Sahoo are original and of high scientific importance, worthy of recognition by the Academy.

Proposer: Prof. Goverdhan Mehta, Seconder: Prof. Ganesh P. Pandey


1. B. Prabagar, R. K. Mallick, R. Prasad, V. Gandon and A. K. Sahoo* 2019, “Umpolung Reactivity of Ynamides: An Unconventional [1,3]‐Sulfonyl and [1,5]‐Sulfinyl Migration Cascade” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 58, 2365. (if=12.102, ci=1)

2. S. Dutta, R. K. Mallick, R. Prasad, V. Gandon and A. K. Sahoo* 2019, “Alkyne versus Ynamide Reactivity: Regioselective Radical Cyclization of Yne‐Ynamides” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 58, 2289. (if=12.102, ci=0)

3. M. R. Kuram, M. Bhanuchandra, and A. K. Sahoo* 2013, “Direct Access to Benzo[b]furans through Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Annulation of Phenols and Unactivated”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 52, 4607. (if=12.102, ci=146)

4. K. Ghosh, R. K. Rit, E. Ramesh, and A. K. Sahoo* 2016, “Ruthenium-Catalyzed Hydroarylation and One-Pot Twofold Unsymmetrical C-H Functionalization of Arenes”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 55, 7821. (if=12.102, ci=39)

5. R. K. Rit, M. R. Yadav and A. K. Sahoo* 2012, “Pd(II)-Catalyzed Primary-C(sp3)–H Acyloxylation at Room Temperature” Org. Lett., 14, 3724. (if=6.492, ci=122)

6. M. R. Yadav, R. K. Rit and A. K. Sahoo* 2013, “Sulfoximine Directed Intermolecular o-C–H Amidation of Arenes with Sulfonyl Azides” Org. Lett., 15, 1638. (if=6.492, ci=127)

7. N. Ghosh, S. Nayak, and A. K. Sahoo* 2011, “Gold-Catalyzed Regioselective Hydration of Propargyl Acetates Assisted by a Neighboring Carbonyl Group: Access to alpha-Acyloxy Methyl Ketones and Synthesis of Actinopolymorphol B” J. Org. Chem., 76, 500.(if=4.805, ci=119)

8. R. K. Rit, M. R. Yadav, K. Ghosh, M. Shankar, and A. K. Sahoo* 2014, “Sulfoximine Assisted Pd(II)-Catalyzed Bromination and Chlorination of Primary-beta-C(sp3)-H Bond” Org. Lett. 16, 5258. (if=6.492, ci=81)

9. S. Nayak, N. Ghosh, and A. K. Sahoo* 2014, “Access to Cyclobutene-Fused Azepines through Au-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization of Stable Alkyne Tethered Ketene N,N-Acetals”, Org. Lett., 16, 2996. (if=6.492, ci=25)

10. M. Shankar, K. Ghosh, K. Mukherjee, R. K. Rit, and A. K. Sahoo* 2016, “Ruthenium Catalyzed One-Pot DiAnnulation of Heteroaryls: Direct Access to Pi-Conjugated Polycylic Amides and Pyrano-Isoquinolines”, Org. Lett., 18, 6416. (if=6.492, ci=19)

286

SELVAM, PARASURAMAN (b 1959), Professor, IIT Madras, Chennai


Professor Parasuraman Selvam’s research work mainly involves on the development of novel synthetic procedures for the preparation of ordered nanoporous (zeolitic) materials including silicates, aluminosilicates, carbons, aluminas and a range of transition metal oxides of titanium, zirconium, iron, copper, etc. as well as size- and shape-controlled nanomaterials. His major contribution also includes in the design and development of novel heterogeneous catalysts for a variety of industrially important organic transformations which have received overwhelming response both from industry and academia. Several industrial consultancy and sponsored projects that he has brought to the Institute has helped him to build a strong and vibrant catalysis research group. Professor Selvam has also played a key role in strengthening the National Centre for Catalysis Research (NCCR) at IIT-Madras which was established by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) in 2006 with a clear vision to emerge as the premier National Centre for Catalysis, focusing on building human resource and knowledge capital, establishing advanced R&D facilities, initiating research programs in frontier areas as well as to cultivate a vibrant partnership among the trinity of academy-research-industry. The centre offers MTech program in Catalysis Technology as well as a number of courses including the popular winter school on catalysis that has offered from 1999 onwards to benefit the research scholars working in the area of green chemistry and catalysis in the country.

Proposer: Dr. M. Lakshmi Kantam, Seconder: Prof. G.D. Yadav


1. Sangeetha, P., Shanthi, K., Rao, K.S.R., Viswanathan, B., Selvam, P. (2009) Hydrogenation of nitrobenzene over palladium-supported catalysts-Effect of support. Applied Catalysis A: General, 353, 160-165 (if=4.52, ci=139)

2. Badamali,S.K.; Sakthivel, A.; Selvam, P., Influence of aluminium sources on the synthesis and catalytic activity of mesoporous AlMCM-41 molecular sieves, Catal. Today 63 (2-4), 291-295 (if=4.67, ci=88)

3. Gomes, H.T., Selvam, P., Dapurkar, S.E., Figueiredo, J.L., Faria, J.L. (2006) Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 86(1-3), pp. 287-294 (if=3.65, ci=100)

4. Selvam, P.; Yvon, K, Synthesis of Mg2FeH6, Mg2CoH5 and Mg2NiH4 by high-pressure sintering of the elements, Int.J. Hydrogen Energy, 16 (9), 615-617 (if=4.23, ci=100)

5. Sakthivel, A., Dapurkar, S.E., Selvam, P. (2003) Allylic oxidation of cyclohexene over chromium containing mesoporous molecular sieves. Applied Catalysis A: General, 246(2), pp. 283-293. (if=4.52, ci=97)

6. Mohapatra, S.K., Sonavane, S.U., Jayaram, R.V., Selvam, P. (2002) Regio- and chemoselective catalytic transfer hydrogenation of aromatic nitro and carbonyl as well as reductive cleavage of azo compounds over novel mesoporous NiMCM-41 molecular sieves. Organic Letters. 4(24), pp. 4297-4300 (if=6.49, ci=84)

7. Sakthivel, A., Selvam, P. (2002) Mesoporous (Cr)MCM-41: A mild and efficient heterogeneous catalyst for selective oxidation of cyclohexane. Journal of Catalysis, 211(1), pp. 134-143 (if=6.92, ci=210)

8. Mohapatra, S.K., Sahoo, B., Keune, W., Selvam, P. (2002) Synthesis, characterization and catalytic properties of trivalent iron substituted hexagonal mesoporous aluminophosphates. Chemical Communications, (14), pp. 1466-1467 (if=6.29, ci=42)

9. Dapurkar, S.E., Badamali, S.K., Selvam, P. (2001) Nanosized metal oxides in the mesopores of MCM-41 and MCM-48 silicates. Catalysis Today, 68(1-3), pp. 63-68 (if=4.67, ci=124)

10. Sakthivel, A., Badamali, S.K., Selvam, P. (2000) para-Selective t-butylation of phenol over mesoporous H-AlMCM-41. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 39(3), pp. 457-463 (if=3.65, ci=154)

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SHELKE, MANJUSHA VILAS (b 1975), Senior Scientist, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune


Dr. Manjusha Shelke’s research focuses on synthesis of novel materials for energy applications. She has made significant contributions in the domains of functional nanomaterials and advanced device prototypes. She has explored several strategies to integrate organic and inorganic materials for superior energy conversion performance (J. Power Sources 2016, 315, 277; ChemElectroChem 2017, 4, 1984; Scientific Reports, 2014, 4, 4897; Chem. Euro. J. 2014, 20, 7402; J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2, 13352; Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2014, 16, 17786). Dr. Shelke has also done significant work on new and efficient electrode materials for batteries and supercapacitors (Chemistry Select, 3, 2018, 2286 – 2292; Adv. Mater. Inter. 2017, 1601043; ACS Sust. Chem. Eng. 2016, 4, 2528; Chem. Euro. J. 2016, 22, 7134; Carbon, 2018, 128, 287; Energy & Fuels 2018, 32, 908; J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2, 2152). 2 US patents (US9305777B2, US20170207034), 1 Japan patent (JP5872672B2) are granted for her research on development of advanced functional materials. Currently she is engaged in translating her research to industry. She is partnering with Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) and other industries through joint research projects. She has established scientific network through national and international collaborations and has delivered talks on worldwide platforms. She is a faculty member of AcSIR, contributing to the skilled manpower development through PhD program. She clearly stands out among only a few women scientists in the country in the field of advanced materials with such record of published research with 1369 citations, h-index 20 and i10index 32.

Proposer: Prof. S.B. Ogale, Seconder: Prof. A.K. Nangia


1. V. S. Kale, B. R. Sathe, A. Kushwaha, M. Aslam, M. V. Shelke*, 2011, A novel catalyst-free synthesis of vertically aligned silicon nanowire-carbon nanotube heterojunction arrays for high performance electron field emission, Chemical Communications, 47, 7785 - 7787 (if=6.290, ci=15)

2. D V Rami Reddy, R. Kashid, A. B. Deshmukh, P. Sharma, M. R. Das, M. A. More, M. V. Shelke*, 2013, High Efficiency Electron Field Emission from Protruded Graphene Oxide Sheets Supported on Sharp Silicon Nanowires, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 1, 5040 - 5046 (if=5.976, ci=29)

3. V. K. Azagan M, M. V Vaishmpayan, M. V. Shelke*, 2014, Synthesis and Electrochemistry of Highly Pseudocapacitive Carbon Nano Onions aka Multilayer Fullerenes and its MnO2 nanocomposite, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2, 2152 - 2159. (if=9.931, ci=40)

4. D. Ramireddy, C. K. Kamaja, M. V. Shelke*, 2014, Quantum dot decorated Silicon nanowires as the efficient photo electrodes for the photo electrochemical Hydrogen generation, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2014, 2, 13352-13358 (if=9.931, ci=7)

5. S. G. Yenchalwar, D. V. Rami Reddy, A. B. Deshmukh, M. V. Shelke*, 2014, Plasmon Enhanced Photocurrent Generation from Click Chemically Modified Graphene, Chemistry-A European Journal, 24, 7402-7409 (if=5.160, ci=10)

6. V. K. Azhagan M, C. K. Kamaja, M. V. Shelke*, 2016, RuO2·nH2O Nanoparticles Anchored on Carbon Nano-onions: An Efficient Electrode for Solid State Flexible Electrochemical Supercapacitor, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 4, 2528–2534 (if=6.140, ci=37)

7. Indrapal Karbhal, D V Rami Reddy, Joyashish Debgupta, V. K. Pillai, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Manjusha V. Shelke*, 2016, Facile Green Synthesis of BCN Nanosheets as High-Performance Electrode Material for Electrochemical Energy Storage, Chemistry A European Journal, 22, 7134-7140 (if=5.160, ci=15)

8. C. K. Kamaja, D V Rami Reddy, Yasha Dave, Joyashish Debgupta, Manjusha V. Shelke*, 2016, Synthesis of novel Cu2S nanohusks as high performance counter electrode for CdS/CdSe sensitized solar cell, Journal of Power Sources, 315, 277–283 (if=6.945, ci=7)

9. M. V. Shelke*, H. Gullapalli, K. Kalaga, M.T. F. Rodrigues, D V Rami Reddy, Robert Vajtai, Pulickel M. Ajayan*, 2017, Facile Synthesis of 3D Anode Assembly with Si Nanoparticles Sealed in Highly Pure Few Layer Graphene Deposited on Porous Current Collector for Long Life Li-Ion Battery, Advanced Materials Interfaces, 1601043 (if=4.834, ci=17)

10. Ashvini B. Deshmukh, Archana C. Nalawade, Indrapal Karbhal, M S Qureshi*, Manjusha V. Shelke*, 2018, Electrochemical capacitive energy storage in PolyHIPE derived nitrogen enriched hierarchical porous carbon nanosheets, Carbon, 128, 287 - 295.(if=7.082, ci=11)

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THIMMAIAH, GOVINDARAJU (b 1976) Associate Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur P.O., Bengaluru – 560064


Bioorganic Chemistry and Chemical Biology: Research interests are at the interface of chemistry, biology and biomaterials science. Expertise in organic synthesis, peptide chemistry, bioconjugate chemistry, biophysical techniques and chemical biology are used to solve problems related to human health. Areas: Molecular Probes, Alzheimer's disease, Peptide Chemistry, Molecular Architectonics, Functional DNA Nanoarchitectonics and Biomimetics Alzheimer's disease (AD) constitutes 70-80% of all neurodegenerative diseases, for which there is no diagnosis or cure. Govindaraju group developed NIR-based diagnosis probes and small molecule, peptoid and natural product derived therapeutic agents through multifunctional approach targeting this multifactorial disease. The evaluation of lead drug-candidates in double transgenic mice models is highly encouraging. His group is working on multiplexing molecular-tools capable of detecting biomarkers in CSF, blood and the brain to aid the early diagnosis of AD. NIR probe developed for selective detection and differentiation of AD from tauopathies & other neurodegenerative diseases in case of mixed dementia, Molecular probes developed to assess metals, ROS, oxidative stress and other biomarkers linked to AD. Some of the inventions are commercialized and are used to develop point-of-care diagnostics. Molecular Architectonics: The emergence of molecular architectonics (new concept introduced), a state-of-the-art innovation in engineering molecular organization for functional applications ranging from organic (bio)electronics, homochirality, protein folding, high-mechanical strength, self-cleaning, biosensors to tissue engineering (Ace. Chem. Res., 2018, 51, 414-426). This novel concept is required to integrate the realms of molecules to nanoarchitectonics to applications. Amino acids, peptides, nucleobases etc with built-in information for molecular recognition (minute structural-mutations and chirality) serve as functional components. His group is in the forefront of upcycling cyclic dipeptide (COP) for design and production of synthetic mimics of silk. Established templated DNA nanotechnology: functional DNA nanoarchitectonics to overcome the limitations of DNA nanotechnology. Silk-melanin scaffolds were fabricated for skeletal muscle and (stem cells-based) neuronal tissue engineering. All the above concepts and research themes have been exclusively introduced from his laboratory.

Proposer: Prof. C.N.R. Rao, Seconder: Prof. T.K. Chakraborty

Ten Best Publications: 1. K. Rajasekhar, K. Mehta and T. Govindaraju, Hybrid multifunctional modulators inhibit multifaceted AI3 toxicity and prevent mitochondrial damage, ACS Chern. Neurosci. 2018, 9, 1432-1440. HMM: Hybrid Multifunctional Modulators, a new concept to tackle AD. (ci= 8) 2. K. Rajasekhar, Malabika Chakrabarti and T. Govindaraju, 2015, Function and toxicity of amyloid beta and recent therapeutic interventions targeting amyloid beta in Alzheimer's disease, Chern. commun., 51, 13434-13450 Introduced multifunctional or multi pronged strategies for the development of diagnostics and therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease. (ci= 69) 3. K. Rajasekhar, N. Narayanaswamy, N. A. Murugan, K. Viccaro, H-G. Lee, K. Shah, T. Govindaraju, 2017, AI3 plaque-selective NIR fluorescence probe to differentiate Alzheimer's disease from tauopathies, Biosens. Bioelectron. 98, 54-61. Unique probe to detect and distinguish AD from tauopathies and in mixed dementia, Brain tissue staining. Product commercialized through VNIR Biotechnologies Pvt. Ltd. (ci=12) 4. N. Narayanaswamy, S. Narra, R. Nair, D. K. Saini, P. Kondaiah and T. Govindaraju, 2016, Stimuli-responsive colorimetric and NIR fluorescence combination probe for selective reporting of cellular hydrogen peroxide, Chern. SCi., 7, 2832-2841. First NIR fluorescence combination probe for RDS, useful in assessing oxidative stress in Alzheimer's disease. Product commercialized through VNIR Biotechnologies Pvt. Ltd. (ci=44) 5. N. Narayanaswamy, S. Das, P. K. Samanta, K. Banu, G. P. Sharma, N. Mondal, S. K. Dhar, S. K. Pati, and T. Govindaraju, 2015, Sequence-specific recognition of DNA minor groove by an NIR-Fluorescence switch-on probe and its potential applications, Nucleic Acids Res., 43, 8651-8663. First NIR fluorescence probe for DNA minor groove, used to develop in situ RDS probe._Product commercialized through VNIR Biotechnologies Pvt. Ltd. (ci= 20) 6. M. B. Avinash and T. Govindaraju, Architectonics: Design of Molecular Architecture for Functional Applications, Acc. Chern. Res. 2018, 51, 414-426. New Concept and area of "molecular architectonics" is established. (ci=12) 7. S. Manchineella, G. Thrivikraman, K. K. Khanum, P. C. Ramamurthy, B. Basu and T. Govindaraju, 2016, Pigmented silk nanofibrous composite for skeletal muscle tissue engineering Adv. Healthcare Mater., 5, 1222-1232. Highlighted in ChemistryViews as "Pigments in Tissue Engineering". (ci=25) 8. M. Pandeeswar, S. P. Senanayak, K. S. Narayan and T. Govindaraju, 2016, Multi-stimuli responsive charge-transfer hydrogel for room temperature organic ferroelectric thin-film devices J. Arn. Chern. Soc., 138,8259-8268. Biomimetic Molecular architectonics strategy for first ferroelectric multi-stimuli-responsive hydrogel and thin film. http://d4sci.com/ferroelectric-multi-stimuli-responsive-charge-transfer-hydrogell/ (ci=28) 9. M. B. Avinash and T. Govindaraju, 2013, Extremely slow dynamics of an abiotic helical assembly: unusual relevance to the secondary structure of proteins, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 4, 583-588. Abiotic versus biotic assembly. Abiotic model system to study protein folding. (ci=11) 10. M. B. Avinash, E. Verheggen, C. Schmuck and T. Govindaraju, Self-cleaning functional molecular materials, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 10324-10328. First small molecule based BFT technique to create self- cleaning surfaces to effectively mimic lotus leaf. Highlighted in ChemistryViews as 'Self-Assembling and Self-Cleaning'. http://www.chemistryviews.org/detalis/ezine/2722861/Self-Assembling_and_Self-Cleaning.html (ci=27)

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JUSTIN THOMAS, K. R. (b 1968), Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee


Dr. K. R. Justin Thomas has significant contributions in the field of organic electronics. He has developed several organic dyes, which exhibited promising functional efficacy in electronic devices such as dye-sensitized solar cells and organic light-emitting diodes as sensitizers and emitters, respectively. Fluorene 1,2 and carbazole-based 3,4 organic sensitizers developed by him displayed power conversion efficiency as high as 7.5% in liquid electrolyte-based dye-sensitized solar cells. Similarly carbazole-based emitters developed by his group registered external quantum efficiency >6.0% in organic light-emitting diodes 5,6 when used as doped emitters. He has proposed and validated design rules for organic dyes by systemic functional group disposition on rigid semiconducting chromophores such as carbazole 5 and fluorene. In view of global demand for the development of alternative energy resource technologies and low power consumption lighting technologies, I consider that his research has significant effect on society and particularly in Indian context. He has published more than 140 publications in refereed international journals. Many of his findings have been patented (11 patents) and commercialized. His h-index is 41 as per science citation index. He tops among the Indian materials chemists who utilize organic chromophores for electronic applications.

Proposer: Prof. Thalappil Pradeep, Seconder: Prof. Ravi Bhushan


1. K.R.J. Thomas, J. T. Lin, Y.-T. Tao and C.-W. Ko, 2001, Light-emitting carbazole derivatives: Potential electroluminescent materials, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 123, 9404-9411. (if=13.858, ci=396)

2. K.R.J. Thomas, J.T. Lin, M. Velusamy, Y.-T. Tao and C.-H. Chuen, 2004, Color tuning in benzo [1,2,5]thiadiazole-based small molecules by amino conjugation/deconjugation: Bright red-light-emitting diodes, Adv. Funct. Mater, 14, 83-90. (if=12.124, ci=256)

3. K.R.J. Thomas, Jiann T. Lin, Ying-Chan Hsu and Kuo-Chuan Ho, 2005, Organic dyes containing thienylfluorene conjugation for solar cells, Chem. Commun., 4098-4100. (if=6.319, ci=185)

4. K.R.J. Thomas, Y.C. Hsu, J.T. Lin, K.M. Lee, K.C. Ho, C.H. Lai, Y.M. Cheng, and P.T. Chou, 2008, 2,3-Disubstituted thiophene-based organic dyes for solar cells, Chem. Mater. 20, 1830-1840. (if=9.466, ci=339)

5. A. Baheti, P. Tyagi, K. R. J. Thomas, Y.-C. Hsu, and J. T. Lin, 2009, Simple Triarylamine-Based Dyes Containing Fluorene and Biphenyl Linkers for Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, J. Phys. Chem. C. 113, 8541-8547. (if=4.536, ci=91)

6. A. Baheti, P. Singh, C.-P. Lee, K.R.J. Thomas, and K.-C. Ho, 2011, 2,7 -Diaminofluorene Based Organic Dyes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Effect of Auxiliary Donor on Optical and Electrochemical Properties, J. Org. Chem., 76, 4910-4920. (if=4.849, ci=78)

7. P. Singh, A. Baheti, and K.R.J. Thomas, 2011, Synthesis and Optical Properties of Acidochromic Amine-Substituted Benzo[a]phenazines, J. Org. Chem., 76, 6134-6145. (if=4.849, ci=42)

8. D. Kumar, K.R.J. Thomas, C.-P. Lee and K.-C. Ho, 2011, Novel Pyrenoimidazole-Based Organic Dyes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Org. Lett., 13, 2622-2625. (if=6.579, ci=50)

9. K.R.J. Thomas, N. Kapoor, M.N.K.P. Bolisetty, J.-H.i Jou, Y.-L. Chen and Y.-C. Jou, 2012, Pyrene-Fluorene Hybrids Containing Acetylene Linkage as Color-Tunable Emitting Materials for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, J. Org. Chem., 77, 3921-3932 (if=4.849, ci=67)

10. A. Venkateswararao, K.R.J. Thomas, C.-P.Lee, C.-T. Li, and K.-C. Ho, 2014, Organic Dyes Containing Carbazole as Donor and pi-Linker: Optical, Electrochemical, and Photovoltaic Properties, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 6, 2528-2539. (if=7.504, ci=81)

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UPADHYAY, KAUSHAL KUMAR (b 1965), Professor, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi


Prof. (Dr.) K. K. Upadhyay’s work reflects a significant contribution to the existing knowledge of chemistry particularly in the field of supramolecular/bioinorganic chemistry. The research group of Prof. Upadhyay synthesized a good number of optical chemosensors (chromogenic and fluorogenic both for a number of biologically/environmentally important analytes; Ni2+, Cu2+, Zn2+, Cd2+, Hg2+, Al3+, F-, HSO4 -, SO3 2-, PO4 3-

,S2-/HS-,carboxylates etc. Among these a few chemosensors exhibited remarkably low detection limit and are promising for determination of analytes at their nano/sub-nanomolar levels. They presented a few exotic X-Ray structures of some very interesting analyte-chemosensors ensembles. The research group of Prof. Upadhyay presented few worthy individual/combinatorial logic gates also from their thorough studies on input-output pattern of a variety of chemosensors. They also corrected (Chem. Comm. 2012) a disputed mechanistic aspect of optical sensing of bisulfate by the family of Schiff base receptors reported by Prof. Kim. et.al (Chem. Comm. in 2009).Beside above chemosensors Prof. Upadhyay’s group also did well in the field of nano-chemosensing. They emphasize mainly on silver and gold nanoparticles and did worthful chemosensing of S2-, cysteine, homocysteine and glutathione in a variety of samples. To this end, they also reported a number of self assembles of silver nanoparticles in the form of flowers, thorns and petals during the course of chemosensing of cysteine, homocystein and glutathione. Notably, the same research group also reported the very first X-ray crystal structure of a chemical model of nuclease enzyme involving three Zn2+ with small molecules as ligands.

Proposer: Prof. M.S. Singh, Seconder: Prof. Krishna Nand Singh


1. V. Kumar, A. Kumar, U. Diwan, K. K. Upadhyay, 2012, Uncovering the true mechanism of optical detection of HSO4- in water by Schiff-base receptors – hydrolysis vs. hydrogen bonding, Chemical Communications, 48, 9540. (if=6.319, ci=26)

2. R. K. Mishra, K. K. Upadhyay, S. Shukla, R. Mishra. 2012, A Zinc(II) directed triple-stranded helicate incorporating a nine membered metallamacrocycle: supramolecular cylinders mimicking P1 nuclease, Chemical Communications, 48, 4238. (if=6.319, ci=13)

3. S.K. Asthana, A. Kumar, Neeraj, Shweta, S.K. Hira, P.P. Manna, K.K. Upadhyay, 2017, “Brightening quinolineimines by Al3+ and subsequent quenching by PPi/PA in aqueous medium: Synthesis, Crystal structures, Binding behaviour, Theoretical and Cell Imaging Studies. Inorg. Chem. 56(6), 3315. (if=4.857, ci=1)

4. K. K.Upadhyay, A. Kumar, 2010, “Pyrimidine based highly sensitive fluorescent receptor for Al3+ showing dual signallingmechanism”Organic&Biomolecular Chemistry, 8, 4892. (if=3.564, ci=148)

5. V. Kumar, A. Kumar, U. Diwan, M. K. Singh and K. K. Upadhyay, 2015,“A radical approach for fluorescent turn ‘on’ detection, differentiation and bioimaging of methanol” Org. Biomol. Chem., 13, 8822. (if=3.564, ci=4)

6. S. K. Asthana, A. Kumar, Neeraj, Shweta and K. K. Upadhyay, 2016, “Efficient visualization of H2S via a fluorescent probe with three electrophilic centres” Org. Biomol. Chem., 14, 3690. (if=3.564, ci=3)

7. A. Kumar, V. Kumar, K. K. Upadhyay, 2011, “A ninhydrin based colorimetric molecular switch for Hg2+ and CH3COO-/F-“, Tetrahedron Letters, 52, 6809. (if=2.193, ci=23)

8. Neeraj, A. Kumar, V. Kumar, R. Prajapati, S. K. Ashthana, K. K. Upadhyay and J. Zhao, 2014. “A remarkable effect of N, Ndiethylamino functionality on the optoelectronic properties of a salicylimine-based probe for Al3+” Dalton Trans., 43, 5831. (if=4.029, ci=25)

9. V. Kumar, A. Kumar, U. Diwan, and K. K. Upadhyay, 2013, “A Zn2+ responsive highly sensitive fluorescent probe and 1D coordination polymer based on a coumarin platform” Dalton Trans., 42, 13078 (if=4.029, ci=20)

10. I. Sanskriti and K. K. Upadhyay, 2017, “Cysteine, Homocysteine and Glutathione guided hierarchical self-assemblies of spherical silver nanoparticles paving the way for their naked eye discrimination in human serum”, New J. Chem., 41, 4316-4321 (if=3.269, ci=1)

291

VANDANAPU, JAGANNADHAM (b 1950), Professor (retired), Osmania University, Hyderabad


Prof. Jagannadham’s research interests are reaction kinetics and Chemical Education (India), radiation chemistry and fast reaction kinetics (Germany), organic cation reactivity (USA). Out of his total 126 publications, 10 publications in Journal of American Chemical Society and one review article in Royal Society of Chemistry, special publications. Since 2010 he shifted his research interest toward “Chemical Education”. Since then he has published over 60 research papers in the field of “Chemical Education” alone. Now he is Editor-in-Chief of “World Journal of Chemical Education” published by Science & Educational Publishing, USA. He has published 126 papers and 4 review articles with an average impact factor of 2.1 and more than 2000 citations. The RG score is 28.9, h-index is 21 and RG reach is 518. Contributed a Chapter “Linear Free Energy Relationships (LFER) as a One-Hour Classroom Lecture for Postgraduate Students: Correlation of the Nature of the Transition States” to “Chemistry Education in the ICT Age” Springer, New York. Recipient of major and minor research grants from DST and UGC. Contributed articles “Saturated and Unsaturated Solutions, Entropy, Enthalpy, Pressure, Gas Constant, Isothermal Process, Adiabatic Process and Super-Fluidity” to the Encyclopedia of Chemistry in Telugu published by Potti Sree Ramulu Telugu University, Hyderabad. Placed in Marquis Who’s Who in the World – 2007 and 2013 and placed in International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England, Award for Research Excellence 2017 from the Indus Foundation Inc., Edison, New Jersey 08837, USA He guided 11 PhD students of Osmania University and one M.Phil of Lovely Professional University.

Proposer: Prof. K. S. Rangappa, Seconder: Dr. S. Chandrasekhar


1. R. Sanjeev, R. Ravi, V. Jagannadham and Adam A. Skelton, (2017) Experimental and Quantum Mechanical Study of Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions of meta- and para-Substituted Benzyl Bromides with Benzylamine in Methanol: Synergy Between Experiment and theory. Australian Journal of Chemistry DOI 10.1071/CH16061 (if=1.6, ci=2)

2. R. Sanjeev, V Jagannadham, Adam A. Skelton, (2016) Non-Linear Taft Relationship applied to surface tensions of aliphatic acids: Inter-molecular hydrogen bonding versus intra-molecular hydrogen bonding: Journal of Molecular Liquids, 224, 43–46 (if=2.7, ci=4)

3. R. Ravi, R. Sanjeev, V. Jagannadham and Adam A Skelton, (2015) Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions of meta and para-Substituted Benzylamines with Benzyl Bromide in Methanol Medium, International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, 47(1), 36-41 (if=1.74, ci=5)

4. R. Sanjeev, V. Jagannadham, and R. Veda Vrath, 2013, Demonstration of Isosbestic Point: A Novel Experiment, Chemical Education Journal (CEJ), Japan, 14 (2), The date of issue: February 19, 2013/Registration No. 14-8 (if=1, ci=3)

5. R. Ravi, R. Sanjeev and V. Jagannadham, (2013), Non-Linear Taft Polar Free Energy Relationship (TPFER): Reactions of N-Substituted Benzyl Amines with Benzyl Bromide in Methanol, International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, 45, 803 (if=1.74, ci=6)

6. V. Jagannadham, (2009), Linear free energy relationships (LFER) as a one hour class-room lecture for post-graduate students: Correlation of the nature of the transition states. Chemical Education Journal, Japan, 12, (1), Issue Date May 12, 2009. (if=-, ci=-)

7. V. Jagannadham, (2009), Illustrating the Reactivity-Selectivity Principle and the Iso-selectivity Rule through ring substituted -azidobenzyl carbocations. Resonance, 14, (11), 1097 (if=0.6)

8. V. Jagannadham, (2007), Determination of lifetimes of carbocations by azide clock in aqueous solution: A simple undergraduate and postgraduate laboratory level physical-organic chemistry experiment. Resonance, 12, 76 (if=0.6, ci=-)

9. V. Jagannadham, (2006), Time Dependent UV-VIS Spectrum: A Simple Under-Graduate Physical Chemistry Experiment. Resonance, 11, 86 (if=0.6, ci=-)

10. J. P. Richard, T. L. Amyes, Lee, Yong-Gu; V. Jagannadham, (1994), Demonstration of the Chemical Competence of an Iminodiazonium Ion to serve as the Reactive Intermediate of a Schmidt Reaction. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 116, 10833 (if=13, ci=49)

292

BHANAGE, BHALCHANDRA MAHADEO (b 1966), Dean and Professor, Institute of Chemical Technology, Matunga, Mumbai-19


Prof. B.M. Bhanage has contributed in the area of applied chemistry and green chemistry. He has contributed to the development of novel catalyst systems involving carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen insertion to the organic molecules, C-H Activation, amination, Various Coupling reactions. The catalyst-product separation and recycle in homogeneous catalysis is a challenge and he has developed various novel strategies to solve this problem, which include the use of biphasic catalysis, supported liquid phase catalysis, polymer anchored catalysis and metal leaching re-deposition technique. Increasing carbon dioxide emissions which are responsible for increase in global warming and hence, the work on its utilization to valuable chemicals like ethylene carbonate, dimethyl carbonate synthesis is an important contribution. He has developed several advanced catalysts CO based aminocarbonylation, alkoxycarbonylation reactions. He has contributed to the development of new methods for nanoparticle synthesis, use of microwaves and ultrasounds in organic synthesis, enzymatic catalysis, aminations, hydrogenations, carbonylations, hydroformylations, various coupling reactions like Heck, Sonogashira, Suzuki and ionic liquids. He has guided 40 Ph.D. students and currently guiding 15 research scholars. He has published 395 papers with an average impact factor of more than 3.3. He has also filed/granted 34 Patents and received more than 11500 citations with an h index of 54. He is a leading consultant to several chemical companies and on scientific advisory board of the Indian Patent Office and worked on various government bodies, universities committees.

Proposer: Prof. M. Lakshi Kantam, Seconder: Prof. Sambasivarao Kotha


1. RV Chaudhari, BM Bhanage, RM Deshpande, H Delmas, 1995, Enhancement of interfacial catalysis in a biphasic system using catalyst-binding ligands, Nature 373 (6514), 501 (if=41.577, ci=158)

2. M.V. Khedkar, T. Sasaki, B.M. Bhanage*,2013, Immobilized palladium metal containing ionic liquid catalyzed alkoxycarbonylation, phenoxycarbonylation and aminocarbonylation reactions, ACS Catal.,3, 287- 293, (if=11.384, ci=84)

3. DB Bagal, G Kachkovskyi, M Knorn, T Rawner, BM Bhanage*, O Reiser*, 2015,Trifluoromethylchlorosulfonylation of Alkenes: Evidence for an Inner‐Sphere Mechanism by a Copper Phenanthroline Photoredox Catalyst, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 54 (24), 6999-7002 (if=12.102, ci=146)

4. V. K. Vyas, B. M. Bhanage*, 2016, Kinetic Resolution Driven Diastereo- and Enantioselective Synthesis of cis-β-Heteroaryl Amino Cycloalkanols by Ruthenium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation, Org. Lett.,, 18, 6436–6439 (if=6.492, ci=20)

5. D. B. Bagal, Ziyauddin S. Qureshi, Kishor P. Dhake, Shoeb R. Khan, B. M.Bhanage*, 2011, An efficient and heterogeneous recyclable palladium catalyst for chemoselective conjugate reduction of α,β unsaturated carbonyls in aqueous medium.Green Chem.,13, 1490- 1494,. (if=8.586, ci=44)

6. KP Dhake, PJ Tambade, ZS Qureshi, RS Singhal, BM Bhanage*, 2011, HPMC-PVA film immobilized Rhizopus oryzae lipase as a biocatalyst for transesterification reaction, Acs Catalysis 1 (4), 316-322 (if=11.384, ci=42)

7. BM Bhanage, S Fujita, Y Ikushima, M Arai, 2001,Synthesis of dimethyl carbonate and glycols from carbon dioxide, epoxides, and methanol using heterogeneous basic metal oxide catalysts with high activity and selectivity, Applied Catalysis A: General 219 (1-2), 259-266 (if=4.521, ci=382)

8. VB Saptal, BM Bhanage*, 2016, N‐Heterocyclic Olefins as Robust Organocatalyst for the Chemical Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Value‐Added Chemicals, ChemSusChem 9 (15), 1980-1985 (if=7.411, ci=62)

9. RA Watile, KM Deshmukh, KP Dhake, BM Bhanage*, 2012, Efficient synthesis of cyclic carbonate from carbon dioxide using polymer anchored diol functionalized ionic liquids as a highly active heterogeneous catalyst, Catalysis Science & Technology 2 (5), 1051-1055(if=5.365, ci=116)

10. DN Sawant, YS Wagh, KD Bhatte, BM Bhanage*,2011, Palladium-catalyzed carbon-monoxide-free aminocarbonylation of aryl halides using N-substituted formamides as an amide source, The Journal of organic chemistry 76 (13), 5489-5494 (if=4.805, ci=101)

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BHOWMICK, ANIL KUMAR (b 1954) Professor of Eminence, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur


Professor Anil K. Bhowmick has made seminal contributions to the development of engineering science of polymeric materials in the country. His work has been recognized internationally, as he was awarded for his innovative research by the Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society. His highly cited work on the development and properties of novel polymer nanocomposites (which are being applied in tire and lots of other products), new thermoplastic elastomers which are replacing many conventional elastomers and plastics are notable and praiseworthy. His work on the use of green technology and development of green materials from non-fossil sources and waste has been immensely successful. In addition, he has contributed significantly to the understanding of failure and degradation of polymers and their prevention. He has put up a theory for threshold fracture of polymers and delineated the mechanism of degradation of polymer molecules through visualization. His work on rubber compounding and adhesion has given him national and international recognition. Many of these scientific discoveries and inventions have resulted in new technology. For example, he used his knowledge in the area of rubber compounds, wear, tear, tensile and compression properties, crosslinking , swelling of polymer in aggressive environment in the development of tank track pad and rubberised road wheel for Military Battle Tank, electron beam crosslinkable rubber cables and seals, rubber clad rolls for cold rolling mill in a steel industry, energy optimized conveyor belt technology etc.

Proposer: Prof. Kamanio Chattopadhyay, Seconder: Prof. Vikram Jayaram Ten Best Publications: 1. T Mondal, AK Bhowmick, R Krishnamoorti,(2015) Controlled Synthesis of Nitrogen-Doped Graphene from a Heteroatom Polymer and Its Mechanism of Formation; Chemistry of Materials 27 (3), 716-725; (ci=5 if=9.4) 2. S Sadhu, AK Bhowmick (2004) Preparation and properties of nanocomposites based on acrylonitrile–butadiene rubber, styrene–butadiene rubber, and polybutadiene rubber, Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 42 (9), 1573-1585; (ci=162 if=3.83) 3. S Sadhu, AK Bhowmick (2004) Preparation and properties of styrene–butadiene rubber based nanocomposites: the influence of the structural and processing parameters, Journal of Applied Polymer Science 92 (2), 698-709; (ci=138 if=1.6) 4. R Sengupta, M Bhattacharya, S Bandyopadhyay, AK Bhowmick, (2011) A review on the mechanical and electrical properties of graphite and modified graphite reinforced polymer composites, Progress in Polymer Science 36 (5), 638-670: (ci=535 if=27) 5. SS Banerjee, AK Bhowmick (2013) Novel nanostructured polyamide 6/fluoroelastomer thermoplastic elastomeric blends: influence of interaction and morphology on physical properties ; Polymer 54 (24), 6561- 6571; (ci=22 if=3.6) 6. P Sarkar, AK Bhowmick ( 2016) Terpene Based Sustainable Elastomer for Low Rolling Resistance and Improved Wet Grip Application: Synthesis, Characterization and Properties of Poly (styrene-comyrcene), ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 4 (10), 5462-5474; (ci=0 if=5.27) 7. AK Sen, B Mukherjee, AS Bhattacharya, LK Sanghi, PP De, AK Bhowmick (1991) Preparation and characterization of low‐halogen and nonhalgoen fire‐resistant low‐smoke (FRLS) cable sheathing compound from blends of functionalized polyolefins and PVC Journal of Applied Polymer Science 43 (9), 1673-1684; (ci=130 if=1.86) 8. R Sengupta, A Bandyopadhyay, S Sabharwal, TK Chaki, AK Bhowmick ( 2005) Polyamide-6, 6/in situ silica hybrid nanocomposites by sol–gel technique: synthesis, characterization and properties; Polymer 46 (10), 3343-3354; (ci=104 if=3.6) 9. M Maiti, AK Bhowmick (2006) Structure and properties of some novel fluoroelastomer/clay nanocomposites with special reference to their interaction; Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 44 (1), 162-176; (ci=76 if=3.8) 10. M Bhattacharya, AK Bhowmick (2008) Polymer–filler interaction in nanocomposites: new interface area function to investigate swelling behavior and Young's modulus; Polymer 49 (22), 4808-4818; (ci=72 if=3.6)

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CHELLAPPAN, RETNA RAJ (b 1970), Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kharapur, Kharagpur


Prof. Raj is working in the area of functional materials and electrochemistry since he joined in IIT Kharagpur and made significant contribution to the field of electrochemical biosensors, electrocatalysis and electrochemical energy conversion and storage. His pioneering works on the development of electrochemical sensors and biosensors have received global recognition. The recent contributions in the area of functional materials for metal-air battery, supercapacitors and electrochemical water splitting are particularly noteworthy. He has published more than 100 publications in reputed international journals and has h-index of 33. He has a total of five patents to his credit. Following are the brief highlights of his major contribution from IIT Kharagpur. • Functional hybrid materials for fuel cell electrocatalysis, supercapacitors and metal-air battery (ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2014, 6, 2692; J. Mater. Chem. A 2016, 4, 587; J. Phys. Chem. C 2018, 122, 18468; 2018, 122, 15843; ChemElectroChem 2018, 5, 2348). • Metal phosphides for electorchemical hydrogen evolution (Chemical Communications. 2019, DOI:10.1039/C9CC00822E; ASC Appl. Nano Mater. 2019, 2, 643) • Enzyme-integrated metal nanoparticles and graphene-based biosensing scaffolds for the amperometric sensing of cholesterol, lactate, uric acid, etc. (Indian Pat. 284016 &IN 2013KO00563 A 20141121, Anal. Chem. 2006, 78, 6332). Inorganic-organic hybrid architecture for the sensing of biological thiols (ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2017, 5, 9412) • Simultaneous detection of inorganic contaminants in groundwater at sub parts-per-billion level using electrochemical nanoarchitecture (US20090260984A1, Indian Patent 295648, Anal. Chem. 2008, 80, 4836). Electrochemical detection and removal of Hg(II) with functional material (ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2018, 6, 6175)

Proposer: Prof. R. Ramaraj, Seconder: Prof. Pratim Kumar Chattaraj


1. B. K. Jena and C. Retna Raj*, 2006, Electrochemical biosensor based on integrated assembly of dehydrogenase enzymes and gold nanoparticles, Anal. Chem. 78, 6332‐6339. (if=6.320, ci=204)

2. B. K. Jena and C. Retna Raj*, 2007, Synthesis of flower‐like gold nanoparticles and their electrocatalytic activity towards the oxidation of methanol and the reduction of oxygen, Langmuir, 23, 4064-4070 (if=3.789, ci=209)

3. B. K. Jena and C. Retna Raj*, 2008, Gold nanoelectrode ensembles for the simultaneous electrochemical detection of ultratrace arsenic, mercury, and copper, Anal. Chem. 80, 4836–4844 (if=6.320, ci=231)

4. B. K. Jena and C. Retna Raj* 2008, Seedless, surfactantless room temperature synthesis of single crystalline fluorescent gold nanoflowers with pronounced SERS and electrocatalytic activity Chem. Mater. 20, 3546 -3548 (if=9.89, ci=112)

5. R. S. Dey and C. Retna Raj*, 2010, Development of an amperometric cholesterol biosensor based on graphene‐Pt nanoparticle hybrid material, J. Phys. Chem. C 114, 21427–21433 (if=4.484, ci=202)

6. R. S. Dey, S. Hajra, R. K. Sahu, C. Retna Raj* and M. K. Panigrahi, 2012, A rapid room temperature chemical route for the synthesis of graphene: metal-mediated reduction of graphene oxide. Chemical Communications 48, 1787–1789 (if=6.290, ci=108)

7. S. Bag, K. Roy, C.S. Gopinath and C. Retna Raj* 2014, Facile single-step synthesis of nitrogen-doped reduced graphene oxide-Mn3O4 hybrid functional material for the electrocatalytic reduction of oxygen, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 6, 2678-2699 (if=8.097, ci=119)

8. S. Bag and C. Retna Raj* Hierarchical three-dimensional mesoporous MnO2 nanostructures for high performance aqueous asymmetric supercapacitors, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4, 2016, 587-595 (if=9.931, ci=52)

9. S. Mondal and C. Retna Raj, 2018 Copper Nitride Nanostructure for the Electrocatalytic Reduction of Oxygen: Kinetics and Reaction Pathway, 122, 18468. J. Phys. Chem. C 114, 21427–21433 (if=4.484)

10. S. Chakrabartty, B. K. Barman and C. Retna Raj* 2019, Nitrogen and phosphorous co-doped graphitic carbon encapsulated ultrafine OsP2 nanoparticles: A pH universal highly durable catalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction, Chemical Communications DOI:10.1039/C9CC00822E (if=6.290)

295

DOLUI, SWAPAN KUMAR (b 1957), Professor, Tezpur University, Tezpur


Prof. Dolui has a unique combination of experience and expertise in the area of polymer science. His early career was spent in industry and CSIR pursuing industrial research. Since 1997, he has led a school of active research in polymer science at Tezpur University, Assam. His research covers diverse areas of polymers and advanced materials with potential applications in areas such as electroactive materials (OLED, Photovoltaic devices, supercapacitors) and nanomaterials. He has creatively explored techniques of mini-emulsion polymerization and suspension polymerization using supercritical carbon dioxide to synthesize polymers with novel properties and nano particles with interesting applications. He has also established process for polymer supported Ziegler Natta Catalyst for olefinic polymerizations. Presently he is engaged in developing non isocyanate based polyurethanes through CO2 insertion method. He has also developed self healing polymers. His research output has been prolific. He has also active in patenting. He has been successful in attracting funding from many agencies. He has supervised the Ph. D. thesis of 26 students. Given the fact that he works in a University in a remote part of our country, his performance is very laudable. He brings to his work a useful blend of science and technology focus, a reflection his own early training.

Proposer: Prof. R.P. Singh, Seconder: Prof. A.K. Gupta


1. P. Gogoi, M. Boruah, S. Sharma, S. K. Dolui, 2015, Blends of Epoxidized Alkyd Resins Based on Jatropha Oil and the Epoxidized Oil Cured with Aqueous Citric Acid Solution: A Green Technology Approach, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 3(2), 261-268.(if=6.140 , ci=39)

2. A. Bora, K., Mohan, S., Doley, S. K. Dolui, 2018, Flexible asymmetric supercapacitor based on functionalized reduced graphene oxide aerogels with wide working potential window, ACS applied materials & interfaces, 10(9), 7996-8009. (if=8.097 , ci=7)

3. C. Bora, J. Sharma, S. K. Dolui, 2014, Polypyrrole/sulfonated graphene composite as electrode material for supercapacitor, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118(51), 29688-29694. (if=4.484, ci=51)

4. D. Das, B. C. Nath, P. Phukon, S.K. Dolui, 2013, Synthesis of ZnO nanoparticles and evaluation of antioxidant and cytotoxic activity. Colloids and Surface B:Biointerfaces, 111, 556-560. (if=3.99, ci=74)

5. C Bora, S. K. Dolui, 2012, Fabrication of polypyrrole/graphene oxide nanocomposites by liquid/liquid interfacial polymerization and evaluation of their optical, electrical and electrochemical properties, Polymer, 53(4), 923-932. (if=3.483, ci=188)

6. D. Das, B. C. Nath, P. Phukon, S. K. Dolui, 2013, Synthesis and evaluation of antioxidant and antibacterial behavior of CuO nanoparticles, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 101, 430-433. (if=3.99, ci=144)

7. C. Bora, P. Bharali, S. Baglari, S. K. Dolui, B. K. Konwar, 2013, Strong and conductive reduced graphene oxide/polyester resin composite films with improved mechanical strength, thermal stability and its antibacterial activity. Composites Science and Technology, 87, 1-7. (if=5.16, ci=62)

8. A. Dutta, S. K. Dolui, 2011, Tannic acid assisted one step synthesis route for stable colloidal dispersion of nickel nanostructures, Applied Surface Science, 257(15), 6889-6896. (if=4.439, ci=43)

9. I. R. Kamrui, P. Phukon, B. K. Konwer, S. K. Dolui, 2011, Synthesis of silver–polystyrene nanocomposite particles using water in supercritical carbon dioxide medium and its antimicrobial activity, The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 55(3), 1089-1094. (if=3.122, ci=40)

10. N. Dutta, N. Karak, S. K. Dolui, 2004, Synthesis and characterization of polyester resins based on Nahar seed oil, Progress in organic coatings, 49(2), 146-152. (if=2.95, ci=144)

296

EAGAMBARAM, MURUGAN (b 1968), Professor & Head, Department of Physical Chemistry, School of Chemical Sciences, University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Guindy, Chennai – 600 025


Prof. Dr. E. Murugan a prominent scientists working in the area of catalysis all through and earned greater recognition among National & International researchers. Particularly through his thorough research, he developed nearly 450 types of soluble, insoluble, polymer- supported single & multi-site non-chiral & chiral phase transfer catalysts and demonstrated the same successfully for various pharmaceutically valuable lifesaving reactions. He also proved that these catalysts are inexpensive, stable, efficient, benign, and suitable for logistic operations by packed in to column reactor under continuous mode operations. Specifically, he produced nanoparticle immobilized photocatalysts and dendrimer based poly (quaternary onium) catalyst which received greater attention from industries. He also developed dendrimer, MWCNT & MNps integrated nanocatalytic materials for catalysis, antibacterial and solubility enhancer applications for poorly soluble drugs. Very recently, he reported (i) dendrimer functionalized MWCNT hybrid having excessive conductivity and (ii) green and effective dendrimer drug delivery for solubility of Norfloxacin and Nimesulide drugs which are received adoring enquiry from pharma industries. Due to his vital contributions in catalysis and polymer fields, he has been elected Executive Member in Catalysis Society of India (CSI) and President, Society for Polymer Science (SPSI)-Chennai Chapter. So far, 15 Ph.D’s, 29 M.Phils and 66 M.Sc candidates were received degree through his guidance/ supervision. Therefore, I firmly satisfied that he is a leading researcher and scientist in the area of catalysis hence, I strongly recommend that his candidature deserves to be admitted for Fellowship of the National Academy of Sciences (F.N.A.Sc).

Proposer: Dr. V. Subramanian, Seconder: Dr. P. Ramamurthy


1. E Murugan, G Vimala, 2011, Effective functionalization of multiwalled carbon nanotube with amphiphilic poly (propyleneimine) dendrimer carrying silver nanoparticles for better dispersability and antimicrobial activity, Journal of colloid and interface science, 357 (2), 354-365. (if=5.091, ci=73)

2. E Murugan, P Gopinath, 2009, Triphase catalytic activity of a new insoluble multi-site phase transfer catalyst in C-alkylation of dihydrocarvone—A kinetic study, Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 309 (1), 12-20. (if=3.93, ci=62)

3. E Murugan, A Siva, 2005, Synthesis of asymmetric n-arylaziridine derivatives using a new chiral phase-transfer catalyst, Synthesis, 2005 (12), 2022-2028. (if=2.722, ci=41)

4. E Murugan, JN Jebaranjitham, 2012, Synthesis and characterization of silver nanoparticles supported on surface-modified poly (N-vinylimidazale) as catalysts for the reduction of 4-nitrophenol, Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 365, 128-135. (if=4.397, ci=60)

5. E Murugan, RL Sherman, HO Spivey, WT Ford, 2004, Catalysis by hydrophobically modified poly (propylenimine) dendrimers having quaternary ammonium and tertiary amine functionality, ACS Langmuir, 20 (19), 8307-8312. (if=3.993, ci=39)

6. E Murugan, R Rangasamy, 2010, Synthesis, characterization, and heterogeneous catalysis of polymer‐supported poly (propyleneimine) dendrimer stabilized gold nanoparticle catalyst, Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 48 (12), 2525-2532. (if=3.113, ci=44)

7. E Murugan, R Rangasamy, 2011, Development of stable pollution free TiO2/Au nanoparticle immobilized green photo catalyst for degradation of methyl orange, Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, 7 (1), 225-228. (if=5.068, ci=33)

8. T Balakrishnan, E Murugan, A Siva, 2004, Synthesis and characterization of novel soluble multi-site phase transfer catalyst; its efficiency compared with single-site phase transfer catalyst in the alkylation of phenylacetonitrile as a model reaction, Applied Catalysis A: General, 273 (1), 89-97. (if=4.521, ci=33)

9. E. Murugan and J.Nimita Jebaranjitham, 2014, Dendrimer grafted core-shell Fe3O4-Polymer magnetic nanocomposites stabilized with AuNPs for enhanced catalytic degradation of Rhodamine B- A kinetic study, Chemical Engineering, , Volume 259, Pages 266-276(if=6.735, ci=31)

10. E.Murugan and G.Vimala, 2011, Amphiphilic Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Polymer Hybrid with Improved Conductivity and Dispersibility Produced by Functionalization with Poly(vinylbenzyl)triethyl ammonium Chloride, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 115, 19897-19909. (if=4.509, ci=19)

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297

GHOSH, SUNIL KUMAR (b 1960), Outstanding Scientist and Head, Food Technology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai


He has made significant contributions in areas of organic synthesis including organosilicon chemistry, peptide synthesis, asymmetric and diversity oriented synthesis (DOS) by developing novel methodologies for strategically substituted small molecules/ intermediates and applied them in synthesis of ‘privileged’ structures and known bio-activities. His recent work on DOS strategies is based upon the discovery of a novel olefination using dimethylsulfonium-methylide (DIMSY) and the invention of a vinylogous Wittig-type olefination. One DOS methodology involves the synthesis and use of strategically substituted [3]dendralenes and a diverse set of dienophiles for diversity generation by employing a tandem diene-transmissive-Diels-Alder (DTDA) reaction. The DTDA sequence resulted in the generation of four new carbon-carbon bonds, two new rings and 3-7 stereogenic centers with excellent regio- and stereocontrol. The other DOS protocol is based on stoichiometry of an in-situ generated DIMSY, substrate structure and conditions. His studies lead to the development of mono-, di- and polyolefin syntheses with diverse regio- and stereochemistry which were used for the synthesis of lignan class of molecules with known bio-activities and in Type-2-IMDA reaction leading to anti-Bredt bridged bicycle taxoid skeletons. He has extensively worked in the field of asymmetric synthesis by developing desymmetrizations of symmetric molecules with chiral reagents/ catalysts and developed regio-, stereo- and enantioselective organo-catalyzed reactions based on iminium/ enamine catalysis. Complex acyclic and cyclic skeletons embedded with multiple stereocentres including chiral quaternary centres and heteroatomic groups have been achieved. Some of them are showing promising bioactivities. His contribution for Zr/Hf and Ln/An separations is remarkable for DAE activities.

Proposer: Prof. Swapan K. Ghosh, Seconder: Prof. Vimal K. Jain


1. Verma, R.; Ghosh, S. K. (1997), A silicon controlled total synthesis of the antifungal agent (+)-preussin, Chem. Commun., 1601-1602.(if=6.290, ci=cited 31 times)

2. Singh, R.; Ghosh, S. K. (2002), Synthesis of enantiomerically pure all cis-2,3,6-trisubstituted piperidine: a silicon mediated total synthesis of (+)-carpamic acid. Tetrahedron Lett., 43, 7711-7715. (if=2.379, ci=cited 38 times)

3. Ghosh, S. K.; Singh, R.; Date, S. M. (2003), A novel reaction of dimethylsulfonium methylide with Michael acceptors: application to the synthesis of difficultly accessible vinyl silanes and styrenes. Chem. Commun., 636-637. (if=6.290, ci=cited 19 times)

4. Singh R.; Ghosh, S. K. (2007), Regioselective Tandem Dimethylsulfonium Methylide Addition-Eliminative Olefination of Diendioates: A Novel Route to 1,3-Butadien-2-ylmalonates, Org. Lett., 9, 5071-5074. (if=6.492, ci=cited 33 times)

5. Date S. M.; Ghosh, S. K. (2007), A highly regioselective vinylogous Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons route to densely substituted 1,3-butadienes, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 46, 386-388. (if=12.102, ci=cited 22 times)

6. Chowdhury, R.; Ghosh, S. K. (2009), Highly regio and enantioselective organocatalytic conjugate addition of alkyl methyl ketones to a β-silylmethylene malonate, Org. Lett. 11, 3270-3273. (if=6.492, ci=cited 32 times)

7. Singh, R.; Ghosh, S. K. (2011), Synthesis of substituted [3]dendralenes and their unique cycloaddition reactions, Chem. Commun., 47, 10809-10812. (if=6.290, ci=cited 14 times)

8. Sharma, S.; Panja, S.; Bhattachariya, A.; Dhami, P. S.; Gandhi, P. M.; Ghosh, S. K. (2015), Design, synthesis and extraction studies of a new class of conformationally constrained (N,N,N’,N’-tetraalkyl)7-oxabicyclo[2.2.1]heptane-2,3-dicarboxamides, Dalton Trans., 44, 12771-12779. (if=4.099, ci=cited 14 times)

9. Vamisetti, G. B.; Chowdhury, R.; Kumar, M.; Ghosh, S. K. (2016), “On water” organocatalyzed [4+2] cycloaddition of enones and nitrodienes for the enantioselective synthesis of densely substituted cyclohexanones, Org. Lett., 18, 1964-1967 (if=6.492, ci=cited 10 times)

10. Naidu, G. S.; Singh, R.; Ghosh, S. K. (2017), Tuning the Stability and the Reactivity of Substituted [3]Dendralenes for Quick Access to Diverse Copiously Functionalized Fused Polycycles with Step and Atom Economy, J. Org. Chem., 82, 3648-3658. (if=4.805, ci=cited 4 times)

298

GHOSH, SURAJIT (b 1977), Principal Scientist, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata


Brief Description of the Dr. Ghosh’s work at CSIR-IICB : Dr. Ghosh has made outstanding contribution in the area of Chemical Neuroscience and Chemical Biology with specific focus on neurogenesis, neuroprotection, traumatic brain injury (TBI), neuron transplantation, therapeutics for Alzheimer's Diseases (AD), cell penetrating peptide, chemical inhibitors for cancer stem cells. He has published 77 internationally reputed articles and six patents. Few important current works are summarized as follows: • Discovery of a cell penetrating tetrapeptide, where specific role of successive tryptophans has been discussed. This is an excellent piece of work, where nominee discovered importance of spatial position of tryptophan in regulation of cellular entry and new route of gene/drug delivery (J Am Chem Soc, 2018, 140, 1697-1714) • Discovery of a novel biodegradable peptide-based neuro-compatible hydrogel for neuronal regeneration and neuroprotection (ACS Applied Materials Interface, 2017). • Discovery of neuroprotective peptides, which shows excellent neuroprotection and inhibiting the amyloid fibril formation (Chemical Communication 2014, ACS Chemical Neuroscience 2015, highlighted as cover-page and US patent filed, ACS Chem. Neurosci., 2017). • Development of an artificial cell like system for understanding Aβ aggregation and its infection pathway using liposome (Chemical Communication 2013 and highlighted in cover-page). • Discovery of a melanoma targeted liposomal natural product formulation (ACS Applied Materials Interface, 2017 & Patent Filed). • Development of a microtubule targeted, anticancer peptide and synergistic anticancer therapeutics, (Langmuir 2017, Chemical Communication 2016, Chemical Communication 2016 and Advanced Healthcare Materials 2016, Highlighted in cover-pages). • First experimental clue about the inverse association of Alzheimer’s disease and cancer (Chemical Communication 2014 and highlighted in cover-page).

Proposer: Prof. Kankan Bhattacharyya, Seconder: Prof. Samit Chattopadhyay


1. D Bhunia, P Mondal, G Das, A Saha, P Sengupta, J Jana, S Mohapatra, S Chatterjee, S Ghosh (2018),Spatial Position Regulates Power of Tryptophan:Discovery ofMajor Groove Specific Nuclear Localizing CellPenetrating Tetrapeptide, J Am Chem Soc.140, 1697(if=14.2, ci=6)

2. A Saha, S Mohapatra, G Das, B Jana, S Ghosh, D Bhunia, Surajit Ghosh.* (2017) Cancer cell specific delivery of Photosystem I through integrin targeted liposome shows significant anticancer activity. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 9, 176. (if=8.1, ci=11)

3. S Mohapatra, A Saha, P Mondal, B Jana, S Ghosh, A Biswas, Surajit Ghosh.* (2017) Synergistic anticancer effect of peptide-docetaxel nano-assembly targeted to tubulin: Towards development of dual warhead containing... Adv Healthcare Mater., 6 (if=5.76, ci=4)

4. S Ghosh, S Mohapatra, A Thomas, D Bhunia, A Saha, G Das, B Jana, Surajit Ghosh.* (2016) Apoferritin-nanocage delivers combination of microtubule and nucleus targeting anticancer drugs. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 8, 30824. (if=8.1, ci=16)

5. D Bhunia, S Mohapatra, P Kurkute, S Ghosh, B Jana, P Mondal, A Saha, G Das, Surajit Ghosh* (2016) Novel Tubulin-targeted Cell Penetrating Antimitotic Octapeptide. Chem. Commun., 52, 12657. (if=6.567, ci=8)

6. B Jana, S Mohapatra, P Mondal, S Barman, K Pradhan, A Saha, Surajit Ghosh.* (2016) α-Cyclodextrin Interacts Close to Vinblastine Site of Tubulin and Delivers Curcumin Preferentially to the Tubulin Surface....... ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 8, 13793 (if=8.1, ci=14)

7. A Adak, S Mohapatra, PMondal, B Jana and Surajit Ghosh.* (2016) Design of novel microtubule targeted peptide vesicle for delivering different anticancer drugs. Chem. Commun., 52, 7549. (if=8.1, ci=10)

8. A Biswas, P Kurkute, S Saleem, B Jana, S Mohapatra, P Mondal, A Adak, S Ghosh, A Saha, D Bhunia, S C Biswas and Surajit Ghosh*. (2015) Novel Hexapeptide Interacts with Tubulin and Microtubules.....ACS Chem. Neurosci., 6, 1309. (if=4.36, ci=12)

9. A Saha, S Mohapatra, P Kurkute, B Jana and Surajit Ghosh* (2015) Interaction of Aβ peptide with tubulin causes inhibition of tubulin polymerization and apoptotic death of MCF-7 cells. Chem.Commun., 51, 2249. (if=6.71, ci=10)

10. Atanu Biswas, Prashant Kurkute, Batakrishna Jana, Aparna Laskar and Surajit Ghosh.* (2014) Amyloid inhibitor octapeptide forms amyloid type fibrous aggregate and affect in microtubule motility. Chem. Commun., 50, 2604-7. (if=6.78, ci=13)

299

GOVINDASAMY, SEKAR (b 1971), Professor, IIT Madras, Chennai


Prof. Sekar’s research activity on asymmetric synthesis focuses on developing new synthetic methodologies employing environmentally benign chiral homogeneous and metal nanocatalysts. For the first time, he has synthesized an enantiopure model of galactose oxidase (GO) enzyme and mimicked its activity for the synthesis of important enantiopure alcohols through oxidative kinetic resolution (OKR) (Chem. Eur. J., 2009, 15, 1086). This OKR is a very versatile and practical method as it uses molecular oxygen as the sole oxidant and produces only water as the by-product. The newly developed chiral GO model laid the way for the development of several new chiral catalysts and various new asymmetric transformations such as asymmetric oxidative coupling, cross-coupling, asymmetric coupling kinetic resolution, and asymmetric hydrophosphorylation reactions. Also, the nominee has developed an alternative route for the synthesis of chiral alcohols using enantioselective reduction (Chem. Eur. J., 2015, 21, 18584). His intense efforts in developing a new class of highly stable palladium semi-heterogeneous nanocatalysts (Pd-BNP) stabilized by Pd-C(sp2) covalent bonds have been noteworthy, which were utilized as easily recoverable and reusable catalysts for various organic reactions (Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 3856). The Pd-BNP is the alternate shelf-stable catalyst for flammable Pd/C. The additional advantage of Pd-BNP is its excellent compatibility as a catalyst for several organic reactions (J. Catalysis, 2018, 366, 176). Furthermore, recently the nominee has contributed to the development of new catalysts using principles of halogen bonding interaction, an emerging field in catalysis (Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 14171).

Proposer: Prof. Vinod K. Singh, Seconder: Prof. A.K. Mishra


1. S. Mannam, S. K. Alamsetti and G. Sekar, 2007, Aerobic, Chemoselective Oxidation of Alcohols to Carbonyl Compounds Catalyzed by DABCO-Copper Complex under Mild Conditions, Adv. Synth. Catal., 349, 2253. (if=5.123, ci=133)

2. S. K. Alamsetti, S. Mannam, P. Muthupandi and G. Sekar, 2009, Galactose Oxidase Model: Biomimetic, Enantiomer-Differentiating Oxidation of Alcohols by Chiral Copper Complex, Chem. Eur. J., 15, 1086 (if=5.160, ci=43)

3. A. B. Naidu, E. A Jaseer and G. Sekar, 2009, A general, mild and intermolecular Ullmann-type synthesis of diaryl and alkyl aryl ethers catalyzed by diol-copper(I) complex, J. Org. Chem., 74, 3675 (if=4.805, ci=94)

4. R. K. Rao, A. B. Naidu, G Sekar, 2009, Highly efficient copper catalyzed domino ring opening and Goldburg coupling cyclization for the synthesis of 3, 4-dihydro-2H-1,4-benzoxazines, Org. Lett., 11, 1923 (if=6.492, ci=60)

5. D. J. C. Prasad and G. Sekar, 2011, Cu-Catalyzed One-Pot Synthesis of Unsymmetrical Diaryl Thioethers by Coupling of Aryl Halides Using Thiol Precursor, Org. Lett., 13, 1008 (if=6.492, ci=120)

6. K. G. Thakur and G. Sekar, 2011, D-Glucose as green ligand for selective copper-catalyzed phenol synthesis from aryl halides with an easy catalyst removal, Chem. Commun., 47, 6692 (if=6.290, ci=68)

7. D. Ganapathy and G. Sekar, 2014, An Efficient Synthesis of Polysubstituted Olefins Using Stable Palladium Nanocatalyst: Applications in Synthesis of Tamoxifen and iso-Combretastatin A4, Org. Lett., 16, 3856 (if=6.492, ci=40)

8. D. Arunprasath, P. Muthupandi, and G. Sekar, 2015, Palladium-Catalyzed Intermolecular Carbene Insertion Prior to Intramolecular Heck Cyclization: Synthesis of 2 Arylidene-3-aryl-1-indanones, Org. Lett., 17, 5448 (if=6.492, ci=26)

9. Imran Kazi, Somraj Guha and G. Sekar, 2017, CBr4 as a Halogen Bond Donor Catalyst for the Selective Activation of Benzaldehydes to Synthesize α,β-Unsaturated Ketones, Org. Lett., 19, 1244. (if=6.492, ci=16)

10. Rajib Saha and G. Sekar, 2018, Selective Oxidation of Alkylarenes to Aromatic Acids/Ketone in Water by Using Reusable Binaphthyl Stabilized Pt Nanoparticles (Pt-BNP) as Catalyst, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2019, In Press, doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2019.03.052)) (if=11.68, ci=0)

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GULLAPALLI, KUMARASWAMY (b 1959), Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad


Dr. Kumaraswamy made noteworthy contributions in the asymmetric total synthesis of architecturally complex natural products. The genesis of chirality for the assembling the structurally intriguing bioactive molecules was the asymmetric transfer hydrogenation (ATH) and organo-catalysis (JOC, 2008, 73, 5198; JOC, 2009, 74, 8468; JOC. 2006, 71, 337). Also, a stereo-defined two successive hydroxyl-alkyl stereocenters with high stereo-control by means of ATH-DKR was developed. This concept led to construct structural scaffold bearing consecutive anti-anti-syn stereogenic centers possessing bio-active molecules (OBC 2014, 12, 1793; OBC. 2015, 13, 8487; and Tetrahedron 2015, 71, 8960). More prudent research field has been the identification of Cu-catalyzed ylide formation/[2,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement (Chem. Comm., 2008, 5324) and P-C bond formation virtually using non-basic conditions (Synlett 2006, 1122 and Synlett 2009, 1180) that lead to synthesis of useful small scaffolds of oxa-/aza heterocyclic molecules with defined stereogenic functional groups. An enantioenriched substituted BINOL-Ca complex using bench-top CaCl2 was developed and made use of them as an asymmetric catalytic Brønsted base simultaneously as a Lewis acid (Tet. Lett., 2001, 42, 8515; Adv. Synth. Catal., 2005, 347, 867). A novel Visible-light initiated a reaction that takes advantage of ambient air as a terminal oxidant for the oxy-functionalization of aryl terminal allene, 1,3-dienes and heteroarenes were accomplished (OBC. 2016, 14, 11415, OBC. 2019, 17, 2232, Asian J. Org. Chem. 2018, 7, 1689). Based on the above outstanding scientific contributions, the nominee richly merits the Fellowship of the National Academy of Sciences and I recommend his candidature in strongest terms.

Proposer: Dr. S.Chandrasekhar, Seconder: Dr. G. Narahari Sastry


1. G. Kumaraswamy*, M. Padmaja, B. Markondaiah, Nivedita Jena, M. Udaya Kiran, B. Sridhar, 2006, “Oppolzer Sultam-Directed Aldol as Key Step for the Stereoselective Syntheses of Anti-tumor antibiotic Belactosin-C and their congeners”, J. Org. Chem. (if=4.805, ci=27)

2. G. Kumaraswamy*, K. Ankamma, A. Pitchaiah, 2007, “Tandem Epoxide or Aziridine Ring Opening by Azide/Copper Catalyzed [3+2] Cycloaddition: Efficient Synthesis of 1,2,3-Triazolo β-Hydroxy or β-Tosylamino Functionality Motif”, J. Org. Chem. 72, 9 (if=4.805, ci=76)

3. G. Kumaraswamy*, M. Padmaja, 2008, “Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Eicosanoid and its Congener Using Organocatalytic Cyclopropanation, and Catalytic Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation Reactions as Key Steps”, J. Org. Chem. 73, 5198-5201. (if=4.805, ci=50)

4. G. Kumaraswamy*, K. Sadaiah, D. S. Ramakrishna, N. Police, B. Sridhar and B. Jagadeesh, 2008, Highly enantioselctive carbon-carbon bond formation by Cu-catalyzed asymmetric[2,3]sigmatropic rearrangement: application to the synthesizes of seven (if=6.29, ci=25)

5. G. Kumaraswamy*, G. Ramakrishna, P. Naresh, B. Jagadeesh and B. Sridhar, 2009, “A Flexible Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Diospongins A, B and their Enantiomers Using Catalytic Hetero-Diels-Alder/Rh-catalyzed 1,4-Addition and Asymmetric (if=4.805, ci=80)

6. G. Kumaraswamy*, A. N. Murthy, and A. Pitchaiah, 2010, “FeCl3-Catalyzed Oxidative Allylation of sp2 and sp3 C-H Bond Adjacent to a Nitrogen Atom: Easy Access to Homoallyl Tertiary Amines”, J. Org. Chem. 75, 3916-3919. (if=4.805, ci=79)

7. G. Kumaraswamy*, N. Jayaprakash, and B. Sridhar, 2010, “An Organocatalyzed Enantioselective Synthesis of (2S,3R,4S)-4-Hydroxyisoleucine and Its Stereoisomers”, J. Org. Chem. 75, 2745-2747. (if=4.805, ci=23)

8. G. Kumaraswamy*, N. Jayaprakash, G. Balakishan, 2011, “Cu(I)-Catalyzed Tandem Benzyldiazoester coupling with Terminal Alkyne-Allene formation-Michael reaction: Application to the syntheses of Oxa and Azacycles”, Organic & Biomol. Chem., 9, 791 (if=3.423, ci=50)

9. G. Kumaraswamy*, and R. Raju, 2014, “Copper(I)-Induced Sulfenylation of H-Phosphonates, H-Phosphonites and Phosphine Oxides with Aryl/alkylsulfonylhydrazides as a Thiol Surrogate”, Adv. Synth. Catal. 356, 2591-2593. (if=5.123, ci=88)

10. G. Kumaraswamy*, A. Narayana Murthy, V. Narayanarao, V. S. Phani Babu and B. Jagadeesh, 2014, Enantioselective Synthesis of --Alkoxy--/-hydroxy alkylsubstituted Weinreb amides via DKR-ATH: Application to the Synthesis of Advanced Intermed (if=3.423, ci=23)

301

KHAN, FARID (b 1957), Professor, Head & Dean, Chemical Science & Technology, Dr. HS Gour Central University, Sagar


The thrust area is nanoporous materials of different metals and metal oxides using ionic and non-ionic surfactants in aqueous or ionic liquid (IL) media. This will also include the nanocomposites made by crosslinking the polysaccharides sol with di or trivalent cations. Challenging task is to tune the porosity with varying experimental conditions by adding suitable structural directing agents and reinforcing agents viz. nanoparticles Au, Si, Fe, TiO2 and carbon allotropes for diverse applications. Sensors: Suitable sensors were also reported for the determination of H2O2, Glucose, p-Nitrophenol, Malachite green, and pymetrozine. Work on appropriate sensors for radioactive iodine, Cr(VI) and oxytocin using hanging dropping mercury electrode (detection limit can be upto 10-11 moles/L are in progress. Pseudocapacitors: Several suitable nanoporous materials of silver, CuO, NiO, Cobalt and polysaccharide crosslinked gels were reported. In future RuO2, MnO2, Co3O4 and Fe3O4 incorporated materials in composite gels will be done. Heterogeneous Catalysis: Significant work on heterogeneous catalysis using different nanoporous metal and metal oxides were also published by the group for conversion of o-NP to p- NP, o - nitroaniline to 1,2 benzene diamine, and also degradation of toxic dyes. Future work will be on synthesizing the efficient catalysts for diverse organic reactions. Study will be in aquous and Ionic liquid media. ILs offers the advantage in the synthesis which can efficiently stabilize nanoparticles and shield them against agglomeration on the basis of their size and charge. In addition, their ability to interact with the nanoparticle surface.

Proposer: Prof. Kankan Bhattacharyya, Seconder: Prof. T. Pal


1. D. Ahirwar, M. Bano, I. Khan, S. S. Gound, MUD Sheikh, R. Mondal and F. Khan, Facile synthesis of macroporous Ag and CuO monoliths as an efficient nonenzymatic electrochemical sensor and anti microbial agent, J. of Solid State Chem., 2019,;DOI;10. (if=2.4)

2. I.Khan, M. Bano, G. A. Khan, and F. Khan, Design of functionalized –ZnNP decoratedfMWCNT-IL composite CPE: An ideal electrode material for enhanced electrocaytalytic determination of pymetrozine, Mater. Sci. and Engin., 2018, B238, 83-92. IF 3.2 (if=3.2)

3. Molly Thomas, M. U. D. Sheikh, D. Ahirwar, M. Bano, F. Khan, Gold nanoparticle and graphene oxide incorporated strontium crosslinked alginate/carboxymethyl cellulose composites for o-nitroaniline reduction and Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reactions,(if=5.09, ci=13)

5. M. Bano, D. Ahirwar, M. Thomas, G. A. Naikoo, M. U. D. Sheikh and F. Khan, Hierarchical synthesis of silver monoliths and their efficient catalytic activity for the reduction of 4-nitrophenol to 4-aminophenol’ New J. Chem. 40 (2016) 6787-6795 (IF-3.2 (if=3.28, ci=20)

6. M. U. D. Sheikh, G. A. Naikoo, M. Thomas, M. Bano, and F. Khan, Solar assisted photocatalytic reduction of methyl orange azo dye over porous TiO2 nanostructures. New J Chem. 40 (2016) 5483-5494 (IF-3.28). (if=3.28, ci=15)

7. R. A. Dar, G. A. Nailkoo, P. K. Kalambate, L. Giri, F. Khan, S. P. Karna and A. K. Shrivastava, Enhancement of the energy storage properties of super capacitors using grapheme nanosheets dispersed with macro-structured porous copper oxide. Electro (if=5.11, ci=40)

8. M. Thomas, G. A. Naikoo, M. U. D. Sheikh, M. Bano and F. Khan, Fabrication of hierarchically organized nanocomposites of Ba/alginate/carboxymethylcellulose/ Graphene oxide/Au Nanoparticles and their efficiency in o-Nitroaniline. New J. Chem. 39 ( (if=3.28, ci=12)

9. G. A. Naikoo, R. A. Darr and F. Khan, Hierarchically macro/mesostructured porous copper oxide: facile synthesis, characterization, catalytic performance and electrochemical study of mesoporous copper oxide monoliths. J. Mater. Chem. A 2 (2014) 117 (if=9.20, ci=24)

10. F. Khan and S. Mann, Fabrication of metal andmetal oxide sponges by thermal decomposition of Triton X-45 hydrogel template. J. Phys. Chem. C 113 (2009) 19871-19874 (IF-4.80). Citations: 19 (if=4.8, ci=19)

302

KOMMU, NAGAIAH (b 1966) Chief Scientist & Head, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad.


Dr Nagaiah is one the pre-eminent natural product organic chemist of India who can handle the isolation, characterization, synthesis of architecturally and sterochemically challenging complex molecules with remarkable ease. Another noteworthy contribution of novel organic chiral synthesis of complex natural products of marine and plant origin by using Metal (Pt. Pd, Rh, Ru) organic chiral complexes as main reagents. The natural product synthesized include Herbarumin-I, Decytospalides A, B, Aspergillide, Rubrenolide, Rubrynolide, (S,S)-palythazine, Galantinic acid, crypyophycin-24 (Arenastatin A), Phorboxazole-A and first total synthesis of (S)-clavulazine, leiocarpin A, Oplopandol, etc., His basic research on new methodology developed involving synthesis and anti-proliferative activity studies of tetrahydrochromeno [4.3-b] quinolines were tested against MDA -MB-231and MCF-7 breast cancer cell lines, This work is highlighted in "Chem. Rev." 2011, 111,7157-7259 another reported on transition-metal-catalyzed cross-couplings through carbene migratory insertion reaction represents a rare example in which the C(sp2)−O bond is constructed via carbine coupling strategy highlighted “ Chem. Rev” 2017,117,(23)13810-13889. Dr. Nagaiah has also carried out several industrial projects with International companies like Glaxo SmithKline, UK; ArQule, USA; Dupont, USA; Evolva, Singapore and Indigenous companies like Cipla, Sai Life sciences, Sami labs Ltd., Dolphin Laboratories, Laurus labs and Nisarg Bio. Sci. Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad etc., resulted both in quality chemistry and revenues to CSIRIICT. In addition to industrial contributions, he is also working as a referee for various national and international journals in peer reviewing process. He was established his research on natural products isolation, structure determination and bioactivity. This includes biomarker studies of the active herbal based plants active principles used in AYUSH single drugs, which provide leads for further generation of new herbal drugs. This study gives a unique opportunity to explore plants of biodiversity of India to bring new plant based drugs so that to serve the society in a better way. Apart from this, he has fair knowledge on utility of our natural forest resources, such as practical use of Neem /Pongamia/Custard apple/ Vitex negundo as environmentally safe botanical pesticides. Dr Nagaiah is one of the most productive scientists who made outstanding contributions in chemistry and Natural Product. Promoted science in applied and basic research in India and aboard by getting sponsored projects and delivered key note/ invited lectures in National and International forum. He has trained a number of students (15 PhD’s awarded) and published. He impressed the need to update chemistry syllabus and teaching useful to understand contemporary development of science and technology. Such knowledge is useful when the students to take up jobs as teachers, research scholar's Drug industries, and as administrators in Govt. and private sector. He is as recognized PhD guide in Chemistry from various Universities such as Osmania University, Kakatiya University, Acharya Nargarujana University -Guntur, Sri Krishna Devaraya University, Anantapur, JNTU-Hyderabad, and also AcSIR-New Delhi.

Proposer: Dr. J.S. Yadav, Seconder: Dr. B.V. Subba Reddy Ten Best Publications: 1. Kommu Nagaiah, A. Sudhakar Rao, S. J. Kulkarni, M. Subrahmanyam, A.V. Rama Rao " Intermolecular cyclization of diethanalamine and methylamine to N- Methyl piperazine over zeolites" Journal of Catalysis., 1994, 147, 349-351. (if=6.921, ci=15) 2. A. Venkat Narsaiah, Kommu Nagaiah* " An efficient and improved method for the preparation of nitrites from primary amides and aldoximes " Adv. Synth. Cat., 2004, 346, 1271-74. (if=5.123, ci=53 ) 3. Mari vellakkaran, Rajaka Lingayya, Bejjanki Naveen Kumar, Kommu Nagaiah* and Y. Poornachandra and C. Ganesh Kumar " Palladium (0)-catalyzed direct C-H hetero arylation of 2- arylimidazo[1,2-a] pyridines with (E)-1-(5-bromothiophene-2-yl)-3-arylprop-2-ene-1-ones and their anticancer activity " RSC Adv. 2015, 5, 80057-80062. (if=2.936, ci=01) 4. S. Anubala, R. Sekar and Kommu Nagaiah* “Development and validation of an analytical method for the separation and determination of major bioactive curcuminoids in Curcuma longa rhizomes and herbal products using non-aqueous capillary electrophoresis” Talanta., 2014, 123, 10-17. (if=3.545, ci=16) 5. Kammari Bal Raju, Bejjanki Naveen Kumar Kommu Nagaiah,* Copper-Catalyzed Acyloxylation of C(sp3)-H bond adjacent to oxygen by Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling Approach” RSC Advances 2014, 50795-50800. (if=2.936, ci=10) 6. A. Venkatesham, R. Srinivasa Rao, Kommu Nagaiah,* J. S. Yadav, G. RoopaJones, S. J. Basha, B. Sridhar and A. Addlagatta “Synthesis of new chromeno-annulated cis-fused pyrano[3,4-c]pyran derivatives via domino Knoevenagel–hetero-Diels–Alder reactions and their biological evaluation towards antiproliferative activity Med. Chem. Commun., 2012, 3, 652-658. (if=2.495, ci=28) 7. Rajaka Lingayya, Mari Vellakkaran Kommu Nagaiah* Jagadesh babu Nambolu “Rhodium(II)- Catalyzed Carbenoid Insertion of N-Tosylhydrazones into Amide N-H Bonds: An Efficient Approach to N-3-Benzyl/Alkyl-2-arylquinazolinones” Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 2016, 358, 81-89. (if=5.123, ci=07) 8. Rajaka Lingayya, Mari Vellakkaran, Kommu Nagaiah,* Prabhakar Rao Tadikamalla and Jagadeesh Babu Nanubolu, “Palladium(II)-catalyzed direct O-alkenylation of 2-arylquinazolinones with Ntosylhydrazones: an efficient route to O-alkenylquinazolines” Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 1672--1675 (if=6.290, ci=06) 9. Rajaka Lingayya, Mari Vellakkaran, Kommu Nagaiah*and Jagadeesh Babu Nanubolu, “Rhodium(II)-Catalyzed Carbenoid Insertion of N-Tosylhydrazones into Amide N-H Bonds: An Efficient Approach to N3-Benzyl/Alkyl-2-arylquinazolinones” Adv. Synth. Catal. 2016, 358, 81– 89. (if=5.123, ci=07) 10. Mari Vellakkaran, M. S. Murugaiah Andappan, Kommu Nagaiah* “Replacing a stoichiometric -aryl carbonyl derivatives with improvedsilver oxidant with air: ligated Pd(II)-catalysis to chemoselectivity.” Green Chem. 2014, 16, 2788-2797. (if=8.566, ci=14)

303

KULATHU IYER, SATHIYANARAYANAN (b 1966), Registrar, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore


He was appointed as Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry in erstwhile VEC, Vellore in 1994, after my Ph.D. The visionary management along with people like Dr. K. Sathiyanarayanan worked hard for the improvement of the college. It was blossomed into VIT University in 2001. He was one of the pioneers in getting project from DRDO. He went to KERI, Changwon in South Korea and published 5 papers in Journal of Power Sources and Electrochim Acta during his stay in 2005-2006. He was very instrumental in bringing the FIST project to the university to purchase a 400MHz NMR instrument. His first research paper after 2006 was on the synthesis of a new phenanthridine based molecule by a simple method. The application of this molecule is many as this can be easily functionalized. The first paper has been cited in Chemical Reviews. At present he is working in OLED materials. As per scopus data, he is having 87 publications and his h-index is 12. He has been already admitted into FRSC of RSC. He had finished two projects in addition to completing 6 PhD students and currently guiding 6 PhD students. He has held many posts in the university right from first year Coordinator, Professor-in-charge of library, Chief warden, Dean of SAS, Dean in charge of SSL and now he is the Registrar of University. At present he is doing research in OLED and TADF and asymmetric synthesis. I am sure he really deserves the FNASc.

Proposer: Dr. Vinod.K. Singh, Seconder: Dr. S. Natarajan


1. K. Sathiyanarayanan, et al., 2008, Use of vegetable oil as fuel to improve the efficiency of cooking stove, Renewable Energy, 33, 2423 (if=4.357, ci=18)

2. Sathiyanarayanan. K.I. et al., 2009, Dual behavior of 2-tetralone: A new approach for the synthesis of 5-aryl-7,8,13,14-tetrahydrodibenzo[a,i]phenanthridine, Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry 46, 1142. (if=0.787, ci=11)

3. K.I.Sathiyanarayanan, et al., 2011, Synthesis, crystal structure, and anticancer properties of cyclic monocarbonyl analogs of curcumin, Medicinal Chemistry Research, 20, 81 (if=1.277, ci=19)

4. Sathiyanarayanan. K.I. et al., 2011, The role of weak intermolecular C-H. F interactions in supramolecular assembly: Structural investigations on 3,5- Dibenzylidene-piperidin-4-one and database analysis, Journal of Chemical Sciences 123, 403. (if=1.298, ci=11)

5. Sathiyanarayanan K.I. et al. 2012, LaCl3.7H2O as an efficient catalyst for one-pot synthesis of highly functionalized piperidines via multi-component organic reactions, Catalysis letters 142: 895–900 (if=2.799, ci=29)

6. Kulathu I. Sathiyanarayanan et al., 2012, Efficient iodine catalyzed three components domino reaction for the synthesis of 1-((phenylthio) (phenyl) methyl) pyrrolidin-2-one derivatives possessing anticancer activity, OBC 10, 5343 (if=3.564, ci=25)

7. Sathiyanarayanan K. Iyer et al. 2013,Synthesis of green light emitting fused pyrazolinopiperidines - Photophysical and electrochemical studies, RSC Advances, 3, 1243 (if=3.108, ci=12)

8. K.I.Sathiyanarayanan, et al., 2014, Rapid one pot synthesis of xanthene derivatives by an efficient and reusable nano-ZnAl2O4- An insight into a new process,Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 391, 198 (if=3.679, ci=16)

9. Sathiyanarayanan K.I. et al. 2015, Synthesis and Optical Properties of a Series of Green-Light-Emitting 2-(4-Phenylquinolin-2-yl)phenol-BF2 Complexes (Boroquinols), EJOC, 23, 5089 (if=3.065, ci=12)

10. Sathiyanarayanan. K.I. et al., 2016, Tetrazole iridium(III) complexes as a class of phosphorescent emitters for high-efficiency OLEDs, J. Materials Chemistry C, 4, 10053 (if=5.256, ci=11)

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NEGI, ARVIND SINGH (b 1970), Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-CIMAP, Lucknow


Dr. Negi is working on development of cancer chemotherapeutics through modulation of tubulin dynamics. Applying fragment based drug discovery approach, gallic acid, a plant hydrolysable tannin from Phyllanthus emblica has been utilized to transform 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl motif. This motif when placed at an appropriate position in a pharmacophore, induces antitubulin effect. This idea of specific anticancer fragment is original which he conceived from the structures of several natural antitubulins. Dr. Negi has achieved several anticancer pharmacophores like indanones, benzylindaones, tetralones, indoles, benzimidazoles, arylnaphthofurans etc. through this concept [Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2008, 18:3914; Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2012, 20:3049; Eur. J. Pharm. Sci. 2012, 47:988; Eur. J. Pharm. Sci. 2015, 76:57; Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2014; 22:1342; Chem. Biol. Drug Design 2016, 88: 625-634; RSC Advances 2016, 6: 33369]. Several dual action molecules have also been developed against hormone dependent breast cancers for selective transportation to tumour site through estrogen receptors [Steroids 2012, 77:878; J. Steroid Biochem. Mol. Biol. 2013, 137:332; Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2014, 86:740]. Three of the preclinical molecules evaluated at ACTREC, Mumbai against various specific xenograft mice models and removed 54-69% tumours. Compounds were safe in sub-acute toxicity of 28 days experiments in mice model up to 30mg/kg daily dose [133NF2011-US patent no. US20130079396A1, 28 March 2013; 001NF2015-PCT patent filed; 0012NF2017-PCT filed]. Now, these are to be evaluated for clinical trials at KGMU, Lucknow. For his this original scientific approach, he deserves this fellowship. Based on these findings I once again recommend his candidature for this prestigious fellowship.

Proposer: Dr. Dewan Singh Bhakuni, Seconder: Dr. Suchitra Banerjee


1. S Singh, JK Kumar, D Saikia, K Shanker, JP Thakur, Arvind Singh Negi*, S Banerjee* (2010). A bioactive labdane diterpenoid from Curcuma amada and its semisynthetic analogues as antitubercular agents. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 45 (9), 4379-4382.(if=4.816, ci=46)

2. SH Rani, TH Krishna, S Saha, Arvind Singh Negi, R Rajasekharan (2010). Defective in cuticular ridges (DCR) of Arabidopsis thaliana, a gene associated with surface cutin formation, encodes a soluble diacylglycerol acyltransferase. Journal of Biological Chemistry 285 (49), 38337-38347. (if=4.125, ci=64)

3. AP Prakasham, AK Saxena, S Luqman, D Chanda, T Kaur, A Gupta, DK Yadav, CS Chanotiya, Karuna Shanker, F. Khan, Arvind Singh Negi* (2012). Synthesis and anticancer activity of 2-benzylidene indanones through inhibiting tubulin polymerization. Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry 20 (9), 3049-3057. (if=2.793, ci=31)

4. S. Parihar, A. Kumar, A.K. Chaturvedi, N. K. Sachan, S. Luqman, B. Changkija, M. Manohar, Om Prakash, D. Chanda, F. Khan, C.S. Chanotiya, K. Shanker, A. Dwivedi, R. Konwar, A. S. Negi*(2013). Synthesis of combretastatin A4 analogues on steroidal framework and their anti-breast cancer activity. J. Steroid Biochem. Molecular Biol. 137: 332– 344. (if=4.095, ci=28)

5. BS Kumar, A Kumar, J Singh, M Hasanain, A Singh, K Fatima, DK Yadav, S Luqman, F Khan, D Chanda, J Sarkar, Arvind Singh Negi* (2014). Synthesis of 2-alkoxy and 2-benzyloxy analogues of estradiol as anti-breast cancer agents through microtubule stabilization. European Journal Medicinal Chemistry 86, 740-751. (if=4.816, ci=10)

6. M Singh, AA Hamid, AK Maurya, O Prakash, F Khan, A Kumar, OO Aiyelaagbe, Arvind Singh Negi*, Bawankule DU(2014). Synthesis of diosgenin analogues as potential anti-inflammatory agents. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 143C:323-333. (if=4.095, ci=21)

7. B.S. Kumar, A. Kumar, J. Singh, M. Hasanain, A. Singh, K. Fatima, D.K. Yadav, V. Shukla, S. Luqman, F. Khan, D. Chanda, J. Sarkar, R. Konwar, A. Dwivedi, Arvind S. Negi * (2014). Synthesis of 2-alkoxy and 2-benzyloxy analogues of estradiol as anti-breast cancer agents through microtubule stabilization. Eur. J. Med. Chem., 86: 740-752. (if=4.816, ci=10)

8. Balagani Sathish Kumar, Kusumoori Ravi, Amit Kumar Verma, Kaneez Fatima, Mohammad Hasanain, Arjun Singh, Jayanta Sarkar, Suaib Luqman, Debabrata Chanda, Arvind S. Negi*(2017).Synthesis of pharmacologically important naphthoquinones and anticancer activity of 2-benzyllawsone through DNA topoisomerase-II inhibition. Bioorg. Med. Chem.25: 1364-1373. (if=2.881, ci=07)

9. Sadiya Khwaja, Kaneez Fatima, Hassanainb, Chittaranjan Behera, Avneet Kour, Arjun Singh, Suaib Luqman, Jayanta Sarkar, Debabrata Chanda, Karuna Shanker, A. K. Gupta, D. M. Mondhe*, Arvind S. Negi* (2018). Antiproliferative efficacy of curcumin mimics through microtubule destabilization. Eur. J. Med. Chem., 151: 51-61 (if=4.816, ci=02)

10. Arvind Singh Negi, Angelo Cortesi, Ireneo Kikic, Alberto Bertucco, Massimo Calabrese, Dario Solinas (2018). Desorption of artemisinin extracts of CIM-Arogya by supercritical carbon. Dioxide. J. Supercritical Fluids, 133: 42-48. (if=3.112, ci=0)

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PANDA, GAUTAM (b 1969), Scientist F, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute Lucknow, Lucknow


Dr. Gautam Panda extensively, ingeniously harnessed chiral amino acids (AAs) and syn-2,3-dihydroxy esters in synthesis of potent inhibitor of protein kinase C (-)-Balanol, antifungal antibiotic Ophiocordin, nicotinic agonists (+)-epiquinamide, (+)-α- conhydrine, antimitotic C3-epi-(+)-lycoricidine, Jaspine B, potent inhibitor of glucosidase enzymes 8,8a-diepicastanospermine, (-)-Swainsonine, antibacterial levofloxacin, antimalarial (─)-Raphidecursinol B, novel antitumoral of marine origin spisulosine etc. Hetero [6-5-6] tricyclics resembling Taiwaniaquinoids and C-nor-D-homo steroids were synthesized through first heteroaromatic Nazarov type cyclization with excellent regioselectivity. His chiral serine azide through Weinreb amide to reduce acidity of α-proton is widely utilized. In quest for steroidomimetics, he envisages to employ Amino Acids to incorporate chiral chemical space which otherwise very difficult to introduce and comprised of several synthetic steps for asymmetric steroids. His consistent effort has resulted in bringing tri and tetrasubstituted methanes (TRSMs) and Amino Acids derived steroidals and nonsteroidals towards developing potent antitubercular and anticancer agents respectively. Two molecules of his group (S-006-830 and S-011-1559) in these two areas respectively are quite promising. Mild toxicity issues are being addressed by his group along with detailed biological evaluation. His recent work on spisulosine that markedly induces autophagic cell death to various cancer cells is very interesting (under submission).

Proposer: Dr. Madhu Dikshit, Seconder: Prof. Ganesh Pandey


1. Srivastava, A. K., and Panda, G. 2008, Total Synthesis of (-)-Balanol, its all Stereoisomers, their N-tosyl analogues and fully protected Ophiocordin: An easy access to hexahydroazepine cores from Garner aldehydes Chemistry A European Journal, 4675-4688 (if=5.731, ci=49)

2. Parai, M. K., Panda, G., Chaturvedi, V., Manju Y.K., and Sinha, S, 2008, Thiophene containing triarylmethanes as antitubercular agents, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 289-292 (if=2.486, ci=108)

3. Samanta, K., Chatterjee, B., Mishra, J. K., Dwivedi, S. D., Naik, L.V., Choudhry, P., Bid, H. K., Konwar, R., Chattopadhyay, N., and Panda, G.:, 2010, Anti-tumor Activity of a new series of Benzoxazepine Derivatives in Breast Cancer, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters (Top-25 most cited articles" as published in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemis (if=2.486, ci=41)

4. Samanta, K.; and Panda, G, 2011, BF3.OEt2 Mediated Regioselective Ring Opening of Amino Acids Derived Chiral Aziridines: An Easy Route Towards 2,5-Substituted Chiral Piperazines, and Piperazine Core of the Natural Product Piperazinomycin, Chemistry an Asian Journal 189-197 (if=4.586, ci=21)

5. Singh, R.; and Panda, G, 2011, Application of Nazarov type electrocyclization to access [6-5-6] and [6-5-5] core embedded new Polycycles: an easy entry to tetrahydrofluorene scaffolds related to Taiwaniaquinoids and C-nor-D homosteroids, Org. Biomol. Chem. selected as cover page article 4782-4790 (if=3.559, ci=17)

6. Krishnananda Samanta and Gautam Panda, 2011, One Pot Synthesis of Amino Acids Derived Chiral Disubstituted Morpholines and 1,4-Oxazepanes via Tandem Aziridine/Epoxide Ring Opening Sequences, Org. Biomol. Chem., 7365-7371 (if=3.559, ci=7)

7. Bera S, Panda G, 2012, I2-mediated diversity oriented diastereoselective synthesis of amino acid derived trans-2,5-disubstituted morpholines, piperazines, and thiomorpholines, ACS Comb Sci., 1-4 (if=3.032, ci=21)

8. Ritesh Singh and Gautam Panda, 2013, L-Proline derived nitrogenous steroidal systems: an asymmetric approach to 14-azasteroids, RSC Adv., 19533-19544 (if=3.289, ci=5)

9. Priyanka Singh, Sudipta Kumar Manna and Gautam Panda, 2014, Synthesis of polyhydroxylated indolizidines and piperidines from Garner's aldehyde: total synthesis of (−)-swainsonine, (+)-1,2-di-epi-swainsonine, (+)-8,8a-di-epi-castanospermine, pentahydroxy indolizidines, (−)-1-deoxynojirimycin, (−)-1-deoxy-altro-nojirimycin, and related diversity,, Te (if=2.645, ci=15)

10. Sudipta Kumar Manna and Gautam Panda, 2014, Benzofused Enantiomerically Pure Bicyclic Heterocycles: Asymmetric Friedel-Crafts Reaction towards Indolines and Tetrahydroisoquinolines through S-Amino Acids Derived Chiral Carbocation, Org. Biomol. Chem 8318-24 (if=3.559, ci=7)

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PATIL, RAHUL CHANDRAKANT (b 1970), Director, Halliburton Technology Centre, Pune


Dr. Rahul Patil has made significant contribution in different fields of Chemistry, including understanding of electrochemical behavior and conduction mechanism of conducting polymers, their composites for different applications like humidity & piezo resistive sensors and corrosion coating applications. He worked extensively to understand conduction mechanism theory in conducting polymers. Through experimental evidence, the work highlighted contribution of different factors including inter chain, intra chain and chain length component on polymer conductivity. He got 55 international publications and his scientific contribution is recognized by his election as a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Cambridge, UK and Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences. Past ten years, Dr. Patil has been actively involved in developing new solutions for zonal isolation while drilling Oil and gas wells. He solved several challenges encountered while drilling such as prevention of losses, drilling through salt zones, preserving marine aquatic life in eco sensitive area by developing biodegradable materials. He applied his scientific knowledge to build products using emerging technologies such as swellable materials, nanomaterials, self-healing materials in oil and gas industry. His work was recognized by various awards including World Oil award-2014 (USA), Hart Meritorius Engineering Award-2015 (USA), Corporate Innovation award-2014 (USA), Society of Petroleum Engineering - Regional Technical Excellence Award- 2016 (SPE International). He has to his credit 64 US patents (47 granted and 17 in evaluation stage). Several of his commercialized products are generating significant revenue. He is also an active scientist in developing new talent guiding interns from reputed institutes.

Proposer: Dr. Anil Kumar, Seconder: Dr. Dilip D. Dhavale


1. A.G.Bedekar, S.F.Patil, R.C.Patil and C.Agashe, (1994), Influence of monomer concentration and electrode conductivity on morphology of poly(o-anisidine) films, J.Phys.D.Appl.Phys., 27, 1727-1731. (if=2.77, ci=11)

2. A.G.Bedekar, S.F.Patil, R.C.Patil and K.Vijayamohanan, (1995) Mechanistic studies of galvanostatically deposited poly(o-anisidine) films, J.Mater.Chem., 5(7), 963-967. (if=6.62, ci=11)

3. S.Pethkar, R.C.Patil, J.A.Kher, and K.Vijayamohanan, (1999) Deposition and characterization of CdS nanoparticles/Polyaniline composite films, Thin Solid Films, 349, 105-109. (if=1.76, ci=37)

4. R.C.Patil, S.M.Ahmed, H.Shiigi, M.Nakayama, and K.Ogura, (1999) Poly(o-anisidine)-ABS blends: Investigations of some physico-chemical properties, J.Poly.Sci:Part A;Poly.Chem., 37, 4596-4604. (if=3.11, ci=20)

5. R.C.Patil, S.F.Patil, I.S.Mulla and K.Vijayamohanan, (2000), Effect of protonation media on chemically and electrochemically synthesised PANI, Polymer Int., 49(2), 189 -196. (if=2.41, ci=33)

6. R.C.Patil, H.Shiigi, M.Nakayama and T.Tonosaki, (2000), Response of protonic acid - doped poly(o-anisidine) / poly(vinyl alcohol) composites to relative humidity and role of dopant anions,K.Ogura, J.Poly.Sci:Part A : Poly.Chem, 38(24), 4343-4352. (if=3.11, ci=18)

7. R.Patil, Y.Harima, K.Yamashita, K.Komaguchi, Y.Itagaki and M.Shiotani, (2002) Charge carriers in polyaniline film : A correlation between mobility and in-situ ESR measurements, J. Electroanal.Chem., 518, 13-19. (if=2.82, ci=42)

8. R.Patil, Y.Harima and K.Yamashita, Mobilities of charge carriers in poly(o-methylaniline) and poly(o-methoxyaniline),(2004) Electrochim. Acta. 49 (26), 4687-4690 (if=4.80, ci=14)

9. X.Jiang, R.Patil, Y. Harima, J.Ohshita, A. Kunai, (2005) Influences of self-assembled structure on mobilities of charge carriers in π-conjugated polymers, J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 221. (if=3.19, ci=38)

10. R. Patil, S. Radhakrishnan, (2006), Conducting polymer based hybrid nanocomposites for enhanced corrosion protective coatings, Progress in Org. Coatings 57(4) 332-336. (if=2.63, ci=61)

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PATRA, CHANDRA NATH (b 1966), Scientific Officer (H), Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai


Chandra Nath Patra has made pioneering contributions in the area of theory of liquids, involving structural and dynamical properties. He has developed robust and versatile approaches in theoretical formalism as well as computer simulation for liquids at interfaces. His major important contribution is development of multi-scale modeling and simulation strategies encompassing different length and time scales for molecules to materials in a seamless manner. He has devised a novel strategy for the dissolution behavior of room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs), through development of polarizable force field parameters for classical molecular dynamics simulation. The force fields are portable for predicting the melting points for a series of RTILs. The density, viscosity, and ionic conductivity profiles agree very well with the experimental results. He has developed a multi-scale modeling methodology for studying the structure and dynamics of large molecules in solution by combining molecular dynamics with lattice Boltzmann scheme. Here, hydrodynamic mass and momentum transport through the solvent is treated on equal footing with the overall motion of the large molecules. This method is quite accurate for the self-assembly of tethered nanoparticles in tuning tailored nano-materials. He has derived a versatile single-chain simulation technique for the prediction of structural behavior of complex polymeric fluids where Monte Carlo simulation is amalgamated with density functional theory. He has developed a self-consistent density-functional approach to study the behavior of complex fluids. This theory combined with electronic density functional theory can accurately predict the metal electrode potentials.

Proposer: Prof. Swapan K. Ghosh, Seconder: Prof. Srikumar Banerjee


1. C.N. Patra and S.K. Ghosh (1993), Weighted-density-functional theory of nonuniform ionic fluids: Application to electric double layers, Phys. Rev. E 47, 4088 (if=3.2, ci=103)

2. C.N. Patra and S.K. Ghosh (1997), Structure of inhomogeneous dipolar fluids: A density functional approach, J. Chem. Phys. 106, 2752 (if=3.2, ci=85)

3. C.N. Patra and A. Yethiraj (1999), Density functional theory for the distribution of small ions around polyions, J. Phys. Chem. B 103, 6080 (if=3.4, ci=115)

4. C.N. Patra (1999), Structure of binary hard-sphere mixtures near a hard wall: A simple weighted-density-functional approach, J. Chem. Phys. 111, 6573 (if=3.2, ci=80)

5. C.N. Patra and S.K. Ghosh (2002), Structure of electric double layers: A self-consistent weighted-density-functional approach, J. Chem. Phys. 117, 8938 (if=3.2, ci=70)

6. C.N. Patra and A. Yethiraj (2003), Density functional theory for nonuniform polymers: Accurate treatment of the effect of attractive interactions, J. Chem. Phys. 118, 4702 (if=3.2, ci=70)

7. T. Goel, C.N. Patra, T Mukherjee, C Chakravarty (2008), Excess entropy scaling of transport properties of Lennard-Jones chains, J. Chem. Phys. 129, 164904 (if=3.2, ci=99)

8. C.N. Patra (2009), Molecular solvent model of spherical electric double layers: a systematic study by Monte Carlo simulations and density functional theor, J. Phys. Chem. B 113, 13980 (if=3.4, ci=75)

9. C.N. Patra (2010), Structure of spherical electric double layers containing mixed electrolytes: a systematic study by Monte Carlo simulations and density functional theory, J. Phys. Chem. B 114, 10550 (if=3.4, ci=50)

10. Structure of spherical electric double layers with fully asymmetric electrolytes: A systematic study by Monte Carlo simulations and density functional theory, J. Chem. Phys. 141, 184702 (if=3.2, ci=45)

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RAWAT, DIWAN S. (b 1970), Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007


Professor Rawat has made significant contribution in the area of medicinal chemistry and catalysis. He has developed enediyne based molecules (JACS, 2000, 2001, 2003; Chem. Commun, 2000; Inorg. Chem. 2001, US 7,211,603 B1, 2007) and farnesyl transferase inhibitors (J. Org. Chem. 2008; ACS Chemical Biology 2007; J. Biol. Chem. 2004; Org. Letts. 2002) as anti-cancer agents. He has also been working on the synthesis of small organic molecules as antimalarials (Med. Res. Rev. 2012) and anti-bacterials (Med. Res. Rev. 2013). Some of compounds based on 4-aminoquinoline-pyrimidine pharmacophore have shown excellent in vitro and in vivo antimalarial activity without any toxicity (IN 283657, 2017, ACS Med Chem Lett 2013; ACS Med Chem Lett 2019, Eur J Med Chem 2018) and these compounds have also shown anti-Parkinson activity (US2015/0023930 A1, 2017). More recently, his work on curcumin derivatives led to the discovery of novel anticancer agents which is much better than doxorubicin (PCT/US2013/053216; US 9884825B2, 2018; Med. Chem. Commun. 2014, ACS Omega 2019). He has developed novel heterogenous materials as a recyclable catalyst for the synthesis of biologically relevant heterocycles (ACS Sus Chem Engg 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015); Adv. Synth. Catal. 2013; Green Chem. (2012) and Chem-Assian J (2017, Synfacts 2017), Asian J Org Chem (2017). He has 3950 citations with h-index 38, nine patents, a book to his credit and his work has appeared on the cover page of ACS Sus Chem Engg, TL and highlighted by Synfact. Prof Rawat is an Associate Editor of Scientific Reports and RSC Advances.

Proposer: Prof. Ganesh Pandey, Seconder: Prof. M Lakshmi Kantam


1. Mohit Tripathi, Dale Taylor, Shabana I. Khan, Babu L. Tekwani, Prija Ponnan, Thirumurthy Velpandian, Ujjalkumar Das, Diwan S. Rawat* 2019, Hybridization of fluoro-amodiaquine (FAQ) with pyrimidines: Synthesis, in vitro and in vivo antimalarial potency of FAQ-pyrimidines, ACS Med. Chem. Lett. DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.8b00496. (if=3.746)

2. Prince Kumar, S. K. Kandi, S. Manohar, K. Mukhopadhyay, Diwan S. Rawat*, 2019, Monocarbonyl curcuminoids with improved stability as antibacterial agents against Staphylococcus aureus and their mechanistic studies, ACS Omega, 4, 675 – 687

3. P. Linga Reddy, Mohit Tripathi, R. Arundhathi and Diwan S. Rawat*, 20177, Chemoselective hydrazine-mediated transfer hydrogenation of nitroarenes by Co3O4 nanoparticles immobilized on a Al/Si-mixed oxide support, Chemistry - An Asian Journal, 12, 785 – 791 [Highlighted by Synfacts 2017; 13(07): 0766] (if=4.592 )

4. U. Chinna Rajesh, Gunjan Purohit, Diwan S. Rawat* 2015, Facile one-pot synthesis of N-heterocycles using CuI/CSP composites as efficient recyclable nanocatalysts with anomalous selectivity under green conditions, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 3, 2397 – 2404(if=6.140, ci=22)

5. U. Chinna Rajesh, Jinfeng Wang, Stuart Prescott, Takuya Tsuzuki, Diwan S. Rawat*, 2015, RGO/ZnO nanocomposite: An efficient sustainable heterogeneous amphiphilic catalyst for the synthesis of 3-substituted indoles in water. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 3, 9 – 18 [Highlighted in the Cover Page] (if=6.140, ci=55)

6. Deepak Kumar, Beena, Garima Khare, Saqib Kidwai, Anil K. Tyagi, Ramandeep Singh, Diwan S Rawat* 2014, Synthesis of novel 1,2,3-triazole derivatives of isoniazid and their in vitro and in vivo antimycobacterial activity evaluation, Eur. J. Med Chem. 81, 301 - 313(if=4.816, ci=48)

7. U. Chinna Rajesh, Sunny Manohar, Diwan S Rawat*, 2013, Hydromagnesite as an efficient novel recyclable heterogeneous solid base catalyst for the synthesis of flavanones, flavanols and 1,4-dihydropyridines in water. Adv. Synth. Catal. 355, 3170 - 3178 (Listed in ChemInform 04/2014; 45(16) (if=6.453, ci=32)

8. Sunny Manohar, U. Chinna Rajesh, Shabana I. Khan, Babu L. Tekwani, Diwan S. Rawat*, 2012, Novel 4-aminoquinoline-pyrimidine based hybrids with improved in vitro and in vivo antimalarial activity, ACS Med. Chem. Lett. 3, 555-559 (if=3.746, ci=86)

9. Nitin Kumar, Shabana I. Khan, H. Atheaya, R. Mamgain, Diwan S. Rawat* 2011, “Synthesis and in vitro antimalarial activity of tetraoxane-amine/amide conjugates” Eur. J. Med. Chem. 46, 2816-2827 [Highlighted by Malria world]. (if=4.816, ci=37)

10. Nisha Agarwal, Rohit. Kumar, P. Dureja, Diwan S. Rawat* 2009, “Schiffs bases as potential fungicides and nitrification inhibitors” ACS J. Agric. Food Chem. 57, 8520-8525 (if=3.154, ci=38)

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RIAZ, UFANA (b 1978), Assistant Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi


Dr. Ufana Riaz has innovatively used microwave radiation for solid-state polymerization of nano-sized conducting polymers, polycarbazole and poly(o-toluidine), hitherto mainly polymerized in solutions/electrochemically. She was able to simultaneously polymerize and intercalate these conducting polymers in Bentonite clay interlayer space and obtained varied and controlled morphology of nanospheres, nanotubes and nanotablets. She discovered that microwave produced polaronic and bipolaronic state in the polymers and that the clay-polymer nanocomposites showed striking spectroscopic and electronic properties not yet reported. Current literature is replete with the work on remediation of dyes polluted water through exposure to UV-visible radiation in presence of one among a host of oxide based inorganic semiconductor catalyst. The nominee for the first time, used organic semiconducting polymers, poly(1-naphthylamine) and poly(o-toluidine) and their nanocomposites with Bentonite clays, as catalyst in the degradation of several dyes through microwave radiation alone, causing 80-90% degradation of the dye in less than an hour with negligible toxicity in the remaining water . She also made notable contribution in synthesizing biodegradable free standing films of the blends of vegetable oil based polyesteramide/ epoxy with a commercial polymer, polyvinyl alcohol, having as much as 80% of the former for packaging purposes. Nominee is presently working on the synthesis of modified fluorescent conducting polymer, having solubility in water, which can emit in the near IR window to be used as non toxic biomarkers. She has published 93 papers in international journals and has contributed 15 chapters in edited books from renowned publishers.

Proposer: Prof. Vinod K. Ahluwalia, Seconder: Prof. Talat Ahmad


1. U Riaz, S Jadoun, P Kumar, M Arish, A Rub, SM Ashraf, 2017,Influence of Luminol Doping of Poly(o-phenylenediamine) on the Spectral, Morphological, and Fluorescent properties: A Potential Fluorescent Marker for Early detection,ACS applied materials & i (if=8.097, ci=7)

2. U Riaz, SM Ashraf, V Budhiraja, S Aleem, J Kashyap, 2016,Comparative studies of the photocatalytic and microwave–assisted degradation of alizarin red using ZnO/poly (1-naphthylamine) nanohybrids,Journal of Molecular Liquids 216, 259-267 (if=4.513, ci=11)

3. U Riaz, SM Ashraf, R Raza, K Kohli, J Kashyap, 2016,Sonochemical Facile Synthesis of Self-Assembled Poly(o-phenylenediamine)/Cobalt Ferrite Nanohybrid with Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity,Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 55 (22), 6300-6309 (if=3.141, ci=11)

4. U Riaz, SM Ashraf, J Kashyap, 2015, Enhancement of photocatalytic properties of transitional metal oxides using conducting polymers: A mini review, Materials Research Bulletin 71, 75-90. (if=2.873, ci=48)

5. U Riaz, C Nwaoha, SM Ashraf,2014, Recent advances in corrosion protective composite coatings based on conducting polymers and natural resource derived polymers,Progress in Organic Coatings 77 (4), 743-756 (if=2.955, ci=63)

6. U Riaz, S M Ashraf, 2013,Double layered hydroxides as potential anti-cancer drug delivery agents,Mini reviews in medicinal chemistry 13 (4), 522-529 (if=2.903, ci=26)

7. U Riaz,SM Ashraf, 2012, Microwave-Assisted Solid State in-Situ Polymerization Intercalation of Poly(carbazole) between Bentonite Layers: Effect of Microwave Irradiation and Gallery Confinement ,The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 116 (22), 12366-12374 (if=4.484, ci=22)

8. U Riaz, SM Ashraf, 2011,Effect of solid state intercalation conditions in controlling the self-assembled nanostructured polycarbazole–montmorillonite nanocomposites synthesized by mechano-chemical ,Applied Clay Science 52 (1-2), 179-183 (if=3.641, ci=20)

9. U Riaz, SM Ashraf, 2011, Semi-conducting poly (1-naphthylamine) nanotubes: A pH independent adsorbent of sulphonate dyes,Chemical Engineering Journal 174 (2-3), 546-555 (if=6.735, ci=30)

10. U Riaz, A Vashist, SA Ahmad, S Ahmad, SM Ashraf, 2010,Compatibility and biodegradability studies of linseed oil epoxy and PVC blends,Biomass and bioenergy 34 (3), 396-401 (if=3.358, ci=48)

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SHAHI, VINOD KUMAR (b 1964), Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar-364002 (Gujarat)


The development of advanced nanostructured materials/membranes for water purification, and energy applications, is an issue of increasing relevance. Dr. Shahi has made significant contributions in the area of membrane science and physical chemistry. His research interests include organic-inorganic hybrid thin film charged membranes by molecular tailoring of different segments by the sol-gel chemistry. Dr. Shahi believes that organic–inorganic hybrid material contains nanosized inorganic building blocks in organic polymer by molecular level of hybridization is a crucial macromolecular architecture, and has opened the possibility to combine in a single solid both the attractive properties to address key scientific problems. Also, he is actively pursuing the research area of design and synthesis of tailored-made acidic or alkaline group grafted multiblock poly(arylene ether)s copolymer, fluro-carbon polymer, and imidized graphene oxide based polymers based acid-/oxidative resistant membranes for diversified applications. His expertise in synthetic chemistry has helped him and his research group to achieve purpose built macromolecular structure with interesting properties. With these philosophies, he has developed an active collaboration with material scientists, electrochemists, biologists in the important area of biosensors and bio-molecule separation, fuel cell electrolyte, battery, and water desalination applications. His contribution is well recognized by the scientific community.

Proposer: Dr. Amitava Das , Seconder: Prof. Raghunath Prasad Rastogi


1. RK Nagarale, GS Gohil, VK Shahi, R Rangarajan, 2004, Organic− inorganic hybrid membrane: thermally stable cation-exchange membrane prepared by the sol− gel method, Macromolecules 37, 10023-10030. (if=5.914, ci=180)

2. M Kumar, BP Tripathi, VK Shahi, Crosslinked chitosan/polyvinyl alcohol blend beads for removal and recovery of Cd (II) from wastewater, Journal of Hazardous Materials 172 (2-3), 1041-1048, 2009. (if=6.434, ci=159)

3. BP Tripathi, VK Shahi, Functionalized organic− inorganic nanostructured N-p-carboxy benzyl chitosan− silica− PVA hybrid polyelectrolyte complex as proton exchange membrane for DMFC applications, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 112 (49), 15678(if=3.187, ci=86)

4. BP Tripathi, VK Shahi, 2009, 3-[[3-(Triethoxysilyl) propyl] amino] propane-1-sulfonic acid− poly (vinyl alcohol) cross-linked----- membranes for direct methanol fuel cell applications, ACS Applied Mater. Interf. 1(5), 1002-1012. (if=8.097, ci=65)

5. BP Tripathi, T Chakrabarty, VK Shahi, 2010, Highly charged and stable cross-linked 4, 4′-bis (4-aminophenoxy) biphenyl-3, 3′-disulfonic acid (BAPBDS)-sulfonated------- impervious to methanol, Journal of Materials Chemistry 20 (37), 8036-8044. (if=9.931, ci=41)

6. AN Mondal, BP Tripathi, VK Shahi, 2011, Highly stable aprotic ionic-liquid doped anhydrous proton-conducting polymer electrolyte membrane for high-temperature applications, Journal of Materials Chemistry 21 (12), 4117-4124. (if=9.931, ci=48)

7. AK Singh, S Prakash, V Kulshrestha, VK Shahi, Cross-linked hybrid nanofiltration membrane with antibiofouling properties and self-assembled layered morphology, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 4 (3), 1683-1692, 2012. (if=8.097, ci=31)

8. RP Pandey, AK Thakur, VK Shahi, Sulfonated polyimide/acid-functionalized graphene oxide composite polymer electrolyte membranes with improved proton conductivity and water-retention properties, ACS applied materials & interfaces 6 (19), 16993-17002, 2014. (if=8.097, ci=66)

9. RP Pandey, VK Shahi, Sulphonated imidized graphene oxide (SIGO) based polymer electrolyte membrane for improved water retention, stability and proton conductivity, Journal of Power Sources, 299, 104-113, 2015. (if=7.145, ci=25)

10. RP Pandey, AK Das, VK Shahi, 2-Acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid Grafted Poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene)-based acid-/oxidative resistant cation exchange for membrane electrolysis, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7 (51), 28524-28533, 2015. (if=8.097, ci=14)

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VASANTHAKUMARAN, SUDARSAN (b 1971), Scientific Officer (H), Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai


Dr. Sudarsan has made significant contributions in the area of borosilicate glasses immobilized with Cs ions and simulated high level waste (HLW). In depth studies, carried out by Dr. Sudarsan in collaboration with Nuclear Recycle Group, BARC on borosilicate glasses, lead to the understanding of Cs loss from glass as a function of composition and improved immobilization characteristics of in house developed barium borosilicate glass compared to conventionally used sodium borosilicate glass. Further the studies, lead to the fine tuning of composition of glass for maximum Cs incorporation as well as high level waste (HLW) immobilization. Alpha particle detectors fabricated by his team in Chemistry Division, BARC have been comprehensively and successfully tested for its performance in radioactive acidic liquid medium (3M HNO3) containing Pu, 241Am, 233U etc., in Fuel Reprocessing Division (FRD), BARC. The results agree with those obtained from conventional radiometric methods. On luminescent nanoparticles, Dr. Sudarsan’s work has lead to the development of indelible inks based on up-conversion nanoparticles for inkjet printing of security codes for anti-counterfeiting applications. The material is also useful for detecting PCB tampering. Both these technologies have been demonstrated at divisional levels in BARC. A process methodology for converting diamond waste powder (generated in diamond industry) into useful polishing and smoothening powders for polishing natural diamonds. The work has been carried out under an MoU with Diamond industry. A variety of materials have been developed for hydrogen storage applications with capacity more than 3 wt. % under ambient conditions.

Proposer: Dr. Jai Pal Mittal, Seconder: Dr. A.K. Tyagi


1. K. G. Sonawane, C. Phadnis, L. Tatikondewar,a V. Sudarsan, A. Kshirsagar, S. Mahamuni, 2014, Electron energy level engineering in Zn1−xCdxSe nanocrystals, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2, 8077-8082 (if=5.06, ci=6)

2. R. Sasikala, A. P. Gaikwad, V. Sudarsan, R. Rao, Jagannath, B. Viswanadh, S. R. Bharadwaja , 2015, The dual role of palladium in enhancing the photocatalytic activity of CdS dispersed on NaY-zeolite, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 17, 6896-690 (if=4.449, ci=8)

3. V. S. Thorat, R. K. Mishra, V. Sudarsan, Amar Kumar, R. K. Vatsa, C. P. Kaushik, A. K. Tyagi, 2016, Corrosion of Borosilicate Glasses Subjected to Aggressive Test Conditions: Structural Investigations, (if=2.841, ci=1)

4. R. G. Nair, S. Nigam, B. Vishwanadh, V. Sudarsan, R. K. Vatsa, C. Majumder,V. K. Jain, 2016, Size induced modification of boron structural unit in YBO3: Systematic investigation by experimental and theoretical methods, RSC Advances 6, 64065 (if=2.93, ci=3)

5. A. Dhara, R. K. Mishra, R. Shukla, T. P. Valsala, V. Sudarsan, A. K. Tyagi, C. P. Kaushik, 2016, A comparative study on the structural aspects of sodium borosilicate glasses and barium borosilicate glasses: Effect of Al2O3 addition, J. Non-Cryst. Solids 447, 283 (if=2.488, ci=2)

6. S. S. Ghugal, R. R. Mahalik, P. S. Charde, V. Sudarsan, R. Sasikala, 2017,Photocatalytic properties of mesoporous alumina containing Ni doped CdS nanostructures , Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 242, 284 (if=3.649, ci=4)

7. S. V. Kahane, V. Sudarsan, S. Mahamuni, 2017, Anomalous photoluminescence enhancement due to hot electron transfer in core–shell Au–CdS nanocrystals, J. Lumin. 181, 91. (if=2.732, ci=3)

8. T. K. Das, S. Banerjee, M. Pandey, B. Vishwanadh, R. J. Kshirsagar, V. Sudarsan, 2017, Effect of surface functional groups on hydrogen adsorption properties of Pd dispersed reduced graphene oxide,Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 42, 8032. (if=3.582, ci=8)

9. T. K. Das, S. Banerjee, P. Sharma, V. Sudarsan, P. U. Sastry, 2018,Nitrogen doped porous carbon derived from EDTA: Effect of pores on hydrogen storage properties, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 43, 8385. (if=3.582, ci=3)

10. A. Kumar, A. B. Kanagare, S. Banerjee, P. Kumar, M. Kumar, V. Sudarsan, 2018, Synthesis of cobalt hexacyanoferrate nanoparticles and its hydrogen storage properties, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 43, 7998. (if=3.582, ci=1)

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VERMA, AKHILESH KUMAR (b 1968), Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi


The Verma research group is dynamically involved in the development of new synthetic methods of broad environmental as well as economical potential. The group has made significant contribution in the exploration of base-mediated novel organic transformations and transition-metal catalyzed C-H functionalization. Broadly, the Verma’s research activity is focused on: i) Hydroamination of N-heterocycles; ii) C-H activation of arenes, iii) Tandem cyclization; iv) design and construction of N-, O- and S-rich heterocycles for thermally stable biological and pharmaceutical molecules. Professor Verma has developed a novel synthetic method for the region-, stereo- and chemoselective hydroamination of N-nucleophiles with alkynes using the super-basic medium (KOH/DMSO) to produce a broad range of highly functionalized vinyl and styryl enamines, which are valuable and versatile synthetic intermediates for the synthesis of bioactive compounds. During the study, the nominee has discovered regioselective preferential nucleophilic addition of N-heterocycles onto haloarylalkyne over N-arylation of aryl halides and successfully applied this chemistry for the direct synthesis of small heterocyclic scaffolds using in-house designed ligands BtPy/BtCH2OH. The nominee has also discovered a novel, metal-free and cost-effective method for the deuteration of N, O and S-heterocycles/carbocycles. He has successfully synthesized Toluene-α, α, α-d3 (NMR solvent), Aspirin-d4 and Paracetamol-d5 in gram scale using developed chemistry (Filed Patent). Another major research contribution of nominee includes “Diversity-Oriented Synthesis of Over Hundred Heterocyclic/Natural-Product-Likes, and π-Conjugated Scaffolds” from ortho-alkynyaldehydes. Developed chemistry was successfully extended for the synthesis of stereoselective compounds.

Proposer: Dr. J.S. Yadav, Seconder: Prof. Ganesh Pandey


1. Pawan K. Mishra, Shalini Verma, Manoj Kumar, and Akhilesh K. Verma,* 2018 “Base-Mediated Direct Transformation of N-Propargylamines into 2,3,5-Trisubstituted 1H-Pyrroles“ Org. Lett., 20 (22), 7182–7185 (if=6.49, ci=01)

2. Monika Patel, Rakesh K. Saunthwal and Akhilesh K. Verma,* 2017, “Base-Mediated Hydroamination of Alkynes” Acc. Chem. Res., 50 (2), 240–254. (if=20.95, ci=51)

3. Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Monika Patel, and Akhilesh K. Verma,* 2016, “Metal- and Protection-Free [4+2] Cycloadditions of Alkynes with Azadienes: Assembly of Functionalized Quinolines” Org. Lett., 18 (9), 2200–2203. (if=6.49, ci=26)

4. Akhilesh K. Verma*, Abhinandan K. Danodia, Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Monika Patel, and Deepak Choudhary, 2015, “Palladium-Catalyzed Triple Successive C–H Functionalization: Direct Synthesis of Functionalized Carbazoles from Indoles” Org. Lett., 17 (15), 3658–3661. (if=6.49, ci=55)

5. Trapti Aggarwal, Rajeev R. Jha, Rakesh K. Tiwari, Sonu Kumar, Siva K. Reddy Kotla, Sushil Kumar, and Akhilesh K. Verma* 2012, "Palladium-Catalyzed Regioselective [3+2] Annulation of Internal Alkynes and Iodopyranoquinolines with Concomitant Ring Opening" Org. Lett., 2012, 14 (20), 5184–5187. (if=6.49, ci=33)

6. Megha Joshi, Rakesh Tiwari, Akhilesh K. Verma,* 2012, "Regioselective Preferential Nucleophilic Addition of N-Heterocycles onto Haloarylalkynes over N-Arylation of Aryl Halides" Org. Lett., 14 (4), 1106–1109. (if=6.49, ci=39)

7. Akhilesh K. Verma,* Megha Joshi, and Ved Prakash Singh, 2011, "Base-Mediated Regio- and Stereoselective Intermolecular Addition of Alkynes to N-Heterocycles" Org. Lett., 13(7), 1630. (if=6.49, ci=65)

8. Akhilesh K. Verma*, Rajeev R. Jha, Ritu Chaudhary, Rakesh K. Tiwari, Kotla Siva K. Reddy, and Abhinandan Danodia, 2012,"Copper-Catalyzed Tandem Synthesis of Indolo-, Pyrrolo[2,1-a]isoquinolines, Naphthyridines and Bisindolo/ Pyrrolo[2,1-a]isoquinolines via Hydroamination of ortho-Haloarylalkynes Followed by C-2 Arylation" J. Org. Chem., 77, 8191 (if=4.80, ci=43)

9. Akhilesh K. Verma, Siva K. Reddy Kotla, Deepak Choudhary, Monika Patel, and Rakesh K. Tiwari, 2013,“Silver-Catalyzed Tandem Synthesis of Naphthyridines and Thienopyridines via Three-Component Reaction” J. Org. Chem. 78 (9), 4386–4401. (if=4.80, ci=48)

10. Akhilesh K. Verma,* Tanay Kesharwani, Jaspal Singh, Vibha Tandon and Richard C. Larock* 2009, “A Copper-Catalyzed Tandem Synthesis of Indolo- and Pyrrolo[2,1-a]isoquinolines” Angew. Chem Int. Ed. 48, 1138-1143 (if=12.10, ci=173)

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AHMAD, SHARIF (b 1954), Professor & Dean, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi


Dr. Sharif Ahmad obtained his MSc (1976) and PhD (1981) in Chemistry from AMU, Aligarh. He is Professor of Materials Chemistry and Dean, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi. Prof. Ahmad has more than 35 years experience in Materials Chemistry. He has made path breaking contributions in sustainable and biogradable oleo polymers, conducting polymers, anti corrosive polymeric coating materials, nanomaterials, biosensors etc. It is worth mentioning that vegetable seeds are underutilized as only 30-32% of them are used for edible and medicinal and industrial purposes, although vegetable seed oil may find wider applications in non-conventional biodiesel and polymer industries. His studies particularly leading to the development of green and volatile organic compounds-free biogradable low molecular weight polymers/oligomers, polyester amides, alkydes, polyurathenes are pioneering with wider industrial applications. Prof. Ahmad has taken a lead to develop oil-based polyols, which have greater application in hydrogels used for drug delivery. The nanoporous particles developed in his lab find applications in various sensors. Furthermore in his laboratory, waterborne alkydes/polyesters/polyurethanes are processed and their high performances anti corrosive coatings are being formulated. Prof. Ahmad has 185 research papers in high impact factor journals with Google Scholar Citations of 3592, h index 34, i10 index 90. He has guided 24 Ph D students for their doctoral work in his laboratory at JMI, New Delhi. He has successfully executed and completed various R&D projects sponsored by GOI agencies. The ACS and RSC memberships were awarded in recognition of his work.

Proposer: Dr. R.P. Roy, Seconder: Dr. Debasisa Mohanty


1. E. Sharmin, O. Rehman, D. Akram, Fahmina Zafar and Sharif Ahmad (2015). Linseed oil polyol/ZnO bionanocomposite towards mechanically robust, thermally stable, hydrophobic coatings: a novel synergistic approach utilizing a sustainable resource, RSC Advances, 5, 47928-47944. (IF= 3.84, CI= 4)

2. Shabnam Pathan and Sharif Ahmad (2013). Synthesis, characterization and effect of s-triazine ring on physico-mechanical and electrochemical corrosion resistance performance of waterborne castor oil alky. J. Mater.Chem. A, 2013, 1 (45), 14227-14238. (IF=7.443, CI= 17)

3. Anujit Ghosal, Jyoti Shah, RK Kotnala, Sharif Ahmad (2013). Facile green synthesis of nickel nanostructures using natural polyol and morphology dependent dye adsorption properties. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2013, 1(41) 12868-12878. (IF=7.443, CI= 13)

4. Arti Vashist, Syed Shahabuddin, Y.K. Gupta and Sharif Ahmad (2013). Polyol induced interpenetrating networks: chitosan-methyl methacrylate based biocompatible and pH responsive hydrogels for drug delivery system. J. Mater. Chem. B, 2013, 1(2), 168-170. (IF=4.726, CI= 14)

5. Ajeet Kaushik, Pratima R. Solanki, K.N. Sood, Sharif Ahmad (2009) Bansi D. Malhotra. Fumed silica nanoparticles–chitosan nano biocomposite for ochratoxin-A detection. Electrochemistry Communications, 2009, 11(10): 1919-1923. (IF= 4.847, CI= 21)

6. A Kaushik, PR Solanki, AA Ansari, G Sumana, Sharif Ahmad (2009) and BD Malhotra. “Iron oxide-chitosan nano biocomposite for urea sensor”. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 138 (2), 572-580. (IF=4.097, CI= 87)

7. AjeetKaushik, Raju Khan, Pratima R Solinki, Pratibha Pandey, Javed Alam, Sharif Ahmad (2008). Iron oxide nanoparticles-chitosan composite-based glucose biosensor. B.D.Malhotra, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 24: 676-683. (IF= 6.409, CI= 252)

8. Shahzada Ahmad, T.K.Saxena, Sharif Ahmad (2006) and S.A. Agnihotry, “The effect of nanosizedTiO2 addition on poly(methylmethacrylatye based polymer electrolytes”. J Power Soc, 159(1): 205-209. (IF= 6.217, CI= 57)

9. Sharif Ahmad (2005) AP Gupta, Eram Sharmin, Manawwer Alam, SK Pandey. “Synthesis, characterization and development of high performance siloxane-modified epoxy paints”. Progress in organic coatings 54 (3): 248-255. (IF=2.358, CI=120)

10. Shahzada Ahmad, Sharif Ahmad (2005) and S.A. Agnihotry. “Nanocomposites electrolytes with fumed silica in poly (methyl methacrylate) thermal, rheological and conductivity studies”. J Power Soc, 140 (1): 151-156. (IF= 6.217, CI= 41)

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ARYA, ASHOK KUMAR (b 1964), Outstanding Scientist, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai


Dr. Ashok Kumar Arya has made outstanding contributions towards the implementation, development and enhancement of quantum and statistical mechanics based computational tools for materials modeling and design towards predicting and understanding thermo-physical, electronic, mechanical and optical properties of alloys and compounds under equilibrium as well as non-equilibrium conditions. His computational work on a number of binary and ternary alloys, viz., Ti-Al-(Nb,Cu) , Zr-Al-(Nb), U-Zr, Ni-Mo-(Cr,Fe) , Al-Li, etc., for the determination of phase stability and transformation behavior, electronic and elastic properties were amply verified experimentally. His another significant contribution is the prediction of adhesion strength of ceramic or metallic coatings on Fe- and Ni-based alloys which operate under conditions of highly corrosive environment and thermal and mechanical shocks, viz., Turbine blades, gun barrels, etc. He has actively contributed towards determination of thermo-physical properties, viz., thermal expansion, thermal conductivity, density, etc., of thoria-based mixed oxide ((Th,Pu)O2, (Th,U)O2 and (Th,Ce)O2) nuclear fuels through molecular dynamics simulations to understand and assess their behavior during irradiation and their performance under accidental conditions in nuclear reactors. As limited and/or no experimental results are available, he has performed atomistic simulations to determine the effect of fission gases (He, Kr and Xe), halogen fission products (Cl, B and I), minor actinides (Np) and oxide precipitates on the stability of ThO2-based fuels. He has also worked on a number of doped perovskites and pyrochlore structured oxides and other compounds to help understand the electronic origin of their optical and photocatalytic properties for hydrogen generation.

Proposer : Prof. S.K. Ghosh, Seconder : Prof. D.K. Maity


1. S. Banerjee, A. Arya, G.P. Das, (1997), “Formation of an ordered phase from a disordered solid solution : A study using first-principles calculations on Al-Li alloys”, Acta Mater., 45, 601. (if= 6.063, ci= 16)

2. A. Arya, S. Banerjee and G.P. Das, I. Dasgupta, T. Saha-Dashupta and A. Mookerjee, (2001), “A first-principles thermodynamics approach to ordering in Ni-Mo Alloys”, Acta Mater., 49, 3575. (if= 6.063, ci= 42)

3. A. Arya, G.K. Dey and S. Banerjee, (2002), “Effect of Cr addition on the ordering behaviour of Ni-Mo alloys : Experimental results vs. electronic structure calculations”, Acta Mater., 50, 3301. (if= 6.063, ci= 62)

4. A. Arya and Emily A. Carter, (2003), “Structure, bonding and adhesion at TiC(100)/Fe(110) interface from first-principles”, J. Chem. Phys., 118, 8982. (if= 2.843, ci= 156)

5. A. Arya and Emily A. Carter, (2004), “Structure, bonding and adhesion at ZrC(100)/Fe(110) interface from first-principles”, Surf. Sci., 560, 103. (if= 2.062, ci= 97)

6. S. Majumdar*, A. Arya, I. G. Sharma, A. K. Suri and S. Banerjee, (2010), “Deposition of Aluminide and Alumino-Silicide Coatings on Niobium”, Appl. Surf. Sc., 257, 635. (if= 4.439, ci= 35)

7. Farheen N. Sayed, V. Grover, K. Bhattacharyya, D. Jain, A. Arya, C. G. S. Pillai, and A. K. Tyagi, (2011), “Sm2-xDyxZr2O7 Pyrochlores: Probing Order-Disorder Dynamics and Multifunctionality", Inorganic Chemistry, 50, 2354. (if= 4.700, ci= 48)

8. Santosh K. Gupta, P.S. Ghosh, Nimai Pathak, A. Arya, V. Natarajan, (2014), “Understanding The Local Environment of Sm3+ in Doped SrZrO3 and Energy Transfer Mechanism Using Time Resolved Luminescence: A Combined Theoretical and Experimental Approach”, RSC Advances, 4, 29202. (if= 2.936, ci= 53)

9. P.S. Ghosh, P.S. Somayajulu, A. Arya, G.K. Dey, B.K. Dutta, (2015), “ Thermal expansion and thermal conductivity of (Th,Ce)O2 mixed oxides: A molecular dynamics and experimental study”, 638, 172 (if= 3.779, ci= 17)

10. Soma Banik, Pranab Kumar Das, Azzedine Bendounan, Ivana Vebornik, A. Arya, Jun Fujjii, A. Thamizhavel, P. U. Sastry, A. K. Sinha, D. M. Phase, S. K. Deb, (2017), “Giant Rashba spin-orbit anisotropy at the topological surface of PrGe”, Scientific Reports, 7, 4120 (if= 4.112, ci= 2)

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ATHAWALE, ANJALI ANAND (b 1960), Professor, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune


Dr. Anjali A. Athawale, a Senior Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Savitribai Phule Pune University, is a passionate teacher and has contributed immensely in the field of material science. She has been recognized internationally through her research work on conducting polymers and its composites for chemical sensing, catalysis and anticorrosion coatings. She has also done significant work on inorganic pervoskites for fuel cell applications. Recently, she is working on organic pervoskites to address the increasing demand of energy crisis. Dr. Anjali has published 95 papers in international journals and has presented an equal number in conferences. She has 4 patents and has contributed one chapter each in ‘Encyclopaedia of Sensors’ and a book published by Springer Series on Polymer and Composite Materials. She has been extensively reviewing papers for many prestigious journals of RSC, Elsevier etc. So far, 17 students have completed their Ph.D degree under her guidance and 7 are working currently. In recognition of her accomplishments, she has been felicitated by SPPU in 2016. She has also been honoured as a Fellow of Maharashtra of Academy of Sciences, ‘Best Faculty Award ’Education Expo TV, CRS India), Erasmus Mundus (Univ. Freie, Berlin) and British Commonwealth Teachers Fellowship (Univ. Aberdeen, Scotland), Outstanding Contribution for Reviewing’ award by the editors of MRB, Elsevier. Dr. Anjali is the first to receive the Pennstate-SPPU collaborative project (2016) in chemistry department and has recently been awarded with Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Fellowship.

Proposer: Dr. Anil Kumar, Seconder: Dr. Pradeep Kumar


1. Jyoti A. Pandit, K. Sudarshan, Anjali A. Athawale, (2016), Electrically conductive epoxy-polyester-graphite nanocomposites modified with aromatic amines, Polymer, 104, 49-60. (if=3.7 , ci=1)

2. Vandana A. Mooss, Anjali A. Athawale, (2016), Polyaniline–graphene oxide nanocomposites: Influence of nonconducting graphene oxide on the conductivity and oxidation-reduction mechanism of polyaniline, J. Polym. Sci. A Polym. Chem, 54, 3778-3786. (if=3.2, ci=2)

3. Prakash B. Rathod , Ashok K. Pandey , Meena, S.S., Anjali A. Athawale, (2016), Quaternary ammonium bearing hyper-crosslinked polymer encapsulation on Fe3O4 nanoparticles, RSC Adv., 6, 21317-21325. (if= 3.84, ci=2)

4. Yadnesh D. Kesari, Anjali A. Athawale, (2015), Ultrasound assisted bulk synthesis of CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite at room temperature, Mat. Lett. 159, 87–89. (if=2.5, ci=4)

5. Anuja A. Bokare, Avinash Sanap, Mrinal Pai, Sushma Sabharwal, Anjali A. Athawale, (2013), Antibacterial activities of Nd doped and Ag coated TiO2 nanoparticles under solar light irradiation, Colloids Surf. B., 102, 273-280. (if= 4.5 , ci=25)

6. J.A. Anderson, A.A. Athawale, F. Imrie, F.M. McKenna, A. Mc Cue, D. Molyneux, K. Power, M.Shand and R. Wells, (2010), Aqueous phase hydrogenation of substituted phenyls over carbon nanofibre and activated carbon supported Pd, J. Catal, 270, 1, 9-15. (if=6.43, ci=38)

7. H.Singh, S.Bhagwat, S.Jouen, B.Lefez, A.A. Athawale, B. Hannover, S. Ogale, (2010), Elucidation of the role of Hexamine and other precursors in the formation of magnetite nanorods, Phy. Chem. Chem. Phys.,12(13), 3246-3253. (if=4.3, ci=14)

8. Sadananda Das, Ashok K. Pandey, Anjali A. Athawale, Vijay K. Manchanda, (2009) Exchanges of uranium (VI) species in amidoxime-functionalized sorbents, J. Phys. Chem. B., 113,18, 6328-6335. (if=3.4, ci=71)

9. Anjali A. Athawale, Satish Sharma, Chetan Nirkhe and Sushma Pethkar, (2002), Chloroform vapour sensor based on Copper/Polyaniline nanocomposite, Sens. Actuators B., 85, 131-136. (if=4.1, ci=185)

10. V.V Chabukswar, S.Pethkar, A.A. Athawale, (2001),Acrylic acid doped polyaniline as an ammonia sensor, Sens. Actuators B.,77 (3), 657-663. (if=4.19, ci=183)

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CHAKRABORTY, SUDIPTA (b 1973), Scientific Officer (G), Radiopharmaceuticals Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, and Associate Professor, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India


Dr. Sudipta Chakraborty is recommended for the Fellowship of the National Academy of Science, India for his pioneering research work in the fields of radiochemistry and radiopharmaceutical chemistry leading to the development of radiopharmaceutical products and their translation from research to clinical practice. Radiochemistry plays a pivotal role in development of radiopharmaceuticals that are increasingly utilized in human healthcare for diagnosis, staging and therapy of variety of diseases, including cancer. Development and deployment of radiopharmaceuticals to different hospitals all over India to cater the need of large population of patients is one of the major mandates of Department of Atomic Energy. One of key determinants in such development is cost-effective availability of suitable radiosiotopes. Research efforts of Dr. Chakaborty has led to indigenous availability of a number of radioisotopes such as, 68Ga, 64Cu, 177Lu, 170Tm and so on, which have been successfully used in cancer diagnosis and therapy. Dr. Chakraborty has synthesized and evaluated a host of radiolabeled molecules and nanoparticles towards their use in diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine. His sincere research efforts has culminated in successful translation of a few of these molecules namely, 68Ga-labeled RGD peptide, 177Lu-labeled octreotate peptide, 177Lu-labeled polyaminophaosphonate (EDTMP) and 166Ho/177Lu-labeled hydroxyapatite microparticles, as radiopharmaceuticals. Among these, 177Lu-octreotate has been successfully used in more than 6000 patients in different parts of India for the treatment of neuroendocrine originated cancer. Dr. Chakraborty has published 102 papers in peer reviewed international journals, most of which have focused on research work that has direct societal implications.

Proposer: Prof. D.K. Palit, Seconder: Prof. P.D. Naik


1. Pillai MRA, Chakraborty S, Das T, Venkatesh M, Ramamoorthy M, 2003. Production logistics of 177Lu for radionuclide therapy. Appl. Radiat. Isot. 59, 109-118. (if=1.12, ci=141)

2. Chakraborty S, Das T, Sarma HD, Venkatesh M, Banerjee S 2008. Preparation and preliminary studies on 177Lu-labeled hydroxyapatite particles for possible use in therapy of liver cancer. Nucl. Med. Biol. 35, 589-597. (if=2.20, ci=54)

3. Chakraborty S, Das T, Banerjee S, Balogh L, Chaudhari PR, Sarma HD, Polyák A, Máthé D, Venkatesh M, Janoki GA, Pillai MRA, 2008. 177Lu-EDTMP : a viable bone pain palliative in skeletal metastasis. Cancer Biother. Radiopharm. 23, 202-213. (if=1.68, ci=65)

4. Chakraborty S, Das T, Sarma HD, Venkatesh M, Banerjee S, 2008. Comparative studies of 177Lu-EDTMP and 177Lu-DOTMP as potential agents for palliative radiotherapy of bone metastasis. Appl. Radiat. Isot. 66, 1196-1205. (if=1.12, ci=57)

5. Chakraborty S, Shi J, Kim Y-S, Zhou Y, Zia B, Wang F, Liu S, 2010. Evaluation of 111In-labled cyclic RGD peptides: tetrameric not tetravalent. Bioconj. Chem. 21, 969-978. (if=4.49, ci=54)

6. Zhou Y, Chakraborty S, Liu S, 2011. Radiolabeled cyclic RGD peptides as radiotracers for imaging tumors and thrombosis by SPECT. Theranostics 1, 58-82. (if=8.71, ci=86)

7. Chakraborty S, Sharma KS, Rajeswari A, Vimalnath KV, Sarma HD, Pandey U, Jagannath, Ningthoujam RS, R. Vatsa RK, Dash A, 2015. Radiolanthanide loaded agglomerated Fe3O4 nanoparticles for possible use in treatment of arthritis: formulation, characterization and evaluation in rats. J. Mater. Chem. B 3, 5455-5466. (if=4.78, ci=9)

8. Chakravarty R, Chakraborty S, Shukla R, Bahadur J, Ram R, Mazumdar S, Sarma HD, Tyagi AK, Dash A, 2016. Mechanochemical synthesis of meoporous tin oxide: a new generation nanosorbent for 68Ge/68Ga generator technology. Dalton Trans. 45, 13361-13372.(if=4.10, ci=5)

9. Chakraborty S, Chakravarty R, Vatsa R, Bhusari P, Sarma HD, Shukla J, Mittal BR, Dash A, 2016. Toward realization of ‘mix-and-use’ approach in 68Ga radiopharmacy: preparation, evaluation and preliminary clinical utilization of 68Ga-labeled NODAGA-coupled RGD peptide derivative. Nucl. Med. Biol. 43, 116-123. (if=2.20, ci=6)

10. Chakraborty S, Goswami D, Chakravarty R, Mohammed SK, Sarma HD, Dash A, 2018. Syntheses and evaluation of 68Ga- and 153Sm- labeled DOTA-conjugated bisphosphonate ligand for potential use in detection of skeletal metastases and management of pain arising from skeletal metastases. Chem. Biol. Drug Des. 92, 1618-1626. (if=2.33, ci=2)

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CHATTOPADHYAY, ARUN (b 1964), Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati


Prof. Chattopadhyay has made several original and significant contributions in the fields of physical chemistry and nanoscale science and technology. Notable among them are the generation of new materials by pursuing chemical reaction on the surface of quantum dots, discovery of carbon dots in food caramel followed by their chemical synthesis, chemical locomotion, nanocomposites and nanomaterials for antimicrobial and anticancer activities, use of luminescent noble metal clusters for theranostics and hydrogen storage, introduction of sub-micron-scale lithography in color10 and spectroscopy of soap bubbles. His recent work on white light generation, from quantum dots decorated with inorganic complexes, has been recognized as an important contribution.

Proposer: Prof. Swapan K. Ghosh, Seconder: Prof. T.P. Radhakrishnan


1. Srestha Basu, Anumita Paul and Arun Chattopadhyay, 2016, Zinc mediated crystalline assembly of gold nanoclusters for expedient hydrogen storage and sensing, J. Mater. Chem. A, 4(4), 1218-1223 (if=8.262, ci=1)

2. Sabyasachi Pramanik, Satyapriya Bhandari, Shilaj Roy, and Arun Chattopadhyay, 2015, Synchronous Tricolor Emission-Based White Light from Quantum Dot Complex, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 6, 1270-1274 (if=8.539, ci=12)

3. Rumi Khandelia, Satyapriya Bhandari, Uday Narayan Pan, Siddhartha Sankar Ghosh and Arun Chattopadhyay, 2015, Gold Nanocluster Embedded Albumin Nanoparticles for Two-Photon Imaging of Cancer Cells Accompanying Drug Delivery, Small, 11(33), 4075-40 (if=8.315, ci=18)

4. Sunil Kumar Sailapu and Arun Chattopadhyay, 2014, Induction of Electromotive Force by an Autonomously Moving Magnetic Bot, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 53 (6), 1521-1524 (if=11.709, ci=12)

5. Raihana Begum and Arun Chattopadhyay, 2014, Redox-Tuned Three-Color Emission in Double (Mn and Cu) Doped Zinc Sulfide Quantum Dots, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 5 (1), 126-130 (if=8.539, ci=14)

6. Md Palashuddin Sk, Amit Jaiswal, Anumita Paul, Siddhartha Sankar Ghosh and Arun Chattopadhyay, 2012, Presence of Amorphous Carbon Nanoparticles in Food Caramels, Sci. Rep., 2, 383 (if=5.228, ci=99)

7. Amit Jaiswal, Siddhartha Sankar Ghosh and Arun Chattopadhyay, 2012, One Step Synthesis of C-Dots by Microwave Mediated Caramelization of Poly(Ethylene Glycol), Chem. Commun., 48(3), 407-409 (if=6.567, ci=176)

8. Sonit Kumar Gogoi, P. Gopinath, Anumita Paul, A. Ramesh, Siddhartha Sankar Ghosh and Arun Chattopadhyay, 2006, Green Fluorescent Protein-Expressing Escherichia coli as a Model System for Investigating the Antimicrobial Activities of Silver Nanoparticles. Langmuir, 22(22), 9322–9328 (if=3.993, ci=317)

9. Tridib Kumar Sarma, Devasish Chowdhury, Anumita Paul and Arun Chattopadhyay, 2002, Synthesis of Au nanoparticle-conductive polyaniline composite using H2O2 as oxidising as well as reducing agent. Chem. Commun. 10, 1048-1049 (if=6.567, ci=179)

10. Devasish Chowdhury, Anumita Paul and Arun Chattopadhyay, 2001, Patterning Design in Color at the Submicron Scale. Nano Lett., 1 (8), 409-412 (if=13.779, ci=16)

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DE, GOUTAM (b 1958), Visiting Scientist, Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST), Mohali


Dr. Goutam De Ex-Chief Scientist, CSIR-CGCRI, currently with INST, Mohali is a leading Materials Chemist. He has high level of competence in fundamental as well as applied research and supervised 13 PhDs, published 151 papers in high impact journals and filed 8 patents. He is a well cited author with current H-index of 35. He made original contributions towards the development and commercialization of the technology ‘Anti-scratch coatings on plastic ophthalmic lenses’. He has significantly contributed in the areas of functional nanocomposite coatings, ordered mesoporous nanofibers, fluorescent coatings, graphene-based nanocomposites, metal nanoparticles, silica glasses and photocatalysis. A very important technology on durable self-cleanable antireflective coatings (large area) on solar cover glasses has been developed under his active leadership. Very recently a series of solar modules (each 640 mm x 640 mm in size having output values of 18V/~2.7A/48.6W) with antireflective cum hydrophobic cover glasses have been installed on the rooftop of CSIR-CGCRI building. The modules showed enhancement of photocurrent (>3.5% under simulated 1 Sun) and easy maintenance. Dr. De received several awards and recognitions namely JSPS and Raman research fellowships, MRSI and CRSI medals, NRDC meritorious invention award, National Research Award in Nano Science and Technology from Nano Mission, DST, GoI. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and council member of West-Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (2017-18). He has been serving as an Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member of high impact RSC journal, ‘Journal of Materials Chemistry A’ since January 2014.

Proposer: Dr. Swapan Kumar Ghosh, Seconder: Dr. Jai Pal Mittal


1. S.K. Medda, S. De and G. De*, 2005, "Synthesis of Au Nanoparticle Doped SiO2-TiO2 Films: Tuning of Au Surface Plasmon Band Position Through Controlling the Refractive Index", Journal of Materials Chemistry, 15, 3278-3284. (if=6.626, ci=83)

2. S. Pal and G. De*, 2005, "A new approach for the synthesis of Au-Ag alloy nanoparticle incorporated SiO2 films", Chemistry of Materials, 17, 6161-6166. (if=9.466, ci=55)

3. D Jana, A Dandapat and G. De*, 2010, "Anisotropic gold nanoparticle doped mesoporous boehmite films and their use as reusable catalysts in electron transfer reactions", Langmuir, 26, 12177-12184. (if=3.833, ci=74)

4. A .Mukhopadhyay, N. Joshi, K. Chattopadhyay and G. De*, 2011, "A Facile Synthesis of PEG-coated Magnetite (Fe3O4) Nanoparticles and Their Prevention of the Reduction of Cytochrome C” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 4, 142-149. (if=7.504, ci=100)

5. A Dandapat, D Jana and G De*, 2011, "Pd nanoparticles supported mesoporous γ-Al2O3 film as a reusable catalyst for reduction of toxic Cr VI to Cr III in aqueous solution", Applied Catalysis A: General, 396, 34-39. (if=4.339, ci=49)

6. D. Jana, A. Mandal and G. De*, 2012, "High Raman Enhancing Shape-Tunable Ag Nanoplates in Alumina: A Reliable and Efficient SERS Technique", ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 4, 3330-3334. (if=7.504, ci=39)

7. A Mandal, A Dandapat and G. De*, 2012, "Magic sized ZnS quantum dots as a highly sensitive and selective fluorescence sensor probe for Ag+ ions", Analyst, 137, 765-772. (if=3.885, ci=55)

8. K. Bhowmik, A. Mukherjee, M. K. Mishra and G. De*, 2014, "Stable Ni Nanoparticle‒Reduced Graphene Oxide Composites for the Reduction of Highly Toxic Aqueous Cr(VI) at Room Temperature", Langmuir, 30, 3209-3216. (if=3.833, ci=62)

9. I. Das and G. De*, 2015, "Zirconia based superhydrophobic coatings on cotton fabrics exhibiting excellent durability for versatile use", Scientific Reports, 5, 18503-18513, doi: 10.1038/srep18503. (if=4.259, ci=31)

10. D. Bhattacharya, M.K. Mishra and G. De*, 2017, "Carbon Dots from a Single Source Exhibiting Tunable Luminescent Colors through the Modification of Surface Functional Groups in ORMOSIL films", Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 21, 28106-28116. (if=4.536, ci=0)

319

DHANARAJ, GOPI (b 1974), Professor of Chemistry, Periyar Univeristy (A state Govt. University under the Government of Tamil Nadu) Salem- 636 011


Dr. Dhanaraj Gopi, FRSC., FASCh, a Full Professor at the Department of Chemistry, a passionate teacher, has high degree of competence in the field of biomaterials research. In addition to his high quality basic research, Prof. Gopi has made outstanding contributions towards the implementation, development and enhancement of bioceramics coating on metallic implants. He developed a novel approach to fabricate bioceramic with CNF nanocomposites coating for orthopedic applications. He has submitted Doctor of Science (D.Sc) thesis on January 2018. He has published extensively in the development of biomaterials which is evident from him 128 research papers in various high-impact peer reviewed internationals journals and filed 2 Indian and 1 US Patents. His work has been cited more than 2341 times and his current H-index is 29, i10-index is 77. In addition to this, he has contributed six chapters in books published by Elsevier, Springer series to his academic credit. He has also been honored as the Fellow of Royal Society Chemistry, London, Fellow of Academy of Sciences Chennai, Young Scientist award, Sir. C.V. Raman award, Tamilnadu Scientist award, N.M. Sampat award (Electrochemical Society of India) and UGC-Raman award. He has been extensively reviewing many prestigious research papers of RSC, ACS, Elsevier, Springer etc in his area of interest. He has produced 15 Ph.D’s. He has successfully executed and completed around 14 major R&D projects sponsored by DST-TSD, DST-SERB, UGC-DAE, ICMR, CSIR, DRDO, UGC, etc.

Proposer: Prof. Natarajan Srinivasan, Seconder: Prof. Mugesh Govindasamy


1. E. Shinyjoy, L. Kavitha, K. Venkatasaravanan, S. Kannan and D. Gopi , 2017, “Carbon nanofiber/polycarolactone/mineralized hydroxyapatite nanofibrous scaffolds for 2 potential orthopedic applications” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces,9, 6342-6355,(if=8.097, ci=10)

2. S. Ramya, E. Shinyjoy, L. Kavitha, S. Kannan, D. Gopi, 2016, “Fabrication of minerals substituted porous hydroxyapaptite / poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxy pyrrole-co-3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) bilayer coatings on surgical grade stainless steel and its antibacterial and biological activities for orthopedic applications” Applied Materials & Interfaces, (if=8.097, ci=10)

3. R. vivek, R.Thangam, S.R. kumar, C. Rejeeth, S. Sivasubramanian, S. Vincent, D.Gopi, S. Kannan, 2016, “HER2 Targeted breast cancer therapy with switchable “off/on” multifunctional “smart” magnetic polymer core-shell nanocomposites” Applied materials and interfaces, 8, 2262-79 (if=8.097, ci=14)

4. D Gopi, N Murugan, S Ramya, L Kavitha, 2014, “Electrodeposition of a porous strontium-substituted hydroxyapatite/zinc oxide duplex layer on AZ91 magnesium alloy for orthopedic applications”, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2 (34), 5531-5540 (if=4.776, ci=24)

5. D. Gopi, S. Ramya, D. Rajeswari, M. Surendiran and L. Kavitha, 2014, “Development of strontium and magnesium substituted porous hydroxyapatite/ poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) coating on surgical grade stainless steel and its bioactivity on osteoblast cells”, Colloids and surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 114, 234-240 (if=3.997, ci=38)

6. D. Gopi, S. Ramya, D. Rajeswari and L. Kavitha, 2013, “Corrosion protection performance of porous strontium hydroxyapatite coating on polypyrrole coated 316L stainless steel” Colloids and surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 107, 130-136 (if=3.997, ci=65)

7. D. Gopi, E. Shinyjoy, M. Sekar, M. Surendiran, L. Kavitha and T.S. Sampath Kumar, 2013, “Development of carbon nanotubes reinforced hydroxapatite composite coatings on titanium by electrodeposition method” Corrosion Science,73, 321-330 (if=4.862, ci=59)

8. D. Gopi, V. Collins Arun Prakash, L. Kavitha, S. Kannan, P.R. Bhalaji, E. Shinyjoy and J.M.F. Ferreira, 2011, “A facile electrodeposition of hydroxyapatite onto borate passivated surgical grade stainless steel” Corrosion Science, 53, 2328-2334 (if=4.862, ci=42)

9. D. Gopi, KM Govindaraju, VCA Prakash, DMA Sakila, L Kavitha, 2009, “A study on new benzotriazole derivatives as inhibitors on copper corrosion in ground water” Corrosion Science,51, 2259-2265 (if=4.862, ci=64)

10. D. Gopi, V. Collins Arun Prakash and L. Kavitha, 2009, “Evaluation of hydroxyapatite coatings on borate passivated 316L SS in Ringer’s solution” Materials Science and Engineering-C, 29, 955-958 (if=5.080, ci=47)

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GHOSH, PRADYUT (b 1970), Senior Professor and Chairman, School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata


His research in the field of Anion Recognition is internationally well recognized. He has made an intriguing finding of efficient recognition of fluoride, arsenate, phosphates, and carbon dioxide in the form of carbonate in capsular assemblies. He has also developed excellent extractants for sulfate, chromate and fluoride from water. Most importantly, he has developed a bench scale production method for a cyanide capturing compound, which is now being adopted for the pilot scale trial of steel manufacturing waste water containing free cyanide, by TATA STEEL LTD. His works on macrobicyclic cages for anion encapsulation and stabilization of water clusters are remarkable. Further, the nominee has contributed enormously in the area like Molecular Machines, Chemical Sensing of Ions and Supramolecular Self-assembly. His work represents the first example of a selective fluoride sensor that shows electronic spectral signal at NIR region i.e. above 900 nm with a large red-shift (600nm) spectrum during sensing, selective colorimetric detection of zinc(II) and pyrophosphate in physiological buffer. On the other hand, unique interaction of chloroform and benzene has been experimentally shown by him for the first time in the channel of a supramolecular assembly. Recently, he has developed multi-functional rotaxanes which are potential for switching and mechanical properties.

Proposer: Prof. Debashis Mukherjee, Seconder: Dr. Amitava Das


1. P. S. Lakshminarayana, E. Suresh, P. Ghosh*, 2005, “Formation of an Infinite 2D-Layered Water of (H2O)45 Cluster in a Cryptand-Water Supramolecular Complex: A Template Effect” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127, 13132-13133. (if=14.357, ci=150)

2. P. S. Lakshminarayana, E. Suresh, P. Ghosh*, 2006, “Formation of Hybrid Water-Chloride Structure with Discrete Undecameric Water Self-Assembly in a Heptaprotonated Octaamino Cryptand”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 45, 3807-3811. (if=12.102, ci=130)

3. P. S. Lakshminarayanan, I. Ravikumar, E. Suresh and P. Ghosh*, 2007, “Trapped Inorganic phosphate Dimer”, Chem. Commun., 5214 – 5216. (if=6.290, ci=106)

4. I. Ravikumar, P. S. Lakshminarayanan, M. Arunachalam, E. Suresh and P. Ghosh*, 2009, “Anion Complexation of a Pentafluorophenyl-Substituted Tripodal Urea Receptor in Solution and the Solid State: Selectivity toward Phosphate” Dalton Trans., 4160-4168. (if=4.099, ci=113)

5. P. Bose and P. Ghosh*, 2010, “Visible and Near-Infrared Sensing of Fluoride by Indole Conjugated Urea/Thiourea Ligands” Chem. Commun. 46, 2962-2964. (if=6.290, ci=98)

6. I. Ravikumar and P. Ghosh*, 2011, “Zn(II) and PPi Selective Fluorescence OFF-ON-OFF Functionality of a Chemosensor in Physiological Conditions” Inorg. Chem., 50, 4229-4231. (if=4.700, ci=95)

7. B. Akhuli, I. Ravikumar, P. Ghosh*, 2012, “Acid/base Controlled Size Modulation of Capsular Phosphates, Hydroxide Encapsulation, Quantitative and Clean Extraction of Sulfate with Carbonate Capsules of a Tripodal Urea Receptor” Chem. Sci. 3, 1522-1530. (if=9.063, ci=41)

8. S. Chakraborty, R. Dutta, P. Ghosh* 2015, “Halogen Bonding Assisted Selective Removal of Bromide” Chem. Commun., 51, 14793 - 14796. (if=6.290, ci=22)

9. S. Sinha, B. Chowdhury, P. Ghosh*, 2016, “A Highly Sensitive ESIPT-based Ratiometric Fluorescence Sensor for Selective Detection of Al3+” Inorg. Chem., 55, 9212-9220. (if=4.700, ci=30)

10. T. K. Ghosh, S. Chakraborty, B. Chowdhury, P. Ghosh*, 2017, “Bis-Heteroleptic Ruthenium(II) Complex of Pendant Urea Functionalized Pyridyl Triazole and Phenathroline for Recognition, Sensing, and Extraction of Oxyanions” Inorg. Chem., 56, 5371-5382.(if=4.700, ci=9)

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GUPTA, KAILASH CHANDRA (b 1959), Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee


The research work of Prof. K.C. Gupta is focused on applications of polymers for sensing and drug delivery systems. Polymers also used to immobilize metal complexes for catalysis. Liquid crystal based biosensors developed for the detection of cancer cells and biomolecules. Polymeric 3D scaffolds for tissue engineering and regeneration are also developed. He is a frequent visitor to South Korean Universities for collaborative research and lecturing. He served on editorial board of Journal of Macromolecular Science Pure and Applied Chemistry (USA) and Lead Guest Editor for Biomedical Research International (USA). He is member on editorial board of Journal of Polymer Material (India) and Iranian Journal of Polymer Science (Springer). He was member on SCI, London (2009) and a regular member of ACS, since 2005. He is peer reviewer for more than 25 International Journals. He received Khosla National Research Award in 2002 and 'Brain Pool' Award from South Korea in 2013. He published more than 105 papers and 4 papers are listed within top 25 in Science Direct. His research ‘h’ factor is 19 and total citation index is 6071. He is a regular key note and invited speaker in national and international conferences beside Chairing Technical sessions. Thus considering a consistent academic career for last 30 years, I strongly propose his name for a fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences Allahabad in the area of chemical sciences.

Proposer: Prof. Dharam Vir Singh Jain, Seconder: Prof. Kuldip K. Bhasin


1. Seong H. Yoon, Kailash C. Gupta, Jyoti S. Borah,Soo-Young Park,Young-Kyoo Kim, -Hyung Lee, and Inn-Kyu Kang,(2014) “Folate Ligand Anchored Liquid Crystal Microdroplets Emulsion for in Vitro Detection of KB Cancer Cells,” Langmuir, 30(35), 10668-77 (if=4.384, ci=25)

2. K.C.Gupta, A.K. Sutar, Chu Chie H (2009), ‘Polymer supported Schiff base Complexes in Oxidation Reactions,’ Coordination Chemistry Review, 253, 1926-1946 (if=12.098, ci=208)

3. K.C. Gupta and A.K. Sutar (2008), ‘Catalytic Activities of Schiff base Transition Metal Complexes,’Coordination Chemistry Review, 252, 12-14, 1420-1450 (if=12.098, ci=685)

4. K.C.Gupta and F.H.Zabrail (2006), ‘Effect of Degree of Deacetylation on Cross-linking Swelling and Release Behavior of Chitosan Microspheres’, Carbohydrate Polymer, 66(1), 43-54 (if=3.916, ci=72)

5. K.C.Gupta, H. K.Abdulkadir and S.Chand (2003), ‘Synthesis of Polymer Anchored N,N’-bis(3-allylsalicylidene)o-phenylenediamineCobalt(II) Schiff Base Complex and its Catalytic Activity for Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide’, J.Mol.Catal. A: Chem. 202:253–268, (if=3.679, ci=65)

6. K.C. Gupta and Keerti Khandekar( 2003), ‘Temperature-Responsive Cellulose by Ceric (IV) Ion Initiated Graft Copolymerization of N-isopropylacrylamide’, Biomacromolecules (ACS) 4(3), 758-765 (if=5.778, ci=108)

7. K.C. Gupta, Sujata Sahoo and Keerti Khandekar (2002), ‘Graft Copolymerization of Ethylacrylate onto Cellulose Using Ceric Ammonium Nitrate as Initiator in Aqueous Medium’ Biomacromolecules (ACS), 3(5),1087-1094 (if=5.778, ci=59)

8. K.C. Gupta and Sujata Sahoo (2001), ‘Graft Copolymerization of Acrylonitrile and Ethyl Methylacrylate comonomers on Cellulose Using Ceric Ion’, Biomacromolecules(ACS), 2(1), 239-247 (if=5.778, ci=84)

9. K.C.Gupta and Muzawamaria Jeann ’D’Arc (2001), ‘Effect of Weighing Parameters on Sensitivity and Selectivity of the Copper Ion Selective Electrodes’, Analytica Chimica Acta, 437(2),199-216 (if=4.517, ci=49)

10. K.C.Gupta and M.N.V.Ravikumar (2000), ‘Drug Release Behavior of Beads and Microgranules of Chitosan’, Biomaterials, 21(11),1115-1119 ( (if=8.712, ci=155)

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GUPTA, RAJEEV (b 1971), Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, New Delhi


Rajeev Gupta has made notable contribution both in coordination and supramolecular chemistry. He has established a new area of research by synthesizing and subsequently utilizing coordination complexes as the molecular building blocks (i.e., metalloligands) for the construction of ordered architectures (Chem. Soc. Rev., 2013, 42, 9403). Metalloligands offering hydrogen bonding group generated hydrogen bonding based self-assemblies (Cryst. Growth Des. 2012, 12, 1308; Cryst. Growth Des. 2013, 13, 74; Cryst Eng Comm, 2016, 18, 9185) whereas metalloligands offering coordination bonding sensitive functional groups produced highly symmetrical metallosupramolecular architectures (Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 5497; Inorg. Chem. 2013, 52, 10773; Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54, 2603; Cryst. Growth Des. 2015, 15, 4110; Cryst. Growth Des. 2016, 16, 2874; Dalton Trans. 2017, 46, 15023). This approach not only resulted in predictable and controllable architectures but also allowed to introduce catalytic sites in an orderly manner for producing significant heterogeneous catalysts. His group has also worked extensively on various facets of coordination chemistry where focus has been placed to evaluate the (i) H-bonding effects (Dalton Trans. 2014, 43, 14865; Dalton Trans., 2017, 46, 4617; Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 1693); (ii) recognition phenomena (Dalton Trans. 2016, 45, 502; Dalton Trans. 2017, 46, 10205; Cryst. Growth Des. 2017, 17, 3907); (iii) reactivity and mechanistic pathways (Dalton Trans. 2015, 44, 17453; Inorg. Chem. Front. 2017, 4, 324); (iv) energy-transfer avenues (PCCP, 2013, 15, 15888; J. Phys. Chem. C, 2015, 119, 22690); and (v) biomedical aspects (Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2009, 44, 1607; J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. 2012, 17, 1217).

Proposer: Prof. V. Chandrasekhar, Seconder: Prof. T.K. Chandrashekar


1. A. Mishra, A. Ali, S. Upreti, Rajeev Gupta* (2008) Cobalt Coordination Induced Functionalized Molecular Clefts: Isolation of {CoIII–ZnII} Heterometallic Complexes .... Rearrangement Reactions. Inorganic Chemistry, 47, 154-161. (if=4.857, ci=83)

2. A. Mishra, A. Ali, S. Upreti, M.S. Whittingham, Rajeev Gupta* (2009) Cobalt Complex as Building Block: Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalytic Applications ... Complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 48, 5234–5243. (if=4.857, ci=54)

3. A. P. Singh, A. Ali, Rajeev Gupta* (2010) Cobalt Complexes as the Building Blocks: {Co3+–Zn2+} Heterobimetallic Networks and their Properties. Dalton Transactions, 39, 8135–8138. (if=4.029, ci=40)

4. G. Kumar, Rajeev Gupta* (2012) Cobalt Complexes Appended with p– and m–Carboxylates: Two Unique {Co3+– Cd2+} Networks and Their Regioselective and Size-Selective Heterogeneous Catalysis. Inorganic Chemistry, 51, 5497–5499. (if=4.857, ci=31)

5. A. Ali, G. Hundal, Rajeev Gupta* (2012) Co3+-based Building Blocks with Appended Phenol and Catechol Groups: Examples of Placing Hydrogen-Bond Donors and Acceptors in a Single Molecule. Crystal Growth & Design, 12, 1308–1319. (if=4.055, ci=42)

6. G. Kumar, Rajeev Gupta* (2013) Molecularly Designed Architectures – The Metalloligand Way. Chemical Society Reviews, 42, 9403–9453. (if=38.618, ci=114)

7. G. Kumar, Rajeev Gupta* (2013) Three-Dimensional {Co3+−Zn2+} and {Co3+−Cd2+} Networks Originated from Carboxylate-rich Building Blocks: Syntheses, Structures, and Heterogeneous Catalysis. Inorganic Chemistry, 52, 10773–10787. (if=4.857, ci=38)

8. G. Kumar, G. Kumar, Rajeev Gupta* (2015) Manganese and Cobalt Based Coordination Networks as the Promising Heterogeneous Catalysts for Olefin Epoxidation Reactions. Inorganic Chemistry, 54, 2603– 2615. (if=4.857, ci=15)

9. D. Bansal, Rajeev Gupta* (2016) Chemosensors Containing Appended Benzothiazole group(s): Selective Binding of Cu2+ and Zn2+ Ions by Two Related Receptors. Dalton Transactions, 45, 502–507. (if=4.029, ci=13)

10. S. Kumar, R. Kishan, P. Kumar, S. Pachisia, Rajeev Gupta* (2018) Size-Selective Detection of Picric Acid by Florescent Palladium Macrocyles. Inorganic Chemistry, 57, 1693–1697. (if=4.857, ci=0)

323

JAGIRDAR, BALAJI RAO (b 1965), Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore


Dr. Jagirdar made outstanding contributions in the area of activation of unreactive chemical bonds in small molecules, specifically, activation of H–X (X = H, Si, B, C) bonds in H2, R3SiH, H3B•L, and CH4 / alkanes, using organometallic complexes that have been designed carefully and executed efficiently (JACS 2007; Inorg. Chem. 2013; Organometallics 2015, 2017). This has led him closer to the development of methane conversion catalysts to realize methanol under relatively mild conditions using organometallic compounds as catalysts. This is considered to be a holy grail in the field of catalysis. His work on the insertion of carbon dioxide and carbon disulfide into metal-hydride bonds of transition metal fragments has opened a new avenue for generation of useful organic compounds using heterocumulenes as C1 synthons (Inorg. Chem. 2003, 2005). Dr. Jagirdar and his group also developed a novel, hybrid top-down – bottom-up synthetic methodology which is a combination of solvated metal atom dispersion and digestive ripening, for a wide variety of nanostructured materials including metal nanoparticles, core-shell structures, intermetallic materials, alloy nanostructures, and composites (Inorg. Chem. 2008; PCCP 2008; EES 2009; ChemSusChem 2011; J. Mater. Chem. 2012; JPC 2014, 2015, 2018; Langmuir 2018 – ASAP). They explored the potential of these materials for hydrogen storage, hydrogen generation, magnetism, Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS), and catalysis and made significant contributions in these areas.

Proposer: Prof. E.D. Jemmis, Seconder: Prof. E. Arunan


1. C. M. Nagaraja, M. Nethaji, B. R. Jagirdar; 2005, Highly Electrophilic, 16-Electron [Ru(P(OMe)(OH)2)(dppe)2]2+ Complex Turns H2(g) into a Strong Acid and Splits a Si-H Bond Heterolytically. Synthesis and Structure of the Novel Phosphorous Acid Complex [Ru(P(OH)3)(dppe)2]2+, Inorg. Chem. 44, 4145-4147 (if=4.700, ci=16)

2. C. M. Nagaraja, P. Parameswaran, E. D. Jemmis, B. R. Jagirdar; 2007, Heterolytic Activation of H–X (X = H, Si, B, and C) Bonds: An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129, 5587-5596 (if=14.357, ci=35)

3. S. B. Kalidindi, M. Indirani, B. R. Jagirdar; 2008, First Row Transition Metal Ion-Assisted Ammonia–Borane Hydrolysis for Hydrogen Generation, Inorg. Chem. 47, 7424-7429 (if=4.700, ci=171)

4. S. B. Kalidindi, U. Sanyal, B. R. Jagirdar; 2008, Nanostructured Cu and Cu@Cu2O Core Shell Catalysts for Hydrogen Generation from Ammonia–Borane, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 10, 5870-5874 (if=3.906, ci=165)

5. S. B. Kalidindi, J. Joseph, B. R. Jagirdar; 2009, Cu2+-induced Room Temperature Hydrogen Release from Ammonia Borane, Energy Environ. Sci. 2, 1274-1276 (if=30.067, ci=66)

6. U. Sanyal, U. B. Demirci, B. R.Jagirdar, P. Miele; 2011, Hydrolysis of Ammonia Borane as Hydrogen Source, Fundamental Issues and Potential Solutions towards Implementation, Chem. Sus. Chem. 4, 1731-1739 (if=7.411, ci=95)

7. N. Arora, B. R. Jagirdar; 2012, Monodispersity and stability: case of ultrafine aluminium nanoparticles (<5 nm) synthesized by the solvated metal atom dispersion approach, J. Mater. Chem. 22, 9058-9063 (if=6.626, ci=19)

8. S. P. Bhaskar, M. Vijayan, B. R. Jagirdar; 2014, Size Modulation of Colloidal Au Nanoparticles via Digestive Ripening in Conjunctions with a Solvated Metal Atom Dispersion Method: An Insight into Mechanism, J. Phys. Chem. C 118, 18214-18225 (if=4.484, ci=16)

9. R. Kumar, B. R. Jagirdar; 2013, B-H bond activation using an electrophilic metal complex: Insights into the reaction pathway, Inorg. Chem. 52, 28-36 (if=4.700, ci=16)

10. A. Ramaraj, K. H. K. Reddy, H. Keil, R. Herbst-Irmer, D. Stalke, E. D. Jemmis, B. R. Jagirdar; 2017, Approaches to Sigma Complexes via Displacement of of Agostic Interactions: An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation, Organometallics 36, 2736-2745 (if=4.051, ci=3)

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JANA, NIKHIL RANJAN (b 1965), Professor, Centre for Advanced Materials, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata


Dr. Jana has made pioneering contribution on chemical synthesis of nanoparticle and surface chemistry involving nanoparticle. He has made fundamental contribution on chemical functionalization and bio-functionalization of nanoparticle and has synthesized a library of functional nanoparticle for various biomedical applications. His group has developed new generation fluorescent nanoprobes, established the role of nanoparticle surface chemistry on cell-nanoparticle interaction and revealed the effect of nanobioconjugate multivalency on cell uptake mechanism. His laboratory has developed nanobioconjugate as cell imaging probe and nanoscale drug for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.

Proposer: Prof. Debashis Mukherjee, Seconder: Prof. Bhupendra Nath Dev


1. Nikhil R. Jana, Latha Gearheart, and Catherine J. Murphy, 2001, Wet Chemical Synthesis of High Aspect Ratio Cylindrical Gold Nanorods, J. Phys. Chem. B 105, 4065-4067. (if=3.2, ci=2200)

2. Nikhil R. Jana, Latha Gearheart, and Catherine J. Murphy, 2001, Seed-Mediated Growth Approach for Shape- Controlled Synthesis of Spheroidal and Rod-like Gold Nanoparticles Using a Surfactant Template, Adv. Mater., 13, 1389-1393. (if=18.96, ci=1340)

3. Nikhil R. Jana, Latha Gearheart, and Catherine J. Murphy, 2001, Wet Chemical Synthesis of Silver Nanorods and Nanowires of Controllable Aspect Ratio, Chem. Commun., 0, 617–618. (if=6.57, ci=1010)

4. Nikhil R. Jana, Latha Gearheart, and Catherine J. Murphy, 2001, Seeding Growth for Size Control of 5-40 nm Diameter Gold Nanoparticles, Langmuir, 17, 6782-6786. (if=3.99, ci=1040)

5. Susanta Kumar Bhunia, Arindam Saha, Amit Ranjan Maity, Sekhar C. Ray and Nikhil R. Jana, 2013, Carbon Nanoparticle-based Fluorescent Bioimaging Probes, Scientific Reports., 3, Article no.1473. (if=5.23, ci=240)

6. Atanu Chakraborty and Nikhil R. Jana, 2015, Clathrin to Lipid Raft-Endocytosis via Controlled Surface Chemistry and Efficient Perinuclear Targeting of Nanoparticle, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 6, 3688−3697. (if=8.54, ci=07)

7. Atanu Chakraborty and Nikhil R. Jana, 2015, Design and Synthesis of Triphenylphosphonium Functionalized Nanoparticle Probe for Mitochondria Targeting and Imaging” J. Phys. Chem. C, 119, 2888–2895. (if=4.51, ci=13)

8. Chumki Dalal, Arindam Saha, Nikhil R. Jana, 2016, Nanoparticle Multivalency Directed Shifting of Cellular Uptake Mechanism, J. Phys. Chem. C, 120, 6778-6786. (if=4.51, ci=07)

9. K. Debnath, S. Shekhar, V. Kumar, Nihar R. Jana, Nikhil R. Jana, 2016, Efficient Inhibition of Protein Aggregation, -- and Lowering of Cytotoxicity by Green Tea Polyphenol-Based--Polymer Nanoparticle, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 8, 20309–20318. (if=7.14, ci=02)

10. N. Pradhan, S. Shekhar, Nihar R. Jana, Nikhil R. Jana, 2017, Sugar Terminated Nanoparticles Chaperones are 100 to 10000 Times Better than Molecular Sugars in Inhibiting Protein Aggregation and Lowering of Amyloidogenic Cytotoxicity, ACS Appl. Mater. 9, 10554-10556. (if=7.14, ci=00)

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KUMAR, ATUL (b 1963), Professor, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow


Dr. Atul Kumar is extensively involved in design and synthesis of New Chemical Entities for various therapeutic area associated with Women Health related disorders, Anticancer and Green chemistry. Dr Kumar’s contribution in the area of Medicinal chemistry is of high impact as evident by several of his molecules are in different phases of drug development including, CDRI’s Antiosteoporosis agent, CDRI-99/373 (CENTHANK), which is currently in Phase–I Clinical Trials. CDRI-99/373 has exhibited promising antiosteoporosis activity than Raloxifene (clinically used drug) with better biological profile, Dr. Kumar’s another molecule CDRI-007-1235 showing promising anticancer activity and a First in class drug candidate for colon and leukaemia, is currently in preclinical stage of development. Dr. Kumar has made immense contribution in Green Chemistry and developed green synthesis of Tryptanthrin (anti-tubercular natural products), Artemether and arteether (Antimalarial Drug), Imatinib, Nilotinib (anticancer Drugs) and Oxacarbazpine. He also Introduced a new synthetic strategy by utilizing Functional Ionic Liquid and named as Functional Ionic Liquid Mediated Synthesis (FILMS), green sp3 C–H functionalization, First Single Nucleotide catalyzed Biomimetic reductive amination and First in situ generated NHC (betaine intermediate) mediated annulations. Dr. Kumar is the recipient of prestigious Organization of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI) OPPI SCIENTIST AWARD. He received CSIR-CDRI incentive awards eleven times in row (2004-2014, 2016) and Penta Star awards from SciFinder–CAS, A division of the American Chemical Society, Columbus, OH-USA. Recently, Dr. Kumar awarded Vigyan Ratna Samman by Council of Science and Technology, U.P.

Proposer: Dr. Nitya Anand, Seconder: Prof. Pradeep Kumar


1. Atul Kumar, S.Maurya, K, Pratap, S Srivastava [2016] Betaine mediated synthesis of annulated dihydrofurans from oxobis(methylthio)ketene acetals and N-butyl-N0-methyl ethane-1, 2-diamine as precursors via NHC elimination Chem Commun 52, 2795-2798, (if=6.83, ci=0)

2. Atul Kumar and Ratnakar Dutt Shukla [2015] β-Cyclodextrin catalysed C–C bond formation via C(sp3)–H functionalization of 2-methyl azaarenes with diones in aqueous medium, Green Chemistry 17, 848-851, (if=8.02, ci=10)

3. B. Chakravarti, T. Akhtar, B.Rai, M. Yadav, J A Siddiqui, S.K. Dhar Dwivedi, R. Thakur, A. K. Singh, A. K.Singh, H. Kumar, K. Khan, S. Pal, S. K. Rath, J Lal, R. Konwar, A K Trivedi, D Datta, D P. Mishra, M M Godbole, S Sanyal, N. Chattopadhyay, and Atul Kumar, [2014], Thioaryl Naphthyl methanone Oxime Ether Analogs as Novel Anticancer Agents J. Med. Chem., 57 , 8010–8025 (if=5.447, ci=12)

4. Atul Kumar,Mukesh Kumar,S.Maurya and Ranjana S. Khanna [2014] Regioselective Synthesis of Fused Imidazo[1,2-a]pyrimidines via Intramolecular C−N Bond Formation/6-Endo-Dig Cycloisomerization J. Org. Chem., 79(15), 6905–6912, (if=4.721, ci=12)

5. Atul Kumar,* Deepti Saxena and Maneesh [2013] Nano-particle Catalysed Reaction (NPCR): ZnO-NP catlyzed Ugi-reaction in aqueous medium Green Chemistry 15, 2699–2703. (if=8.02, ci=14)

6. Atul Kumar,* Maneesh K Gupta and Mukesh Kumar [2012] Catalyst-free hydroarylation of in situ generated ortho-quinone methide (o-QM) with electron rich arenes in water Green Chemistry, 14, 2677-2681 (if=8.02, ci=15)

7. Atul Kumar,* Garima Gupta, and Suman Srivastava [2011] Synthesis of New Class of Alkyl Azarene Pyridinium Zwitterions via Iodine Mediated sp3 C-H Bond Activation Organic Letters, 13, 24(6): 6366-6369 (if=6.364, ci=28)

8. Atul Kumar *, Garima Gupta, Suman Srivastava [2011] Functional Ionic Liquid Mediated Synthesis (FILMS) of Dihydrothiophenes and Tacrine Derivatives Green Chemistry, 13(9), 2459-2463 (if=8.02, ci=28)

9. Atul Kumar,* Vishwa Deepak Tripathi, and Promod Kumar [2011] β-Cyclodextrin catalysed synthesis of tryptanthrin in water Green Chemistry, 13, 51-54. (if=8.02, ci=43) (*= Corresponding author)

10. Atul Kumar, Siddharth Sharma, Ram Awatar Maurya [2010] Single Nucleotide Catalysed Biomimetic reductive Amination Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis 352, 2227-2232 (if=5.663, ci=40)

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MEHTA, SURINDER KUMAR (b 1961), Professor of Chemistry & Director SAIF/CIL, Panjab University, Chandigarh


Prof. Mehta has been actively engaged in the synthesis of nanosized semiconducting and metallic nanoparticles of versatile characteristics using polymers or colloidal templates employing environmentally benign solvent water and eco-friendly reducing agents. Some of them have been exploited as efficient electrocatalysts in fuel cells. Fabricated metal sulphide and oxide nano electrochemical sensors for hydrazine and cyanide ions are expected to revolutionize the world of sensors. Their use as catalysts in organic reactions and dye removal by sonic waves or their photo degradation is being investigated. The group works on the fabrication of the lanthanides and doped lanthanide nanostructures and its application in sensing of organic pollutants like para-nitrophenol, dyes etc. which is the major concern regarding environment health. A new direction in this lanthanide nanochemistry is its anti-microbial and anti-fungal activity leading to new magnetic luminescent antimicrobial agents. The focus is also on clean, eco-friendly, less expensive and biocompatible methods for synthesis of nanoparticles using plant extracts. The nanoparticles were used for potential applications in dye removal and sensing of heavy metal ions. Some valuable contributions have been made for the solubility, stability and bioavailability enhancement of anti-tuberculosis and anti-cancer drugs and nutraceuticals by the synthesis of biocompatible nano-assemblies like nanoemulsions, solid lipid nanoparticles, polymeric nanoparticles etc. Investigations have been performed on microemulsions in the presence of several adjuvants such as organochalcogenides, heterocyclic, etc. Successful efforts have also been made to synthesize novel Schiff bases and their use as selective turn-on and reversible fluorescent sensors for different metal ions.

Proposer: Prof. S.V. Kessar, Seconder: Prof. A.K. Ganguli


1. Synthesis and capping of water-dispersed gold nanoparticles by an amino acid: bioconjugation and binding studies N Wangoo, KK Bhasin, SK Mehta, CR Suri Journal of colloid and interface science 323 (2), 247-254, 2008 (if=3.368, ci=191)

2. Effect of temperature on critical micelle concentration and thermodynamic behavior of dodecyldimethylethylammonium bromide and dodecyltrimethylammonium chl... SK Mehta, KK Bhasin, R Chauhan, S Dham Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 255 (1-3 ) 2005 (if=2.714, ci=153)

3. Highly effective Fe-doped TiO2 nanoparticles photocatalysts for visible-light driven photocatalytic degradation of toxic organic compounds S Sood, A Umar, SK Mehta, SK Kansal Journal of colloid and interface science 450, 213-223, 2015 (if=3.368, ci=102)

4. Evolution of ZnS nanoparticles via facile CTAB aqueous micellar solution route: a study on controlling parameters SK Mehta, S Kumar, S Chaudhary, KK Bhasin, M Gradzielski Nanoscale research letters 4 (1), 17, 2009 (if=3.196, ci=101)

5. Analysis of Tween based microemulsion in the presence of TB drug rifampicin SK Mehta, G Kaur, KK Bhasin Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 60 (1), 95-104, 2007 (if=3.887, ci=92)

6. Ultrasonic velocity and apparent isentropic compressibilities in mixtures of nonelectrolytes SK Mehta, RK Chauhan Journal of Solution chemistry 26 (3), 295-308,1997 (if=1.256, ci=84)

7. Time dependence of nucleation and growth of silver nanoparticles generated by sugar reduction in micellar media SK Mehta, S Chaudhary, M Gradzielski Journal of colloid and interface science 343 (2), 447-453, 2010 (if=3.368, ci=83)

8. Excess volumes and isentropic compressibilities of pyrrolidin-2-one–alkanol (C1–C5) binary mixtures SK Mehta, RK Chauhan, RK Dewan Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions 92 (7), 1167-1173, 1996 (if=4.123, ci=67)

9. Growth, stability, optical and photoluminescent properties of aqueous colloidal ZnS nanoparticles in relation to surfactant molecular structure SK Mehta, S Kumar, M Gradzielski Journal of colloid and interface science 360 (2), 497-507, 2011 (if=3.368, ci=61)

10. Topological investigations on the association of alkanols: excess volume of pyridine–alkanol (C1–C10) mixtures RK Dewan, SK Mehta, R Parashar, K Bala Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions 87 (10), 1561-1568, 1991 (if=4.123, ci=60)

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NETHI, SEKAR NAGIYAN (b. 1959) Professor, Institute of Chemical Technology, Matunga, Mumbai


Synthesis of fluorescent colorants with dual (ESIPT), red shifted emissions with AIE and viscosity sensitivity have been the focus of the research of Dr. N. Sekar. He has looked into problems in totality and provided appropriate rationalization of the spectroscopic properties through computational studies. Among various dye molecules, fluorescent azo dyes have been his major research interest and adopted computational approach for developing better insight in understanding azo-hydrazone tautomerism in azo colorants. A priri approach is undertaken in understanding the functional applications of fluorescent colorants and is thoroughly investigated using ab initio computational strategy. Dr. Sekar has looked into the excited state properties using the Solvatochromic shifts by thoroughly analysing absorption and emission spectral properties. His recent endeavour included understanding and utilisation if the nonlinear optical properties and natural fluorescent motif. In brief, Dr. Sekar has made a significant contribution in the area of azo dyes and fluorescent colorants.

Proposer: Dr. Amitava Das, Seconder: Prof. Pradeep K. Tripathi Ten Best Publications: 1. Shantaram Kothavale Sekar N 2017 Novel pyrazino-phenanthroline based rigid donor-π-acceptor compounds: A detail study of optical properties, acidochromism, solvatochromism and structure-property relationship, Dyes and Pigments 136, 31-45, (if=3.996 ci=6) 2. Satam, M.A., Raut, R.K. Sekar N 2013 Fluorescent azo disperse dyes from 3-(1,3-benzothiazol-2-yl)naphthalen-2-ol and comparison with 2-naphthol analogs, Dyes and Pigments 96 (1), 92-103, (if=3.966 ci=26) 3. Phatangare K.R., Gupta V.D., Tathe A.B., Padalkar V.S., Patil, V.S., Ramasami P., Sekar N. 2013 ESIPT inspired fluorescent 2-(4-benzo[d]oxazol-2-yl)naphtho[1,2-d]oxazol-2- yl)phenol: Experimental and DFT based approach to photophysical properties, Tetrahedron 69 (6), 1767-77, (if=2.645 ci=25) 4. Mininath SD, Sekar N 2014 A combined experimental and TDDFT investigation of three disperse azo dyes having the nitroterephthalate skeleton, Dyes and Pigments 103, 25-33, (if=3.966 ci=14) 5. VS Patil, VS Padalkar, KR Phatangare, VD Gupta, PG Umape, N Sekar 2012 Synthesis of new ESIPT-fluorescein: photophysics of pH sensitivity and fluorescence, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 116(1), 536-545 (if=2.78 ci=44) 6. Gupta, V.D., Tathe, A.B., Padalkar, V.S., Umape, P.G., Sekar, N. 2013 Red emitting solid state fluorescent triphenylamine dyes: Synthesis, photo-physical property and DFT study, Dyes and Pigments 97(3), 429-439, (if=3.966 ci=17) 7. VD Gupta, VS Padalkar, KR Phatangare, VS Patil, PG Umape, N Sekar 2011 The synthesis and photo-physical properties of extended styryl fluorescent derivatives of N-ethyl carbazole, Dyes and Pigments 88(3), 378-384, (if=3.966 ci= 33) 8. Sandip Lanke, Sekar N 2016 Aggregation Induced Emissive Carbazole-based Push Pull NLOphores: Synthesis, photophysical properties and DFT studies, Dyes and Pigments 124, 82–92, (if=3.866 ci=11) 9. Rahul D Telore, Manjaree A Satam Sekar N 2015 Push-Pull fluorophores with viscosity dependent and aggregation induced emissions insensitive to polarity, Dyes and Pigments 122, 359-367, (if=3.866 ci=8) 10. Santosh Chemate Sekar N 2015 A new rhodamine based OFF-ON fluorescent hemosensors for selective detection of Hg2+ and Al3+ in aqueous media, Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical 220, 1196–1204, (if=5.4 ci=13)

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PANNURU, VENKATESU (b 1966) Associate Professor; University of Delhi, Delhi Member of the NASI: No (YON 2016, Chemical Sciences) One of the major problems of the chemical industry is to search for safer alternatives of volatile organic compounds that will minimize air pollution, climatic changes, and human health-related problems. In this regard, Dr. Venkatesu's recent contribution includes the synthesis of biocompatible ionic liquids. These ionic liquids belong to a class of environmental friendly solvents and exhibit desirable properties for a wide range of industrial applications. In this context, to the first time, Dr. Venkatesu has demonstrated that ionic liquids are more compatible for biomolecules by the sophisticated use of the principles of Chemistry. Further, he is the first one to elucidate that ionic liquids are the best biocompitable co-solvents to prevent the disorder and overcome the stresses of the proteins. These results are highly useful tools for the cure of disorders due to misfolded or aggregated or denatured proteins in human bodies and these results are getting well citation in internationally reputed journals. The experimental verifications for the tailor-made solvents under specified conditions can be recommended using Dr Venkatesu's work in order to accelerate several biophysical processes. On the conceptual front, he has made successful attempt to delineate the forces that are responsible for biomedical applications of thermoresponsive polymers and the spectacular rate enhancement in polymer chemistry. The contribution made by Dr. Venkatesu will help in recommending suitable co-solvent conditions that will be required to maximize the stability and activity of the proteins that make them excellent targets for medicinal and material science.

Proposer: Prof. Nand Kishore, Seconder: Prof. Ashok Kumar Mishra Ten Best Publications: 1. A. Kumar and P.Venkatesu (2012) Overview of the stability of a- chymotrypsin in different solvent media, Chemical Reviews, 112, 4283-4307 (if=52.613, ci=170) 2. P. Narang and P. Venkatesu (2019) An efficient study to reach physiological temperature with Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) in presence of two differently behaving additives, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2019, 538, 62-74 (if=5.091, ci=--) 3. R. Umapathi, A. Kumar N. Payal, and P. Venkatesu (2018) How does a smart polymer respond to imidazol iu m-based ionic liquids? ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2018, 6, 1400-1410 (if= 6.140, ci=6) 4. J. Indrani, M. Bisht, N. Mogha and P. Venkatesu (2018) The Effect of Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids on Structure and Stability of Stem Bromelain: Concentration and Alkyl Chain lenqth Effect J. Phys. Chern. B 2018, 122,7522-7529 (if=3.696, ci= 2) 5. A. Rani and P. Venkatesu (2018) Undefeatable relation between protein and osmolyte: A choice of nature (Perspective), Phys. Chem. Chern. Phys. 2018, 20, 20315-20333 (if= 4.493, ci= -) 6. R. Umapathi, P. M. Reddy, A. Rani and P. Venkatesu (2018) Influence of additives on thermoresponsive polymers in aqueous media: A case study of poly(N-iso propylacrylamide) Phys. Chem. Chern. Phys. 2018, 20, 9717-9744 (if=4.493, ci=--) 7. M. Bisht, D. Mondal, P. Venkatesu and J. A. P. Coutinho (2017) Long-term protein packaging in cholinium-based ionic liquids: Improved catalytic activity and enhanced stability of cytochrome C against multiple stresses, Green Chemistry, 2017, 19, 4900-4911 (if= 9.125, ci= 17) 8. J. Indrani, A. Rani and P. Venkatesu (2017) Sustained stability and activity of lysozyme in choline chloride against pH induced denaturation, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2017, 5, 8344-8355. (if=6.140, ci=10) 9. B. Meena, A. Kumar and P. Venkatesu (2016) Remarkable refolding effects of partially-immiscible ammonium-based ionic liquids on the urea-induced unfolded lysozyme structure, Phys. Chem. Chern. Phys. 18, 12419-12422 (if=4.493, ci=16) 10. Indrani Jha, P. Attri and P. Venkatesu (2014) Unexpected effects of the alteration of structure and stability of myoglobin and hemoglobin in ammonium-based ionic liquids, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 16, 5514-5526. Highlighted on Cover page. (if=4.198, ci=74)

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PARIDA, KULAMANI (b 1952), Director, Centre for Nanoscience and Nano Technology, ITER, SOA University, Bhubaneswar-751030


Dr. Parida has made significant contribution towards exploring the chemistry related to structural, morphological, optical, electronic and electrochemical properties of a number of wide band gap and narrow band gap semiconductors, doped metal oxides, metal carbides, metal sulphide and nitrides for effective visible light absorption and charge separation required for efficient water splitting, degradation of pollutants and synthesis of fine chemicals. His understanding toward developing heterostructure, p-n heterojunction and Z-scheme oriented photocatalytic system with remarkable charge separation, photocurrent and conversion efficiency was outstanding. His research group shows great advancement in enhancing sructural, electronic, and transport properties of hybrid metal oxides-graphene, carbon nitride and plasmonic photocatalysts. Unique methods have been approached in order to synthesize in large scale novel photocatalyst production which can be beneficial in industrial level. They include those for the development of anionic clays, nitrogen doped nanostructured metal oxides and perovskites, heterojunction based metal oxides, carbon nitride and graphene based nano structured composites. He has published around 365 papers in high impact factor journals, 7 book chapters, filed 29 patents, supervised 36 Ph.D students and 33 papers in 2018-19.. The important and current relevance of his work is amply reflected in large number of citations (~15,000) of his work and H index (63). He was the recipient of Prof. S. K. Bhattacharyya Endoment Eminent Scientist award of 2017-18 by the Catalysis Society of India in recognition of his immense contribution in catalysis. He has established Centre for Nano Science and Nano Technology at SOA University.

Proposer: Prof. A.K.Tyagi, Seconder: Prof. Giridhar Madras


1. Mita Sahoo, Sriram Mansingh and K.M.Parida*,2019,Bimetallic Au-Ag Nano alloy mounted LDH/RGO nano composite: A promising catalyst effective towards a coupled system for photoredox reaction of benzyl alcohol to benzaldehyde and nitrobenzene to aniline under visible light beam,Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 7 (7614-7627), (if=9.99, ci=NA)

2. S. Nayak and K. M. Parida*,2019,Deciphering Z-scheme Charge Transfer Dynamics in Heterostructure NiFe-LDH/N-rGO/g-C3N4 Nanocomposite for Photocatalytic for pollutant degradation and water splitting reactions,Scientific Reports,9, 2458-2481 (Springer Nature), (if=4.2, ci=NA)

3. K.H.R eddy. S. Martha and K.M. Parida*,2018,Erratic charge transfer dynamics of Au/ZnTiO3 nanocomposites under UV and visible light irradiation and their related photocatalytic activities,Nanoscale, 10, 18540 – 18554, (if=7.23, ci=3)

4. Sabiha Sultana, ; Sriram Mansingh; K.M. Parida*,2018,Rational design of light induced self healed Fe based oxygen vacancy rich CeO2 (CeO2NS-FeOOH/Fe2O3) nanostructure materials for photocatalytic water oxidation and Cr(VI) reduction,J Materials Chemistry A, 6, 11377- 11389. (if=9.9, ci=7)

5. S. Pattanaik, Gayatri Swain and K.M. Parida*,2018,Highly efficient charge transfer through double Z-scheme mechanism by Cu promoted MoO3/g-C3N4 hybrid nanocomposite with superior electrochemical and photocatalytic performance,Nanoscale, 10, 5950 – 5964 (if=7.23, ci=30)

6. Susanginee Nayak; Amaresh Pradhan; K.M.Parida*, 2018, Transformation of Solvated MgCr-LDH Nanosheets to Highly Efficient Porous MgO/MgCr2O4 Nanocomposite for Photocatalytic H2 Evolution,Inorg. Chem., 57 (14), 8646–8661 (if=4.7, ci=4)

7. Gayatri Swain; Sabiha Sultana, John moma, K.M.Parida*,2018,Fabrication of Hierarchical Two Dimensional MoS2 Nanoflowers Decorated upon CaIn2S4 Microflower: A Facile Approach to Construct Novel Metal free p-n Heterojunction Semiconductor with Superior Charge Separation Efficiency,Inorg. Chem., 57 (16), 10059–10071 (if=4.7, ci=4)

8. Dipti prabha Sahoo, Susanginee Nayak, satyabadi Martha and K.M.Parida*, 2018, Fabrication of Co(OH)2/Zn-Cr ‘p-n” heterounction photocatalysts with enhanced separation of charge carriers for efficient visible light drived H2 and O2 evolution. Inorg.Chem.,57 (7), 3840–3854, (if=4.7, ci=17)

9. L. Parmanik, K.Hemalata Reddy and K. M.Parida*, 2018, Architecture of biperovskite based LaCrO3/PbTiO3 p-n heterojunction with strong interface for enhanced charge anti-recombination process and visible light induced photocatalytic reactions., Inorg. Chem, 57(15133-15148), (if=4.7, ci=2)

10. K.Hemalata Reddy, K. M Parida* and P.K. Satapathy, 2017, CuO-PbO3: A new-fangled p-n junction designed for the efficient absorption of visible light with augmented interfacial charge transfer, photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic activities.J. Mater. Chem. A, 5, 20359-20373 (if=9.9, ci=15)

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PATEL, ANJALI UDAY (b 1964), Professor and Head, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara


Catalysis was a thrust area under the UGC – DRS, SAP I and II and also CAS programmes in the department. The department made significant contribution in this important area from the beginning but once she took up catalysis as her area for research, there was tremendous boost as can be seen from the number of sponsored projects from different funding agencies (DST, UGC, DAE-BRNS, CSIR). Research output in the area of catalysis in terms of publications from her group in high impact factor journals is really noteworthy (115 publications and 2 reviews). Also patents - which is not common from the University laboratories – started coming out from her research efforts. It is worth mentioning here that she is working in a department where she has to handle both UG and PG students along with responsibilities as Head of Department, thereby limiting the time for research. Considering that her performance as a researcher is commendable. Further, she is working as peer reviewer for DST as well as for number of international journals. She has been working as an external examiner for evaluation of Ph.D. thesis for different Universities. She is also a member of Subject Expert Committee (SEC) chemical science, Women Scientist Scheme (WOS-A) DST (March 2013 onwards) as well as Expert Committee Member, ECRA and N-PDF SERB (Sept. 2015 onwards), New Delhi.

Proposer: Prof. Chebrolu Pulla Rao, Seconder: Prof. I. N. N. Namboothiri


1. V. Brahmkhatri, A Patel, 2011, 12-Tungstophosphoric acid anchored to SBA-15: An efficient, environmentally benign reusable catalysts for biodiesel production by esterification of free fatty acids, Applied Catalysis A: General 403 (1), 161-172 (if=4.521, ci=114)

2. A Patel, N Narkhede, 2012, 12-Tungstophosphoric acid anchored to zeolite Hβ: synthesis, Characterization, and biodiesel production by esterification of oleic acid with methanol, Energy & Fuels, 26 (9), 6025-6032 (if=3.024, ci=50)

3. , A. Patel, V. Brahmkhatri, N. Singh, 2013, Biodiesel production by esterification of free fatty acid over sulfated zirconia, Renewable Energy, 51, 227 (if=4.900, ci=82)

4. S Pathan, A Patel, 2013, Solvent free clean selective oxidation of alcohols catalyzed by mono transition metal (Co, Mn, Ni)-substituted Keggin-phosphomolybdates using hydrogen peroxide, Applied Catalysis A: General, 459, 59-64 (if=4.521, ci=43)

5. A Patel, S Singh, 2014, A green and sustainable approach for esterification of glycerol using 12-tungstophosphoric acid anchored to different supports: kinetics and effect of support, Fuel, 118, 358-364 (if=4.908, ci=61)

6. S. Singh, A. Patel, 2014, (35) 12-Tungstophosphoric acid supported on mesoporous molecular material: Synthesis, Characterization and Performance in biodiesel production, 72, 46. (if=5.651, ci=41)

7. N Narkhede, S Singh, A Patel, 2015, Recent progress on supported polyoxometalates for biodiesel synthesis via esterification and transesterification, Green Chemistry, 17 (1), 89-107 (if=8.586, ci=61)

8. A. Patel, N. Narkhede, S. Singh, S. Pathan, 2016, Keggin Type Lacunary and Transition Metal Substituted Polyoxometalates as Heterogeneous Catalysts: A Recent Progress, Catal. Rev. Sci. Eng., 58, 337, 2016. (if=6.600, ci=19)

9. A. Patel, A. Patel, 2018, Stabilized Palladium Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Multi-spectroscopic Characterization and Application for Suzuki–Miyaura Reaction, Catalysis Letters, DOI: 10.1007/s10562-018-2559-1 (if=2.911, ci=0)

10. P. Solanki, S. Patel, R. Devkar, A. Patel, 2019, Camptothecin encapsulated into functionalized MCM-41: In vitro release study, cytotoxicity and kinetics, Materials Science and Engineering C, 98, 1014 (if=5.080, ci=0)

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PATIL, SATISH AMRUTRAO (b 1974) Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore


The rational synthesis of conjugated polymers with n-type character and near-IR absorption properties has remained at the top of research priority in the area of organic electronics. Professor Patil’s work is an attempt to answer this core question and has significantly impacted the field of organic electronics. In pursuit of better n-type materials, Professor Patil’s group has developed novel series of diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)-based alternating copolymers. Surprisingly, the simple molecular engineering has led to a big improvement in electron mobility (~3 cm2V-1S-1) of this class of polymers in organic field-effect transistors (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 16532-16535). Development of these DPP-DPP copolymers has opened up a new family of n-type molecular semiconductors. These materials have the potential to find applications in all-polymer solar cells, polymer-based inverters and near-IR light-emitting transistors. Furthermore, Professor Patil’s work demonstrates the effectiveness of molecular design to overcome the limitations of traps and structural disorder in semiconducting polymers. The polymer synthesized in his group is completely new type that acts more like a conventional inorganic semiconductor with a band-like transport (Phy. Rev. B, 2015, 91, 115302). Observation of band-like transport could lead to a new generation of disorder-free conjugated polymers. This work overcomes the transport properties of semiconducting polymers, limited by pervasive conformational and energetic disorder. The dielectric constant enhancement of organic materials is a viable route to enhance the efficiency of organic photovoltaic devices. To date, only very few attempts towards increasing the dielectric constant of organic semiconductors have been published. Professor Patil has introduced the strategy for enhancing the dielectric constant of π-conjugated polymers without altering the charge-carrier mobility (Adv. Funct. Mat., 2015, 25, 150-157). In brief, the applied molecular design of Professor Patil’s work is an effective method towards tailoring the properties of organic semiconductors that can provide a platform to investigate various physical phenomena restricted by the disorder in semiconducting polymers. In the light of the foregoing, we earnestly feel that Professor Patil deserves to be elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences.

Proposer: Prof. A.K. Shukla, Seconder: Prof. D. Das Sarma

Ten Best Publications: 1. K C Krishnapriya, Palas Roy, Boregowda Puttaraju, Ulrike Salzner, Manish Jain, Andrew Musser, Jyotishman Dasgupta and Satish Patil*, Spin density encodes intramolecular singlet exciton fission in pentacene dimers, Nature Communications, 2019, 10 (1), 33 2. Palas Roy, Ajay Jha, Vineeth B. Yasarapudi, Thulasi Ram, Boregowda Puttaraju, Satish Patil and Jyotishman Dasgupta*, Ultrafast bridge planarization in donor-π-acceptor copolymers drives intramolecular charge transfer, Nature Communications, 2017, 8 (1), 1716 3. K C Krishnapriya, Andrew Musser and Satish Patil*, Molecular Design Strategies for Efficient Intramolecular Singlet Exciton Fission, ACS Energy Lett. 2019, 4, 1, 192-202 4. Yaping Zang, Suman Ray, E-Dean Fung, Anders Borges, Marc H. Garner, Michael L. Steiger, Resonant Transport in Single Diketopyrrolopyrrole Junctions J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 13167-13170 5. Tushita Mukhopadhyay, Andrew Musser, Boregowda Puttaraju, Joydeep Dhar, Richard H Friend and Satish Patil*, Is the Chemical Strategy for Imbuing “Polyene” Character in Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Chromophores Sufficient for Singlet Fission?, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2017, 8, 984-991 6. C Kanimozhi, N Yaacobi-Gross, KW Chou, A Amassian, TD Anthopoulos, Satish Patil*, Diketopyrrolopyrrole–diketopyrrolopyrrole based conjugated copolymer for high-mobility organic field-effect transistors, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 16532-16535 7. Joydeep Dhar, Durga Prasad Karothu and Satish Patil*, Herringbone to cofacial solid state packing via H-bonding in diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) based molecular crystals: influence on charge transport, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 97-100 8. MA Naik, N Venkatramaiah, C Kanimozhi, Satish Patil*, Influence of Side-Chain on Structural Order and Photophysical Properties in Thiophene Based Diketopyrrolopyrroles: A Systematic Study, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2012, 116, 26128-26137 9. Satyaprasad P Senanayak, AZ Ashar, Catherine Kanimozhi, Satish Patil,* KS Narayan*, Room Temperature Band-like Transport and Hall Effect in a High Mobility Ambipolar Polymer, Phy. Rev. B, 2015, 91, 115302 10. RBK Siram, M Stephen, F Ali, Satish Patil*, Investigation of phase separation in bulk heterojunction solar cells via supramolecular chemistry J. Phys. Chem. C, 2013, 117, 9129-9136

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POLSHETTIWAR, VIVEK (b 1979), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai


Prof. Vivek Polshettiwar after his Ph.D. in 2005 worked as a postdoc in France and USA for few years, before starting his own independent group at KAUST in 2009. In 2013, he moved to TIFR, and his group here working on development of novel nanomaterials for catalysis, energy harvesting and CO2 capture-conversion. He has published nearly 100 articles with h-index 51 and more than 10000 citations in reputed journals. He is recipient of prestigious ORISE Research Fellowship and several other postdoc fellowships. He was awarded as Top-25 cited author in 2011 by Tetrahedron and Young Scientist Award at DSL-2012. He received Asian Rising Star lectureship at 15th Asian Chemical Congress, Singapore (2013), from Nobel Laureate Prof. Ei-ichi Negish. In 2015, he was admitted as a Fellow of RSC. He was awarded Bronze medal by CRSI, India and also recognized as emerging investigator-material science by RSC. Recently he was awarded prestigious Materials Research Society of India-Medal 2019. His specific contributions to innovation in chemical science that are deserving of the NASI fellowship is “Discovery and Development of DFNS”. He has developed the next generation of nano-catalysts using dendritic fibrous nano-silica (DFNS). His group also showed the successful utilization of DFNS for a range of important applications in catalysis and CO2 capture-conversion. After his invention of DFNS, now more than 100 reputed groups worldwide are using DFNS for various applications such as catalysis, photocatalysis, CO2 capture-conversion, sensing, detection and extraction of ions, supercapacitors, drug delivery, and other biomedical applications.

Proposer: Prof. K. V. R. Chary, Seconder: Prof. Girjesh Govil


1. Facile Synthesis to Tune Size, Textural Properties & Fiber Density of Dendritic Fibrous Nanosilica (DFNS) for Applications in Catalysis and CO2 Capture A. Maity, R. Belgamwar, V. Polshettiwar*, Nature Protocol, 2019, in press. (if=12.423, ci=just published)

2. Organosilane Oxidation with a Half Million Turnover Number using Fibrous Nanosilica Supported Ultrasmall Nanoparticles and Pseudo-Single Atoms of Gold. M. Dhiman, B. Chalke, V. Polshettiwar, J. Mat. Chem. A 2017, 5, 1935-1940. (if=9.931, ci=21)

3. Atomic Layer Deposited (ALD) TiO2 on Fibrous Nano-Silica (KCC-1) for Photocatalysis: Nanoparticle Formation and Size Quantization Effect. R. Singh, R. Bapat, L. Qin, Hao Feng, V. Polshettiwar, ACS Catal. 2016, 6, 2270. (if=11.384, ci=57)

4. Design of CO2 Sorbents using Functionalized Fibrous Nanosilica (KCC-1): Insights into the Effect of Silica Morphology on CO2 Capture Efficiency (KCC-1 vs MCM-41). B. Singh, V. Polshettiwar, J. Mat. Chem. A. 2016, 4, 7005. (if=9.931, ci=30)

5. Ultrasmall nanoparticles and pseudo-single atoms of platinum supported on fibrous nanosilica (KCC-1/Pt): engineering selectivity of hydrogenation reactions. M Dhiman, V Polshettiwar Journal of Materials Chemistry A 4 (32), 12416-12424 (if=9.931, ci=34)

6. SBA-15-Oxynitrides as a Solid-Base Catalyst: Effect of Nitridation Temperature on Its Catalytic Activity. B. Singh, K. R. Mote, C. S. Gopinath, P. K. Madhu, V. Polshettiwar, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 5985-5989. (if=12.102, ci=13)

7. Insights into the Catalytic Activity of Nitridated Fibrous Silica (KCC-1) Nanocatalysts from 15N and 29Si NMR Enhanced by Dynamic Nuclear Polarization. S. L. Thankamony, C. Lion, F. Pourpoint, B. Singh, A. J. Perez Linde, D. Carnevale, G. Bodenhausen, H. Vezin, O. Lafon, V. Polshettiwar, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 2190- (if=12.102, ci=64)

8. Silicon Oxynitrides of KCC-1, SBA-15 and MCM-41: Unprecedented Materials for CO2 Capture with Excellent Stability and Regenerability. U Patil, A. Fihri, A. –H. Emwas, V. Polshettiwar, Chemical Science, 2012, 3, 2224-2229 (if=9.063, ci=63)

9. Fibrous Nano-Silica Supported Ruthenium (KCC-1/Ru): A Sustainable Catalyst for the Hydrogenolysis of Alkanes with Good Catalytic Activity and Lifetime. A. Fihri, M. Bouhrara, D. Cha, Y. Saih, U. Patil, V. Polshettiwar, ACS Catalysis 2012, 2, 1425-1431. (if=11.384, ci=105)

10. High‐surface‐area silica nanospheres (KCC‐1) with a fibrous morphology V Polshettiwar, D Cha, X Zhang, JM Basset, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 49 (50), 9652-9656 (if=12.102, ci=314)

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PRABHU, KANDIKERE RAMAIAH (b 1957), Associate Professor, Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore


Prof. Prabhu’s research group is focused on the innovative design, discovery, and development of novel synthetic strategies involving metallic, non-metallic, organometallic and organocatalysts for synthesizing biologically active compounds and organic materials under environmentally benign conditions. Prof. Prabhu has initiated a program for developing highly selective oxidation methods, similar to those found in nature, for the direct installation of oxygen, nitrogen and carbon functionalities into aliphatic C—H bonds of organic molecules and their intermediates. His group has demonstrated that it is possible to exploit the reactivities of different C-H bonds in a molecule and with selective C-H activation. Prof. Prabhu could create specific C-C, C-N, C-O and C-P bonds selective to design industrially important compounds. The utility of Pd-catalyzed reactions in the construction of C-C and C-hetero bonds are some of the exciting investigation being pursued by Prof. Prabhu’s group. Prof. Prabhu has designed a homogeneous catalytic method for producing clean hydrogen gas from water, using a diboron compound as the reductant, under ambient reaction conditions. He has visualized the transformation of azide functionality beyond ‘click chemistry’ to realize a variety of functional groups. His work relies on the delicate electronic and steric interactions between C—H bonds and small molecule transition metal complexes to achieve the desired selectivity. Prof. Prabhu’s contributions have shown great potential and expected to provide a new paradigm in the field of organic synthesis, which has been cited well. Prof. Prabhu is prolific with his publication and is known internationally for his contribution.

Proposer: Prof. Tushar Kanti Chakraborty, Seconder: Prof. G. Mugesh


1. N. Muniraj and K. R. Prabhu; 2019, Cobalt(III)-Catalyzed [4 + 2] Annulation of N-Chlorobenzamides with Maleimides; Org. Lett., 2019, 21, 1068-1072 (if=6.492, ci=4)

2. S. Rao and K. R. Prabhu; 2018; Stereodivergent Alkyne Reduction by using Water as the Hydrogen Source; Chem. Eur. J; 54, 12113-12116 (if=5.16, ci=4)

3. K. R. Bettadapur, V. Lanke, and K. R. Prabhu; 2017; A Deciduous Directing Group Approach for the Addition of Aryl and Vinyl nucleophiles to Maleimides; Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 6251-6254 (if=6.290, ci=19)

4. J. Dhineshkumar, P Sammadar, and K. R. Prabhu; 2016; A copper catalyzed azidation and peroxidation of β-naphthols via an oxidative dearomatization strategy; Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 11084-11087 (if=6.290, ci=7)

5. D. P. Ojha, K. Gadde,and K. R. Prabhu; 2016; Generation of Hydrogen from Water: A Pd-Catalyzed Reduction of Water Using Diboron Reagent at Ambient Conditions; Org. Lett., 2016, 18, 5062-5065 (if=6.492, ci=31)

6. V. Lanke, K. R. Bettadapur, and K. R. Prabhu; 2015; Electronic Nature of Ketone Directing Group as a Key To Control C-2 vs C-4 Alkenylation of Indoles; Org. Lett., 2015, 17, 4662−4665 (if=6.492, ci=37)

7. V. Lanke and K. R. Prabhu; 2013; Regioselective Synthesis of 4-SubstitutedIndoles via C-H Activation: A Ruthenium Catalyzed Novel Directing Group Strategy; Org. Lett. 15, 2013, 6262-6265 (if=6.492, ci=107)

8. J. Dhineshkumar, M. Lamani, K. Alagiri, K. R. Prabhu. 2013;A Versatile C-H Functionalization of Tetrahydroisoquinolines Catalyzed by Iodine at Aerobic Conditions ; Org. Lett. 15, 2013, 1092-1095 (if=6.492, ci=190)

9. M. S. Gowda, S. S. Pande, R. A. Ramakrishna, and K. R. Prabhu; 2011; Acylation of Grignard reagents mediated by N-methylpyrrolidone: A remarkable selectivity for the synthesis of ketones ; Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9, 5365 (if=3.423, ci=18)

10. M. Lamani and K. R. Prabhu; 2010; An Efficient Oxidation of Primary Azides Catalyzed by Copper Iodide: A Convenient method for the Synthesis of Nitriles; Angew. Chem, Int. Ed., 2010, 49, 6622 (if=12.102 , ci=77)

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PRAJAPATI, DIPAK (b 1956), Chief Scientist & Head, Chemical Science and Technology Division, CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat


Dr. Prajapati has made significant contributions in the emerging areas of organic chemistry particularly synthesis of novel bioactive molecules. He developed a new strategy for chiral-beta-amino-R-hydroxyl acid derivatives bearing two stereogenic centers in one step synthesis. The strategy of cooperative catalysis is applied to the three-component reactions to produce the target products in a good yield with moderate diastreoselectivity and high enantioselectivity. The key to the success is to find a matched system among the components and the catalysts. The efficient synthetic method was demonstrated in the synthesis of a taxol side chain and (-)-epi-cytoxazone. This is the first time that the highly efficient ylide-trapping process is applied for the synthesis of pharmaceutically interesting molecules (JOC 2010, 75, 7483).He has also investigated indium(III) triflate as the first switch in selectivity catalyst for the substrate selective Markovnikov and anti-Markovnikov hydrothiolation. The nature of the substrate is found to be the key factor in determining the selectivity of the transformation. Heteroaromatic thiols have been found to undergo selective Markovnikov hydrothiolation, where as aromatic and aliphatic thiols shows anti-Markovnikov selectivity under identical reaction conditions. (Chem Commun 2012, 48, 4014) using 10 mol% indium. In a very recent finding he has demonstrated indium (III) triflate as a versatile multitasking catalyst, which catalyzes three different chemical transformations i.e Nakamura addition-hydroarylation-hydroxyl acid derivatives bearing two stereogenic centersamino. Dr Prajapati has made significant contributions in the emerging areas of organic chemistry particularly synthesis of novel bioactive molecules. The first intramolecular cycloaddition on pyrimidine linked furan derivatives was developed by him, which was later exploited by Prof Noguchi’s group and others. He developed a new strategy for chiral disubstituted indanones (Chem Commun 2015, 51, 3347).

Proposer: Dr. Romesh C. Boruah, Seconder: Dr. Arun K. Sinha


1. N Rajesh and D Prajapati, 2015. Indium catalyzed novel route to di-substituted indanones via Tandem Nakamura addition hydroarylation decarboxylation sequence. JCS Chemical Communication, 51, 3347-3350 (if=6.834, ci=1)

2. N Rajesh and D Prajapati, 2015. Copper-Catalyzed One-pot, Three-component Tandem Conjugative Alkynylation/6-endo Cyclization Sequence: Access to Pyrano [2,3-d] pyrimidines. Organic Biomol Chem, 13, 4668-4672 (if=3.562, ci=2)

3. D Bhuyan, R Sarma, Y Dommaraju, D Prajapati 2014. Catalyst- and solvent-free, pot, atom and step economic synthesis of tetrahydroquinazolines by an aza-Diels–Alder reaction strategy. Green Chemistry, 16, 1158-1162 (if=8.02, ci=13)

4. R Sarma and D Prajapati 2012. Indium(III) catalyzed substrate selective hydrothiolation of terminal alkynes J Chem Soc Chem Commun, 48, 4014-4016 (if=6.834, ci=28)

5. R Sarma and D Prajapati 2012 Microwave Promoted Catalyst and Solvent-free Aza-Diels-Alder Reaction of Aldimines with 6-[2-(dimethylamino) vinyl]-1,3-dimethyl uracil. Journal of Organic Chemistry 77(4), 2018-2023 (if=4.721, ci=21)

6. R Sarma and D Prajapati, 2011. Indium catalyzed tandem hydroamination/hydroalkylation of terminal alkynes, J Chem Soc Chem Commun, 47, 9525-9527 (if=6.834, ci=24)

7. R Sarma and D Prajapati, 2011. Microwave promoted efficient and green synthesis of dihydroquinasolinmes, Green Chemistry, 13(3), 718-722 (if=8.02, ci=25)

8. Y Qian, X Xinfang, J Liqin, D Prajapati, W Hu, 2010. A strategy to synthesize Taxol side chain and (-)–epicytoxazone via chiral Bronsted acid Rh2(OAc)4 Co-catalyzed enantioselective three component reactions J Org. Chem. 75, 7483-7486 (if=4.721, ci=48)

9. DD Laskar, M Gohain, D Prajapati and JS Sandhu, 2002 Microwave Induced Organometallic Reaction in Aqueous Media. Use of Ga and Bi for the Allylation of N-Oxides and Hydrazones New J Chem. 193-95 (if=3.086, ci=23)

10. D Prajapati and M Gohain 2004 Recent advances in the application of supercritical fluids for carbon-carbon bond formation in organic synthesis. Tetrahedron 60, 815-833 (if=2.641, ci=86)

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RODE, CHANDRASHEKHAR VASANTRAO (b 1958), Emeritus Scientist, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory Pune-411008


Multiple oxygen atoms present in the bio-derived molecules poses an interesting challenge of selective hydro-deoxygenation reactions by designing appropriate catalysts. Dr. Rode has designed novel multifunctional heterogeneous catalysts for cascade transformation of various platform molecules to value added products. Cu-Al catalyst developed by him with multifunctional sites catalyzed aqueous phase reforming (APR), water gas shift reaction, dehydration and hydrogenolysis reactions of cheaply available bioglycerol to give 1,2-propanediol, in a single reactor under ambient conditions. . Similarly, his Zr based nanocomposite catalyst gave complete selectivity to-valerolactone (GVL) in a single step esterification-hydrogenation of levulinic acid. In another example, co-operative active sites developed on a single catalyst catalyzed the carbonylation -transesterification -decarbonylation of glycerol to cyclic carbonate and glycidol. His strategy of controlling particle size and morphology of the metal function led to manipulate the activity and selectivity in a multiproduct single step hydrogenation- decarbonylation of furfural derived from agro waste. Dr. Rode has made seminal contributions to the fundamental understanding of structure-activity correlation enabling the design of new catalysts and reaction pathways. A new cascade process developed by him involves etherification, transfer hydrogenation and again etherification over a combination of Zr-Mont and oxy-hydroxide catalysts for 5-HMF conversion to 2,5-bis(alkoxymethyl)furan which is a cetane enhancer. He also made a breakthrough by devising a very efficient two phase reaction system for the production of tri(furyl)methane and several other mono/bis/tris(furyl)alkanes using hydrophilic, -SO3H functionalized recyclable, Brønsted acidic ionic liquids as catalysts. He has over 185 papers in internationally refereed journals of high IF.

Proposer: Dr. Pradeep Kumar Tripathi, Seconder: Dr. Anil Kumar


1. R. B. Mane, A. M. Hengne, A. A. Ghalwadkar, S.Vijayanand, P. H. Mohite, H . S. Potdar, C. V. Rode, 2010 Cu:Al nano catalyst for selective hydrogenolysis of glycerol to 1, 2-propanediol Catal. Lett. 135 (1-2) 141-147. (if=2.8, ci=89)

2. R. B. Mane, A. A. Ghalwadkar, A. M. Hengne, Y. R. Suryawanshi, C. V. Rode, 2011 Role of promoters in copper chromite catalysts for hydrogenolysis of glycerol Catal. Today 164 (1) 447-50 (if=4.667, ci=55)

3. - valerolactone Green Chem., 14, 1064–1072A. M. Hengne, C. V. Rode, 2012 Cu-ZrO2 nanocomposite catalyst for selective hydrogenation of levulinic acid and its ester to (if=8.586, ci=199)

4. R. B. Mane, C. V. Rode, 2012 Simultaneous glycerol dehydration and in-situ hydrogenolysis over Cu-Al oxide under inert atmosphere Green Chem. 14, 2780-278 (if=8.586, ci=55)

5. A. M. Hengne, S. B. Kamble, C. V. Rode, 2013 Single pot conversion of furfuryl alcohol to levulinic esters and γ-valerolactone in presence of sulfonic acid functionalized ILs and metal catalysts Green Chem. 15, 2540 – 2547 (if=8.586, ci=72)

6. N. S. Biradar, A. M. Hengne, S. N. Birajdar, P. S. Niphadkar, P. N. Joshi, C. V. Rode, 2013 Single-pot formation of THFAL via catalytic hydrogenation of FFR over Pd/MFI catalyst ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2 (2), 272-281 (if=6.140, ci=47)

7. A. M. Hengne, A. V. Malawadkar, N. S. Biradar, C. V. Rode, 2014 Surface synergism of Ag-Ni-ZrO2 nanocomposite for catalytic transfer hydrogenation of bio-derived platform molecule RSC Adv. 4 (19) 9730 – 9736 (if=2.936, ci=47)

8. S. E. Kondawar, C. R. Patil, C. V. Rode, 2017 Tandem Synthesis of Glycidol via Transesterification of Glycerol with DMC over Ba-mixed metal oxide Catalysts ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 5, 1763-1774 (if=6.140, ci=15)

9. S. H. Shinde, C. V. Rode, 2017 Cascade Reductive Etherification of Bioderived Aldehydes over Zr‐Based Catalysts ChemSusChem 10 (20), 4090-4101 (if=7.411, ci=13)

10. N. S. Date, A. M. Hengne, K. W. Huang, R.C. Chikate, C. V. Rode, 2018 Single pot Selective hydrogenation of furfural to 2-methylfuran over carbon supported iridium catalysts Green Chemistry 20 (9), 2027-2037 (if=8.586, ci=07)

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SARKAR, SABYASACHI (b 1947), Honorary Visiting Professor, IIESTS, Bot. Garden, Howrah


Prof. Sabyasachi Sarkar introduced bioinorganic chemistry in India in 1979. He pioneered systematic research in this field. His structure-function model of the metalloproteins are fabulous work horse with astonishing catalytic variety. He explained the presence tungsten in black smokers in the evolution of Archeal domain and how molybdenum replaced tungsten in the mesophile. He modeled carbon dioxide fixation by Mg-porphyrins and established the formation of Mg-carbon dioxide complex in chlorophyll as proposed by Willstatter 100 years ago. He also worked with oxidative stress, modeling hydrogenases, copper-sulfur chemistry for chaperons and non-invasive bioimaging by non-toxic water soluble fluorescent nano-carbons. These nano carbons absorb micro nutrients and conserving water for optimal use enhancing fruits and bio mass of plants. He demonstrated to control mosquito breeding using nano carbon and crossing of nanocarbon as drug cargo through blood brain barrier. He used graphene to kill stubborn hospital pathogens. He showed carbon nano tubes in aerosols creating global warming, winter smog and breathing problem. His research is highlighted 12 times by Nature India and by other World Science Press. Details are available in these sites: (home.iitk.ac.in/~abya/)(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabyasachi_Sarkar).

Proposer: Prof. Sandip Verma, Seconder: Prof. Manas K Ghorai


1. S.K. Das, P.K. Chaudhury, D. Biswas, Sabyasachi Sarkar., (1994), Modeling for the Active Site of Sulfite Oxidase: Synthesis, …… .. (mnt2- = 1,2-Dicyanoethylenedithiolate), J. Am. Chem. Soc., 116, 9061-9070. (if=13.858, ci=167)

2. S.K. Das, D. Biswas, R. Maiti, Sabyasachi Sarkar, (1996), Modeling the tungsten sites of inactive and active forms of Hyperthermophilic ….. Oxidoreductase J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118, 1387-1397 (if=13.858, ci=115)

3. J. Yadav, S.K. Das, Sabyasachi Sarkar, A functional mimic ……. Acetylene Hydratase, .,(1997), J. Am. Chem. Soc 119, 4315-4316. (if= 13.858, ci=50)

4. A. Majumdar, K. Pal, Sabyasachi Sarkar, (2006), Chemistry of [Et4N][MoIV(SPh)(PPh3)(mnt)2] …. by Chloride,, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 4196-4197 (if=13.858, ci=40)

5. Sabyasachi Sarkar and S. B. S. Mishra ,(1984), Cu-Mo-S Interactions ……. Copper-Molybdenum Antagonism, Coord. Chem. Rev. 59, 239-364 (if=13.324, ci=107)

6. M. Ghosh, S.K. Sonkar, M. Saxena, Sabyasachi Sarkar, (2011), Carbon nano-onions …… of Drosophila Melanogaster, Small 7, 3170-3177 (if=8.315, ci=64)

7. J. Bhuyan, R. Sarkar, Sabyasachi Sarkar, .,(2011), A Magnesium Porphyrin ……. Photosystem I Action, ., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed 50, 10603-10607. (if=11.994, ci= 11)

8. A. Begum, G. Moula and Sabyasachi Sarkar, A Nickel (II)- Sulfur……. model of hydrogenase, (2010), Chem. Eur. J., 16,12324-27. (if=5.317, ci=35)

9. A. Majumdar and Sabyasachi Sarkar Bioinorganic Chemistry ...l Modeling Approach, (2011),, Coord. Chem. Rev., 255, 1039-1054. (if=13.324, ci=97)

10. S. Tripathi, S. K. Sonkar and Sabyasachi Sarkar (2011), Growth Stimulation ……. Soluble Carbon Nanotubes, Nanoscale, 3, 1176-1181 (if=7.367, ci=114)

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SINGH, RAMENDRA KUMAR (b 1961), Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Allahabad, Allahabad


Prof. Singh’s work falls in the areas of bioorganic and medicinal chemistry. He has made major contributions to the synthesis of novel drugs and study by their structure activity relationship. These include anti-viral and anti-HIV compounds, anti-malarial compounds as well as inhibitors of reverse transcriptase. He has developed fluorescently labeled oligo nucleotides. His work is highly cited in literature.

Proposer: Prof. Girjesh Govil, Seconder: Prof. K.V. R. Chary


1. G Kumari and Ramendra K Singh (2016) Molecular modeling, synthesis and anti-HIV activity of novel isoindolinedione analogues as potent NNRTIs. Chem Biol Drug Des 87(2), 200-212 (if=2.802, ci=NA)

2. Hans Raj Bhat, Udaya Pratap Singh, Prashant Gahtori, Surajit Kumar Ghosh, Kabita Gogoi, Anil Prakash and Ramendra K. Singh (2013) 4-Aminoquinoline-1,3,5-triazine: Design, synthesis, in vitro antimalarial activity and docking studies. New J Chem, 37, 2554-2562 (if=3.277, ci=24)

3. G Kumari and Ramendra K Singh (2013) Anti-HIV drug development: Structural features and limitations of present day drugs and future challenges in the successful HIV/AIDS treatment Curr Pharm Des 19(10), 1767-1783 (if=3.052, ci=17)

4. H R Bhat , U P Singh , P Gahtori , S K Ghosh , K Gogai , A Prakash and Ramendra K Singh (2013) Antimalarial activity and docking studies of novel bi-functional hybrids derived from 4-aminoquinoline and 1,3,5-triazine against wild and mutant malaria parasites as pf-DHFR inhibitor. RSC Adv.3, 2942-2952 (if=3.289, ci=23)

5. U P Singh, H R Bhat, A Verma, M K Kumawat, R Kaur, S K Gupta and Ramendra K Singh (2013) Phenylhydrazone bearing pyrazole and pyrimidine scaffolds: Design and discovery of novel class of non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) against HIV-1 and their antibacterial properties,”RSC Advances, 3( 38), 17335–17348 (if=3.289, ci=05)

6. G Kumari, Nutan, M Modi, S K Gupta and Ramendra K Singh (2011) Rhodium (II) acetate-catalyzed stereoselective synthesis, SAR and anti-HIV activity of novel oxindoles bearing cyclopropane ring Eur J Med Chem 46, 1181-1188 (if=3.447, ci=60)

7. Ramendra K Singh, D Yadav, D Rai, Garima Kumari, C Pannecouque (2010) Synthesis, structure- activity relationship and antiviral activity of 3'-N,N-dimethylamino-2',3'-dideoxythymidine and its prodrugs Eur J Med Chem 45(9), 3787-3793 (if=3.447, ci=05)

8. Ramendra K Singh, D Rai, D Yadav, A Bhargava, J Balzarini, E De Clercq (2010) Synthesis, antibacterial and antiviral properties of Curcumin bioconjugates bearing dipeptide, fatty acids and folic acid Eur J Med Chem 45(3), 1078-1086 (if=3.447, ci=84)

9. Sarika Sinha, Richa Srivastava, E De Clercq & Ramendra K Singh (2004) Synthesis and antiviral properties of arabino and ribonucleosides of 1,3-dideazaadenine, 4-nitro-1,3-dideazapurine and diketopiperazine. Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids, 23(12): 1815-1824 (if=1.018, ci=70)

10. K K Dubey, Ramendra K Singh & K Misra (1997) Fluorescent labeling of some antisense oligonucleotides Neurochemistry International 31(3), 405-412 (if=3.385, ci=17)

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SINGH, RAVINDRA NATH (b 1949)), Professor , Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi


The research work of Dr. R.N. Singh is mainly related to the development of efficient and economical electrocatalysts for water oxidation, methanol/ethanol oxidation and oxygen reduction reactions which have direct relevance into the energy conversion and storage devices. The work carried out by Dr. Singh is highly cited and has earned him international recognition as evidenced by over 3600 citations and H-index = 34. Dr. Singh has been a pioneer in the use of sprayed Co3O4 and NiCo2O4 films for electrocatalysis of oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in strongly alkaline solutions. He prepared, for the first time, active films of metal molybdates and their substituted products and used for electrocatalysis of OER in alkaline solutions. These metal molybdates were as active as Co-based spinel-type oxides. These new series of compounds open a new start in search of more efficient and low cost water oxidation electrocatalysts. He also synthesized catalytic films of several perovskite-type oxides by sol-gel routes. These oxides produce greatly enhanced specific surface area as well as OER activity. In addition, he has also synthesized several novel and highly dispersed Pd-based materials on multi-walled carbon nanotubes and graphene for alcohol oxidations. His contributions are original and internationally recognized.

Proposer: Prof. D.S. Pandey, Seconder: Prof. M.S. Singh


1. R. N. Singh, J.F. Koenig, G. Poillerat and P. Chartier. 1990. Electrochemical studies on protective thin Co3O4 and NiCo2O4 films prepared on titanium by spray pyrolysis for oxygen evolution. J. Electrochem. Soc., 137, 1408. (if=3.014, ci=209)

2. R.N. Singh, A. Singh, Anindita. 2009. Electrocatalytic activities of binary and ternary composite films of Pd, MWCNT and Ni for ethanol electrooxidation in alkaline solutions. Carbon, 47, 271. (if=6.198, ci=177)

3. R.N. Singh, A. Singh, Anindita. 2009. Electrocatalytic activity of binary and ternary composite films of Pd, MWCNT and Ni. Part II: Methanol electrooxidation in 1M KOH. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 34, 2052. (if=3.205, ci=142)

4. R. N. Singh, J.P. Pandey, N.K. Singh, B. Lal, P. Chartier and J.F. Koenig. 2000. Sol-gel derived spinel MxCo3-xO4 (M = Ni, Cu; 0 £ x £ 1) films and oxygen evolution. Electrochim. Acta.,45,1911. (if=4.803, ci=117)

5. R.N. Singh, R. Awasthi. 2011. Graphene Support for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activity of Pd for Alcohol oxidation. Catal. Sci. Tech., 1, 778. (if=5.287, ci=103)

6. R.N. Singh, D. Mishra, Anindita, A.S.K. Sinha and A. Singh. 2007. Novel electrocatalysts for generating hydrogen from alkaline water electrolysis. Electrochem. Comm., 9, 1369. (if=4.569, ci=82)

7. B. Lal, M. Malviya and R. N. Singh. 2004. Electrocatalytic activity of electrodeposited composite films of polypyrrole and CoFe2O4 nanoparticals towards oxygen reduction reaction. Electrochim. Acta, 49, 4605. (if=4.803, ci=63)

8. R. Awasthi, R.N. Singh. 2013. Graphene-supported Pd-Ru nanoparticles with superior methanol electrooxidation activity. Carbon, 51, 282. (if=6.198, ci=65)

9. R.Awasthi, R.N. Singh. 2012. Optimization of the Pd-Sn-GNS nanocomposite for enhanced electrooxidation of methanol. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 37, 2103 (if=3.205, ci=48)

10. C. S. Sharma, R. Awasthi, R. N. Singh, and A. S. K. Sinha. 2013. Graphene-cobaltite- Pd hybrid materials for use as efficient bifunctional electrocatalysts in alkaline direct methanol fuel cell. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (PCCP), 15, 20333 (if=4.449, ci=21)

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SINGH, VANDANA (b 1961), Professor, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj


Dr Singh has significant contribution towards the biopolymer technology where she has been able to derive novel macromolecular materials for various applications. She has also developed novel techniques to derive such materials. Her recent interest has been polysaccharide-metal oxide composites and polysaccharide nanoparticles. She designed many new polysaccharide based materials while giving an understanding of the templating and structure directing effect of the polysaccharides. The materials have been utilized in metal ion and dye removal from aqueous solutions, catalysis, drug delivery and in enzyme immobilization These materials exhibited excellent adsorbent property. She also used nonconventional cheap polysaccharide to derive efficient adsorbents for cadmium ions for which patent application is published. Her research group for the first time reported the use of microwave in polysaccharide grafting which got worldwide attention and to her credit she could publish a review article focusing the utilization of microwaves in grafting modification of polysaccharides in the world’s top most polymer journal “Progress in Polymer Sciences” (Impact factor 26.932) where she has reviewed microwave promoted and microwave initiated polysaccharide grafting in relation to the conventional grafting procedures. She also did the pioneering work in furnishing an easy and conformable one pot alternative to otherwise very tedious methods for polysaccharide methylation and hydrolysis where these processes could be done very quickly in a cleaner way. This simplified the structural elucidation of unknown polysaccharides as these two studies are inevitable in structure elucidation.

Proposer: Prof. R.P. Singh, Seconder: Prof. K.N. Ganesh


1. Singh, V., Dwivedi, L.M., Baranwal, K., Asthana, S. Sundaram, S.(2018) Oxidized guar gum-ZnO hybrid nanostructures: Synthesis, characterization and antibacterial activity, Applied Nanoscience, 8, 1149–1160 (if=2.951, ci=00)

2. Singh, V., Joshi, S., Malviya, T. (2018) Carboxymethyl cellulose-Rosin gum hybrid nanoparticles: An efficient drug carrier, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 112, 390-398 (if=3.909, ci=02)

3. Singh, V., Pandey, A. K., Preeti, Singh, J., Malviya, T.(2016) Gum acacia-CuNps-Silica hybrid: An effective, stable and recyclable catalyst for reduction of nitroarenes, RSC Advances, 6,31074-31082 (if=2.936, ci=02)

4. Singh, V., Preeti, Singh, A., Singh, D., Malviya, T. (2016) Polysaccharide-Silica Hybrids:Design and Applications, Polymer Reviews, 56, 113 (if=6.69, ci=11)

5. Singh, V., Preeti, (2015) Mesoporous titania spheres derived from Sodium alginate-Gum acacia composite beads: Efficient adsorbent for “Reactive blue H5G” dye, Journal of Envrionmental Chemical Engineering, 3, 2727-2737 (if=1.385, ci=06)

6. Singh, V., Singh, D. Polyvinyl alcohol-silica nanohybrids: An efficient carrier matrix for amylase immobilization, Process Biochemistry, 2013:48:96-102. (if=2.616, ci=24)

7. Singh, V., Kumar P., Sanghi, R. (2012) Use of microwave irradiation in the grafting modification of polysaccharides- A review, Progress in Polymer Science, 37:340 (if=24.558, ci=108)

8. Singh, V., Ahmed S. (2012) Silver nanoparticle (AgNPs) doped gum acacia-gelatin-silica nanohybrid for diastase immobilization, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules; 50:353-361 (if=3.909, ci=25)

9. Singh, V., Kumari, P., Pandey, S., Narain, T. (2009) Removal of chromium (VI) using poly(methylacrylate) functionalized guar gum,100:1977-1982 (if=5.978, ci=64)

10. Singh,V. (2006) Polyacrylonitrile-grafted Cassia pudibunda seed gum: A potential commercial gum from renewable source, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 99:619-627. (if=3.245, ci=15)

340

SURESHAN, KANA MEETHALEVEETIL (b 1973), Associate Professor, IISER, Thiruvananthapuram


Dr. Sureshan has joined IISER-TVM in April, 2009 as the first faculty member in the experimental science. He set-up the chemistry research laboratory and has started a few new areas of research, different from his postdoctoral or doctoral studies. During last seven years, he published forty five research papers solely from IISER-TVM, in international journals of high repute. Remarkably, the average impact factor of these 45 publications is 7.3. Many of these publications have been highlighted in journals such as Nature, Nature India, Angewandte Chemie and Optics & Photonic Focus, synfacts, ChemInform and in journal cover pages. Sureshan independently developed the novel topochemical azide-alkyne cycloaddition (TAAC) reaction for the efficient, solvent-free and catalyst-free syntheses of triazole-inked DNA-analogs, pseudoproteins and glycopolymers in crystals. Another important area Sureshan is working on is the design and synthesis of novel gelators and their application in developing smart materials. He has, demonstrated the use of organogels in soft-optics, conducting fabrics, oil-spill recovery, CO2-storage and high-affinity protein-ligand synthesis. His recent work on cellulose-gelator hybrid for marine oil spill recovery has been highlighted by more than 30 leading print, online and visual media worldwide. This work has also received a remarkable Altmetric score of 90 suggesting that it is in the top 5% of all research articles ever tracked across all subjects. This invention was discussed in the parliament twice. His consistent and outstanding performance in his research makes him the best young researcher in India among his peers. I strongly recommend Sureshan for the FNASc.

Proposer: Prof. E.D. Jemmis, Seconder: Prof. E. Arunan


1. A. Vidyasagar, K. Handore, K. M. Sureshan (2011), Soft Optical Devices from Self‐Healing Gels Formed by Oil and Sugar‐Based Organogelators, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 50, 8021-8024. (if=12.102, ci=176)

2. B. P. Krishnan, S. Mukherjee, P. M. Aneesh, M. A. G. Namboothiry, K. M. Sureshan (2016), Semiconducting fabrics by in situ topochemical synthesis of polydiacetylene: A new dimension to the use of organogels, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 55, 2345-2349. (if=12.102, ci=17)

3. B. P. Krishnan, R. Rai, A. Asokan, K. M. Sureshan (2016), Crystal-to-Crystal Synthesis of Triazole-Linked Pseudo-proteins via Topochemical Azide–Alkyne Cycloaddition Reaction, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138, 14824-14827. (if=14.357, ci=16)

4. B. P. Krishnan, K. M. Sureshan (2017), Topochemical Azide–Alkyne Cycloaddition Reaction in Gels: Size-Tunable Synthesis of Triazole-Linked Polypeptides, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139, 1584-1589. (if=14.357, ci=19)

5. A. Prathap, K. M. Sureshan (2017), Organogelator–Cellulose Composite for Practical and Eco‐Friendly Marine Oil‐Spill Recovery, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 56, 9405-9409. (if=12.102, ci=20)

6. R. Rai, B. P. Krishnan, K. M. Sureshan (2018), Chirality-controlled spontaneous twisting of crystals due to thermal topochemical reaction, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, 2896-2901. (if=9.504, ci=9)

7. R. Mohanrao, K. M. Sureshan (2018), Synthesis and Reversible Hydration of a Pseudoprotein, a Fully Organic Polymeric Desiccant by Multiple Single‐Crystal‐to‐Single‐Crystal Transformations, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 57, 12435-12439. (if=12.102, ci=3)

8. A. Ravi, K. M. Sureshan (2018), Tunable Mechanical Response from a Crystal Undergoing Topochemical Dimerization: Instant Explosion at a Faster Rate and Chemical Storage of a Harvestable Explosion at a Slower Rate, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 57, 9362-9366. (if=12.102, ci=3)

9. K. Hema, K. M. Sureshan (2019) Solid‐State Synthesis of Two Different Polymers in a Single Crystal: A Miscible Polymer Blend from a Topochemical Reaction, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 58, 2754-2759. (if=12.102)

10. V. Athiyarath, K. M. Sureshan (2019) Spontaneous Single‐Crystal‐to‐Single‐Crystal Evolution of Two Cross‐Laminated Polymers, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 58, 612-617. (if=12.102)

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BALASUBRAMANIAN, GOPALAN (b 1948), CSO & Executive Director, Orchid Pharma Limited, Chennai Member of the NASI: No (YON 2015, Chemical Sciences) The basic research excellence of Dr. Gopalan is reflected in the Drug Discovery Research activities he had pursued in the last twenty five years in Pharmaceutical Industries. His work represents a high order of conceptual originality with synthetic versatility & is in tune with the priorities and requirements of theindustry.He has made significant contributions to the Indian Pharma industry by designing innovative New Chemical Entities in the mechanism-based therapeutic areas of Diabetes , Asthma and Allergy & Anti-infectives as delineated below. In Boots Pharmaceuticals, BTS-67582, a novel potassium channel blocker for Diabetes went upto Phase-2 clinical trials in USA & UK.In Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Melogliptin, a DPP-4 inhibitor was out-licensed to Merck KGaA,Germany for US$231 million over five years with an upfront payment of US$41 million;Oglemilast,a novel PDE4 inhibitor,was out-licensed to Forest Laboratories Inc,USA,for US$190 million over five years & to Teijin of Japan for US$53million,with a total upfront & milestone payment of US$41million;Revamilast,another PDE4 inhibitor is in Phase-2 trials for Rheumatoid Arthritis & Tedalinib, a veryselective CB2 agonist is in Phase-2 for Neuropathic Pain. In Orchid Pharma OCID-18034 (inhibitor of KPC enzyme) & OCID-18174 (inhibitor of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa), achieved the first milestone of US$1.5million from Merck & Co, USA; another candidate OCID5090, a Beta lactamase inhibitor was out-licensed to Allecra,Switzerland,for a 20% stake of Orchid in Allecra & BLX-1002, a small molecule is in Phase-2 trials in Malaysia for Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.Dr.Gopalan has also been active in Academic Research,particularly in the syntheses of Heterocycles through pericyclic reactions & important intermediates for condensed Heterocycles culminating in several papers in reputed journals. Dr.Gopalan is an Adjunct faculty in the Department of Chemistry in NIT, Trichy. Dr.Gopalan is a member of the Domain Expert Committee (DEC II, Pharmaceuticals, speciality chemicals, catalysis, Biotech, Medtech & Implants), set up by MHRD, for evaluation of proposals from IITs/IISc.

Proposer: Prof.Vishwakarma Singh, Seconder: Prof. Srivari Chandrasekhar Ten Best Publications: 1. B.Gopalan et al. 2008, A simple approach to highly functionalized benzo[b] furans from phenols and Aryl iodides via Aryl propargyl ethers.Tet Lett 49/27,4260 (if =2.5,ci=22). 2. B.Gopalan et al. 2009, Synthesis and evaluation of some novel Isochroman carboxylic acid derivatives as potential antidiabetic agents, European J Med Chem 44/8,3147 (if =4.0,ci=16). 3. B.Gopalanet al. 2010, Synthesis and evaluation of some novel dibenzo[b,d]furan carboxylic acids as potential antidiabetic agents.European J Med Chem 45/9,3709 (if =4.0,ci=05). 4. B.Gopalan et al. 2010, OCID-2987: A novel, chemically distinct, orally active PDE4 inhibitor. J Allergy and Clinical Immunology 125/2, AB 49 (if =9.3) 5. B.Gopalan et al. 2011,A novel oxidative decarboxylation-Synthesis of 2-Amino-1,2-dihydro isoquinoline-3(4H)-one and its amide derivatives, Tet Lett 52/42,5441 (if =2.7,ci=01). 6. B.Gopalan et al. 2012, Micro Wave-assisted Claisen rearrangement of Naphthyl,2-propynyl ethers:Synthesis of Naphthofurans. Tet Lett 53/42, 5695 (if =2.4, ci=02). 7. B.Gopalan et al. 2012, Effect of BLX-1002 in a rat model of Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Diabetes 61/06, A250 (if =8.3,ci=01). 8. B.Gopalan et al. 2013, Discovery of Adamantane-based highly potent HDAC inhibitors, Bioorganic Med Chem Lett 23/09, 2432 (if =2.3, ci=02). 9. B.Gopalan et al. 2016, Orally active Stilbene derivatives as potent HDAC inhibitors with anti-proliferative activities and anti-tumor effects in Human Tumor, Xenografts,108, 274-86 (if =4.0). 10. B.Gopalan et al. 2016, Dual Drug-loaded Nano-liposomal chemotherapy:A promising strategy for the treatment of Head and Neck squamous cell carcinoma, Eur J Pharm Biopharm 99, 73-83 (if=3.85).

342

DEKA, RAMESH CHANDRA (b 1970), Professor, Department of Chemical Sciences, Tezpur University, Assam


Prof. Deka has been working in the fundamental aspects of catalysis, drug design and atmospheric chemistry. He also carries out theoretical and experimental studies on heterogenous catalysis with an aim to understand the nature of active sites and reaction mechanisms. By performing DFT calculations Prof. Deka has investigated the electronic structure and reactivity of zeolite catalysts, metal clusters, supported metal clusters, carbon nanotubes, functionalized carbon nanotubes, varieties of drug molecules and volatile organic compounds. Prof. Deka’s theoretical studies involve usages of new computational chemistry methodologies and expanding the scale and efficiency to provide realistic simulations. He has strong collaboration with several leading experimentalists and theoreticians of universities, IITs, CSIR laboratories in the country and abroad. He has extended his studies on CO oxidation in zeolite supported gold monomer using a hybrid quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics (QM/MM) method (J. Chem. Phys. 135, 2011, 244703). In the experimental field, Prof. Deka has synthesized several inorganic complexes inside zeolites and used them as enantioselective catalysts for various organic transformations. The structure, reactivity and some spectroscopic properties of these encapsulated complexes have been understood using high level DFT calculations including TDDFT (J. Phys. Chem. C 115, 2011, 9601; Inorg. Chem. 51, 2012, 1657; J. Phys. Chem. C 116, 2012, 14295). It should be noted that Dr. Deka’s group is the only active group in India in the field of theoretical studies of zeolite catalysts.

Proposer: Prof. Sourav Pal, Seconder: Dr. Anil Kumar


1. Kalita, B.; Deka, R. C., 2009, Reaction intermediates of CO oxidation on gas phase Pd4 clusters: a density functional study. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 13252-13254. (if= 14.357, ci= 46)

2. Saikia, N.; Jha, A. N.; Deka, R. C., 2013, Dynamics of fullerene-mediated heat-driven release of drug molecules from carbon nanotubes. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 4, 4126-4132. (if=8.709, ci=20)

3. Kalita, B.; Deka, R. C., 2007, Stability of small Pd n (n= 1–7) clusters on the basis of structural and electronic properties: A density functional approach. J. Chem. Phys. 127, 244306. (if=2.843, ci=60)

4. Bania, K. K.; Bharali, D.; Viswanathan, B.; Deka, R. C., 2012, Enhanced catalytic activity of zeolite encapsulated Fe (III)-Schiff-base complexes for oxidative coupling of 2-napthol. Inorg. Chem. 51, 1657-1674. (if=4.700, ci=57)

5. Hazarika, K. K.; Baruah, N. C.; Deka, R. C., 2009, Molecular structure and reactivity of antituberculosis drug molecules isoniazid, pyrazinamide, and 2-methylheptylisonicotinate: a density functional approach. Struct. Chem. 20, 1079-1085. (if=2.019, ci=75)

6. Deka, P.; Deka, R. C.; Bharali, P., 2014, In situ generated copper nanoparticle catalyzed reduction of 4-nitrophenol. New J. Chem. 38, 1789-1793. (if=3.201, ci=108)

7. Baruah, S. D.; Gour, N. K.; Sarma, P. J.; Deka, R. C., 2018, OH-initiated mechanistic pathways and kinetics of camphene and fate of product radical: a DFT approach. Environ. Sci. Pollu. Res. 25, 2147-2156. (if=2.800, ci=04)

8. Gogoi, D; Pal, A; Chattopadhyay, P; Paul, S; Deka, R C; Mukherjee, A K, 2018, First Report of Plant-Derived β-Sitosterol with Antithrombotic, in Vivo Anticoagulant, and Thrombus-Preventing Activities in a Mouse Model, J. Natur. Produc. 81, 2521-2530 (if=3.885, ci=0.0)

9. Gour, N K; Rajkumari, N P; Deka, R C; Paul, S; Deka, A; 2019, Atmospheric degradation pathways and kinetics of 2, 2-difluoroethanol (CHF2CH2OH) with Cl atom: A theoretical investigation, Chem. Phys. Lett. 716, 35-41. (if=1.860, ci=0.0)

10. Sarma, P J; Dey Baruah, S; Logsdail, A; Deka, R C, 2019, Hydride Pinning Pathway in the Hydrogenation of CO2 into Formic Acid on Dimeric Tin Dioxide, ChemPhysChem,20, 1-9. (if=3.075, ci=0.0)

343

HARAM, SANTOSH KRISHNA (b 1965), Professor, Savitribai Phule Pune University (Formerly, University of pune), Pune


To use semiconductor quantum dots in photovoltaic and optoelectronics applications, the information of valance and conduction band edge positions as a function of size, shape and composition is extremely valuable. Conventionally, these parameters are estimated by scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) and photoelectron spectroscopy (PES). For the first time, Dr. Haram et al. has demonstrated the use of cyclic voltammetry (CV) to study quantum confinement in case of CdS, CdSe, CdTe, CdSxSe1-x, graphene/CdTe composites and many more important materials used in the third generation solar cells. The results were corroborated with DFT. He has contributed several original articles on this topic which received ca. 755 citations. This method is now well accepted by the peers and widely being used to study the Q-dots. His another important contribution is an application of scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) in the material science. SECM is a scanning probe technique, which measures the faradaic current response between the electro-active surface and the probe. Haram et al for the first time demonstrated a use of SECM to investigate illuminated semiconductor/ electrolyte interface and estimate the rate constants of the charge transfer. Recently, his group demonstrated application of SECM to estimate the spatial distribution of defects on a single strand of carbon fiber. The results were corroborated with Raman spectroscopy. Besides research, Dr. Haram has major contribution in teaching and learning. He is well known teacher of physical chemistry and delivered several talks in workshops and refresher courses. He has developed web-based course materials for M.Sc. Students.

Proposer: Prof. Jai P. Mittal, Seconder: Prof. Swapan K. Ghosh


1. AA Melvin, VS Joshi, DC Poudyal, D Khushalani, SK Haram*,(2015) Electrocatalyst on insulating support?: hollow silica spheres loaded with Pt nanoparticles for methanol oxidation, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7(12), 6590-6595 (if=7.145, ci=18)

2. G.B. Markad, Satish Battu, Sudhir Kapoor, Santosh Haram*, (2013) Interaction between Quantum Dots of CdTe and Reduced Graphene Oxide: Investigation through Cyclic Voltammetry and Spectroscopy, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 117 , 20944-20950 (if=4.509, ci=31)

3. SK. Haram*, A Kshirsagar, YD. Gujarathi, PP. Ingole, OA. Nene, GB. Markad, and SP. Nanavati (2011) Quantum Confinement in CdTe Quantum Dots: Investigation through Cyclic Voltammetry Supported by DFT, J. Phys. Chem. C, 115, 6243-6249 (if=4.509, ci=81)

4. Shaukatali N. Inamdar, Pravin P. Ingole, and Santosh K. Haram*, (2008), Determination of Band Structure Parameters and the Quasi-Particle Gap of CdSe Quantum Dots by Cyclic Voltammetry, Chem. Phys. Chem. 9, 2574 (if=3.138, ci=108)

5. Manoj E. Wankhede and Santosh K. Haram*, (2003) Synthesis and Characterization of Cd-DMSO Complex Capped CdS Nanoparticles, Chem. Mater., 15, 1296 (if=9.407, ci=47)

6. Zhifeng Ding, Bernadette M. Quinn, Santosh K. Haram, Lindsay E. Pell, Brian A. Korgel, , Allen J. Bard* (2002), Electrochemistry and Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence from Silicon Nanocrystal Quantum dots, Science, 286, 1293 (if=34.661, ci=635)

7. Santosh K. Haram, Bernadette M. Quinn and Allen J. Bard*, (2001) Electrochemistry of CdS Nanoparticles: A Correlation Between Optical and Electrochemical Bandgaps, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 123, 8860 (if=13.038, ci=285)

8. Roshan H. Kore, Jaideep S. Kulkarni, and Santosh K. Haram*, (2001) Effect of Nonionic Surfactants on the Kinetics of Disproportion of Copper Sulfide Nanoparticles in the Aqueous Sols, Chemistry of Materials, 13, 1789 (if=9.407, ci=41)

9. Santosh K.Haram and Allen J. Bard*, Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy. 42. Studies of the Kinetics and Photoelectrochemistry of Thin Film CdS/Electrolyte Interfaces, (2001), J. Physical Chemistry B 105, 8192 (if=3.187, ci=39)

10. Santosh K. Haram, Anand R. Mahadeshwar, Sharad G. Dixit*, (1996) Synthesis and Characterization of Copper Sulfide Nanoparticles in Triton-X 100 Water-in-Oil Microemulsions, J. Phys. Chem. 100 5868. (if=4.509, ci=234)

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HASSAN, PUTHUSSERICKAL ABDULRAHIMAN (b 1968), Scientific Officer (H) & Head, NBS, Chemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai


Dr. P. A. Hassan has made very significant contributions in the area of molecular self assembly. Recently, he demonstrated self assembly in a room temperature supercooled matrix driven by hydrogen bonding interaction. This is the first report of supercooled micelles using all solid ingredients and has opened a new avenue in soft matter, as reflected by his recent publication in the Nature Group Journal (Communications Chemistry, 1 (2018) 33). He has demonstrated the use of self assembly approach in developing nanostructured formulations for cancer therapeutics and nutraceuticals. He has developed new nanoformulations for cancer therapeutics, such as peptide coated magnetic nanoparticles (Adv. Funct. Mat. 22 (2012) 4975) , PEGylated liposomes (Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 19 (2017) 26821) and other self assembled drug delivery systems. The magnetic nanoparticles not only provided target specificity to tumors but also enhanced therapeutic efficacy through magnetic hypertherimia effects. He demonstrated the applicability of Debye-Huckel model to explain the packing of ionic amphiphiles in micelles(Soft Matter 7 (2011) 4778). He has devised a theoretical model to analyse dynamic light scattering data from polydisperse systems (J. Coll. Int. Sci 300 (2006) 744). His contributions are well recognized at the international level, as manifested by the publications (135), citations (~4700; h-index:37) and invitation from Editors of reputed journals like Langmuir and Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics to submit perspective/review articles. In view of his sustained remarkable scientific contributions and originality in research, I strongly recommend Dr. Hassan for the fellowship of NASI.

Proposer: Prof. Vimal Kumar Jain, Seconder: Prof. Swapan K. Ghosh


1. S. L. Gawali, M. Zhang, S. Kumar, V. K. Aswal, D. Danino, P. A. Hassan (2018) Dynamically arrested micelles in a supercooled sugar urea melt Communications Chemistry (Nature Publishing Group),1 (2018) 33 (ci=1)

2. B, Dutta, K. C. Barick, G. Verma, V. K. Aswal, I. Freilich, D. Danino, B. G. Singh, K. I. Priyadarsini, P. A. Hassan (2017) PEG coated vesicles from mixtures of Pluronic P123 and L-alpha phosphatidylcholine: Structure, rheology and curcumin encapsulation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19, 26821-26832 (if=3.9, ci=1)

3. P. A. Hassan, S. Rana, G. Verma (2015) Making Sense of Brownian Motion: Colloid Characterization by Dynamic Light Scattering Langmuir 31, 3-12 (if=3.8, ci=180)

4. K. C. Barick, S. Singh, D. Bahadur, M. A. Lawande, D. P. Patkar, P. A. Hassan (2014) Carboxyl decorated Fe3O4 nanoparticles for MRI diagnosis and localized hyperthermia. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 418, 120-125. (if=5.1, ci=59)

5. K. C. Barick, S. Singh, N. V. Jadhav, D. Bahadur, B. N. Pandey, P. A. Hassan (2012) pH-Responsive Peptide Mimic Shell Cross-Linked Magnetic Nanocarriers for Combination Therapy Advanced Functional Materials, 22, 4975-4984 (if=13.3, ci=77)

6. J. Bhattacharjee, G. Verma, V. K. Aswal, A. A. Date, M. S. Nagarsenker, P. A. Hassan (2010) Tween 80-sodium deoxycholate mixed micelles: Structural characterization and application in doxorubicin delivery Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 114, 16414-16421 (if=3.1, ci=77)

7. G. Verma, V. K. Aswal and P. Hassan (2009) pH-Responsive self-assembly in an aqueous mixture of surfactant and hydrophobic amino acid mimic Soft Matter, 5, 2919-2927 (if=3.9, ci=74)

8. P. A. Hassan and S. K. Kulshreshtha (2006) Modification to the cumulant analysis of polydispersity in quasielastic light scattering data J. Colloid. Interface Science, 300, 744-748 (if=5.1, ci=89)

9. P. A. Hassan, Shilpa N. Sawant, Nitin C. Bagkar and J. V. Yakhmi (2004) Polyaniline Nanoparticles Prepared in Rod-like Micelles. Langmuir, 20, 4874-4880 (if=3.8, ci=68)

10. P .A. Hassan, S. R. Raghavan, E. W. Kaler (2002) Microstructural Changes In SDS Micelles Induced By Hydrotropic Salt Langmuir , 18, 2543-2548 (if=3.8, ci=277)

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HULLURU, SURYA PRAKASH RAO (b 1953), Professor and Dean (Research)School of Basic Science and Research, Shards University, Greater Noida – 201306


Dr. H. Surya Prakash Rao, in his independent research career, has contributed immensely in the area of Heterocyclic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry and Organic Synthesis. His group’s major contributions include (i) facile methods for synthesis and characterization of six-member nitrogen heterocycles which included anatalline, a tobacco natural product, (ii) aza-steroids using metal (Ni / Co / Cu) borohydrides; (iii) multi-substituted pyrroles / furans from ene-diones using ammonium formate under palladium catalysis, (iv) synthesis and characterization of coumarins, chromenes, pyrroles, 3-nitrothiophenes, ortho-esters, DOPA isomers from nitroketene and oxo-ketene dithioacetals, (v) Synthesis and optical properties of phenanthrene and pyrene appended furans and benzofurans and (vi) synthesis and characterization of fluorescent water-soluble coumarins. He has explored the scope of the Blaise reaction for synthesis of a wide variety of beta-keto esters, 1,3-diketones, 3,5-diketoesters and 2-pyridones. This work resulted in facile synthesis of industrial chemicals like avobenzone (used in sun-screen lotions), neonicotinoids (used as pesticides) and anxiolytic drugs like tracazolate. He has developed copper catalysed C-C coupling reactions of sp3- sp2 type. Such coupling reactions resulted in facile synthesis of biologically active 4-aryl-4H-chromenes, 3-aryl-isoindolinones and non-symmetrical triarylmethanes. His work on 4-aryl-4H-chromenes lead to discovery of lead compounds for treatment of malaria, anxiety and tuberculosis. His work on readily available and sustainable 4H-cardanol resulted in the synthesis and characterization of super-soft gel material. He has extensively collaborated with research teams in Bioinforamtics , Biochemistry and Molecular Biology fields. Such collaborations on pan-India basis resulted original research outputs that has implications in public health and well-being.

Proposer: Prof. Goverdhan Mehta, Seconder: Prof. Anil K. Bhatnagar


1. H. Surya Prakash Rao, S. Jothilingam, 2003,Microwave mediated facile transformation of 2butene1,4diones and 2butyne1,4diones,Journal of organic chemistry 68 (13), 5392-5394 (if=4.785, ci=74)

2. H. Surya Prakash Rao, S. Sivakumar, 2005,Synthesis of Nitroacetic Acid Orthoesters from 1,1Di( methylsulfanyl)2nitr oethylene,Journal of organic chemistry 70 (11), 4524-4527 (if=4.785, ci=15)

3. 3) H. Surya Prakash Rao, S. Sivakumar, 2006,Condensation of αAroylketene Dithioacetals and 2HydroxyarylaldehydesRe sults in Facile,The Journal of organic chemistry 71 (23), 8715-8723 (if=4.785, ci=94)

4. H. Surya Prakash Rao and K. Vasantham 2009,Nitroketene dithioacetal chemistry: Synthesis of 2alkylthio3nitrothiophe nes,The Journal of organic chemistry 74 (17), 6847-6850 (if=4.785, ci=13)

5. H. Surya Prakash Rao and Satish Vijjapu 2012,Chemistry of 9,10phenanthrenequinone revisited: iron(III) chloride catalyzed, RSC Advances 2 (17), 6773-6783 (if=3.289, ci=8)

6. H. Surya Prakash Rao, Desai. A, 2015,Zinc and trimethylsilyl chloride mediated synthesis of 2,3,5trisubstituted pyrrole, Synlett 26 (08), 1059-1062 (if=2.232, ci=4)

7. H. Surya Prakash Rao, Rao, A. V. B, 2015,CopperCatalyzed C(sp3)–OH Cleavage with Concomitant C–C Coupling: Synthesis,The Journal of organic chemistry 80 (3), 1506-1516 (if=4.785, ci=19)

8. Rao, H. S. P.; Muthanna, N.,2015,Variations in the Blaise reaction: Conceptually new synthesis of 3-amino enones and 1 ,3-diketones, European Journal of Organic Chemistry 2015 (7), 1525-1532 (if=2.882, ci=6)

9. Rao, H. S. P.; Muthanna, N., Padder, A. H. 2018, Vinylogous Blaise Reaction: Conceptually New Synthesis of Pyridin-2-ones (if=2.232, ci=0.00)

10. Rao, H. S. P.; LN Adigopula, K Ramadas., 2017,One-Pot Synthesis of Densely Substituted Pyrazolo [3, 4-b]-4, 7-dihydropyridines, ACS combinatorial science 19 (5), 279-285 (if=3.50, ci=4)

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KANT, RAMA (b 1963), Professor, University of Delhi, Delhi


Rama Kant has been a pioneer in the area of theoretical electrochemistry of rough, porous, heterogeneous and nanostructured electrodes. His significant contributions are derivations of more than 60 fundamental equations of electrochemistry involving phenomena of charge transfer, diffusion, uncompensated resistance, reaction coupling, adsorption and electric double layer on disordered electrodes. Named equations generalized for disordered and fractal electrode by him are: Thomas-Fermi (1,2) for electronic capacitance and work function, Gouy-Chapman-Stern and Donnan for electric double layer capacitance of complex geometries (3); Cottrell (4,5), Anson (6), Danckwerts (7), Warburg (8,9) and Gerischer (10) for the reversible charge transfer, Frumkin-Melik-Gaikazyan (11), Debye-Falkehagen (12), Randles- Sevcik (13,14), at rough electrodes. His contributions to knowledge lead to the fundamental understanding of electric double layer and electrode kinetics of rough and fractal electrodes, and their transient responses, viz. chronoamperometry, impedance, chronocoulometry, chronoabsorptiometry (15) and voltammetry. Other innovative contribution is quantitative 3D reconstruction of SEM micrograph through semi-electrochemical route. His other areas of research are the polymer dynamics of complex polymeric structures and quantitative 3D reconstruction of SEM micrograph through semi-electrochemical route(16). His contributions are indispensable in the quantitative description of complex disordered and nanostructured electrochemical systems, viz., Supercapacitor(17), Solid state electrolyte(18), Dye sensitized solar cell(19), Chiral sensor(20). He is recognized as the leading international experts in phenomenological and stochastic modeling. 1)J.Phys.Chem.Lett,2015,6,2870. 2)Proc.R.Soc.A,2013,469,20130163. 3)Phys.Rev.E,2013,88,052303. 4)Phys.Rev.Lett.,1993,70,4094. 5)J.Phys.Chem.C,2010,114,10066. 6)Electrochim.Acta,2011,56,4467. 7)Electrochim.Acta,2010,56,7266. 8)J.Electroanal.Chem.,2003,552,141. 9)J.Phys.Chem.C,2011,115,12232. 10)J.Phys.Chem.C,2009,113,19558. 11)Electrochim.Acta,2013,95,275. 12)J.Phys.Chem.C,2014,118,5122. 13)Electrochim.Acta,2013,111,223. 14)J.Phys.Chem.C,2014,118,26599. 15)J.Phys.Chem.C,2010,114,19357. 16)Appl.Surf.Sci.,2013,282,105. 17)J.Phys.Chem.C,2017,121,7164. 18)J.Electroanal.Chem.,2019,835,227. 19)J. Electrochem.Soc.,2019,5,H3047. 20)Biosensors&Bioelectronics,2016,77,715.

Proposer: Prof. Ashok Kumar Ganguli, Seconder: Prof. Arun Kumar Grover


1. J. Kaur and R. Kant, 2015, Curvature-Induced Anomalous Enhancement in the Work Function of Nanostructures, J. Physical Chemistry Letter, 6, 2870-2874. (if=8.709, ci=6)

2. R. Kant, 1993, Can Current Transients be affected by the Morphology of the Nonfractal Electrode? Physical Review Letter, 70, 4094-4097. (if=8.839, ci=50)

3. R. Kant, 1997, Diffusion-Limited Reaction Rates on Self-Affine Fractals, J. Physical Chemistry B, 101, 3781-3787. (if=3.146, ci=42)

4. R. Kant and S. K. Rangarajan, 2003, Effect of Surface Roughness on Interfacial Reaction-Diffusion Admittance, J. Electroanalytical Chemistry, 552, 141-151 (if=3.235, ci=53)

5. R. Kant, R. Kumar and V. K. Yadav, 2008, Theory of Anomalous Diffusion Impedance on Realistic Fractal Electrodes. J. Physical Chemistry C (Letters), 112, 4019-4023. (if=4.484, ci=41)

6. R. Kumar, R. Kant, 2009, Theory of Generalized Gerischer Admittance of Realistic Fractal Electrode, J. Physical Chemistry C, 113, 19558-19567 (if=4.484, ci=36)

7. S. Srivastav, R. Kant, 2010, Theory of Generalized Cottrellian Current at Rough Electrode with Solution Resistance Effects, J. Physical Chemistry C, 114, 10066-10076. (if=4.484, ci=26)

8. M. B. Singh and R. Kant, 2014, Theory of Anomalous Dynamics of Electric Double Layer at Heterogeneous and Rough Electrodes, J. Physical Chemistry C, 118, 5122-5133. (if=4.484, ci=21)

9. I. Pandey and R. Kant, 2016, Electrochemical impedance based chiral analysis of anti-ascorbutic drug: L-ascorbic acid and D-ascorbic acid using C-dots decorated conductive polymer nano-composite electrode, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 77, 715-724. (if=8.173, ci=19)

10. T. C. B. McLeish, J. Allgaier, D. K. Bick, G. Bishko, P. Biswas, R. Blackwell, B. Blottire, N. Clarke, B. Gibbs, D. J. Groves, A. Hakiki, R. K. Heenan, J. M. Johnson, R. Kant, D. J. Read, and R. N. Young, 1999, Dynamics of Entangled H-Polymers: Theory, Rheology and Neutron Scattering, Macromolecules, 32, 6734-6758. (if=5.914, ci=280)

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KURESHY, RUKHSANA ILYAS (b 1958), Chief Scientist, Inorganic Materials & Catalysis Division, CSMCRI, Bhavnagar


• Worked for more than three decades on designing of metal complexes in general and recyclable chiral metal complexes in particular for various organic transformations such as asymmetric epoxidation, epoxide ring opening reaction, hydrolytic kinetic resolution of racemic terminal epoxides and asymmetric Henry/ aza Henry reaction for the synthesis of pharmaceutically important compounds at gram level under homogeneous and heterogeneous systems. • Published 186 research papers, 5 monographs, 3 review articles, 2 general articles and 10 patents to my credit. • Worked on several Grant-in Aid Projects and Industrial projects. • She was instrumental in developing a green catalytic process for perfumery chemical, which was eventually licensed for commercialization to four private perfumery industries. • Her works were recognized through several awards such as CSIR Young Scientist Award 1993, Hari Om Ashram Prerit S. S. Bhatnagar Award 1993, MAAS Woman Scientist Award 2005, MAAS Best Paper Award 1993 & 2005, ISCB Distinguished Women Scientist Award 2011 and CRSI Bronze Medal, 2014. • Working as Coordinator AcSIR-CSMCRI since 2012 and Recognized Guide for Ph.D. in AcSIR-CSMCRI. • Recognized Guide for Ph.D. from Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar and 11 students have received Ph.D. degree under her guidance. • Life member of Catalysis Society of India, Life member of Chemical Research Society of India and Life member of Indian Society of Chemist and Biologist.

Proposer: Prof. Mannepalli Lakshmikantam, Seconder: Prof. Sourav Pal


1. Manish Kumar, R. I. Kureshy*,S.Saravanan, Shailesh Verma, Ajay Jakhar, Noor-ul H. Khan, Sayed H. R. Abdi, and Hari C. Bajaj 2014 Unravelling a New Class of Chiral Organocatalyst for Asymmetric Ring Opening Reaction of Meso Epoxides with Anilines. Org. Lett. 16(11), 2798–2801 (if=6.579, ci=20)

2. Manish Kumar, R.I. Kureshy et al. 2013 Asymmetric Aminolytic Kinetic Resolution of Racemic Epoxides Using Recyclable Chiral Polymeric Co(III)-Salen Complexes: A Protocol for Total Utilization of Racemic Epoxide in the Synthesis of (R)-Naftopidil and (S)-Propranolol, J. Org. Chem. 78(18), 9076–9084 (if=4.849, ci=22)

3. R.I. Kureshy, T. Roy, N.H. Khan, S.H.R. Abdi, A. Sadhukhan, H.C. Bajaj, 2012, Reusable chiral macrocyclic Mn (III) salen complexes for enantioselective epoxidation of non-functionalized alkenes, J. Catal., 286, 41-50 (if=6.073, ci=36)

4. R.I. Kureshy, A. Das, N. H. Khan, S.H.R. Abdi, H.C. Bajaj, 2011, Cu(II)-macrocylic [H4]salen catalyzed asymmetric nitroaldol reaction and its application in the synthesis of α1-adrenergic receptor agonist (R)-phenylephrine, ACS Catal. 1, 1529 (if=7.572, ci=41)

5. R. I. Kureshy, K J. Prathap, T. Roy, N. C. Maity, N.H. Khan, S.H.R. Abdi, H.C. Bajaj, 2010, Reusable Chiral Di-Cationic Cr(III) Salen Catalysts for Aminolytic Kinetic Resolution of Trans-Epoxides, Adv. Synth. & Catal. 352, 3053 (if=5.542, ci=15)

6. N.H. Khan, R.I. Kureshy, S.H.R. Abdi, R.V. Jasra, 2008, Metal catalyzed asymmetric cyanation reactions, Coordination Chem. Review, 252, 593. (Contributed in compilation of literature reports). (if=12.098, ci=70)

7. R.I. Kureshy, S. Singh, N.H. Khan, S.H.R. Abdi, E. Suresh, R.V. Jasra, 2006, Facile Enantioselective Ring-Opening Reaction of meso Epoxides with Anilines Using (S)-(–)-BINOL-Ti Complex as a Catalyst, Eur. J. Org. Chem, 1303. (if=3.154, ci=41)

8. R.I. Kureshy, I. Ahmad, N.H. Khan, S.H.R. Abdi, K. Pathak R.V. Jasra, 2006, Chiral Mn(III) salen complexes covalently bonded on modified MCM-41 and SBA-15 as efficient catalysts for enantioselective epoxidation of nonfunctionalized alkenes, J. Catal. 238(1): 134-141. (if=6.073, ci=164)

9. R. I. Kureshy, I. Ahmad, N.H. Khan, S.H.R. Abdi, S. Singh, R.V. Jasra, 2005, New Immobilized chiral Mn(III) salen complexes on pyridine N-oxide modified MCM-41 as effective catalysts for the synthesis of pharmaceutically important epoxides, J. Catal. 235, 28–34. (if=6.073, ci=103)

10. R.I. Kureshy, N.H. Khan, S.H.R. Abdi, I. Ahmad, S. Singh, R.V. Jasra, 2004, Dicationic chiral Mn(III) salen complex exchanged in the inter-layers of montmorillonite clay: A heterogeneous enantioselective catalysts for epoxidation of nonfunctionalized alkenes. J. Catal. 221, 234-240. (if=6.073, ci=129)

348

LINGAMALLU, GIRIBABU (b 1969), Principal Scientist, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad


Giribabu has more than 20 years experience in both basic and applied research. In basic research he has designed several donor-acceptor systems based on tetrapyrrolic systems to understand natural photosynthetic phenomena. He is the pioneer for the utilization of 'axial-bonding' concept in the construction of donor-acceptor (D-A) systems (Inorg. Chem. 38, 4971-4980, 1999). Till date there is only one example in the literature for the construction of D-A systems by utilizing both axial and peripheral positions, that was reported by Giribabu et al. (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Eng. 40, 3621-3624, 2001). Recently my group initiated porphyrin based self-assembled systems for bio-mimicking of photosynthesis. Giribabu mainly focused for the design of efficient materials for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC), non-linear optical properties and sensitizers for photodynamic therapy in the applied research. His group involved in the development of sensitizers, new redox couples and carbon based materials for counter electrodes for DSSC devices. One of the great achievement that he has designed low-cost, efficient and durable unsymmetrical soluble phthalocyanine sensitizers to DSSC for the first time (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Eng., 46, 373-376, 2007). His group also designed several heteroleptic Ru(II) polypyridyl complexes to suit for gel electrolytes as well as on plastic substrates for the first time (Engergy & Environ Sci., 2, 770-773, 2009). Recently porphyrin based sensitizers have crossed 10% efficiency in our group (J. Phys. Chem. C 2017). Giribabu's group also involved in the design materials for non-linear optical properties (J. Mate. Chem. C 2, 1711-1722, 2017).

Proposer: Dr. M. Lakshmi Kantam, Seconder: Dr. G. Narahari Sastri


1. “Efficient Sensitization of Nanocrystalline TiO2 Films by a Near Infrared Absorbing Unsymmetrical Zinc Phthalocyanine,” Reddy, P.Y.; Giribabu, L.; Lyness, C.; Snaith, H.J.; Vijaykumar, Ch.; Chendrasekheram, M.; Lakshmikantam, M.; Hum, J.;, Kalyan (if=12.102, ci=375)

2. “Unsymmetrical Alkoxy Zinc Phthalocyanine for Sensitization of Nanocrystalline TiO2 Films,” Giribabu, L.; Vijaykumar, Ch.; Reddy, V.G.; Reddy, P.Y.; Jang, S-R.; Yum, J-H.; Nazeeruddin, M.K.; Gratzel, M. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 91, (if=4.784, ci=138)

3. “A Combined Experimental and Computational Investigation of Anthracene Based Sensitizers for DSSC: Comparison of Cyanocrylic and Malonicacid Electron Withdrawing Groups Binding onto TiO2 Anatage (101) Surface.:, Srinivas, K.; Yesudas, K.; Bhanupr (if=4.536, ci=158)

4. “High Molar Extinction Coefficient Amphiphilic Ruthenium Sensitizers for Efficient and Stable Mesoscopic Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells,” Giribabu, L.; Vijaykumar, Ch.; Rao. Ch.S.; Gopal Reddy, V.; Reddy, P.Y.; Chandrasekharam, M.; Soujanya, Y. Enger (if=30.067, ci=37)

5. “Unidirectional Energy Transfer in a Tin(IV) Porphyrin Based Donor Acceptor System,” Giribabu, L.; Kumar,A.A.; Neeraja,V.; Maiya,B.G. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Eng. 40, 3621-3624, (2001). (if=12.102, ci=49)

6. “Axial-Bonding Type Hybrid Porphyrin Arrays: Synthesis, Spectroscopy, Electrochemistry and Singlet State Properties,” Giribabu, L.; Rao,T.A.; Maiya,B.G.; Inorg. Chem. 38, 4971-4980 (1999). (if=4.857, ci=91)

7. Photoinduced Electrontransfer in Bisporphyrin-Diimide Complexes,” Flamigni, L.; Jhonston, M. R.; Giribabu, L.; Chem. Eur. J. 8(17), 3938-3947, (2002). (if=5.317, ci=70)

8. Metal-free organic dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells: recent advances,” Kumar, K. R.; Jaipal, K.; Giribabu, L. Tetrahedron 68, 8383-8393, (2012). (if=2.645, ci=115)

9. Donor-π-Acceptor Based Stable Porphyrin Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Effect of π-Conjugated Spacers,"Krishna, N. V.; Krishna, J. V. S.; Singh, S. P.; Giribabu, L.; Han, L.; Bedja, I.; Gupta, R. K. Islam, A. J. Phys. Chem. C 121, 6464-6 (if=4.502, ci=39)

10. Sterically Demanded Zinc(II)Phthalocyanines: Synthesis, Optical, Electrochemical, Nonlinear Optical, ExcitedState Dynamics Studies,” Swain, D.; Singh, R.; Singh, V. K.; Krishna, N. V.; Giribabu, L.; Rao, S. V. J. Mate. Chem. C 2, 1711-1722, (2014). (if=5.976, ci=38)

349

MARAVANJI, BALAKRISHNA SHIVARAMAIAH (b 1960), Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai

Member of the NASI : No (YON 2015, Chemical Sciences)

The phosphorus-based ligands containing one or more donor functionalities have an edge in coordination chemistry and catalysis due to the availability of labile donor sites and their unique and diverse δ-donor and -acceptor capabilities. These ligands do not participate in the catalytic process itself, but they do determine or influence the course of the reactions that occur at the metal center. These well thought assembly of ligands would dictate the coordination sphere around the metal center in such a way that the selective binding sites for substrate and reagent molecules can be created at the metal center. In this context, several interesting phosphorus-based ligands have been prepared and their organometallic chemistry is explored. The anionic PdII complexes containing Pd-P -bond have shown remarkable catalytic activity in several catalytic reactions. First examples of phosphines based copper clusters having sodalite, dimondoid and extended dimondoid topologies have been isolated and structurally characterized. The copper(I) complexes containing cyclodiphosphazane ligands have shown 25-fold more anti proliferative activity than cis-platin and analogous compounds towards breast and cervical cancer cell lines, yet with very low concentrations. We have also developed water soluble phosphorus ligands for catalytic and biological studies. Ferrocenyl phosphane derivatives have produced very rare Cu4I4 cubanes embedded 3D coordination polymers with monomeric units consists of 24 and 36-membered macrocycles. For the first time we have shown with X-ray structures, the week intermolecular P…P interactions and their utility to form 2D-polymers. Our research interests include designing novel ligands, organometallic compounds and their biological and catalytic investigations.

Proposer: Prof. C.P. Rao, Seconder: Prof. H.B. Singh

Ten Best Publications :

1. C. Ganesamoorthy, P. P. George, J.T. Mague and M. S. Balakrishna, 2007. Di- and Tetranuclear CuI Complexes Containing Phenylaminobis-(phosphonite), PhN {P(OC6H4OMe-O)2}2 and Their Reactivity toward Bipyridyl Ligands. Inorg. Chem. 46, 848-858. (IF=4.794, CI=43) 2. P. Chandrasekaran, J. T. Mague and M. S. Balakrishna, 2006. Copper(I) Coordination Polymers [{Cu(µ-X)}2{RP(µ-NtBu)}2]n and Their Reversible Conversion into Mononuclear Complexes [CuX{(RP(µ-NtBu))2}2]: Synthesis and Structural Characterization. Inorg. Chem. 45, 6678-6683 (one of the most cited (TOP 20) article, http://pubs.acs.org/journals/promo/most/most_cited/index.html) (IF=4.794, CI=51) 3. B. Punji, J.T. Mague and M.S. Balakrishna, 2006. Synthesis of Neutral (PdII, PtII), Cationic (PdII) and Water-Induced Anioic (PdII) Complexes Containing New Mesocyclic Thioether-Aminophosphonite Ligands and Their Application in Suzuki Cross-Coupling Reaction. Inorg. Chem. 45, 9454-9464. (IF=4.794, CI=39) 4. P. Chandrasekaran, J.T. Mague and M.S. Balakrishna, 2006. Intramolecular Amine Induced [1,3] -Sigmatropic Rearrangement in the Reactions of Aminophosphites or Phosphites with Elemental Sulfur or Selenium, Inorg. Chem. 45, 5893-5897. (IF=4.794, CI=36) 5. M.S. Balakrishna, P. Chandrasekaran and J.T. Mague, 2005. Tetranuclear-rhodium(I) macrocycle containing cyclodiphosphazane, [Rh2(µ-Cl)2(CO)2 {(BuNP(OC6H4OMe-o))2-κP]2 and its reversible conversion into trans-[Rh(CO)Cl{(BuNP(OC6H4OMe-O))2-κP}2]. Organometallics 24, 3780. (IF=4.253, CI=56) 6. P. Chandrasekaran, J.T. Mague and M.S. Balakrishna, 2005. Cyclodiphosphazanes with hemilabile ponytails: Synthesis, transition metal chemistry (Ru(II), Rh(I), Pd(II), Pt(II)) and crystal and molecular structures of mono- (Pd(II), Rh(I)), bi- and tetra-nuclear rhodium(I) complexes. Inorg. Chem. 44, 7925-32 (IF=4.794, CI=59) 7. S. Priya, M.S. Balakrishna, J.T. Mague and S.M. Mobin, 2003. Insertion of carbon fragments into P(III)-N bonds in phosphinoamines and bis(phosphino) amines: Synthesis, reactivity and coordination chemistry of resulting phosphine oxide derivatives. Crystal and molecular structures of (Ph2P(O)CH2)2NR (R=Me, nPr, nBu), Ph2P(O)CH(OH)nPr and cis –[MoO2Cl2{(Ph2P(O)CH2)2NEt-kO,kO}]. Inorg. Chem. 42, 1272-1281 (IF=4.794, CI=71) 8. S. Priya, M.S. Balakrishna, S.M. Mobin and R. McDonald, 2003. Half-sandwich Ruthenium (II) Complexes of Aminophosphines: Synthesis, Structures and Catalytic Applications in C-C Coupling Reactions between Styrenes and Diphenyldiazomethane. J. Organomet. Chem. 688, 227-235 (IF=2.302, CI=43) 9. M. S. Balakrishna, Rashmishree Panda and J. T. Mague, 2001. New 10-Membered Novel Inorganic Heterocyclic Diphosphanes, PhN{PX}2{(-OC6H2(tBu)2(µ-S)((tBu)2C6H2O-)} (X=Cl, F). Synthesis and Transition Metal Complexes (Molybdenum (0), Ruthenium(II), Palladium(II) and Platinum(II)) of Heterocyclic Diphosphanes. Crystal and Molecular Structures of the Chloro Derivative, PhN{PCl}2{(OC6H2(tBu)2(µ-S)(tBu)2C6H2O-)} and of a Mo(0) Complex of the Fluoro Derivative, [Mo(CO)3{ɳ3-PhN{PF}2{(-OC6H2(tBu)2(µ-S)((tBu)2C6H2O-)}-κP,κP,κS}]. Inorg. Chem. 40, 5620 (IF=4.794, CI=49) 10. M. S. Balakrishna and B. Kaboudin, 2001. A Simple and New Method for the Synthesis of 1,5- Benzodiazepine Derivatives on the Solid Surface. Tetrahedron Lett. 42, 2001, 1127 (IF=2.86, CI=189)

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MISHRA, LALLAN (b 1950), Emeritus Professor, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Science, BHU, Varanasi


Professor Lallan Mishra has contributed extensively in the development of metal complexes as probable anti-cancer drugs. Several ruthenium polypyridyl complexes developed by Prof. Mishra, have been found potential anti-HIV and cytotoxic lead drugs and some of them possess substantially higher anti-HIV activity compared to the standard azidothymidine (AZT). [Bio-org. Med. Chem., 9, 1667, 2001]. Prof. Mishra’s compounds also showed cytotoxic and anti-HIV activity against ovarian carcinoma and lung-adeno carcinoma and ileothecal carcinoma (Metal-Based Drugs, 8, 65, 2001; ibid,8, 113, 2001). Some of the complexes induced increase in P53 level and also release of cytochromec and DNA cleavage (Biochimie, 2015,110, 52-61). Also developed simple nano-size sheet-like and tubular materials and metallo supramolecules, which have potential to act as a receptor for binding of phenol and hexa fluorobenzene. A light/pH/multiple ion-driven smart switchable module for computing sequential logic operations via a resettable dual-optical readout, have been appreciated in material design, J. Mater. Chem.C, 2015, 3, 12123-12129, Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 8272. Currently the group of Professor Mishra has developed a molecular module of traffic light(Dalton Trans., 2019, 48, 158-167).Professor Mishra had been invited to present his research on anticancer drugs in several International conferences including 100th Nobel award anniversary to Paul Ehrlich” Magic Bullet” conference organized in Nuremberg, Germany during Oct 2-5, 2008. Professor Mishra has co-authored six book Chapters.

Proposer: Prof. Girjesh Govil, Seconder: Prof. K.V.R. Chary


1. N. De meyer, A. Haemers, L. Mishra, H.K. Padey, L.A.C. Peters, Van den Berghe and A.J. Vlietinck, 1991, "3-Methoxyflavones as antipicornavirus agents", J. Medicinal Chem., 34, 736. (if=5.2, ci=150)

2. L Mishra, V.K Singh, 1993, Synthesis, structural and antifungal studies of Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II) complexes with new Schiff-bases bearing benzimidazoles, Indian Journal of Chemistry, Section A, 32, 5, 446-449. (if=0.729, ci=134)

3. Lallan Mishra, Ajay K. Yadaw, Sudha Srivastava and Anant Bahadur Patel, 2000, "Synthesis, spectroscopic, electrochemical and antibacterial studies of new Ru(lI) 1,10-phenanthroline complexes containing aryl diazopentane, 2,4-dione as co-ligand" New Journal of Chemistry (CNRS-Royal Soc. of Chem.),24 (7), 505. (if=3.2, ci=53)

4. Lallan Mishra et al., 2011, One pot synthesis of Cu(II) 2,2′-bipyridyl complexes of 5-hydroxy-hydurilic acid and alloxanic acid: Synthesis, crystal structure, chemical nuclease activity and cytotoxicity, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 105, 256-267. (if=3.3, ci=26)

5. Lallan Mishra et al., 2012, The importance of cellular localisation of probes: Synthesis, photophysical properties, DNA interactions and cellular imaging properties of rhenium dppz complexes with known cellular localisation vectors, New journal of chemistry, 36, 64-72.(if=3.3, ci=40)

6. Pramod Kumar Yadav, Niraj Kumari and Lallan Mishra, 2012, Metal (Znll,Cdll) 1, 10-phenanthrolines containing coordination polymers constructed on the skeleton of polycarboxylates: synthesis, characterization, micro structural and gas adsorption studies, Crystal Growth and Design, 12, 5311-5319. (if=4.8, ci=36)

7. Ruchi Gaur and Lallan Mishra, 2012, Synthesis and Characterization of Ru(II)−DMSO−Cl−Chalcone Complexes: DNA Binding, Nuclease, and Topoisomerase II Inhibitory Activity, Inorg. Chem., 51, 3059−3070. (if=4.8, ci=46)

8. Lallan Mishra et al., 2015, A light/pH/multiple ion-driven smart switchable module for computing sequential logic operations via a resettable dual-optical readout, J. Mater. Chem. C, 3, 12123-12129 (if=5.1, ci=11)

9. Abhishek Rai, Alok Kumar Singh, Avinash Kumar Sonkar, Anand Prakash, Jagat Kumar Roy, Rajamani Nagarajan and Lallan Mishra, 2016, A smart switchable module for detection of multiple-ions via turn on dual-optical readout and their cell-imaging studies, Dalton Trans., 45, 8272 (if=4.2, ci=3)

10. Abhishek Rai, Alok Kumar Singh, Kamini Tripathi, Avinash Kumar Sonkar, Brijesh Singh Chauhan, Saripella Srikrishna, T.D. James and Lallan Mishra, A quick and selective rhodamine based “smart probe” for “signal-on” optical detection of Cu2+ and Al3+ in water, cell imaging, computational studies and solid state analysis, Sensors and Actuators B: Chem (if=5.6, ci=12)

351

MUKHERJEE, PARTHA SARATHI (b 1973), Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore


Mukherjee has made outstanding contributions to coordination-driven self-assembly. Employing directional self-assembly, Mukherjee’s group has developed several water-soluble molecular vessels and used them for catalytic organic transformations in the confined nanospace of such architectures (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 1668; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 11709; Chem. Sci. 2016, 5893); stabilization of unstable/transient merocyanines in both solid and solution phase (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018,7952). Mukherjee has also developed analogous organic molecular vessels for the nucleation of metal nanoparticles of controlled size and used them for catalysis (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 12595, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, in press). His group is the first to observe the self-sorting phenomenon in covalent cage formation (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 554). This has opened up a new area for designing selective formation of desired organic cage molecules from complex mixture. His research has also established that such unusual self-sorting in purely organic cage formation can be nicely controlled by proper functionalization. He has pioneered the use of coordination-driven self-assembly for the development of electron-rich fluorescent cages and their use as potential selective sensors for the detection of solution/vapour of explosive nitroaromatics. He has developed a new concept of introducing H-bond bond as driving force for the dramatic enhancement of sensitivity of sensors. This concept gave the birth of new generation supramolecular materials for sensing explosives (Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 13662). He is also having remarkable contribution on polynuclear magnetic materials and single molecule magnets (Acc. Chem. Res. 2013, 2566).

Proposer: Prof. Govindasamy Mugesh, Seconder: Prof. Dayashankar Pandey


1. P. Howlader, B. Mondal, P. P. Chowdhury, E. Zangrando, P. S. Mukherjee, 2018, "Self-assembled molecular barrels as containers for transient merocyanine and reverse photochromism" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 7952 (if=14.35, ci=5)

2. B. Mondal, P. S. Mukherjee, 2018, "Cage Encapsulated Gold Nanoparticles as Heterogeneous Photocatalyst for Facile and Selective Reduction of Nitroarenes to Azo compounds" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 12595 (if=14.35, ci=4)

3. P. Howlader, P. Das, E. Zangrando, P. S. Mukherjee, 2016, "Urea functionalized self-assembled molecular prism for heterogeneous catalysis in water" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 1668 (if=14.35, ci=86)

4. B. Mondal, K. Acharyya, P. Howlader, P. S. Mukherjee, 2016, "Molecular cage impregnated Pd nanoparticles: Efficient additive-free heterogeneous catalysts for cyanation of aryl halides" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 1709 (if=14.35, ci=73)

5. B. Roy, A. K. Ghosh, S. Srivasta, P. D’Silva, P. S. Mukherjee, 2015, "A Pd8 Tetrafacial Molecular Barrel as Carrier for Water Insoluble Fluorophore" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 11916 (if=14.35, ci=60)

6. I. Bhat, D. Samanta, P. S. Mukherjee, 2015, "A Pd24 Pregnant Molecular Nanoball: Self-Templated Stellation by Precise Mapping of Coordination Sites" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 9497 (if=14.35, ci=50)

7. D. Samanta, P. S. Mukherjee, 2014, "Sunlight induced molecular covalent marriage of two triply interlocked Pd6 cages and their facile thermal separation" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 17006 (if=14.35, ci=44)

8. K. Acharyya, S. Mukherjee, P. S. Mukherjee, 2013, "Molecular marriage through partner preferences in covalent cage formation and cage to cage transformation" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 554 (if=14.35, ci=65)

9. A. K. Bar, R. Chakraborty, G. Mostafa, P. S. Mukherjee, 2008, "Self-assembly of a nanoscopic Fe12Pt12 open hexagonal barrel containing six porphyrin walls" Angew Chem. Int. Ed. 47, 8455 (if=12.10, ci=106)

10. P. Howlader, P. S. Mukherjee, 2016, "Face and edge directed self-assembly Pd12 tetrahedral nanocages and their self-sorting" Chem. Sci. 7, 5893 (if=9.4, ci=24)

352

NATH, SUKHENDU (b 1971), Scientific Officer (G), Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai


Dr. Nath indigenously developed femtosecond 2-dimensional infrared (2DIR) spectrometer, which is the only one of its kind in India. His group is in the process of transferring the know-how technology of the 2DIR spectrometer for its low cost production in India. Dr. Nath has used the 2DIR spectrometer for layerwise decomposition of water dynamics in reverse micelles and shown that water dynamics at the central pool becomes bulk like nature at much lower water content than it was believed earlier. Dr. Nath has made significant contribution in understanding the excited state dynamics of ultrafast molecular rotors (UMR) using ultrafast spectroscopic techniques. He has revealed for the first time that a barrierless ultrafast torsional motion is responsible for the sensing activity of Thioflavin T (ThT) in amyloid fibril (J. Phys. Chem. B 2010, 114, 2541, Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 14042). He has synthesized several UMR and explored their potential as fluorescence sensor (Chem. Eu. J 2010, 16, 9257). His studies on UMR in confined bio-mimicking systems are very useful for the development of new classes of UMR based sensor (Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 6912, J. Phys. Chem. B 2009, 113, 8532, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2011, 13, 8008). Dr. Nath has sensibly used UMRs for the sensitive detection of hydrocarbons in solution (Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, 17, 5691). Recently, he has also explored the application of UMR in the nucleic acid research (Chem. Comm. 2012, 48, 5301).

Proposer: Prof. J. P. Mittal, Seconder: Prof. D. K. Palit


1. S Nath, H Pal, DK Palit, AV Sapre, JP Mittal, 1998, Aggregation of fullerene, C60, in benzonitrile, J. Phys. Chem. B 102, 10158 (IF=3.302, CI=128)

2. S. Nath, D. C. Urbanek, S.J. Kern, M. A. Berg, 2006, High-Resolution Raman spectra with femtosecond pulses: An example of combined time- and frequency-domain spectroscopy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 267401 (IF=7.512, CI=31)

3. P. K. Singh, M. Kumbhakar, H. Pal, S. Nath, 2009, Ultrafast Torsional Dynamics of Protein binding dye, Thioflavin T, in Nanoconfined Water Pool, J. Phys. Chem. B, 113, 8532 (IF=3.302, CI=44)

4. A. Srivastava, P.K. Singh, M. Kumbhakar, T. Mukherjee, S. Chattopadyay, H. Pal, S. Nath, 2010, Identifying the bond responsible for the fluorescence modulation in amyloid fibril sensor, Chem. Eur. J., 16, 9257 (IF=5.731, CI=19)

5. P. K. Singh, M. Kumbhakar, H. Pal, S. Nath, 2010, Ultrafast bond twisting dynamics in amyloid sensor, J. Phys. Chem. B, 114, 2541 (IF=3.302, CI=40)

6. P. K. Singh, M. Kumbhakar, H. Pal, S. Nath, 2010, Viscosity Effect on the Ultrafast Bond Twisting Dynamics in an Amyloid Fibril Sensor: Thioflavin-T, J. Phys. Chem. B, 114, 5920 (IF=3.302, CI=64)

7. P. K. Singh, M. Kumbhakar, H. Pal, S. Nath, 2011, Nano-Confined Charged Layer Defies the Principle of Electrostatic Interaction, Chem. Commun., 47, 6912 (IF=6.834, CI=10)

8. S. Murudkar, A. K. Mora, P. K. Singh, S. Nath, 2012, Ultrafast molecular rotor: An efficient sensor for premelting of natural DNA, Chem. Comm. 48, 5301 (IF=6.834, CI=15)

9. S. Murudkar, A. K. Mora, P. K. Singh. T. Bandyopadhyay, S. Nath, 2015, Ultrafast molecular rotor based ternary complex in a nanocavity: A potential “turn on” fluorescence sensor for hydrocarbon chain, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 17, 5691 (IF=4.198, CI=5)

10. P. K. Singh, A. K. Mora, S. Nath, 2015, Ultrafast fluorescence spectroscopy reveals a dominant weakly-emissive population of fibril bound Thioflavin-T, Chem. Commun. 51, 14042 (IF=6.834)

353

PATHAK, TANMAYA (b 1958), Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur-721302


Increasing demand for new chemical entities required efficient synthetic strategies for creating molecules with skeletal complexity including stereochemical diversity. Since structural variation of carbohydrates and the high density of functional groups offer scopes for modification, Pathak combined the high reactivity of vinyl sulfone (or selenone) with the in-built diversities of carbohydrates. Further synthetic manipulations afforded a wide range of modified sugars, and enantimerically pure densely carbocycles and heterocycles. This research also leads to the utilization of biomass in synthetic chemistry. A selected group of new compounds found applications as spacers for hybrid molecules, ligands for metal complexation, building blocks for gels, and designed peptidomimetics whereas some others were shown to possess biological activities. Pathak also developed methodologies for generating sugar-modified nucleosides, namely, aminonucleosides, vinyl sulfone-modified nucleosides, S,S-dioxidethiazine nucleosides, hexopyranosyl nucleosides, isonucleosides and branched chain nucleosides as ring conformational changes impart greater complexity to the overall structure. The biological applications of modified nucleosides were extended further to inhibit ribonuclease A, a model enzyme used in the development of inhibitors of other ribonucleases including angiogenin, implicated in the growth of solid tumors. The study continues to generate a wide variety of inhibitors and new information on the structural features of these enzymes. To popularize chemistry with young students, Pathak regularly participates as a resource person in workshops supported by the three Academies. Pathak’s scientific contribution has been recognized by “CRSI Bronze Medal”, “Dr. D.S.Bhakuni Award”, “Excellence in Carbohydrate Research Award” and his election as a Fellow to Indian Academy of Sciences.

Proposer: Prof. Amit Basak, Seconder: Prof. Pinakpani Chakrabarti


1. Ravindran, B.; Sakthivel, K.; Suresh, C. G.; Pathak, T. (2000) Diastereoselective Addition of Amines to Vinyl Sulfone Modified Carbohydrates: A Highly Flexible Methodology for the Synthesis of New Classes of Deoxyamino Sugars. J. Org. Chem. 65, 2637-2641.(if=4.805, ci=39)

2. Sanki, A. K.; Suresh, C. G.; Falgune, U. D.; Pathak, T. (2003) Anomeric configuration directed diastereoselective C-C bond formation in vinyl sulfone-modified carbohydrates: A general route to branched-chain sugars. Org. Lett. 5, 1285-1288. (if=6.492, ci=27)

3. Das, I.; Pathak, T. (2006) Desulfonylation with Mg-MeOH-NiBr2: an expedient reagent system for the synthesis of 2-amino-2,3-dideoxy furanosides. Org. Lett. 8, 1303-1306. (if=6.492, ci=25)

4. Das, I.; Pal, T. K.; Suresh, C. G.; Pathak, T. (2007) Diastereoselective C-C Bond Formation at C-5 of Vinyl Sulfone-Modified Hex-5-enofuranosyl Carbohydrates: Diversity-Oriented Synthesis of Branched-Chain Sugars and Beyond. J. Org. Chem. 72, 5523-5533.(if=4.805, ci=20)

5. Samanta, A.; Leonidas, D. D.; Dasgupta, S.; Pathak, T.; Zographo, S. E.; Oikonomakos, N. G. (2009) Morpholino, piperidino, and pyrrolidino derivatives of pyrimidine nucleosides as inhibitors of ribonuclease A: synthesis, biochemical, and crystallographic evaluation. J. Med. Chem. 52, 932-942. (if=6.253, ci=21)

6. Debnath, J.; Dasgupta, S.; Pathak, T. (2012) Dinucleosides with Non-Natural Backbones: A New Class of Ribonuclease A and Angiogenin Inhibitors. Chem. Eur. J 18, 1618-1627. (if=5.160, ci=11)

7. Kayet, A.; Pathak, T. (2013) 1, 5-Disubstituted 1,2,3-triazolylation at C1, C2, C3, C4 and C6 of pyranosides: a metal-free route to triazolyl monosaccharides and triazole-linked disaccharides. J. Org. Chem. 78, 9865−9875. (if=4.805, ci=27)

8. Sahu,D.; Dey,S.; Pathak, T.; Ganguly, B., (2014) Regioselectivity of Vinyl Sulfone Based 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reactions with Sugar Azides by Computational and Experimental Studies. Org. Lett, 16, 2100-2103. (if=6.492, ci=33)

9. Dey, S.; Pathak, T. (2014) A general route to 1,5-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles with alkyl/alkyl, alkyl/aryl, aryl/aryl combinations: a metal-free, regioselective, one-pot three component approach. RSC Adv., 4, 9275-9278 (if=2.936, ci=24)

10. Bhaumik, A.; Pal, T. K.; Pathak, T. (2015) Methyl-alpha-D-2-selenonyl pent-2-enofuranoside: a unique selenosugar for the diversity oriented synthesis of enantiomerically pure heterocycles, carbocycles and isonucleosides. J. Org. Chem. 80, 11057–11064. (if=4.805, ci=06)

354

SHARMA, YOGESH CHANDRA (b. 1963) Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT, BHU, Varanasi


Professor Sharma has done scholastic work in chemistry of Water Pollution Control that has tremendous theoretical as well as industrial applications. His work is well recognized by the international community. He has been on Editorial Boards of several reputed journals and has been reviewer of many international professional journals. His work on 'nano adsorbents' was highly recognized in academic fraternity and this work has high impact on water pollution control in particular and that on environment in general. He has synthesized many 'nano adsorbents' and has deciphered chemistry of water remediation. As these materials can be regenerated and reused many times, the cost of water treatment comes down drastically. His otherresearch interests are focused on Renewable Energy where he has done remarkable work on various aspects of 'biodiesel'. He has synthesized 'biodiesel' from several economically viable feedstock including non edible oils and waste frying oils. He has synthesized a number of heterogeneous catalysts also from waste materials. Professor Sharma has authored two important text books and has edited another two. He has contributed Ten 'chapters' in different books from international publishers. He has authored highly cited research and review articles in 'top rated' international professional journals. Because of his scholarly accomplishments, he has recently been admitted as Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2014. He is also conferred with the prestigious 'Hiyoshi Environmental Award 2016'. His SCOPUS h index is 36. He is a highly deserving candidate for the fellow of National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad.

Proposer: Prof. Sandeep Verma, Seconder: Prof. S.N. Upadhyay

Ten Best Publications: 1. Sharma, Y.C.,Singh, B., Upadhyay,S.N., (2008). Advancements in development and characterization of biodiesel: A review Fuel, 87, 2355-2373 (if=4.140 sco ci=560 gs ci=868) 2. Y.C. Sharma, B. Singh, (2009). Development of biodiesel: Current scenario, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 13, 1646-1651 (if=7.896, sco ci=225 gs ci=363) 3. Sharma, Y.C., Singh, B., Upadhyay, S.N., (2008) Development of biodiesel from karanja, a tree found in rural India, Fuel, 87, 1740-1742. (if=4.140, sco ci=126 gs ci=203) 4. Y.C. Sharma, B. Singh, J. Korstad, (2011) Latest developments on application of heterogeneous base catalysts for an efficient and ecofriendly synthesis of biodiesel: a review, Fuel, 90,1309-1324. (if=4.140, sco ci=130, gs ci=171) 5. Weng, C.H., Sharma, Y.C., Chu, S.H., (2008) Adsorption of Cr(VI) from aqueous solutions by spent activated clay, Journal of Hazardous Materials,155, 65-75. (if=5.277, sco ci=129, gs ci=168) 6. Weng, C.H., Tsai, C.Z., Chu, S.H., Sharma, Y.C., 2007. Adsorption characteristics of copper(II) onto spent activated clay, Separation and Purification Technology, 54, 187-197. (if=3.494, sco ci=119, gs ci=147) 7. Sharma, Y.C., Srivastava, V., Singh, V.K., Kaul, S.N., Weng, C.H., (2009) Nano-adsorbents for the removal of metallic pollutants from water and wastewater, Environmental Technology, 30, 879-884. (if=1.760, sco ci=115, gs ci=156) 8. Sharma, Y.C., Uma, Upadhyay, S.N., (2009) Removal of a cationic dye from wastewaters by adsorption on activated carbon developed from coconut coir, Energy and Fuels, 23, 2983-2988. (if=2.790, sco ci=96, gs ci=134) 9. Y.C. Sharma, J. Korstad, B. Singh, (2011) Advancements in solid acid catalysts for synthesis of eco-friendly and economically viable synthesis of biodiesel, Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, 5, 69-92. (if=4.416, sco ci=95, gs ci=133) 10. Ashish Birla, Bhskar Singh, Yogesh C. Sharma, Siddh N. Upadhyay (2012), Kinetics of synthesis of biodiesel from waste frying oil using a heterogeneous catalyst derived from snail shell, Bioresource Technology, 106, 95-100. (if=5.744, sco ci=106 gs ci=141)

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355

SINGH, KUNWAR PAL (b 1952) Chief Scientist, CSIR- Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow


Dr. Singh has made very significant scientific contributions through his original research work particularly addressing both the National as well International issues. He has carried out research in the areas of water management through developing water quality databases on most important river system in the country, required by the national agencies for developing appropriate strategies for their restoration and management; a unique database on levels of several pharmaceuticals in Indian water and wastewaters, and the developed novel materials for efficient decontamination of water/wastewater with particular reference to highly undesirable and toxic chemicals, an issue of both the national and international concerns, are impressive contributions. His work on POPs and PTSs, particularly developing source inventories, environmental levels, identifying hot-spots and data-gaps in India and Indian Ocean Region countries is highly significant for the timely management of these chemicals on global level. Dr. Singh has also made significant contributions towards advancement of knowledge in the globally emerging area of modeling. As evident from his research publications, Dr. Singh has developed several chemometric methods, as useful tools for data mining to infer meaningful information, identify major pollutants, their sources and quantitative contributions for their control. He has also developed several artificial intelligence based computational methods for predicting the properties and activities of structurally diverse industrial chemicals for their safety assessment and molecular designing to synthesize environmental-friendly safe chemicals. Significance of his research work is well evident from his research publications with high citations.

Proposer: Prof. Vinod Kumar Gupta, Seconder: Prof. Ashok Kumar Mishra

Ten Best Publications: 1. Dinesh Mohan, Kunwar P. Singh (2002) Single and multi-component adsorption of cadmium and zinc using activated carbon derived from bagasse – an agricultural waste. Water Research, 36, 2304-2318 (if= 6.942, ci=1036) 2. Kunwar P. Singh, Dinesh Mohan, Sarita Sinha, R. Dalwani (2004) Impact assessment of treated/untreated wastewater toxicants discharged by sewage treatment plants on health, agricultural, and environmental quality in the wastewater disposal area. Chemosphere, 55, 227-255 (if= 4.208, ci=429) 3. Kunwar P. Singh, Amrita Malik, Dinesh Mohan, Sarita Sinha (2004) Multivariate statistical techniques for the evaluation of spatial and temporal variations in water quality of Gomti river (India) - A case study. Water Research 38, 3980-3992 (if= 6.942, ci=1056) 4. Kunwar P. Singh, Amrita Malik, Sarita Sinha (2005) Water quality assessment and apportionment of pollution sources of Gomti river (India) using multivariate statistical techniques - A case study Analytica Chimica Acta, 538, 355-374 (if= 4.950, ci=675) 5. Kunwar P. Singh, Dinesh Mohan, Vinod K. Singh, Amrita Malik (2005) Studies on distribution and fractionation of heavy metals in Gomti river sediments- A tributary of the Ganges, India Journal of Hydrology, 312, 14-27 (if= 3.483, ci=536) 6. Kunwar P. Singh, Ankita Basant, Amrita Malik, Gunja Jain (2009) Artificial neural network modeling of river water quality - A case study Ecological Modelling, 220, 888-895. (if= 2.363, ci=352) 7. Kunwar P. Singh, Shikha Gupta, Arun K. Singh, Sarita Sinha (2011) Optimizing adsorption of crystal violet from water by magnetic nanocomposite using response surface modeling approach Journal of Hazardous Materials, 186, 1462-1473.(if= 6.065, ci=219) 8. Kunwar P. Singh, Nikita Basant, Shikha Gupta (2011) Support vector machines in water quality management. Analytica Chimica Acta, 703, 152-162. (if= 4.950, ci=83) Published as Feature Cover Page article [Analytica Chimica Acta, 734,106 (2012)]. 9. Kunwar P. Singh, Shikha Gupta (2014) Nano-QSAR modeling for predicting biological activity of diverse nanomaterials RSC Advances, 4, 13215-13230. (if= 3.108, ci=72) 10. Kunwar P. Singh, Shikha Gupta, Anuj Kumar, Dinesh Mohan (2014) Multi-species QSAR modeling for predicting aquatic toxicity of diverse organic chemicals for regulatory toxicology. Chemical Research in Toxicology, 27, 741-753 (if= 3.278, ci=31)

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SINGHA, NIKHIL KUMAR (b 1965), Professor & Chair, Rubber Technology Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur


Prof. Singha has made an outstanding and innovative contribution in polymer chemistry. He has used combination of “click chemistry” like Diels-Alder, Alder-Ene, disulfide metathesis and newer methods of polymerization chemistry (like Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP) and Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) polymerization) in an innovative and elegant way to prepare new advanced functional polymer materials. He has also explored them in important and creative applications in self-healing, self-cleaning (Lotus Effect), super-hydrophobic, super-shape memory fire-retardant materials and in innovative bio-materials. He has handled and is handling several important projects funded by SERB, DST, DAE, DRDO, and ISRO. He has also important mega-projects funded by SERB or MHRD under the programs of Uchhatar Avishkar Yojana (UAY) and IMPRINT. He has made significant contributions in polymer science in preparing innovative and creative advanced polymer materials which are of National and International importance. He has about 143 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 11 patents (incl two US patents), 9 book chapters and has edited one book. His H-index is 33 and citation index is 4944. His innovative research has achieved appreciation from Scientific community in India as well as abroad for which he was awarded MRSI medal, Prof. M. Santappa Award, Senior Fulbright Fellowship, DAAD Fellowship, DFG-INSA Fellowship, Fellowship from Royal Society Chemistry, Fellowship from Swiss Federal Institute. He is a professional leader in the area of polymer science in our country.

Proposer: Dr. S. Sivaram, Seconder: Prof. Amit Basak


1. Kavitha, A. and Singha, Nikhil K.* (2007): A Tailor-made Polymethacrylate bearing Reactive Diene in Reversible Diels-Alder Reaction, Journal of Polymer Science; Part A. Polymer Chemistry, 45 (19), pp. 4441-4449 (if=3.245, ci=84)

2. Kavitha, A. and Singha, Nikhil K.* (2009): "Click Chemistry" in Tailor-made Polymethacrylates Bearing Reactive Furfuryl Functionality; A New Class of Self-healing Polymeric Material, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 1(7), pp. 1427-1436 (if=8.097, ci=146)

3. Kavitha, A. and Singha, Nikhil K.* (2009): Tailor-made poly (methyl acrylate) bearing amantadine functionality (amino adamantyl) via atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP). A precursor of a supramolecular cross-linked polymer; Macromolecules, 42(15), pp. 5499-5508 (if=5.914, ci=18)

4. Kavitha, A. and Singha, Nikhil K.* (2010): Smart "All Acrylate" ABA Triblock Copolymer bearing Reactive Functionality via Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP); Demonstration of a "Click Reaction" in Thermoreversible Property, Macromolecules, 43(7), pp. 3193-3205 (if=5.914, ci=104)

5. Chakrabarty, Arindam and Singha, Nikhil K.* (2013): Tailor-made polyfluoroacrylate and its block copolymer by RAFT polymerization in miniemulsion; improved hydrophobicity in the core-shell block copolymer, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, (if=5.091, ci=20)

6. Singha, Nikhil K.*; Pramanik, Nabendu B.; Behera, Prasanta K.; Chakrabarty, Arindam; Mays, Jimmy W. (2016): Tailor-made thermoreversible functional polymer via RAFT polymerization in an ionic liquid: a remarkably fast polymerization process, Green Chemistry, 18(22), pp. 6115-6122. (if=8.586, ci=12)

7. Banerjee, S. L.; Hoskins, R.; Swift, T.; Rimmer, S.; Singha, N. K.* (2018): A self-healable fluorescence active hydrogel based on ionic block copolymers prepared via ring opening polymerization and xanthate mediated RAFT polymerization, Polymer Chemistry, 9(10), pp. 1190-1205 (if=5.375, ci=2)

8. Behera, Prasanta Kumar; Mondal, Prantik and Singha, Nikhil K.*, (2018):Self-Healable and Ultrahydrophobic Polyurethane-POSS Hybrids by Diels–Alder “Click” Reaction: A New Class of Coating Material, Macromolecules, 51(13), pp. 4770-4781. (if=5.914, ci=2)

9. Banerjee, Sovan Lal; Bhattacharya, K., Samanta, S. and Singha, Nikhil K.*, (2018) Self-healable Antifouling Zwitterionic Hydrogel Based on Synergistic Photo-triggered Dynamic Disulfide Metathesis Reaction and Ionic Interaction, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10, pp. 27391-27406 (if=8.097, ci=1)

10. Behera, Prasanta Kumar; Mondal, Prantik and Singha, Nikhil K.*, (2018): Polyurethane by Ionic Liquid Crosslink; A New Class of Super Shape-Memory Like Polymer, Polym. Chem., 9, pp. 4205.(Published as back-cover page) (if=5.375, ci=0)

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VASUDEVAN, S. (b 1965), Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi - 630003


He was conferred D.Sc (h.c) by Lingaya’s Vidyapeeth, India (2018) for his 30 years of substantial and sustained contribution in the field of electrochemical science and technology. He is a recipient of many honors and awards like MRSI. He is a FRSC, CChem (RSC) and FASC. Dr. Vasudevan has been working in diverse areas of electrochemistry for the past 30 years. His research is primarily focused on electro-catalysis, water treatment, hydrogen generation, inorganic oxidants, anti-oxidant water and magnesium batteries. One of his very recent innovations relates to electrochemical synthesis of “anti-oxidant enriched drinking water” (AyusH2 Jal). This anti-oxidant has been shown to have therapeutic potential in over 150 disease models involving essentially every organ of the human body. The main advantage is that it acts as a therapeutic anti-oxidant by selectively reducing cytotoxic oxygen radicals and as a signaling molecule. In the area of electrochemical treatment for potable water, he has developed several technologies that have found commercial use: de-arsenator, de-fluoridator, de-nitrator, ozone generator, and hypochlorinator. In the area of hydrogen generation, one of his recent products is a 5.0 Nm3/h capacity PEM hydrogen generator using his novel electro catalysts. This technology is of strategic importance, particularly in the automobile sector. He also contributed to the development of magnesium organic batteries of 12–360 Ah capacity. He has transferred many technologies to industries and presently working in many places.

Proposer: Prof. A. K. Shukla , Seconder: Prof. Giridhar Madras


1. S.Vasudevan*, J.Lakshmi, J.Jayaraj, G.Sozhan (2009), Remediation of phosphate- contaminated water by electrocoagualtion with aluminium, aluminum alloy and mild steel anode, Journal of Hazardous. Materials, 164, 1480-1486 (if=6.434, ci=123)

2. P. Aarthi, R. Kamaraj, V.Sudharshan, S. Vasudevan* (2018), OPAC (Orange Peel Activated Carbon) derived from waste orange peel for the adsorption of Chlorophenoxyacetic acid herbicides from water: Adsorption...Bioresource Technology, 261, 329 – 34. (if=5.807, ci=10)

3. S.Vasudevan*, J.Lakshmi (2012), The adsorption of phosphate by graphene from aqueous solution, RSC Advances, 2, 5234-5242(if=2.936, ci=110)

4. A. Priyadharshini, S. Vasudevan, Sergio Ferro, G. Rajagopal (2016), Eco-friendly and facile integrated biological-cum-photo assisted electrooxidation process for degradation of textile wastewater, Water Res.93, 230-241 (if=7.051, ci=21)

5. P. Aarthi, R. Kamaraj, S. Vasudevan* (2017), Enhanced removal of Cephalosporins Based Antibiotics (CBA) from water by one-pot electrosynthesed Mg(OH)2: A combined theoretical and experimental study to pilot scale, New J.Chem 41, 4518 – 4530 (if=3.201, ci=06)

6. R. Venkatkarthick, D. J.Davidson, S. Ravichandran, S. Vengatesan, G. Sozhan,S. Vasudevan* (2015) Eco-friendly and facilely prepared silica modified amorphous titania (TiO2-SiO2) electrocatalyst for O2 and H2 evolution reaction Cat Sci. Tech.5, 5016 (if=5.365, ci=07)

7. R. Balaji, B. Suresh Kannan, J. Lakshmi, S. Vasudevan, G. Sozhan, A.K.Shukla, S. Ravichandran, (2009), An alternative approach to selective seawater oxidation for hydrogen production, Electrochem. Comm. 11, 1700-1702 (if=4.660, ci=28)

8. R. Balaji, N. Senthil, S. Vasudevan, S. Ravichandran S. Mohan, G. Sozhan*, S. Madhu, J. Kennedy, S. Pushpavanam, M. Pushpavanam, (2011), Development and performance evaluation of (PEM) based H2 generator for potable Appln. Int.J.Hy.Energy 36, 1399 (if=4.229, ci=33)

9. R. Venkatkarthick, D. Jonas Davidson, S. Ravichandran, S. Vasudevan, G. Sozhan (2017), α-Fe2O3 / TiO2 heterostructured photoanode on titanium substrate for photo-electrochemical water electrolysis, Mat.Chem.Phy199, 249-256. (if=2.210, ci=03)

10. R. Thirunakaran, S. Vasudevan, A. Sivashanmugam and S. Gopukumar (2005) Electrochemical behavior of mono-chloronitrobenzene as cathode material for magnesium reserve batteries, Journal of Power Sources, 148, 112-115 (if=6.945, ci=08)

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VINU, AJAYAN (b 1976), Global Innovation Chair Professor and Director, The University of Newcastle, Australia


One of Prof. Vinu’s seminal research contributions is the discovery of the first nanoporous carbon nitride materials with tunable pore structures and textural parameters. He introduced a general strategy for preparation of highly-ordered hexagonal-nanoporous carbon-nitride (MCN) materials, designated as MCN-1, having uniform pore size distribution using a nano hard-templating method (Adv. Mater. 2005, 17, 1648). The unique basic semiconducting and basic properties of MCN make them exciting candidates for the capture and conversion of CO2 molecules into value added products with the help of sunlight and water. Prof. Vinu also discovered ultra-small MCN nanoparticles with a very high nitrogen content. This was achieved using a “nanosize” approach to increase the nitrogen content of MCN materials by simply reducing the particle size of the template (Angew. Chem. 2009, 48, 7884) and changing the polymerization strategy with high nitrogen containing precursors (Angew Chem. 2017, 56, 8481 as a VIP Paper). Prof. Vinu’s group also developed a novel class of nanoporous carbon materials including carbon nanocage, and nanocoops, hexagonal and cubic nanoporous carbons with different textural parameters (JACS 2008, 129, 11022; JACS 2008, 129, 11022). Nanoporosity has also been generated in fullerene materials using nanotemplating technique (Angew. Chem. 2018, 57, 569 (VIP)) and CN with a high nitrogen contents (Angew Chem. 2018, in press). These novel materials created a new field of research and made a great revolution in porous materials. Prof. Vinu published ca 350 papers which generated the citations of ca 17,000 with a H-index of 67.

Proposer: Prof. A. K. Tyagi, Seconder: Prof. J.S. Yadav


1. Mercy Benzigar, Stalin Joseph, Hamid Ilbeygi, Dae-Hwan Park, Goutam Chandra, Siva Umapathy, Sampath Srinivasan, Siddulu N. Talapaneni, and A. Vinu*, Highly Crystalline Mesoporous C60 with High Surface Area and Ordered and Tuneable Pores, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 569-573. (if=12.10)

2. Gurudas P. Mane, Siddulu N. Talapaneni, Kripal S. Lakhi, Hamid Ilbeygi, Ugo Ravon, Khalid Al-Bahily, Toshiyuki Mori, Dae-Hwan Park, and A. Vinu*, Highly Ordered Nitrogen-Rich Mesoporous Carbon Nitrides and Their Superior Performance for Sensing and Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation, Angew. Chemie International Edition, 2017, 56, 8481-8485. (if=12.20)

3. Geoffrey Lawrence, Palraj Kalimuthu, Mercy Benzigar, Kinnari J. Shelat, Kripal S. Lakhi, Dae-Hwan Park, Qingmin Ji, Katsuhiko Ariga, Paul V. Bernhardt and A. Vinu*, A Nano-porous Cytochrome c Film with Highly Ordered Porous Structure for Selective Sensing of Toxic Vapours, Adv. Mater. 2017, 2017, 29, 1702295. (if=21.950)

4. J. Kim, C. Anand, S. N. Talapaneni, J. You, Salem S. Aldeyab, E. Kim and A. Vinu*, Catalytic Polymerization of Anthracene in a Recyclable SBA-15 Reactor with High Iron Content by a Friedel–Crafts Alkylation, Angew. Chemie International Edition, 2012, 51, 2859-2863(FT100100970; 2010-2014) (if=12.10, ci=20)

5. *K.K.R. Datta, B.V. Subba Reddy, K. Ariga, A. Vinu*, Gold Nanoparticles Embedded in Nanoporous Carbon Nitride Stabilizer for Highly Efficient Three Component Coupling Reaction, Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed. 2010, 49, 5961-5965. (if=12.10, ci=228)

6. *X. Jin, V.V. Balasubramanian, S.T Selvan, D.P. Sawant, M.A. Chari, G. Q. Lu, and A. Vinu*, Highly Ordered Mesoporous Carbon Nitride Nanoparticles with a High Nitrogen Content: a Novel Metal-free Basic Catalyst, Angew. Chemie Intl. Ed. 2009, 48 (42) 7884-7887.(if=12.10, ci=230)

7. *S. Alam, C. Anand, K. Ariga, T. Mori, and A. Vinu*, Unusual Magnetic Properties of Size-Controlled Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Grown in a Nanoporous Matrix with Tunable Pores, Angew. Chemie Inter. Ed. 2009, 48 (40), 7358-7361. (if=12.10, ci=45)

8. *Q. Ji, S.B. Yoon, J. Hill, A. Vinu, J.-S. Yu, and K. Ariga, Layer-by-Layer Films of Dual-Pore Carbon Capsules with Designable Selectivity of Gas Adsorption, J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2009), 131, 4220-4221. (if=11.44, ci=117)

9. *K. Ariga, A. Vinu*, Q. Ji, O. Ohmori, J. Hill, S. Acharya, J. Koike, and S. Shiratori, A Layered Mesoporous Carbon Sensor Based on Nanopore-Filling Cooperative Adsorption in the Liquid Phase, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2008, 47, 7254-7257. (if=12.10, ci=128)

10. *A. Vinu*, Two dimensional Hexagonally Ordered Mesoporous Carbon Nitrides with Tunable Pore Diameter, Surface Area and Nitrogen Content, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2008, 18, 816-827. (if=12.12, ci=301)

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MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES (Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics,

Computer/Information Science)

BHATTACHARYYA, TIRTHANKAR (b 1968), Professor, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560012

Member of the NASI: No (YON 2019, Mathematical Sciences)

The nominee has made many important contributions to operator theory, especially dilation theory. The two most innovative of these are contained in (iii) the highly cited paper in Advances in Mathematics, 230 (2012), pages 577 – 606, (iv) the recent paper in the Journal of Functional Analysis 274 (2018), 504-524. Explicit construction of dilation of a commuting operator tuple on a Hilbert space is rare. The Schaffer construction of the famous Sz.-Nagy dilation and Ando’s construction for a pair of commuting contractions, done about fifty years ago, were the only two things known. The nominee, his student Pal and colleague Shyam Roy, using a novel technique, produced an explicit dilation of a pair (S,P) of bounded operators that has the symmetrized bidisc as a spectral set. This has been followed by a recent paper in which the nominee and his student Sau proved a realization formula for a bounded holomorphic function and used it to prove an extension theorem from a subset of the symmetrized bidisc to the whole of it. This is a striking piece of work because it has been well-known that H-infinity extension is very difficult to handle. This area has been of major interest, with several leading researchers (like J. Agler and N. Young) having published several papers on it. The nominee’s work, therefore, drew widespread attention, and has stimulated much further work. Especially noteworthy is the stimulus for Indian mathematicians such as S. Pal, S. Shyam Roy, S. Biswas, H. Sau and G. Misra.

Proposer: Prof. Rajendra Bhatia, Seconder: Prof. Mrinal Kanti Ghosh


1. On the joint spectral radius of commuting matrices, co-authored with R. Bhatia, Studia Mathematica, vol.114 (1995), pages 29-38.(if=0.65 (MCQ), ci=8)

2. A model theory for q-commuting contractive tuples, co-authored with B.V. R. Bhat, Journal of Operator Theory, vol.47 (2002), pages 97-116. (if=0.69 (MCQ), ci=18)

3. Standard non-commuting and commuting dilations of commuting tuples, co-authored with B.V.R. Bhat and S. Dey, Transactions of American Math. Society, vol.356 (2004), No.4, pp. 1551-1568. (if=1.33 (MCQ), ci=23)

4. Characteristic function of a pure commuting contractive tuple, co-authored with J. Eschmeier and J. Sarkar, Integral Equations Operator Theory, vol. 53 (2005), no. 1, pp. 23-32. (if=0.635. Five year IF: 0.919. , ci=44)

5. Coherent states on Hilbert modules, co-authored with S. T. Ali and S. Shyam Roy, Journal of Physics A, vol. 44 (2011), no. 27, 275202, 16 pages. (if=1.963, ci=9)

6. Dilation of Gamma contractions by solving operator equations, co-authored with S. Pal and S. Shyam Roy, Advances in Mathematics, 230 (2012), pages 577 – 606. (if=1.372. Five year IF: 1.633, ci=44)

7. Characterization of Birkhoff-James orthogonality, co-authored with P. Grover, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 407 (2013), pages 350-358. (if=1.138. Five-Year IF: 1.239, ci=31)

8. A functional model for pure Gamma contractions, co-authored with S. Pal, Journal of Operator Theory 71 (2014), no. 2, pages 327–339. (if=0.69 (MCQ), ci=21)

9. The tetrablock as a spectral set, Indiana Univ. Math. J. 63 (2014), no. 6, pages 1601–1629. (if=1.10 (MCQ), ci=14)

10. Holomorphic functions on the symmetrized bidisk realization, interpolation and Extension, co-authored with H. Sau, J. Funct. Anal. 274 (2018), 504-524. (if=1.326. Five year IF: 1.589., ci=4)

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CHAKRABORTY, SUBENOY (b 1959), Professor, Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata-700032.

Member of the NASI: Yes (YON 2019, Mathematical Sciences)

Prof. Subenoy Chakraborty has made pioneering contributions to Universal thermodynamics and Universe with non-equilibrium thermodynamics. He has initiated the study of Universal thermodynamics bounded by event horizon. He has not only derived the correct Hawking temperature on the event horizon but is able to show the validity of both the thermodynamical laws on any horizon. Prof. Chakraborty has formulated for the first time a complete model of the Universe which describes the cosmic evolution from inflationary era to the present acceleration and has predicted a possible future deceleration with particle creation mechanism. He has also constructed a phase of emergent scenario before inflationary era, avoiding the big-bang singularity. His paper on complete cosmic evolution has been given “Honorable mention” in 2018 Essay competition of Gravity Research Foundation. The nominee has done a detailed symmetry analysis and obtained cosmological solutions. Also he has interpreted the cosmological solutions from the perspective of present evolution. The nominee has developed a much simpler form of new stability criterion for cylindrical wormholes. The nominee has played a leading role in studying interaction dark energy models in the perspective of recent observations and the parameters are constrained by best fit data. The nominee has made a significant contribution in modified gravity theories. His approach of using f(R, T) gravity in cosmology has been widely used by various researchers for modeling dark energy. Prof. Chakraborty has notable contribution in quantum cosmology using the Hartle and Hawking no boundary proposal for the wave function of the universe.

Proposer: Prof. Muthusamy Lakshmanan, Seconder: Prof. Palanigounder Kandaswamy


1. Subenoy Chakraborty, (2017) “A New Stability Criterion for General Cylindrical Thin-Shell Wormholes” Gen. Relt. Grav 49, 47(if=1.721, ci=3)

2. S. Dutta and Subenoy Chakraborty (2016) “A study of phantom scalar field cosmology using Lie and Noether symmetries” Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 25, 1650051 (if=2.17, ci=6)

3. Subenoy Chakraborty (2014) “Generalized Bekenstein hawking system: Logarithmic correction”Eur. Phys. J . C 74, 2876 (if=5.172, ci=16)

4. Subenoy Chakraborty (2014) “Is Emergent Universe a Consequence of Particle Creation Process?” Phys.Lett. B 732, 81. (if=4.254, ci=16)

5. Subenoy. Chakraborty, (2013) An Alternative f(R,T) Gravity Theory and the Dark Energy Problem, Gen. Relt. Grav. 45, 2039. (if=1.721, ci=56)

6. N. Mazumdar and Subenoy Chakraborty, (2009) “Does the validity of the first law of thermodynamics imply that the generalized second law of thermodynamics of the universe is bounded by the event horizon ?” Class. Quant. Grav 26, 195016 (if=3.283, ci=48)

7. Subenoy Chakraborty and T Bandyopadhyay, (2009) “Thin shell wormholes in Einstein-Yang-Mills-Gauss-Bonnet theory” Class. Quant. Grav. 26, 085005 (if=3.283, ci=8)

8. U. Debnath , Subenoy Chakraborty and J. D. Barrow, (2004) “Quasi spherical gravitational collapse in any dimension” Gen. Relt. Grav 36, 231. (if=1.721, ci=39)

9. U. Debnath, A. Banerjee and Subenoy Chakraborty, (2004) “Role of modified Chaplygin gas in accelerated universe” Class. Quant. Grav 21, 5609 (if=3.283, ci=293)

10. Subenoy Chakraborty, (1990) “Steepest-descent contours in a Kantowaski-Sachs minisuperspace model” Phys. Rev. D 42, 2924(if=4.394, ci=17)

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DATTA, SANJIB KUMAR (b 1970) Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Kalyani, Nadia – 741235


Professor (Dr.) Sanjib Kumar Datta has made notable contribution to the field of Complex Analysis, especially establishing connection between the growth of composite entire and meromorphic functions and generalizations of classical notions of deficiencies introduced by G. Valiron and R. Nevanlinna. After having introduced some new concepts he could obtain several remarkable results in the above topics. Prof. Datta has also contributed in the field of Fuzzy Algebra, Fluid Dynamics and Fixed Point Theory in bi-complex valued metric spaces. Whereas in Fuzzy Algebra he dealt with the extension of the notion of Fuzzy (Anti-fuzzy) bi-ideal in a ring, its simplicity and its magnification with translation, he has published a few papers connecting Fluid Dynamics with complex analysis & bi-complex analysis. Furthermore, Prof. Datta has produced some papers in the field of fixed point theory wherein he has established certain common fixed point theorems for a pair of weakly compatible mappings satisfying some special properties in the bi-complex valued metric spaces.

Proposer : Prof. Manjul Gupta, Seconder : Prof. Peeyush Chandra Ten Best Publications: 1. S. K. Datta and T. Biswas (2019): Growth estimates of entire functions with the help of their relative L * -types and relative L * - weak types, Commun. Fac. Sci. Univ. Ank. Ser. A1 Math. Stat., Vol. 68, No. 1, pp. 136-148, Indexed in Web of Science (ESCI). 2. T. Biswas and S. K. Datta (2018): Effect of integer translation on relative order and relative type of entire and meromorphic functions, Commun. Korean Math. Soc., Vol. 33, No.2, pp. 485-494, RG Journal Impact (2015): 0.30, Indexed in Scopus & Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). 3. S. K. Datta, T. Biswas and Md. A. Hoque (2017): Maximum terms, maximum moduli related and slowly changing functions based growth measurement of composition of entire functions, Thai Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 61-74, RG Journal Impact (2015): 0.50, Indexed in Scopus & Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). 4. S. K. Datta, T. Biswas and C. Ghosh (2016): On relative (p,q)-th order based growth measure of entire functions, Filomat, Vol. 30, No. 7, pp. 1723-1735; Impact Factor (2017): 0.635, Indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) & Scopus. 5. S. K. Datta, T. Biswas and D. Dutta (2016): Generalized relative type and generalized weak type of entire functions, Journal of Complex Analysis, Volume 2016, Article ID 3468354, 11 pages, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3468354, Indexed in Web of Science, Emerging Sources Citation Index & Scopus. 6. S. K. Datta and T. Biswas and D. Dutta (2016): Some inequalities in connection to relative orders of entire functions of several complex variables, Int. J. Nonlinear Anal. Appl., Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 133-141, Indexed in Thomson-Reuters (Emerging Sources Citation Index) & Scopus. 7. A. K. Ghosh, S. K. Datta, and P. Sen (2016): On hydromagnetic flow of an Oldroyd-B fluid between two oscillating plates, International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics (Publisher: Springer), Vol. 2, No. 3, pp 365-386, h6 Index: 8, Indexed in Scopus. 8. H. M. Srivastava, S. K. Datta, T. Biswas and D. Dutta (2015): Sum and product theorems depending on the (p-q)-th order and (p-q)-th type of entire functions, Cogent Mathematics (Publisher: Taylor and Francis), 2:1107951, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311835.2015.1107951 , pp. 1-22, Indexed in Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). 9. S. K. Datta, T. Biswas and C. Biswas (2015): Generalized relative lower order of entire functions, Matematicki Vesnik, Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 143-154, RG Journal Impact (2015): 0.45, Indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (Web of Science) & Scopus. 10. L. M. S. Ruiz, S. K. Datta, T. Biswas and G. K. Mondal (2014): On the (p,q)-th relative order oriented growth properties of entire functions, Abstract and Applied Analysis, Vol. 2014, Article ID 826137, 8 pages, RG Journal Impact (2015): 0.90, Indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) & Scopus.

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JAVAGAL, SRIDHAR K. (b 1946), Professor, Department of Mathematics, Indian institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar - 140001


Professor Javagal K Sridhar has made seminal contributions during the last 45 years in the field of Applied Mathematics and Aerospace Engineering. After education at IIT Bombay in Applied Mathematics, Prof. Sridhar began research at the National Aerospace Laboratory, Bangalore in 1973 and contributed significantly to the preliminary design of Light Combat Aircraft and won two Outstanding Performance Awards on Flight Data Analysis, Systems and Control Modeling and Simulation Studies. Further, he was invited at the German Aerospace Research Laboratory, Braunschweig (1987-90) and developed new Mathematical Models for ‘Dynamically Coupled Fixed and Rotary Wing Aircrafts’, which were then validated successfully through flight test experiments on in house ATTAS Aircraft (Advanced Technologies Testing Aircraft System) and BO-105 Helicopter. In collaboration with Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands and National Aerospace Laboratory, Amsterdam, he worked on Mathematical Modeling from System Identification Principles and also on several European and NATO funded projects in association with Aircraft Systems Identification Consortium (ASIC-Europe). He was probably the first Indian to participate in NATO projects and was invited to write an AGARDOgraph for Advisory Group for Research and Development, France. This is a specialist report and is widely used internationally in all educational, research institutions and aeronautical industries. He is a member of review and editorial boards of many peer journals. Overall, Prof. Sridhar’s role in the area of Applied Mathematics and Aerospace Engineering has been outstanding, as corroborated by the impact it has made in the aerospace industry worldwide.

Proposer : Prof. Sarit Kumar Das, Seconder : Prof. Javed N Agrewala


1. Mulder,J.A.,J.K.Sridhar and J.H.Breeman:Identification of Dynamic Systems. Applications to Aircraft. Part 2- Nonlinear Analysis and Dynamic Manoeuvre Design. Published by NATO. AGARDograph (France), AGARD- AG-300 vol 3, part 2, pp 1-212, May 1994.

2. Sridhar,J.K. and G.Wulff: Application of multiple input/single output procedures to flight test data. AIAA J.Guidance, Control and Dynamics (USA), Volume 14, No 3, May-June 1991, pp 645-651. (if=2.024)

3. Sridhar, J.K. and G.Wulff: Multiple Input/Multiple Output(MIMO) Analysis procedures with Applications to Flight Test Data. Zeitschrift fur Flugwissenschaften und Weltraumforschung(ZFW),Germany. Journal of Flight Sciences and Space Research, Volume 16

4. Mulder J.A, and Sridhar J.K et al: Nonlinear Aircraft flight path reconstruction review and new advances. Progress in Aerospace sciences, Vol 35 (1999), pp 673-726 (53 pages) (if=2.540)

5. J.K.Sridhar et al: Recent developments in identification techniques at Delft TU, (Invited paper) – Proceedings of Aerospace vehicle dynamics and control, . Clarendon Press, Oxford, pp 259-284, 1994

6. Ramachandra Rao, B.S and J.K.Sridhar. : A note on the bending of clamped semi infinite rectangular plates. J.Appl.Mech,(USA) ASME Trans, Vol.705, Sept 1971. (if=2.127)

7. Ramachandra Rao, B.S and J.K.Sridhar.: A biorthogonality relation for clamped sector plates. J.Engg.Math. (Netherlands), Vol4, 1970. (if=1.099)

8. Ramachandra Rao, B.S and J.K.Sridhar : Eigenfunction solution for the sector problem in plane elastostatics. Ind.J.Pure and Appl. Math. Vol 4, No2, 1973. (if=0.252)

9. On some biorthogonality relations for semi infinite elastic strip problems. Ind.J.Mathl. and Phyl.Scs. Vol 8, No 3, 1974.

10. J.K.Sridhar, J.A.Mulder and W.H.J.J. van Staveren. Compact representation of MIMO algorithms with applications to helicopter flight data. Proceedings of American Control Conference, Baltimore (Maryland) Vol 1,pp 912-917, 1994.

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JAWALI, UMAVATHI CHANNABASAPPA (b 1963), Professor, Department of Mathematics, Gulbarga University, Kalaburgi-585106


Prof. J.C. Umavathi contributed to understand heat, mass transfer and convective instabilities in Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids. Her main area of interest is computational nanoscience. Replacing the conventional ethylene/water by fluids containing nano particles was analysed in bore holes [2]. She has published a bench mark paper to locate the delay or advancement of onset of convection in nanofluids by the out of or in phase modulation of the boundary temperatures, as compared to the unmodulated system [7]. The results obtained are useful in variety of applications, ranging from laser-assisted drug delivery to electronic chip cooling. She has used analytical and numerical techniques in solving linear and nonlinear equations arising in conservation laws [1-10]. She is a maestro on topics of heat and mass transfer, magneto-hydrodynamics, porous media, diffusion, and chemical reaction in Newtonian/ non-Newtonian fluid flow through various geometries. Inserting baffles to increase the thermal energy was also addressed considering various fluids. She has documented for the first time in the literature a mathematical relation to express viscosity of the couple stress fluid in terms of the viscosity of the Newtonian fluid. Parametrizing blood as a couple stress fluid, the results drawn mathematically were closure to the experimental results [10]. Her research work is well recognized and bestowed with prestigious National and International awards.

Proposer: Prof. I.S. Shivakumara, Seconder: Prof. G.D. Veerappa Gowda


1. M.S. Astanina, M.A. Sheremet, J.C. Umavathi, 2018, “Unsteady natural convection in a partially porous cavity having heat-generating source using local thermal non-equilibrium model”, IJHFF, doi.org/10.1108/HFF-06-2018-0338. (if=2.409, ci=0)

2. Giuseppe Diglio, Carlo Roselli, Maurizio Sasso, Umavathi, J.C., 2018, “Borehole heat exchanger with nanofluids as heat carrier”, Geothermic, 72, 112-123. (if=2.693, ci=3)

3. Jawali C. Umavathi and Mikhail A. Sheremet, 2017, “ Onset of double-diffusive convection of a sparsely packed micropolar fluid in a porous medium layer saturated with a nanofluid”, Microfluidic Nanofluid, vol. 21, pp. 121-128. (if=2.384, ci=4)

4. Jawali C. Umavathi, J. Prathap Kumar and Mikhail A. Sheremet, 2017, “Heat and mass transfer in a vertical double passage channel filled with electrically conducting fluid” Physica-A, vol. 465, pp. 195-216. (if=2.132, ci=4)

5. . J.C. Umavathi, Odelu Ojjela and K. Vajravelu, “ Numerical analysis of natural convective flow and heat transfer of nanofluids in a vertical rectangular duct using Darcy-Forchheimer-Brinkman model”, IJTS, vol. 11, PP. 511- 524, 2017. (if=3.707, ci=26)

6. J.C. Umavathi, 2015, “Combined effect of variable viscosity and variable thermal conductivity on double diffusive convection flow of a permeable fluid in a vertical channel”, TIPM, vol. 108, pp. 659-678. (if=1.811, ci=9)

7. J.C. Umavathi, 2015, “Rayleigh-Benard convection subject to time dependent wall temperature in a porous medium layer saturated by a Nanofluid” , Meccanica , vol. 50, 981-994,. (if=1.737, ci=4)

8. J.C. Umavathi, 2015, “Free convective flow in a vertical rectangular duct filled with porous matrix for viscosity and conductivity variable properties”, Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 81, 383-403. (if=2.522, ci=7)

9. J.C. Umavathi, 2013, “Analysis of flow and heat transfer in a vertical rectangular duct using a non-Darcy model”, Trans. Porous Media, vol. 96, pp. 527–545. (if=1.811, ci=8)

10. J.C. Umavathi, A.J. Chamkha, M.H. Manjula and A. Al-Mudhaf, 2005, “Flow and heat transfer of a couple stress fluid sandwiched between viscous fluid layers”, Canadian Journal of Physics, vol. 83, pp. 705-720, 2005. (if=0.983, ci=22)

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KUMAR, MANOJ (b 1975), Professor & Head, Department of Mathematics, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Prayagraj-211004


Professor Manoj Kumar is very sincere and hard working who is presently working as Professor and Head in the Department of Mathematics of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Prayagraj. His Area of research is numerical analysis, finite element method, Adomian decomposition method and neural network method. He has published several research papers in SCI highly reputed journals along with high quality teaching, guiding research students and handling different research projects sponsored by DST, CSIR, UGC, NBHM and DBT etc. He has guided 11 Ph.D students who are well settled in prominent educational institutes and industries. Professor Kumar has developed several novel numerical techniques based on finite element method; Adomian decomposition method and neural network method which are published in SCI journals including national academy sciences India journals. Research publications itself prove his research capabilities. For academic interaction with the people of area of his research, he has visited different countries like USA, UK, Canada, Switzerland Greece, Malaysia, Australia, Russia Brazil etc.

Proposer: Prof. Ranjan K. Mohanty, Seconder: Prof. B.V. Rathish Kumar


1. Neha Yadav, Kevin Stanley McFall, Manoj Kumar, Joong Hoon Kim, (2018), A length factor artificial neural network method for the numerical solution of the advection dispersion equation characterizing the mass balance of fluid flow in a chemical reactor. Published in Neural Computing and Applications, August 2018, Volume 30, Issue 3, pp 917-924 (Springer Journal). (if=4.213, ci=2) 2. Neha Yadav, Anupam Yadav, Manoj Kumar, Joong Hoon Kim, (2017) An efficient algorithm based on artificial neural networks and particle swarm optimization for solution of nonlinear Troesch's problem. Published in Neural Computing and Applications, January 2017, Volume 28, Issue 1, pp 171-178 (Springer Journal). (if=4.213, ci= 18) 3. Akhilesh Kumar Singh, Manoj Kumar, (2015) Multi-peak Solutions of Non-linear Elliptic Singularly Perturbed Reaction-Diffusion Equations using Finite Element Simulation. Published in Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers, Volume 50, May 2015, Pages 56-68 (Elsevier Journal). (if=3.849, ci= 22) 4. Sapna Pandit, Manoj Kumar, Surabhi Tiwari, (2015), Numerical Simulation of Second-Order Hyperbolic Telegraph Type Equations with Variable Coefficients. Published in Computer Physics Communications, Volume 187, February 2015, Pages 83-90 (Elsevier Journal). (if=4.284, ci= 21) 5. Manoj Kumar, Akanksha Srivastava, Garima Mishra, (2014) A finite element approach for finding positive solutions of a Logistic equation with a sign-changing weight function. Published in Applied Mathematics and Computation, 241 (2014) 112-124 (Elsevier Journal). (if=2.30, ci= 2) 6. Manoj Kumar, Sapna Pandit, (2014), A Composite Numerical Scheme for Numerical Simulation of Coupled Burgers' Equation. Published in Computer Physics Communications, Volume 185, Issue 3, March 2014, Pages 809-817 (Elsevier Journal). (if=4.284, ci= 44) 7. Manoj Kumar, Neha Yadav, (2013), Buckling Analysis of a Beam-Column Using Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network Technique. Published in Journal of the Franklin Institute, 350 (2013) 3188-3204 (Elsevier Journal). (if=3.0, ci= 7) 8. Manoj Kumar, Neelima Singh, (2012), Phase Plane Analysis and Travelling Wave Solution of Third Order Non-linear Singular Problems Arising in Thin Film Evolution. Published in An International Journal Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 64 (2012), pp. 2886-2895 (Elsevier Journal). (if=2.03, ci= 02) 9. Manoj Kumar, Neelima Singh, (2012) Computer simulation of third order non-linear singular problems arising in draining and coating flows. Published in the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids (2012), Volume 69, Issue 6, 30 June 2012, Pages 1135-1148 (Wiley Journal). (if=1.673, ci= 12) 10. Manoj Kumar, Neelima Singh, (2010), Modified Adomian Decomposition Method and Computer Implementation for Solving Singular Boundary Value Problems Arising in Various Physical Problems, Published in an International journal "Computers and Chemical Engineering 34, (2010) 1750-1760 (Elsevier Journal). (if=3.06, ci=70)

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MISHRA, SHASHI KANT (b 1967), Professor, Department of Mathematics, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi - 221005


Dr. Shashi Kant Mishra carried research in applied optimization and has published 6 books (4 from Springer and 2 from CRC) and edited special issues of JOGO, Optimization and Optimization Letters (all these journals are SCI). He has so far published 145 papers in international journals like JMAA (IF 1.138, 13), EJOR (IF 3.297, 11), AOR (IF 1.862, 3), MCM (IF 2.150, 1), JOTA (IF 1.234, 6), JCAM (IF 1.632, 2), JOGO (IF 1.733, 4), Opt. Letters (IF 1.310, 5), NAA (IF 1.920, 2), Optimization (IF 1.170, 10), Opt. Letters (IF 1.30, 5), 95 papers possesses IF. He has supervised 12 Ph. D. students; those are working in IIT, NIT, Central Universities and Higher Educational Colleges as Assistant Professors. He has collaborations with Mathematicians in France, USA, Japan, Italy, Taiwan, China and Hong Kong, Spain and Vietnam. He is a frequent visitor of Universities/Institutions in France, Japan, Canada, Taiwan and Hong Kong. His h-index is 23, i10 index is 53 and total citations are 1901 so far. He has organized several National and International Conferences/Workshops and Training Programmes. He is in the editorial boards of Operations Research Journals like Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research, International Journal of Operations Research (Taiwan), Tran. Math. Prog. & Appl. (USA), Adv. Nonlinear Variational Inequalities (USA), Analel Univ. Bucuresti, Ser. Math (2006-2010). He is Academic Council Member of prestigious University of India, he has been member of selection committees of several Universities/Institutions so far.

Proposer: Prof. Kripasindhu Chaudhuri, Seconder: Prof. Jang Bahadur Shukla


1. S. K. Mishra (1998), On Multiple- objective Optimization with Generalized Univexity, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 224, 131-148. (if=1.138, ci=94)

2. S. K. Mishra (2000), Second Order Symmetric Duality with F-Convexity, European Journal of Operational Research 127, 507-518.(if=3.428, ci=82)

3. S. K. Mishra and N. G. Rueda (2000), Higher–Order Generalized Invexity and Duality in Mathematical Programming, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 247, 173-182. (if=1.138, ci=71)

4. S. K. Mishra and M. A. Noor (2005), On vector variational-like inequality problems. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 311, no. 1, 69–75. (if=1.138, ci=46)

5. S. K. Mishra (2006), Duality for multiple objective fractional subset programming with generalized (\rlap{\vrule height3pt depth-2.5pt width4pt}\Gamma,\rho,\sigma,\theta) -V-type-I. J. Global Optim. 36, no. 4, 499–516. (if=1.407, ci=18)

6. S. K. Mishra and S. Y. Wang (2006), Vector variational-like inequalities and non-smooth vector optimization problems. Nonlinear Anal. 64, no. 9, 1939–1945. (if=1.291, ci=56)

7. S. K. Mishra, M. Jaiswal and H. A. Le Thi (2012), Nonsmooth semi-infinite programming problem using limiting subdifferentials. J. Global Optim. 53, no. 2, 285–296. (if=1.407, ci=16)

8. S. K. Mishra and Vivek Laha (2013), On approximately star-shaped functions and approximate vector variational inequalities. J. Optim. Theory Appl. 156, no. 2, 278–293. (if=1.243, ci=11)

9. S. K. Mishra, Vinay Singh and Vivek Laha (2016), On Duality for Mathematical Programs with Vanishing Constraints, Ann Oper Res 243(1), 249-272 (if=1.864, ci=5)

10. Yogendra Pandey and S. K. Mishra (2018), Optimality conditions and duality for semi-infinite mathematical programming problems with equilibrium constraints using convexificators, Ann Oper Res 269 (1-2), 549-564. (if=1.864, ci=1)

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NADUVINAMANI, NEMINATH BHUJAPPA (b 1964), Professor, Gulbarga University, Kalaburagi - 585106


Dr. Naduvinamani Neminath Bujappa has made significant contribution in the area of fluid mechanics in general and in the area of hydrodynamic lubrication in particular. The notable contributions of his research includes the solution of modified Reynolds equations for the study of porous bearings and the study of effects of surface roughness on the static and dynamic characteristics of bearings lubricated with non-Newtonian fluids. Dr. Naduvinamani has derived the modified Darcy’s equations which takes into account of size of microstructure additives present in the lubricant for the study of hydrodynamic lubrication of porous bearings with Stoke’s couple stress fluids and is used in the study of squeeze film lubrication of short porous journal bearings for the first time in the literature. This work has been cited by several researchers in the field and lead to the realistic analysis of performance characteristics of porous bearings lubricated with fluids with microstructure additives. He has derived the modified stochastic Reynolds equations for the study of the effects of surface roughness on the static and dynamic characteristics of bearings for randomized roughness patterns. The analytical/numerical solutions are obtained for different problems. Dr. Naduvinamani has made a significant impact towards better understanding of the performance of porous bearings and bearings with rough surfaces. He has made several important studies on hydrodynamic lubrication of bearings and suggested certain design examples on the basis of mathematical analysis for the design engineers for the design of efficient bearings.

Proposer: Prof. N.M. Bujurke, Seconder: Prof. I.S. Shivakumara


1. Effect of Piezo-viscous Dependency and Couple Stress on Squeeze Film Lubrication between Parallel Stepped Plates, N. B. Naduvinamani, A. Siddangouda & G. Hiremath.Ayyappa, Tribology Transections, VOL. 59( 2) (2016) pp.237- 243 (if=1.723, ci=2)

2. Modified Reynolds equation for different types of finite plates with the combined effect of MHD and couple stresses, Fathima; Naduvinamani; N.; Kumar, Tribology Transections, Vol.58(4),(2015) pp.660-667 (if=1.723, ci=11)

3. Magneto hydrodynamic Couple stress Squeeze Film Lubrication of Circular Stepped Plates N.B.Naduvinamani, Syeda Tasneem Fathima and Hanumagouda B.N., Proc. Inst. Mech. Engrs., Part-J: Journal of Engineering Tribology, Vol.225(3), (2011) pp.111 – 11 (if=1.318, ci=19)

4. Effect of Roughness on Hydro magnetic Squeeze Films Between Porous Rectangular Plates, N.B.Naduvinamani, Syeda Thasneem Fathima and Salma Jamal, Tribology International,Vol.43 (2010) pp.2145 – 2151 (if=3.246, ci=13)

5. Numerical Solution of Finite Modified Reynolds Equation for Couple Stress Squeeze Film Lubrication of Porous Journal Bearings, Naduvinamani N. B., Patil S.B., Computers and Structures, Vol.87 (21-22) (2009) pp. 1287 – 1295. (if=2.026, ci=26)

6. On the Squeeze Effect of Lubricants with additives between Rough Porous Rectangular Plates, ZAMM Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, Vol. 84 (12) (2004) pp.825 – 834. (if=1.296, ci=8)

7. Hydrodynamic lubrication of rough slider bearings with couplestress fluids, N.B.Naduvinamani, , Syeda Thasneem Fathima and P.S.Hiremath , Tribology International, Vol.36, ( 2003) pp.949 – 959 (if=3.246, ci=35)

8. Effect of Surface Roughness on the Static Characteristics of Rotor Bearings with Couple Stress Fluids, Naduvinamani N. B., Hiremath P. S. , Gurubasavaraj G., Computers and Structures, Vol.80(4-15)(2002), pp. 1243 – 1253 (if=2.026, ci=20)

9. Surface Roughness Effects in a Narrow Porous Journal Bearing with Couple Stress Fluids, N.B.Naduvinamani, P.S.Hiremath, and G. Gurubasavaraj) Fluid Dynamics Research , 31 (2002) pp. 333 – 354. (if=0.940, ci=45)

10. Squeeze Film Lubrication of a Short Porous Journal Bearing with Couple Stress Fluids, N.B.Naduvinamani, P.S.Hiremath and G. Gurubasavaraj , Tribology International , 34 (2001) pp.739 – 747 (if=3.246, ci=70)

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NARESH, RAM (b 1964), Professor, Harcourt Butler Technical University, Kanpur - 208002


I, the undersigned, nominate Prof. Ram Naresh, Ph.D (IIT Kanpur) for NASI fellowship. The modeling studies done by him have significantly contributed in understanding the issues pertaining to thrust areas like air pollutants removal, infectious diseases including HIV/AIDS and global warming. The studies for removal of air pollutants and their interaction with rain and cloud droplets are very useful and suggest ways for cloud seeding leading to artificial rain, (see his work on “How artificial rain can be produced? A mathematical model”, Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications,11, 2659-2668, 2010). His work also suggests a mechanism by which toxic gases leaked out in the atmosphere due to accidental discharge etc. can be removed by introducing suitable liquid or gaseous phase in the environment. His findings on global warming suggest ways to curtail the burden of global warming using aerosols/particulates and by plant species. He has suggested mechanisms to reduce the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as evidenced by his published papers. His work on paper “Removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to reduce global warming: A modeling study”, International Journal of Global Warming, 7(2), 270-292, 2015 was selected by publisher (Inderscience) as news item to run it via an appropriate news wire service in international media. His contributions on HIV/AIDS dynamics addressing issues like mother-to-child transmission, immigration of HIV infectives, screening of unaware infectives, HIV-TB co-infection, contact tracing and subsequent control measures received worldwide attention to contain the spread of HIV.

Proposer: Prof. Prawal Sinha, Seconder: Prof. J.B. Shukla


1. Agraj Tripathi, Ram Naresh and Dileep Sharma (2007) Modelling the effect of screening of unaware infectives on the spread of HIV infection, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 184(2), 1053-1068 (Elsevier Publishers) (if=2.108, ci=80)

2. Ram Naresh, Agraj Tripathi and Sandip Omar (2006) Modeling the spread of AIDS epidemic with vertical transmission, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 17892), 262-272 (Elsevier Publishers) (if=2.108, ci=76)

3. Ram Naresh and Agraj Tripathi (2005) Modelling and analysis of HIV-TB co-infection in a variable size population, Mathematical Modeling and Analysis, 10(3), 275-286 (Taylor Francis) (if=0.83, ci=67)

4. Ram Naresh, Agraj Tripathi and Dileep Sharma (2009) Modelling and analysis of the spread of AIDS epidemic with immigration of HIV infectives, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 49(5), 880-892. (Elsevier Publishers) (if=2.05, ci=57)

5. J. B. Shukla, A. K. Misra, Shyam Sundar and Ram Naresh (2008) Effect of rain on removal of a gaseous pollutant and two different particulate matters from the atmosphere of a city, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 48(5), 832-844, (Elsevier Publishers) (if=2.05, ci=32)

6. Ram Naresh, Surabhi Pandey and A. K. Misra (2008) Analysis of a vaccination model for carrier dependent infectious diseases with environmental effects, Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control, 13(3), 331-350. (Vilnius Univ. Lithuania) (if=1.194, ci=26)

7. Ram Naresh, Shyam Sundar and J. B. Shukla (2007) Modelling the removal of gaseous pollutants and particulate matters from the atmosphere of a city, Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, 8(1), 337-344. (Elsevier Publishers) (if=2.317, ci=25)

8. Ram Naresh, Agraj Tripathi and Dileep Sharma (2011) A nonlinear AIDS epidemic model with screening and time delay, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 217(9), 4416-4426. (Elsevier Publishers) (if=2.108, ci=24)

9. Ram Naresh, Shyam Sundar and J.B.Shukla (2006) Modeling the effect of an intermediate toxic product formed by uptake of a toxicant on plant biomass, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 182(1), 151-160. (Elsevier Publishers) (if=2.108, ci=22)

10. Ram Naresh, Dileep Sharma and Agraj Tripathi (2009) Modelling the effect of tuberculosis on the spread of HIV infection in a population with density dependent birth and death rate, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 50(7), 1154-1166. (Elsevier Publishers)(if=2.05, ci=20)

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PATIL, PRABHUGOUDA MALLANAGOUDA (b 1960), Professor, Karnatak University, Dharwad - 580003


Prof. Prabhugouda Mallanagouda Patil is one of the dedicated researchers, who has made significant contributions on mathematical modeling aspects of fluid flow problems. His research emphasizes convergence and stability analysis to include dispersion relations in Newtonian and polar fluids. Prof. Patil has investigated the Wooding problem for thermal non-equilibrium, by linear stability analysis. He has employed fourth order compact finite differences along with the inverse power method, to achieve the required convergence of the modeled mathematical problem. He has used linear stability theory to analyze onset of convection in a porous layer and derived a dispersion relation from which neutral curves are computed. For two-layer configurations, the dispersion relation may be written explicitly, but for multi-sublayers, a simple systematic numerical scheme has been developed to compute the dispersion relation. Further, he investigated non-similar boundary layer problems by utilizing Quasilinearization technique, in combination with the implicit finite difference scheme, for various mixed convection flow problems. Prof. Patil has also analyzed triple diffusive mixed convection flows over various geometries. Further, he has made an important contribution in modelling the roughness effects on fluid flows, over continuously moving surfaces, using sine wave of small amplitude and high frequency. These mathematical models utilize the Quasilinearization technique and, the simulated results are useful for Design Engineers from the industrial sector, to control various parameters of heat and mass transfer rates. Prof. Patil has acquired state of the art international research experience and visited several countries for collaborative research.

Proposer: Prof. S. Roy, Seconder: Prof. G.D. Veerappa Gowda


1. P. M. Patil, A. Shashikant and P. S. Hiremath (2019), Effects of surface roughness on mixed convection nanoliquid flow over slender cylinder with liquid hydrogen diffusion, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.ijhydene.2019.02.240.(if=4.229, ci=00)

2. P. M. Patil, A. Shashikant and P. S. Hiremath (2018), Influence of liquid hydrogen and nitrogen on MHD triple diffusive mixed convection nanoliquid flow in presence of surface roughness, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 43, 20101 - 20117. (if=4.229, ci=01)

3. P. M. Patil, S. Roy, E. Momoniat (2016), Thermal diffusion and diffusion thermo effects on mixed convection from an impermeable exponentially vertical stretching surface in presence of chemically reactive species, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 100, 482-489. (if=3.891, ci=20)

4. P. M. Patil and D. Andrew S. Rees (2014), The onset of convection in porous layers with multiple horizontal solid partitions, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 68, 234 - 246. (if=3.891, ci=11)

5. P. M. Patil and D. Andrew S. Rees (2013), Linear instability of a horizontal thermal boundary layer formed by vertical throughflow in a porous medium: the effect of local thermal nonequilibrium, Transport in Porous Media 99(2), 207 - 227. (if=2.211, ci=15)

6. P. M. Patil and Ali. J. Chamkha (2013), Heat and mass transfer from mixed convection flow of a polar fluid along a plate in porous media with chemical reaction, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow 23, 899 - 926. (if=2.450, ci=24)

7. P. M. Patil, S. Roy and I. Pop (2012), Unsteady mixed convection flow from a slender cylinder due to vertical nonlinearly power law stretching sheet, Computers and Fluids 56, 17 - 23. (if=2.221, ci=22)

8. P. M. Patil (2012), Effects of surface mass transfer on a steady mixed convection flow from a vertical stretching sheet with variable wall temperature and concentration, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow 22(3), 287 – 305. (if=2.450, ci=25)

9. P. M. Patil and S. Roy (2010), Unsteady mixed convection flow from a moving vertical plate in a parallel free stream: Influence of heat generation or absorption, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 53(21-22), 4749 – 4756. (if=3.891, ci=19)

10. P. M. Patil and P. S. Kulkarni (2008), Effects of chemical reaction on free convective flow of a polar fluid through a porous medium in the presence of internal heat generation, International Journal of Thermal Sciences 47(8), 1043 – 1054. (if=3.361, ci=156)

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SAHA RAY, SANTANU (b 1975), Professor, Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela - 769008


Santanu Saha Ray has significant research contributions in the applications of Analytical Approximate Methods and Numerical Methods for the solutions of some Fractional Differential Equations, Partial Differential Equations, Stochastic Differential Equations and Integral Equations appearing in physical Sciences and Engineering. Also, efficient numerical methods for solving stochastic point kinetic equations have been introduced by him. He obtained exact solutions of nonlinear evolution equations. He used fractional sub-equation method, improved fractional sub-equation method, (G'/G)-expansion method and improved (G'/G)-expansion method, Kudryashov method, modified Kudryashov method, Jacobi elliptical method and Lie symmetry group method in deriving these solutions. He introduced a new computationally efficient numerical technique called coupled fractional reduced differential transform method, which is very powerful in solving linear and non-linear coupled fractional differential equations. Convergence analysis and error estimate for MFRDTM and CFRDTM have been also established by him. He has significant contributions in the applications of wavelet-based transform methods for solving fractional order partial differential equations. A generalized order operational matrix of Haar wavelet is introduced by him. He solved nonlinear Fredholm integral equations, fuzzy integral equations, fuzzy integro-differential equations and nonlinear fractional mixed Volterra-Fredholm integro-differential equations. He also has contributions on the solution of Riesz fractional differential equations. He has significant contributions in editorial, organizational and other academic activities which may be seen from his cv. In my opinion, he deserves a Fellowship of the National Academy of Sciences, India.

Proposer: Prof. A.M. Mathai, Seconder: Prof. K.S. Chaudhuri


1. S. Saha Ray and R. K. Bera, 2005, “An Approximate Solution of A Nonlinear Fractional Differential Equation by Adomian Decomposition Method”, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 167, No. 1, pp. 561-571, 2005. (if=2.300, ci= 2.32)

2. S. Saha Ray, 2009, “Analytical Solution for the Space Fractional Diffusion Equation by Two-Step Adomian Decomposition Method”, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 1295-1306, 2009. (if=3.181, ci= 3.37)

3. S. Saha Ray, 2012, “On Haar Wavelet Operational Matrix of General Order and its application for the Numerical Solution of Fractional Bagley Torvik Equation”, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 218, No. 9, pp. 5239-5248, 2012. (if=2.300, ci= 2.32)

4. S. Saha Ray and A. Patra, 2013, “Haar wavelet operational methods for the numerical solutions of Fractional order nonlinear oscillatory Van der Pol system”, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 220, No. 1, pp. 659-667, 2013. (if=2.300, ci=2.32)

5. S. Saha Ray, 2015, “A Novel Method for Travelling Wave Solutions of Fractional Whitham-Broer-Kaup, Fractional Modified Boussinesq and Fractional Approximate Long Wave Equations in Shallow Water”, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, Vol. 38, (if=1.18)

6. S. Saha Ray, 2019, “A New Numerical Approach for Single Rational Soliton Solution of Chen-Lee-Liu Equation with Riesz Fractional Derivative in Optical Fibers”, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 99-114, 2019. (if=1.18)

7. S. Saha Ray, 2017, “The transport dynamics in complex systems governing by anomalous diffusion modelled with Riesz fractional partial differential equations”, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 1637-1648, 2017 (if=1.18)

8. S. Saha Ray, 2017, “On conservation laws by Lie symmetry analysis for (2+1)-dimensional Bogoyavlensky–Konopelchenko equation in wave propagation”, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 74, pp. 1158–1165, 2017. (if=1.860, ci= 1.89)

9. P. K. Sahu and S. Saha Ray, 2016, “Sinc Galerkin technique for the numerical solution of fractional Volterra-Fredholm integro-differential equations with weakly singular kernels”, International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation, (if=1.162, ci=1.41)

10. A. K. Gupta and S. Saha Ray, 2015, “Numerical treatment for the solution of Fractional Fifth Order Sawada-Kotera Equation using Second Kind Chebyshev Wavelet Method”, Applied Mathematical Modelling, Vol. 39(17), pp. 5121–5130, 2015. (if=2.617, ci= 2.68)

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SENAPATHI, ESWARA RAO (b 1955), Former Professor, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai - 530017


Rao's main object of study is Toroidal Lie Algebras which are genaralization of Affine Kac-Moody Lie algebras. The Toroidal Lie algebras have connections to Physics. The first result is a realization of Toroidal Lie Algebra using Vertex Operators. Then he classified irreducible integrable modules for Toroidal Lie Algebras. In physics the semidirect product of affine Lie algebra with Virasoro algebra is very important. Rao has generalized this algebra for several variables which is called as full Toroidal Lie algebra. Rao classified irreducible integrable moduels. At a classical level Rao proved that any integrable modules for affine Lie algerbas with nonzero center is completely reducible. Rao has also done work on superalgebras and classified irreducible finite dimensional modules for loop superalgebras. Rao generalized Virasor algebra for several varibles and produced a large class of irreducible modules for this. Yuly Billig and Futorny proved these are the only irreducible modueles with finite dimensional weight spaces. They have used Rao's earlier result in this classification result.

Proposer: Prof. Ushadevi Narendra Bhosle, Seconder: Prof. Satya Deo


1. Eswara Rao,S. Toroidal Lie algebras and Vertex Representations, Geometriae Dedicata 35, 283-307, (1990) (if=0.612, ci=114 (from mathscinet))

2. Eswara Rao, S. Vertex Representations for n-toroidal Lie algebras and a generalization of Virasoro Algebra, 159, 239-264 (1994) (if=2.375, ci=73 (from Mathscinet))

3. Eswara Rao,S. Integrable modules for Affine superalgebas, Trans.Amer. Math. Society, 361(10), 5435-55 (2009) (if=1.426, ci=5 (from Mathscinet))

4. Eswara Rao,S.Irreducible representations of the Lie algebra of Diffeomorphisms of d dimensional Torus, Journal of Algebra, 182, 401-421(1996) (if=0.610, ci=41 (from Mathscinet))

5. Eswara Rao, S, Partial classification of modules for Lie algebra of diffeomorphisms of d dimensional torus 45, 3322-3333, (2005) (if=1.165, ci=26 (from Mathscinet))

6. Eswara Rao, S.Classification of irreducible integrable modules for toroidal Lie algebra....Journal of Algebra, 277(1),318-348(2004) (if=0.610, ci=34 (from Mathscinet))

7. Eswara Rao, S. Classification of irreducible integrable representations for the full toroidal Lie algebra,J.Pure and applied Algebra,200 No.1-3, 71-85 (2005) (if=0.652, ci=18 (from Mathscinet))

8. Eswara Rao S. Irreducible representations for toroidal Lie algebras, J Pure Appl. Algebra (if=0.652, ci=13 (from Mathscinet))

9. Eswara Rao S.Classificationof Loop Modules with finite dimensional weight spaces, Math.Ann.305, 651-663(1996) (if=1.314, ci=8 (from Mathscinet))

10. Eswara Rao, S.Finite dimensional modules for multiloop superalgebra of type A(m,n), and C(n), Proceedings of AMS141(10),3411-3419) (if=0.679, ci=5 (from Mathscinet))

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UPADHYAY, AASHISH (b 1975), Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, IIT Patna - 801103


1. Dr Upadhyay has completely classified all the equivelar maps on the double-torus which is a non-trivial result. 2. Dr. Upadhyay has initiated a concept called `Semi Equivelar maps' which has been studied for the first time. 3. It is widely known among peers that equivelar maps do not exist on the surface of Euler characteristics - 1, however Dr. Upadhyay has given a classification of Semi equivelar maps on this surface. 4. Using this he has answered in affirmative a question posed by Negami and Nakamoto on the existence of d-covered triangulations 5. He has found a necessary and sufficient condition for existence of contractible Hamiltonian cycles in edge graphs of maps surfaces and polyhedral maps. 6. Dr Upadhyay has presented an algorithm which searches for Contractible, non-contractible, separating and non separating Hamiltonian cycles in edge graphs of maps on surfaces and polyhedral maps. 7. Dr Upadhyay gave a partial solution to Grunbaum's and Nash Williams Conjecture about existence of Hamiltonian cycles in 4 connected toroidal graphs 8. He has also given improved bounds on spectral radius of $k$ connected graphs. This will be instrumental in attempting a solution of conjecture mentioned in 7 above.

Proposer: Prof. Satya Deo, Seconder: Prof. Basudeb Datta


1. Basudeb Datta and Ashish Kumar Upadhyay(2005), Degree Regular triangulations of the torus and Klein bottle, Proc. Indian Acad. Sc. (Math Sc.) vol 115, No. 3, pp- 279 - 307 (if=0.74(2016 Research Gate))

2. Basudeb Datta and Ashish Kumar Upadhyay(2006), Degree regular triangulations of the double torus, Forum Mathematicum, vol 18, issue 6, pp-1011-1026 (if=0.77(2016 ResearchGate))

3. Ashish Kumar Upadhyay(2014), Contractible Hamiltonian Cycles in Triangulated Surfaces, Elemente der Mathematik, 69(1), 23–29(if=0.30(2016 ResearchGate))

4. Ashish K. Upadhyay, Anand K. Tiwari and Dipendu Maity(2014), Semi Equivelar Maps, Beitrage zur Algebra und Geometrie , 55(1), 229-242 (if=0.59(2016 ResearchGate))

5. Anand K Tiwari and A K Upadhyay (2017), Semi-equivelar maps on the surface of Euler characteristic $-1$, Note Mat. 37 no. 2, 91-102 (if=0.23(2016 ResearchGate))

6. Anand K. Tiwari and Ashish K. Upadhyay, Semi equivelar maps on the torus and the Klein bottle with few vertices, Math. Slovaca , 67(2), pp. 519-532 (if=0.46(2016 ResearchGate))

7. D Maity and A K Upadhyay(2017), Hamiltonian cycles in polyhedral map, Proc. Indian Acad Sc.(Math. Sc.), 127 ,737 - 751(if=0.74(2016 ResearchGate))

8. D Maity and A K Upadhyay(2018), On the enumeration of a class of toroidal graphs, Contributions to Discrete Mathematics, 13 ,79 – 119 (if= 0.31(2016 ResearchGate))

9. T Bag and A K Upadhyay(2018), Study on negacyclic codes over the ring $$\mathbb {Z}_{p}[u]/, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing (if=0.91(2016 ResearchGate))

10. T. Bag, Sachin Pathak and A K Upadhyay, (2019) Classes of constacyclic codes of length p^s over the ring Fpm + uFpm + vFpm + uvFpm, Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie / Contributions to Algebra and Geometry. (to appear) (if=0.59(2016 ResearchGate))

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ANSARI, QAMRUL HASAN (b 1959), Professor, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh - 202002


During the last five years, Prof. Ansari developed some algorithms for computing the solutions of the problems: Equilibrium Problems; Variational Inequalities; Fixed Point Problems; Split Feasibility Problems and Inverse Problems, etc. It is worth to mention that the many real life problem can be written in the form of a fixed point problem or variational inequality problem. In the recent past, split feasibility problem is used as a model of the inverse problem of intensity-modulated radiation therapy treatment. Beside this, split feasibility problem is a unified model of several other problems, namely, signal processing, phase retrievals, image reconstruction, etc. Therefore, these algorithms can be used to solve problems from medical sciences, engineering, etc. He established some existence results for a solution under certain conditions of some multi-objective / multi-criteria optimization problems by using different kinds of vector variational inequalities. The Nash equilibrium problem for vector pay-off has been investigated by using system of vector variational inequalities. During the last one years, he published several papers on the finite convergence of the sequences, that is, the sequence generated by the proposed algorithm converge to a solution of the problem after a finite number of iterates. Total Number of Citations : 3049; Total Number of Citation without Self Citation : 2736; Total Number of Citing Articles : 1669; Total Number of Citing Articles without Self Citation : 1545; Average Citation per Paper : 16.66; h-index : 33

Proposer: Prof. Satya Deo Tripathi, Seconder: Prof. R.N. Kaul


1. Q. H. Ansari, Feeroz Babu and Jen-Chih Yao, Regularization of Proximal Point Algorithms in Hadamard Manifolds, Journal of Fixed Point Theory and Applications 21 (2019) Article ID 25 (if=0.971)

2. Q. H. Ansari, E. Kobis and P. K. Sharma, Characterizations of set relations with respect to variable domination structures via oriented distance function, Optimization 67(9) (2018), 1389-1407 (if=1.170)

3. S. Al-Homidan, Q.H. Ansari and R. Burachik, Weak sharp solutions for generalized variational inequalities, Positivity 21(3) (2017), 1067-10881 (if=0.661)

4. J.W. Chen, Q.H. Ansari, Y.-C. Liou and J.-C. Yao, A proximal point algorithm based on decomposition method for cone constrained multiobjective optimization problems, Computational Optimization and Applications 65(1) (2016), 289-308 (if=1.444)

5. A. Bnouhachem and Q.H. Ansari, A descent LQP alternating direction method for solving variational inequality problems with separable structure, Applied Mathematics and Computation 246 (2014), 519–532 (if=1.600)

6. L.-C. Ceng, Q.H. Ansari and J.-C. Yao, An extragradient method for split feasibility and fixed point problems, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 64 (2012), 633642 (if=1.996, ci=73)

7. Q.H. Ansari, Vectorial form of Ekeland-type variational principle with applications to vector equilibrium problems and fixed point theory, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 334(2) (2007), 561-575 (if=1.846, ci=35)

8. Q.H. Ansari, S. Schaible and J.-C. Yao, The system of generalized vector equilibrium problems with applications, Journal of Global Optimization, 22 (2002), 3-16 (if=1.733, ci=69)

9. Q.H. Ansari, I.V. Konnov and J.C. Yao, Existence of a solution and variational principles for vector equilibrium problems, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 110(3) (2001), 481-492 (if=1.289, ci=55)

10. Q.H. Ansari, W. Oettli and D. Schlager, A generalization of vectorial equilibria, Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 46 (1997), 147-152 (if=0.762, ci=100)

373

BALI, RAJ (b 1952) Professor of Mathematics and CSIR Emeritus Scientist, Department of Mathematics, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur - 302004


Prof. Raj Bali has been Senior Faculty Member of the Department of Mathematics, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur and Senior Associate of IUCAA, Pune (India). During the last thirty four years, I have seen him engaged with his research scholars working in the field of General Relativity and Cosmology and alternative theories of gravitation. He has got published 219 research papers to his credit in the journals of National and International repute. In national journals 98 research papers and in foreign journals 121 research papers have been published in the field of homogeneous, inhomogeneous, tilted, string, inflationary cosmological models, creation field cosmology and in other alternative theories of gravitation. Thirty two research students have been awarded Ph.D degree under his supervision on the above mentioned topics. He organised 23rd IAGRG International Conference from December 4-7, 2004 at Jaipur in collaboration with IUCAA, Pune, University of Rajasthan and C.S.I.R., New Delhi. Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi has awarded him a Research Fellowship to work at IUCAA, Pune in 2007-08 in collaboration with Prof. J.V. Narlikar. He was honoured by Vice-Chancellor of University of Rajasthan on January 26, 2009 for publishing high quality research works. He was invited to deliver lecture in Petrov 2010 symposium organized by Kazan State University (Russia) and he chaired one of the session in the symposium and delivered lectures in RTM Nagpur University, 2012-2014, Central University of Rajasthan Ajmer in March 2014. Recently he was invited to deliver Lecturers under Prof. V.V. Narlikar's 80th Birthday Commemoration Lecture Series on August 11-12, 2016 in Department of Mathematics, Banaras Hindu University. He has been awarded D.Sc. Degree on the topic "Study of Anisotropic Cosmologies" w.e.f. May 20, 2014 in the convocation of University of Rajasthan held on July 7, 2015 by His Excellency Governor of Rajasthan. He was awarded UGC Emeritus Fellow (February 1,2012 - January 1,2013, January 5, 2017 to December 31,2017), CSTR Emeritus Scientist (January 2, 2013 to January 4, 2017) in Department of Mathematics, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. His name is included in "Who is Who in the World" in its 16th, 26th and 31st editions published from International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England. Seeing his research contributions, Royal Astronomical Society has honoured him as FRAS, London in December 2015. He has written three books (1) Theory of Relativity (2) Advanced Tensor Analysis (3) Advanced Differential Geometry for M.Sc. and research students. Presently his h-index is 24 and Citations is 1840 (Google Scholar). His biodata speaks itself about his academic achievements. I strongly recommend his name for the award of NASI Fellowship.

Proposer : Prof. J.L. Bansal, Seconder : Prof. Maithili Sharan Ten Best Publications: 1. Raj Bali (1986): Magnetized cosmological model, lnt. J. Theor. Phys. 25(7), 755. Impact Factor: 1.086, (ci=41), Publisher: Springer 2. Raj Bali and Atul Tyagi (1989). A cylindrically symmetric inhomogeneous cosmological model with electromegnetic field, Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 21(8), 797. (if=1.618, ci=31), Publisher: Springer 3. Raj Bali and R.D. Upadhaya (2003): L.R.S. Bianchi Type I String dust magnetized Cosmological models, Astrophys and Space-Science, 283, 97. (if=1.662, ci=103), Publisher: Springer 4. Raj Bali and M.K. Yadav (2005). Bianchi Type IX viscous fluid cosmological model in general relativity, Pramana-Journal of Physics, 64(2), 187. (if=0.520, ci=45), Publisher: Indian Academy of Science, Bangalore 5. Raj Bali and Anjali (2006): Bianchi Type I Magnetized String Cosmological Model in General Relativity, Astrophysics and Space Science, 302, 201. (if=1.662, ci=60), Publisher: Springer 6. Raj Bali and A. Pradhan (2007). Bianchi Type-III String Cosmological Models with Time Dependant Bulk Viscosity, Chinese Phys. Lett., 24, 2, 585. (if=0.927, ci=140), Publisher: lOP, England 7. Raj Bali and Pramila Kumawat (2008): Bulk Viscous L.R.S. Bianchi Type V Tilted Stiff Fluid Cosmological Model in General Relativity, Phys. Letter B, 665, 332. (if=4.807, ci=44), Publisher: Elsevier 8. Raj Bali and Naresh K. Chandnani (2008). Bianchi Type-I cosmological model for perfect fluid distribution in Lyra Geometry, Journal of Mathematical Physics (USA) 49, 032502 (2008). (if=1.077, ci=47), Publisher: American Institute of Physics 9. Raj Bali (2012). Chaotic inflationary scenario in Bianchi type I space-time, Modem Phys. Lett. A, 27, 1250049. (if=1.338, ci=4), Publisher: Elsevier 10. Raj Bali and Swati Singh (2016): Inflationary scenario in Bianchi Type V space time for barotropic fluid distribution with variable bulk viscosity and vacuum energy density, Gravitation & Cosmology (Russia), 16, 22, 394-403. (if=0.734, ci=4), Publisher: Springer

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CHANDRAN LEELA, SUNIL (b 1974), Professor, Department of Computer Science & Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560012


The nominee has made several outstanding and original contributions to the following areas. (1) Geometric Representations of Graphs (2) Acyclic Edge Coloring (3) Rainbow Coloring. Since the possibility of designing efficient algorithms for a graph problem is directly related with the possibility of representing the graph such that the algorithm designer can effectively make use of the additional structure available, it is important to study novel representations of graphs. The nominee has made extensive contributions to the study of one such graph representation, namely the geometric representation. He discovered several surprising and useful results in this area. One reason for developing the theory of geometric representation was an approach nominee thought may help to resolve the celebrated Hadwiger's conjecture. This approach relied on connecting graph minor theory to geometric representations. Nominee was also motivated by the vision of having a unified theory of various dimensional parameters of graphs. In the area of acyclic edge coloring, the problem of finding a strategy to acyclically edge color a planar graph using only $\Delta + c$ colors, where $\Delta$ is the maximum degree and $c$ is a constant was an extensively and competitively researched problem. The nominee was the first one to come up with such a strategy.

Proposer: Prof. Y. Narahari, Seconder: Prof. M. Narasimha Murty


1. L. Sunil Chandran, (2003), A High Girth Graph Construction. SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics vol 16, no.3, page 366--370. (if=0.755, ci=37)

2. L. Sunil Chandran, L. Shankar Ram, (2004), On the number of minimum cuts in a graph. SIAM Journal on Discrete mathematics, vol 18, no. 1, page 177--194. (if=0.755, ci=20)

3. L. Sunil Chandran, C. R. Subramanian, (2004), Girth and Treewidth. Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series.B, vol 93, no. 1, page 23--32. (if=0.829, ci=36)

4. L. Sunil Chandran, Naveen Sivadasan, (2007), Boxicity and Treewidth. {\em Journal of Combinatorial Theory- Ser B}, vol.97, no.5, pages: 733-744. (if=0.829, ci=67)

5. L. Sunil Chandran, Mathew Francis, Naveen Sivadasan, (2008), Boxicity and Maximum degree, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Ser B, vol 98, no 2, pages 443-445. (if=0.829, ci=43)

6. Manu Basavaraju, {L. Sunil Chandran}, (2009), Acyclic Edge Coloring of Graphs with Maximum Degree 4, Journal of Graph Theory., Vol. 61, Issue. 3, pages: 192--209. (if=0.601, ci=46)

7. Abhijin Adiga, Diptendu Bhowmick, L. Sunil Chandran, (2011) Boxicity and Poset Dimension, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 25(4), pages 1687-1698. (if=0.755, ci=23)

8. L. Sunil Chandran, Anita Das, Deepak Rajendraprasad and Nithin M. Varma, (2012), Rainbow Connection Number and Connected Dominating Sets, Journal of Graph Theory,71(2): 206-218. (if=0.601, ci=82)

9. Abhijin Adiga, L. Sunil Chandran, N. Sivadasan, (2014), Lower Bounds for Boxicity, Combinatorica, 34 (6), 631-655. (if=1.048, ci=10)

10. Noga Alon, Manu Basavaraju, L. Sunil Chandran, Rogers Mathew, Deepak Rajendraprasad, (2015), Separation Dimension of Bounded Degree Graphs, SIAM J. Discrete Math. 29(1): 59-64 (if=0.755, ci=11)

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DEEP, KUSUM (b 1958), Professor, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee - 247667


The earliest paper of Kusum continues to be the most downloadable paper of the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier, (Impact Factor = 1.738) for the last 9 years. The paper proposes a new real coded genetic algorithm for integer and mixed integer nonlinear optimization problems. Its basis are two earlier papers on new real coded crossover operator and real coded mutation operator. Later, these operators were hybridized with Bio-geography based Optimization , Gravitational Search Algorithm, Ant Lion Optimizer. They have been used to solve problems like: Management of multi purpose multi reservoir, Minimization of Molecular Potential Energy Function, Minimizing Lennard-Jones Potential. Kusum has designed and applied new Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithms, for example shrinking hypersphere PSO and , Co-Swarm PSO, novel Inertia Weight strategies in PSO, binary PSO for knapsack problems, Hybrid discrete PSO for trim loss, application of new PSO in earthquake engineering, application of PSO in stereo camera calibration, Parameter Optimization of Multi-pass Turning, Optimization of Extraction Process of Bioactive Compounds from Gardenia, Cell-like P-Systems based on rules of PSO. Kusum proposed new variants of Artificial Bee Colony for avalaunche forecasting. Her latest papers on improvements in Grey Wolf Optimizer and Antlion Optimizer, Harmony Search for Sudoku and Harmony Search for maximum clique are noteworthy.

Proposer: Prof. Prem Vrat, Seconder: Prof. N.R. Pal


1. Kusum Deep, Manoj Thakur, 2007, A New Crossover Operator for Real Coded Genetic Algorithms, Applied Mathematics and Computations, Elsevier, Vol. 188,Issue 1, pp. 895– 911. (if=1.738, ci=297)

2. Kusum Deep, Manoj Thakur, 2007, A New Mutation Operator for Real Coded Genetic Algorithms,Applied Mathematics and Computations, Elsevier, Vol. 193, Issue 1, pp. 211– 230 (if=1.738, ci=268)

3. Kusum Deep, K. P. Singh, M. L. Kansal, C. Mohan,2009, Management of multi Purpose multi reservoir using fuzzy interactive method, Water Resources Management, Springer, Vol.23, Issue 1, 2987. (if=2.463, ci=17)

4. Kusum Deep, K. P. Singh, M. L. Kansal and C. Mohan, 2009, A Real Coded Genetic Algorithm for Integer and Mixed Integer Non-linear Optimization Problems, Applied Mathematics and Computations, Elsevier, Vol. 212, Issue 2, pp. 505-518. (if=1.738, ci=321)

5. Kusum Deep, K.P. Singh, M. L. Kansal, C. Mohan, 2011, An Interactive Method Using Genetic Algorithm for Multi-Objective Optimization Problems Modeled in Fuzzy Environment, Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 38, Issue 3, pp.1659-1667. (if=3.928, ci=15)

6. G.Singh, Kusum Deep, A.K. Nagar, 2014, Cell-like P-Systems Based on Rules of Particle Swarm Optimization, Applied Mathematics and Computations, Elsevier, Vol. 246, pp. 546-560. (if=1.738, ci=14)

7. Amreek Singh, Bhanu Damir, Kusum Deep, A. Ganju, 2015, Calibration of Nearest Neighbours Model for Avalanche Forecasting, Cold Regions Science &Technology, Elsevier, Vol. 109, pp.33-42. (if=1.909, ci=9)

8. G.Singh, Kusum Deep, 2016, A New Membrane Algorithm using the rules of Particle Swarm Optimization incorporated within the framework of Cell-like P-systems to solve Sudoku, Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier, Vol.45, pp. 27-39. (if=3.541, ci=7)

9. A. Singh, Kusum Deep, Pallavi Grover, 2017, A Novel Approach to Accelerate Calibration Process of K-Nearest Neighbours Classifier Using GPU, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Elsevier, Vol.10, pp. 114-129. (if=1.93, ci=3)

10. Shubhm Gupta, Kusum Deep, 2018, A novel Random Walk Grey Wolf Optimizer, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2018.01.001 (if=3.893, ci=0)

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KOIJAM, MANIHAR SINGH (b 1949), Former Professor of Mathematics, NIT Manipur, Imphal - 795001


Koijam Manihar Singh has made significant contributions to Mathematics of electromagnetic fields in self-creation scalar-tensor theory and dark energy model of Universe. A few papers of his own can be mentioned to support above theories: 1. A new theorem for electro-magnetic fields in self-creation scalar-tensor theory of gravitation (Ind. J. Maths. 1996, 39, 59); 2. New results in gravitational collapse and in different models of rotating universes (D. Sc. Thesis); 3. That the neutrinos might contribute to total dark energy in this Universe (Astroph. Space Sc. 2016, 361, 85); 4. That cosmic time can go backward in some dark energy model universe (Int. J. Phys. 2015, 3,213); 5. A new theory of the evolution of the Universe (Global J. Sc. Frontier Res. 2015, 15, 15); 6. That our Universe may contain different forms of dark energy simultaneously (Int. J. Theo. Phys. 2014, 53, 4360); 7. That Lyra’s manifold itself is a source of dark energy (Int. J. Theo. Phys. 2017, 56, 2607); 8. Dark energy can play a significant role in reducing global warming (Int. J. Rec. Trends Eng. Res. 2017, 3, 48).

Proposer: Dr. R.S. Ningthoujam, Seconder: Dr. J. Mohanty


1. Koijam Manihar Singh and K.S. Bhamra, 1983, Slow rotation of compressible viscous fluid in cosmological universe, Pramana- J. Phys., 26, 117-127 (if=0.52, ci=12)

2. Koijam Manihar Singh, 1989, Slowly rotating perfect fluid universes coupled with zero-mass scalar field, Astrophysics and Space Science, 161, 111-123 (if=1.62, ci=6)

3. Koijam Manihar Singh, 1991, Rotational perturbations of magneto-viscous fluid universes coupled with zero mass scalar field, Astrophysics and Space Science, 180, 252-27 (if=1.62, ci=6)

4. Koijam Manihar Singh, 1993, Radiating anisotropic two-fluid model universes involving rotation in general relativity, Astrophysics and Space Science, 205, 259-276 (if=1.62)

5. Koijam Manihar Singh and K. Priyokumar Singh, 2014, Cosmological model universe consisting of two forms of dark energy, International Journal of Theoretical Physics, 53, 4360-4365 (if=1.0, ci=3)

6. Koijam Manihar Singh and Mukunda Dewri, 2015, Possibility of cosmic time going back in some dark energy model universe, International Journal of Physics, 3, 213-215 (ci=1)

7. Koijam Manihar Singh and Mukunda Dewri, 2015, Oscillating theory of the Universe, Global Journal of Science Frontier Research (A) : ( Physics and Space Science), 15, 15-17 (ci=2)

8. Koijam Manihar Singh and K. L. Mahanta, 2016, Do neutrinos contribute to total dark energy, Astrophysics and Space Science, 361, 85-90 (if=1.62, ci=2)

9. Koijam Manihar Singh and K. Priyokumar Singh, 2017, Whether Lyra’s manifold itself is a hidden source of dark energy, International Journal of Theoretical Physics, 56, 2607-2621 (if=1.0, ci=1)

10. Koijam Manihar Singh and Pheiroijam Suranjoy Singh, 2017, Can dark energy neutralize the global warming, International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering and Research, 3, 48-58 (ci=1)

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PEETTA KANDY, RATNAKUMAR K (b 1968), Professor-H, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj - 211019


Professor Ratnakumar is one of the top class Harmonic Analyst and he is working in a major institute in the country. In addition to his interest in pure harmonic analysis and he has deep interest in partial Differential equations(PDE). Thus, he has contributed significantly to harmonic analysis and he has used his expertise in that area to solve problems from PDE. The papers he has published may not be large in numbers, but almost all the papers are in top journals like in J. Funct. Anal, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Math. Z, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., Trans. Amer. math.Soc., Analyse Math.to name a few. Let me just cite one or two as 250 words is too small to describe his work. One of the significant work of Ratnakumar, related to PDE, is the global wellposedness of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation for Special Hermite operator (Magnetic Laplacian), see[8]. This is based on the Strichartz estimate for the special Hermite operator that Ratnakumar had established earlier[5]. In fact, his moving to PDE initiated with a joint work with me on Strichartz estimate for the Hermite operator [4]. Another significant work, concerns the nonlinear Schroedinger equations on Modulation spaces[9].

Proposer: Prof. A.K. Nandakumaran, Seconder: Prof. Adimurthy


1. P. K. Ratnakumar, S. Thangavelu (1998), Spherical means, wave equations and Hermite - Laguerre expansions, J. Funct. Anal., Vol 154, No.2, 253-290 (if=1.254, ci=8)

2. P. K. Ratnakumar, G. Sajith (1999), Gelfand pairs, K- spherical means and injectivity on the Heisenberg group, J. D. Analyse Math., Vol 78, 245-262 (if=1.426, ci=4)

3. P.K. Ratnakumar, A.K. Nandakumaran (2005), Schroedinger equation and the oscillatory semigroup for the Hermite operator, J. Funct. Anal., Vol 224, 371-385. (if=1.326, ci=13)

4. P. K. Ratnakumar (2008), On Schroedinger propagator for the special Hermite operator, J. Fourier Anal. and Appl., Vol 14, No.2, 286-300. (if=1.525, ci=13)

5. P. K. Ratnakumar, E.K Narayanan (2010), Benedick’s theorem for the Heisenberg group, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol 138, No.6, 2135-2140. (if=0.679, ci=13)

6. P. K. Ratnakumar, Vijay Kumar Sohani (2013), Non linear Schroedinger equation for the twisted Laplacian, J. Funct. Anal., Vol 265, 1-27. (if=1.326, ci=7)

7. P. K. Ratnakumar, Saurabh Shrivastava (2015), A remark on bilinear Littlewood-Paley square functions, jointly with Saurabh Shrivastava, Monatsh. Math. Vol 176, No.4, 615-622. (if=0.735, ci=2)

8. P. K. Ratnakumar, Vijay Kumar Sohani (2015), Non linear Schr odinger equation and the twisted Laplacian-Global well posedness, Math. Z. Vol 280 No.1-2, 583-605. (if=0.874, ci=7)

9. P.K. Ratnakumar, Divvying G. Bhimani (2016), Functions operating on Modulation spaces and nonlinear dispersive equations, J. Funct. Anal., Vol 270, 621-648. (if=1.326, ci=12)

10. Adimurthi, P. K. Ratnakumar, Vijay Kumar Sohani (2017), A Hardy-Sobolev inequality for the twisted Laplacian, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics, Vol. (if=1.151, ci=1)

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SHARMA, RAJENDRA KUMAR (b 1958) Professor, Department of Mathematics, IIT Delhi, New Delhi - 110016


Prof R. K. Sharma has done outstanding work in the area of Group Rings roughly for the last 40 years. Locating and computing units has always been a very fascinating and challenging problem. Prof. Sharma has characterized unit group of group rings over integers, fields finite as well as infinite. He has also studied Lie solvable and Lie nilpotent group algebras K[G] in terms of solvability length, nilpotency index of the group G. He has solved several open problems in group rings. He has also studied ring theoretic properties of group rings such as clean, neat group algebras. Another classical problem in ring theory is to find combinations of properties that force a ring to be commutative. Derivation on rings provide such conditions. Prof. Sharma has obtained several interesting results in this area too. Finite Fields have many applications in coding theory and cryptography. In this area, he has studied Boolean functions, permutation polynomials and normal bases over finite fields. He has formulated two conjectures also on the primitive, primitive normal pairs of elements in finite fields. On the computational side, Prof Sharma has done a project with DRDO for integer factorization using NFS, and computation of Discrete Logarithm in finite fields. His work has appeared in highly reputed international journals. He has published in Amer. Math. Soc., J Algebra, J Pure Appl. Algebra, Commun.Algebra, Linear Algeb.Appl, Finite Fields Appl, Design Codes Crypt,..etc. Many authors have also cited his papers. I myself have cited some of his work.

Proposer : Prof. IBS Passi, Seconder : Prof. Maithili Sharan Ten Best Publications: 1. R. K. Sharma and J. B. Srivastava(1985)Lie Solvable Rings,Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 94, 1-8. (if=0.840, ci=24) 2. R. K. Sharma and J. B. Srivastava(1990) Lie Ideals in Group Rings, J. Pure and Appl.Algebra, 63, 67-80. (if= 0.840, ci=25) 3. R. K. Sharma and V. Bist (1992) A Note on Lie Nilpotent Group Rings, Bull. Austral. Math. Soc., 45, 503-506. (if= 0.548, ci=22) 4. R. K. Sharma and J. B. Srivastava (1992) Lie Centrally Metabelian Group Rings, J. Algebra, 151, 476-486. (if= 0.610, ci=39) 5. B. Kulshammer and R. K. Sharma (1996) Lie Centrally Metabelian Group Rings in Characteristic 3, J. Algebra, 180, 111-120. (if= 0.610, ci=14) 6. R. K. Sharma and S. Gangopadhyay (2004) On Congruence Subgroups and Units in ZS4, Commun.

Algebra, 32, 663-688. (if= 0.388, ci=5) 7. R. K. Sharma, J. B. Srivastava and Manju Khan (2007) The Unit Group ofFA4,Pub.Math. Debrecen, 71, 21-26. (if= 0.431, ci= 16) 8. R. K. Sharma, PoojaYadav, Pramod Kumar (2012) Lie Regular Units and Linear Groups, Communications in Algebra, 40, 1304-1315. (if= 0.388, ci=4) 9. Alok Mishra, R. K. Sharma, W. Shukla (2014) On the Self-dual normal bases and their distribution, Linear Algebra and its Applications, 457, 179-190. (if= 0.968, ci= 1) 10. Rohit Gupta, R. K. Sharma (2016) Some new classes of permutation trinomials over finite fields with even characteristic, Finite Fields and Their Applications, 41, 89-96. (if= 0.813, ci= 17)

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BHARGAVA, RAMA (b 1955), Professor, Department of Mathematics, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee - 247667


The research area of Prof. Bhargava is CFD and computer graphics. Her passion is to have a direct application of mathematical tools for simulation of real problems. All this is reflected in her nearly 160 papers. She has applied advanced numerical techniques namely Finite element and Meshfree methods for problems dealing with transport phenomena, propagation of cracks or fire, phase change etc. Apart from this, she has also touched some theoretical aspects like convergence etc. of these techniques. Her research on FEM has led to INSA award under which she has explored interesting problems on nonnewtonian and nanofluids flows at University of Sheffield UK. Her work on stability of flows of different fluids has produced very good papers. She has been working extensively on domains which are undefined or bounded with curves eg inclined channel with sinusoidal boundries existing in solar heaters or problems of drug delivery or cryosurgery. The meshfree method is quite tough with sequential programming so she is now working in parallel implementation which will generate a breakthrough for many unsolved problems. On the basis of her research work she is awarded four research projects-two by ISRO, one by DST and the current one by NBHM. She has developed software for generating 3D- city models using 2D satellite images which has applications during natural calamities in flood etc. She has adored many administrative posts at IIT Roorkee.

Proposer: Prof. Ramkrishnan Balakrishnan, Seconder: Prof. Satya Deo


1. O. Anwar Beg, Jaoquin Zueco, R. Bhargava, H. S. Thakar, Magnetohydronymic convection flow from a sphere to a non-Darcian porous medium with heat generation or absorption effects: , International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Vol. 48,pp. 913-921, 2009. (if=2.769, ci=40)

2. P Rana, R Bhargava,Numerical study of heat transfer enhancement in mixed convection flow along a vertical plate with heat source/sink utilizing nanofluids, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, Vol. 16, pp. 4318-4334, 2011. (if=2.834, ci=75)

3. P. Rana and R. Bhargava, Flow and heat transfer of a nanofluid over a nonlinearly stretching sheet: A numerical study, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation 17, 212–226, 2012. Elsevier. (if=2.834, ci=218)

4. Puneet Rana, R. Bhargava, and O.A. Bég, Numerical solution for mixed convection boundary layer flow of a nanofluid along an inclined plate embedded in a porous medium, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 64, 2816–2832, 2012. (if=1.398, ci=62)

5. Dhananjay Yadav, R. Bhargava, G.S. Agrawal, Boundary and internal heat source effects on the onset of Darcy-Brinkman convection in a porous layer saturated by nanofluid, International Journal of Thermal Sciences , 60, 244-254, 2012. (if=2.857, ci=48)

6. Dhananjay Yadav, R Bhargava, GS Agrawal, Numerical solution of a thermal instability problem in a rotating nanofluid layer, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 63 , pp. 313-322, 2013. (if=2.857, ci=48)

7. Goyal, M., Bhargava, R., Numerical study of thermodiffusion effects on boundary layer flow of nanofluids over a power law stretching sheet, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics , Vol. 17, pp. 591–604, 2014. (if=2.537, ci=23)

8. Dhananjay Yadav, R Bhargava, GS Agrawal, Nirmal Yadav, Jinho Lee, MC Kim., Thermal instability in a rotating porous layer saturated by a non-Newtonian nanofluid , Microfluidics and Nanofluidics , Vol. 16 (2), pp. 425-440, 2014. (if=2.537, ci=28)

9. Singh S., Bhargava R., Simulation of phase transition during cryosurgical treatment of a tumor tissue loaded with nano-particles using meshfree approach, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, 136(12), 121101-10, 2014. (if=1.788, ci=7)

10. D. Yadav, J. Wang, R. Bhargava, J. Lee, H.H. Cho, “Numerical investigation of the effect of magnetic field on the onset of nanofluid convection”, Applied Thermal Engineering (Elsevier), Vol. 103, pp 1441–1449, 2016. (if=3.043, ci=10)

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BHATTACHARYYA, SOMNATH (b 1962), Professor (HAG Sclae), Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur - 721032


Prof. Bhattacharyya’s research centres on Computational Fluid Dynamics, which involves mathematical modeling and numerical analysis incorporating inherently non-linear effects partnering to unsteady flow separation, vortex breakdown, fluid-body interactions and heat transfer analysis. He has made significant contribution in modeling electrokinetic transport phenomena in micro and nanoscale relevant to nanotechnology. These numerical models were supplemented by asymptotic analysis and experimental results. A significant part of his work focuses on the development of advanced numerical algorithms to compute nonlinear PDEs. He has demonstrated sophisticated numerical algorithms to analyze the strongly advection-dominated transport processes governed by nonlinear hyperbolic PDEs. Several higher-order numerical methods are developed to compute the coupled Navier-Stokes-Nernst-Planck-Poisson equations. The stability and convergence of the numerical algorithms are analyzed in his works. In several situations the physical domain for the complex geometries are transformed either by the conformal mapping or coordinate transformations. In micro-scale transport phenomena sharp changes in the variables occur near the interfaces, which are handled sophistically in his numerical models. The theoretical analyses in his works are made either by the asymptotic expansion for large Reynolds number or by Debye-Huckel approximation. He has published 120 research papers in reputed international journals, contributed in several book chapters, guided 15 students for Ph.D. and completed 9 research projects sponsored by DST, SERB and CSIR. He has received several awards/ fellowships like EPSRC, DFG etc. for research collaboration at USA, UK and Germany. His works received above 2206 citations with individual h-factor 24.

Proposer: Prof. Suman Chakraborty, Seconder: Prof. S.K. Som


1. S Bhattacharyya, DK Maiti ( 2004): Shear flow past a square cylinder near a wall. International Journal of Engineering Science 42, 2119-2134 (if=7.023, ci=55)

2. S. Bhattacharyya, Z. Zheng and A.T. Conlisk (2005): Electroosmotic flow in two-dimensional charged micro- and nanochannels. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 540, 247-267 (if=2.541, ci=57)

3. S Bhattacharyya, S Dhinakaran and A Khalili (2006): Fluid motion around and through a porous cylinder. Chemical Engineering Science 61 (13), 4451-4461. (if=3.36, ci=139)

4. S Bhattacharyya and S Dhinakaran (2008): Vortex shedding in shear flow past tandem square cylinders in the vicinity of a plane wall. Journal of Fluids and Structures 24, 400-417 (if=2.64, ci=41)

5. S Bhattacharyya and AK Singh ( 2011) : Reduction in drag and vortex shedding frequency through porous sheath around a circular cylinder. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 65, 683-698. (if=1.673, ci=27)

6. S Bhattacharyya, PP Gopmandal, T Baier and S Hardt (2013): Sample dispersion in isotachophoresis with Poiseuille counterflow. Physics of Fluids 25 (2), 022001. (if=2.73, ci=19)

7. S. Bhattacharyya, S De (2015): Numerical study of the influence of solid polarization on electrophoresis at finite Debye thickness. Physical Review E 92 (3) , 032309. (if=2.284, ci=10)

8. RK Nayak, S. Bhattacharyya, I Pop ( 2015) : Numerical study on mixed convection and entropy generation of Cu-water nanofluid in a differentially heated skewed enclosure. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 85, 620-634. (if=3.891, ci=57)

9. S. Bhattacharyya, S De (2016): Influence of rigid core permittivity and double layer polarization on the electrophoresis of a soft particle: a numerical study. Physics of Fluids 28 (1), 012001. (if=2.73, ci=10)

10. PP Gopmandal, S. Bhattacharyya, H Ohshima ( 2017): Effect of hydrophobic core on the electrophoresis of a diffuse soft particle. Proceedings of the Royal Society A 473, 20160942. (if=2.461, ci=4)

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CHAKRAVERTY, SNEHASHISH (b 1963), Professor, Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela - 769008


Professor Snehashish Chakraverty, whose candidature I would like to propose for the Fellowship of National Academy of Sciences (NASI), has been known to me for a good number of years, essentially through the contributions he has put in a wide diversity of areas on numerical aspects of Mathematical Sciences. Any glimpsing through his research outputs, collaboratively with his research cohorts shows, a keen receptivity to new facets of classical areas of mechanics and, in particular, the widening areas of vibration per se. The areas chosen for research under his guidance deal with modern trends on topics such as uncertainty modeling, neural network, fuzzy, vibration of nano, FGM structures etc. that pertain to wider concerns on vibration. Differential equations, whatever be the variant, have kept on assuming to be his forte. The treatises he has authored and edited, under the aegis of international publishers such as Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, Taylor and Francis, World Scientific, IGI Global etc. testify qualitatively to his continuing and innovative interests on computational mechanics. He published 202 Journal papers and 15 Books. His few awards include INSA International Exchange Program, Platinum Jubilee ISCA, CSIR Young Scientist, BOYSCAST, UCOST YS, CBRI GJ, University gold Medals etc. That these efforts have captured recognition of the mathematical community in the country and abroad, is shown by the awards he has received and because of his contributions, particularly on computability, that are cited at the global level. In sum, Prof. Chakraverty amply deserves to be a Fellow of NASI.

Proposer: Prof. Dilip Kumar Sinha, Seconder: Prof. Arunachalam Puduru V.


1. B Singh, S Chakraverty, 1994, Flexural vibration of skew plates using boundary characteristic orthogonal polynomials in two variables, Journal of sound and vibration, 173 (2), 157-178 (if=2.988, ci=78)

2. S Chakraverty, 2005, Identification of structural parameters of multistorey shear buildings from modal data, Earthquake engineering and structural dynamics, 34 (6), 543-554 (if=2.807, ci=40)

3. S Chakraverty, VP Singh, RK Sharma, 2006, Regression based weight generation algorithm in neural network for estimation of frequencies of vibrating plates, Computer methods in applied mechanics and engineering, 195 (33-36), 4194-4202 (if=4.499, ci=28)

4. KK Pradhan, S Chakraverty, 2013, Free vibration of Euler and Timoshenko functionally graded beams by Rayleigh–Ritz method, Composites Part B: Engineering, 51, 175-184 (if=4.920, ci=182)

5. S Nayak, S Chakraverty, 2013, Non-probabilistic approach to investigate uncertain conjugate heat transfer in an imprecisely defined plate, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 67, 445-454 (if=3.950, ci=16)

6. S Chakraverty, L Behera, 2014, Free vibration of rectangular nanoplates using Rayleigh–Ritz method, Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 56, 357-363 (if=2.399, ci=37)

7. S Mall, S Chakraverty, 2016, Application of Legendre Neural Network for solving ordinary differential equations, Applied Soft Computing, 43, 347-356 (if=4.004, ci=30)

8. S Chakraverty, M Hladik and D Behera, 2017, Formal solution of an interval system of linear equations with an application in static responses of structures with interval forces, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 50, 105-117 (if=2.940, ci=6)

9. DM Sahoo, S Chakraverty, 2018, Functional Link Neural Network Learning for Response Prediction of Tall Shear Buildings with Respect to Earthquake Data, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 48 (1), 1-10 (if=5.131, ci=3)

10. S Chakraverty, BK Sahoo, TD Rao, P Karunakar, BK Sapra, 2018, Modelling uncertainties in the diffusion-advection equation for radon transport in soil using interval arithmetic, Journal of environmental radioactivity 182, 165-171 (if=2.401, ci=3)

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JAIN, KANCHAN (b 1959), Professor, Department of Statistics, Panjab University, Chandigarh


Prof. (Dr.) Kanchan Jain (MNASc) is Fellow, Royal Statistical Society and elected Member of International Statistical Institute, Netherlands. She has Proposed test for comparing complete expectations of life of two groups, nonparametric estimator of quantile density function, testing successive differences of ordered quantiles, beta Generalized Weibull and weighted gamma distributions in reliability and survival analysis, new stochastic orderings, generalized Lorenz, absolute Lorenz, Bonferroni and COMIC curves, tests for generalized Lorenz and absolute lorenz dominance, test for equality of Bi-Pareto ROC curves. Studied preservation of stochastic orders under different reliability operations, joint reliability importance of two or more independent and non-identical components, operational time of complex systems, Frailty models with Generalized Weibull and Log-skew Normal distributions, distributional and ageing properties of curtate and complete future lifetimes in Actuarial Statistics, ultimate ruin probability for insurance companies, multivariate and replicated ultra-structural measurement error regression models. She has been actively engaged in theoretical and applied research in a wide array of topics with focus on applied probability and reliability analysis. Her interests in distribution theory and biostatistics are reflected through some of her research articles which have appeared in International refereed journals of repute. She has also contributed to areas of income inequality, econometrics and nonparametric inference. She has delivered invited talks in a significant number of International and national conferences outside and within India. She has contributed significantly towards teaching in probability and statistics. I personally feel that Prof. Jain deserves to be appreciated and recommended as a Fellow for her commendable contributions.

Proposer: Prof. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, Seconder: Prof. Sudesh Kaur Khanduja


1. Sukhmani Sidhu, Kanchan Jain and Suresh Sharma, 2018,Bayesian Estimation of Generalized Gamma Shared Frailty Model,Computational Statistics, Volume 33, Issue 1, pp 277-297 (if=0.828)

2. Pooja Soni, Isha Dewan and Kanchan Jain, 2016, Nonparametric Tests for Ordered Quantiles, Statistical Papers, pp 1-9. (if=1.024)

3. Sukhbir Singh, Kanchan Jain and Suresh Sharma, 2014, Replicated measurement error model under exact linear Restrictions, Statistical Papers , 55, pp 253-274. (if=1.024, ci=7)

4. Pooja Soni, Isha Dewan and Kanchan Jain, 2012, Nonparametric estimation of Quantile Density Function, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis , 56, pp 3876-3886 . (if=1.37, ci=20)

5. Neetu Singla, Kanchan Jain and Suresh Sharma (2012), “The Beta Generalised Weibull Distribution:Properties and Applications” Reliability Engineering and System Safety , 102, pp 5-15 (if=2.873, ci=68)

6. Kanchan Jain, Sukhbir Singh and Suresh Sharma (2011), Restricted Estimation in Multivariate Measurement Error Regression Model, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 102, , pp. 264-280. (if=1.458, ci=8)

7. Asok K. Nanda and Kanchan Jain,(1999),Some Weighted Distribution Results on Univariate and Bivariate Cases, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 77, pp. 169-188. (if=1.09, ci=51)

8. Isha Bagai and Kanchan Jain (1994), “Improvement, Deterioration and Optimal Replacement Under Age- Replacement Policy with Minimal Repair” IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 43 , pp 156-162. (if=2.79, ci=46)

9. Jayant V.Deshpande, Harshinder Singh, Isha Bagai & Kanchan Jain (1990), Some Partial Orders Describing Positive Ageing, Communications In Statistics (Stochastic Models), Vol. 6 ,No. 3, pp. 471-481. (if=0.627, ci=36)

10. Kanchan Jain, Harshinder Singh and Isha Bagai (1989), Relaltions for Reliability Measures of Weighted Distributions, Communications in Statistics (Theory and Methods), Vol. 18 No.12 , pp 4393 – 4412. (if=0.470, ci=65)

383

NATARAJ, NEELA (b 1968), Professor, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai - 400076


One of Prof. Nataraj's research interests has been to analyse finite element methods to determine approximations to deformation and stresses of thin plates when these are subjected to loads. A Kirchoff model used for the thin elastic plates leads to general fourth order elliptic boundary value problems with transverse displacement as the unknown variable. In this direction, her research focusses on analysing mixed and hybrid finite element methods (FEM) for both the source problems and the corresponding eigenvalue problems considering the effects of numerical integration and boundary approximation using isoparametric finite elements. For very thin plates, a model proposed by von Karman leads to a fourth order semi-linear system of partial differential equations with transverse displacement and stress variable as unknowns. Some of her recent research focusses on studying a priori and a posteriori error estimates for conforming, nonconforming and discontinuous Galerkin FEM to approximate nonsingular solutions of von Karman equations. With her Ph.D. students and collaborators, she has made some significant contributions in the development of FEM for the discontinuous Galerkin FEMs for nonlinear elliptic problems, optimal control problems of laser surface hardening of steel, in the study of a priori and a posteriori estimates for non-standard FEMs for non-selfadjoint and indefinite second non-linear elliptic problems, time-dependent problems, convergence of adaptive FEMs for elliptic problems, distributed optimal control problems governed by thin and very thin plates and comparison results for finite volume methods and the biharmonic problem.

Proposer: Prof. Mohan K. Kadalbajoo, Seconder: Prof. Amiya K. Pani


1. Gouranga Mallik and Neela Nataraj, 2016, Nonconforming finite element methods for the von Karman equations. ESAIM Math. Model. and Numer. Anal. 50 (2): 433-454. (if=1.642)

2. Carsten Carstensen, Asha K. Dond, Neela Nataraj and Amiya K. Pani, 2016, A posteriori mixed finite element error analysis for non-self adjoint and indefinite elliptic problems. Numer. Math. 133(3): 557-597. (if=1.813, ci=1)

3. Thirupathi Gudi, Hari Shanker Gupta, and Neela Nataraj, 2013, Analysis of an interior penalty method for fourth order problems on polygonal domains. J. Sci. Comput. 54(1), pp. 177-199. (if=1.946, ci=9)

4. Sajid Memon, Neela Nataraj and Amiya K. Pani, 2012, An a posteriori error analysis of mixed finite element Galerkin approximations to second order linear parabolic problems. SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 50(3), pp. 1367-1393. (if=1.899, ci=3)

5. Sarvesh Kumar, Neela Nataraj and Amiya K. Pani, 2009, Discontinuous Galerkin finite volume element methods for second order elliptic problems. Numer. Methods for Partial Differential Equations. 25(6), pp. 1402-1424. (if=0.964, ci=16)

6. Thirupathi Gudi, Neela Nataraj and Amiya K. Pani, 2008, Mixed discontinuous Galerkin method for the biharmonic equation. J. Sci. Comput., 37 (2), pp. 139-161. (if=1.946, ci=32)

7. Thirupathi Gudi, Neela Nataraj and Amiya K. Pani, 2008, An hp-local discontinuous Galerkin method for some quasilinear elliptic boundary value problems of non-monotone type. Math. Comp., 77, pp. 731-756. (if=1.409, ci=13)

8. Thirupathi Gudi, Neela Nataraj and Amiya K. Pani, 2008, $hp$-discontinuous Galerkin Methods for strongly non-linear elliptic boundary value problems. Numer. Math., 109(2), pp. 233-268. (if=1.813, ci=23)

9. P. K. Bhattacharyya and Neela Nataraj, 2002, Isoparametric mixed finite element approximation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of fourth order eigenvalue problems with variable coefficients, M2AN Math. Model. and Numer. Anal., 36(1), pp. 1-32 (if=1.642, ci=9)

10. P. K. Bhattacharyya and Neela Nataraj, 1999, On combined effect of boundary approximation and numerical integration on mixed finite element solution of fourth order elliptic problems with variable coefficients. 33 M2AN Math. Model. and Numer. Anal. (if=1.642, ci=4)

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NATARAJAN, SARADHA (b 1954), INSA Senior Scientist, Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Department of Atomic Energy, University of Mumbai, Mumbai-400098


Saradha made important and original contributions on the conjectures of Erdos on perfect powers in arithmetic progressions where combinatorial and computational methods, linear forms in logarithms and modular methods were combined. She is a leading expert on exponential Diophantine equations. She made significant contributions on transcendence. Thue equations, Diophantine approximations and elementary number theory. She improved Siegel's (1970) result on number of primitive solutions of Thue inequalities for forms of degree $\geq 5$ using new induction technique. Contributions were made towards conjecture of Mueller and Schmidt (1988) on number of solutions of Thue inequalities for forms in terms of number of non-zero coefficients of the form. Generalizing a problem of Pomerance, it is shown that 2,3,7 are the only primes having sets of consecutive primes forming complete residue system. Under prime $\ell$-tuple conjecture, for $k\geq 2$, there exist infinitely many sets of $\varphi(k)$ consecutive primes forming reduced residue systems (mod $k$). Erd{\H o}s conjecture on non-vanishing of $\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{f(n)}{n}$ where $f: \mathbb Z/(q) \rightarrow \{\pm 1\}$ with $f(q)=0$ was proved when $q \equiv 3(\mod 4).$ Product of $k(\geq 2)$ successive terms from arithmetic progression with common difference $d$ is cube or higher power only for $d$ large. Apart from $$(k+1) \cdots 2k=2\cdot 6\cdots (4k-2)\ for\ k=2,3,4,\cdots $$ there are only finitely many arithmetic progressions with given differences of equal lengths $\geq 2$ and with equal products and they are effectively determined. For $\tau(n),$ Ramanujan function, it is shown for almost all primes $p$, $$|\tau(p)|\geq p^{1/4-\epsilon},$$ $\epsilon>0$ under GRH and unconditionally, $$|\tau(p)| \geq (\log p)^c$$ with $c>0,$ constant.

Proposer: Prof. Tarlok Nath Shorey, Seconder: Prof. A.Sankaranarayanan


1. M. Ram Murty , V. Kumar Murty and N.Saradha (1988) Modular forms and Chebotarev density theorem}, Amer. J. Math., 110,253-281. (if=1.181, ci=36)

2. N. Saradha (1997) On perfect powers in products with terms from arithmetic progressions, Acta Arith., 82, 147-172. (if=0.423, ci=28)

3. N. Saradha and T.N.Shorey (2001) Almost perfect powers in arithmetic progression, Acta Arith., 99, 363-388. (if=0.423, ci=17)

4. N. Saradha and R.Tijdeman (2003) On the transcendence of infinite sums of values of rational functions}, J. London Math.Soc. 67, 1-13. (if=0.82, ci=7)

5. N. Saradha and T.N.Shorey (2003) Almost squares and factorisation in consecutive integers, Compositio Math., 138, No.1 , 113-124. (if=0.993, ci=20)

6. N. Saradha and T. N. Shorey (2003) Almost squares in arithmetic progression, Compositio Math., 138, No. 1, 73-111. (if=0.993, ci=19)

7. N. Saradha and T.N.Shorey (2005) Contributions towards a conjecture of Erd\H{o}s on perfect powers in arithmetic progression, Compositio Math., 141, 541-560 (if=0.993, ci=7)

8. M. Ram Murty and N. Saradha (2007) Transcendental values of the digamma function, J. Number Theory 125, 298-318. (if=0.524, ci=24)

9. L.Hajdu and N. Saradha (2012) Disproof of a conjecture of Jacobsthal, Math. Comp. 81, No. 280, 2461-2471. (if=0.491, ci=3)

10. Shabnam Akhtari , N. Saradha and Divyum Sharma (2017) Thue's inequalities and hypergeometric method, The Ramanujan Journal, DOI 10.1007/s11139-9887-4. (if=0.770, ci=1)

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PANALIAPPAN, VELLAISAMY (b 1959), Professor, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai - 400076


Professor Vellaisamy has made significant contributions to the following areas: Statistics: His contributions to statistics include distribution theory, estimation after selection, analysis of contingency tables, collapsibility. He has introduced a new concept ``average collapsibility," and has shown that it holds for a larger class of distributions. His contributions to applied probability are on Poisson, compound Poisson, compound negative binomial approximation problems and obtaining estimates of optimal order, using Le Cam's operator-theoretic method and Stein's method. The Simon-Johnson's result for Poisson convergence is recently extended to the case of compound Poisson convergence of $m$-dependent random variables. Also, he has introduced a new probabilistic previous-sum dependent model which is used by electrical engineers. He has obtained fractional calculus results associated with the $I$-function. The relations between generalized $K$-Wright function and the Marichev-Saigo-Maeda fractional operators have been investigated. Recently, he has proposed simple parameterization methods for finding Adomian polynomials and their relationships to Bell polynomials. He has identified the stochastic processes associated with fractional Cauchy problems on a bounded domain and a new approach to study fractional Poisson processes. He has obtained strong solutions to fractional tempered differential equations and also discussed distributed-order fractional diffusions on bounded domains. Further, he has introduced and studied fractional normal inverse Gaussian process, useful for financial modeling. He has 104 published/accepted papers and four chapters in edited books. The citations in MathScinet and Google Scholar are 274 and 1218, respectively.

Proposer: Prof. B.L.S. Prakasa Rao , Seconder: Prof. Sreehari Maddipatla


1. Vellaisamy, P. (1992). Inadmissibility results for the selected scale parameters. Annals of Statistics, 20, 2183-2191 (if=2.522, ci=Google Scholar: 35)

2. Vellaisamy, P. (1992). Average worth and simultaneous estimation of the selected subset. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 44, 551-562. (if=0.733, ci=Scopus: 13; Google Scholar: 16)

3. Vellaisamy, P. and Chaudhuri, B. (1996). Poisson and compound Poisson approximations for random sums of random variables. Journal of Applied Probability, 33, 127-137. (if=0.83, ci=Scopus: 9; Google Scholar: 25)

4. Vellaisamy, P. (2004). Poisson approximation for (k1; k2)-events via Stein-Chen method. Journal of Applied Probability, 41, 1081-1092.(if=0.83, ci=Scopus: 14;Google Scholar: 17)

5. Meerschaert, M. M., Nane, E. and Vellaisamy, P. (2009). Fractional Cauchy problems on bounded domains. Annals of Probability, 37, 979-1007. (if=2.118, ci=Scopus: 102; Google Scholar: 165)

6. Cekanavicius, V. and Vellaisamy, P. (2010). Compound Poisson and signed compound Poisson approximations to the Markov binomial law. Bernoulli, 16, 1114-1136. (if=1.337, ci=Scopus: 8; Google Scholar: 9)

7. Meerschaert, M. M., Nane, E. and Vellaisamy, P. (2011). The fractional Poisson processes and the inverse stable subordinator. Electronic Journal of Probability, 16, 1600-1620. (if=0.90, ci=Scopus: 80; Google Scholar: 132)

8. Meerschaert, M. M., Nane, E. and Vellaisamy, P. (2011). Distributed-order fractional diffusions on bounded domains. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 379, 216-228. (if=1.138, ci=Scopus:59 ; Google Scholar: 79)

9. Kumar, A., Nane, E. and Vellaisamy, P. (2011). Time-changed Poisson processes. Statistics & Probability Letters, 81, 1899-1910.(if=0.553, ci=Scopus: 17; Google Scholar: 28)

10. Upadhye, N. S., Cekanavicius, V. and Vellaisamy, P. (2017). On Stein operators for discrete approximations. Bernoulli, 23, 2828-2859. (if=1.337, ci=Scopus: 4; Google Scholar: 13)

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PATIDAR, KAILASH CHANDRA (b 1973), Senior Professor, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville 7530, South Africa.


Professor Kailash C Patidar obtained his PhD in 2002 from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, visited universities of Tuebingen (Germany) and Pretoria (South Africa) for his post-doctoral studies, and subsequently, joined University of the Western Cape (South Africa) in 2006 as a senior lecturer where currently he holds the portfolio of a Senior Professor of Mathematics. As a measure of his international standing in terms of research, his h and i10 indices are respectively 17 and 30 with total citations 940 [as on 28 March 2017]. He regularly publishes in reputed international journals. The major focus of his research so far has been on theoretical investigations and implied developments of reliable numerical techniques for problems arising from the interactions between natural and life sciences. Starting with the applications of fitted spline techniques, he was the first researcher who designed a class of nonstandard finite difference methods for singularly perturbed problems. Having made significant contributions to the numerical analysis of singularly perturbed ODEs, he extended his work to develop some robust numerical methods with convergence analysis and error estimates to tackle some challenging problems in parabolic PDEs involving shift parameters and their systems. On his work Bashier and Patidar, CAMWA 61(6) (2011) 1475-1492, Bashier was awarded 2011-AU-TWAS Young Scientists National Award. Recently, he applied geometric singular perturbation theory to study some mathematical models describing co-infections of HIV-Malaria and HIV-TB. He also explored spline techniques, meshfree methods, and robust spectral methods for solving a variety of very complex problems in computational finance.

Proposer: Prof. M.K. Kadalbajoo, Seconder: Prof. R.K. Mohanty


1. K.M. Owolabi and K.C. Patidar, 2016, Numerical simulations of multicomponent ecological models with adaptive methods, Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, 13(1), 1-25. DOI: 10.1186/s12976-016-0027-4. (if=1.033 [2015], ci=8)

2. H.A. Obaid, R. Ouifki and K.C. Patidar, 2015, Analysis of an HIV model with distributed delay and behavior change, International Journal of Bio-mathematics, 8(2), DOI: 10.1142/S1793524515500175. (if=0.938 [2015], ci=1)

3. E. Pindza, K.C. Patidar and E. Ngounda, 2014, Robust spectral method for numerical valuation of European options under Merton's jump-diffusion model, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, 30, 1169-1188. (if=0.964 [2015], ci=3)

4. E. Ngounda, K.C. Patidar and E. Pindza, 2014, A robust spectral method for solving Heston's model, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 161(1), 164-178. (if=1.160 [2015], ci=1)

5. S.M.A.S. Elsheikh, R. Ouifki and K.C. Patidar, 2014, A nonstandard finite difference method to solve a model of HIV-Malaria co-infection, Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, 20(3), 354-378. (if=0.761 [2015], ci=3)

6. E. Pindza, K.C. Patidar and E. Ngounda, 2013, Implicit-explicit predictor-corrector methods combined with improved spectral methods for pricing European style vanilla and exotic options, Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis, 40, 268-293. (if=1.155 [2015], ci=2)

7. E. Ngounda, K.C. Patidar and E. Pindza, 2013, Contour integral method for European options with jumps, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 18, 478-492. (if=2.834 [2015], ci=10)

8. S.M.A.S. Elsheikh, K.C. Patidar and R. Ouifki, 2014, Analysis of a Malaria model with a distributed delay, IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, 79(6), 1139–1160. (if=1.034 [2015], ci=1)

9. E.B.M. Bashier and K.C. Patidar, 2011, A fitted numerical method for a system of partial delay differential equations, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 61(6), 1475-1492. (if=1.398 [2015], ci=8)

10. E.B.M. Bashier and K.C. Patidar, 2011, A novel fitted operator finite difference method for a singularly perturbed delay parabolic partial differential equation, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 217, 4728-4739. (if=1.345 [2015], ci=7)

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PYNE, SAUMYADIPTA (b 1973), Visiting Faculty in Biostatistics and Scientific Director of Public Health Dynamics Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh, USA.


Dr. Saumyadipta Pyne formerly held the prestigious PC Mahalanobis Chair while being Professor and Head of Bioinformatics in CRRAO AIMSCS. Pyne is known for path-breaking research contributions to Bioinformatics and "Big Data" analysis over the past one and a half decades. Pyne introduced new statistical models based on mixtures of multivariate skew distributions that described the stochasticity in biological signals at the single cell level. These distributions were referred to as "Pyne et al." families after his PNAS 2009 paper. Since then, both high-dimensional flow cytometric data analysis and single cell analysis have emerged as highly active areas in Bioinformatics. Pyne's co-edited special topic on 'Single Cell Analysis' in Frontiers international journal was accessed more than 78,000 times globally. Further generalization of Pyne's mixture models in 2014 enabled combined characterization of immunologic phenotypes in large cohorts of human subjects ("big data") in multi-parametric experiments (high-dimensional data). In 2010, Pyne and coworkers developed arguably the first model for Bayesian integration of multiple high-dimensional gene expression datasets. Pyne co-edited with me the Springer title 'Big Data Analytics' in 2016, and with Prof. C.R. Rao, Elsevier 2-volume 'Handbook of Statistics' on Public Health and Disease Modeling in 2017. As visiting faculty, Pyne is currently directing a team of experts in disease modeling at the renowned Public Health Dynamics Laboratory in University of Pittsburgh. References: S. Pyne, et al. 2009, PNAS USA, 106:8519-24. S. Pyne, et al. 2014, PLoS One. 9(7):e100334. X. Fan, S. Pyne, J.S. Liu. 2010, The Annals of Applied Statistics. 4:988-1013.

Proposer: Prof. B.L.S. Prakasa Rao, Seconder: Prof. C.R. Rao


1. C. Priolo, S. Pyne, et al. 2014, AKT1 and MYC Induce Distinctive Metabolic Fingerprints in Human Prostate Cancer. Cancer Research, 74(24):7198-204. (if=9.33)

2. S. Selvarajah, S. Pyne, et al. 2014, High-resolution array CGH and gene expression profiling of alveolar soft part sarcoma. Clinical Cancer Research, 20(6):1521-30. (if=8.74)

3. N. Aghaeepour, et al. 2013. Critical assessment of cell population identification techniques in flow cytometry: results of FlowCAP1. Nature Methods. 10(3):228-38. (if=25.06)

4. E. Rossin, T-I Lin, H.J. Ho, S.J. Mentzer and S. Pyne. 2011, A framework for analytical characterization of monoclonal antibodies based on reactivity profiles in different tissues. Bioinformatics, 27:2746-2753. (if=5.77)

5. V. Vaira, G. Fedele, S. Pyne, et al. 2010, Preclinical model of organotypic culture for pharmacodynamic profiling of human tumors, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 107:8352-8356. (if=9.42)

6. K. Penney, S. Pyne, et al. 2010, Genome-wide Association Study of Prostate Cancer Mortality. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. 19:2869-76. (if=4.13)

7. S. Lee, G. Poulogiannis, S. Pyne, et al. 2010, A constitutively activated form of the p110beta isoform of PI3kinase induces prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia in mice, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 107:11002-11007. (if=9.42)

8. S. Pyne, et al. 2009, Automated High-dimensional Flow Cytometric Data Analysis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 106:8519-24. (if=9.42)

9. S. Pyne, B. Futcher and S. Skiena. 2006, Meta-analysis based on control of False Discovery Rate: Combining yeast ChIP-chip data sets. Bioinformatics, 22:2516-22. (if=5.77)

10. S. Pyne, S. Skiena and B. Futcher. 2005, Copy Correction and Concerted Evolution in the Conservation of Yeast Genes. Genetics, 170:1501-13. (if=5.96)

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CHATTOPADHYAY, ASIS KUMAR (b 1959) Professor, Department of Statistics, Calcutta University, Kolkata - 700019


Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay is currently a Professor of Statistics at the Calcutta University, India. He also worked as an Associate Professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata during the period 2007–2008. Professor Chattopadhyay started his research career in early nineties in the area of Social and Occupational Mobility and related Manpower Planning Problems. His major contribution has been the use of different stochastic models like Semi-Markov Process (Comm. In Stat. 1989,15, 269) and Stochastic Staffing problem (Jr. Op. Res. Soc.,1989,40,489) in order to explain mobility and promotion situations under different social constraints. In the area of population studies he analysed NFHS data in order to uncover the health status of Indian Women ( Sankhya B,2013,75,374). Early this century, Chattopadhyay got attracted to high-dimensional data arising in the field of Astronomy and Astro-Physics and started active investigations in this new area, developing some new statistical tools for multivariate data analysis (Comp Stat. Data. Analysis, 2013,57,17; ApJ,2012,750,91; ApJ, 2009,705,1533). He collaborated with established research workers in the field, published several research articles on new problems awaiting satisfactory solutions ( A&A, 2012, 545, A80; Mon. Not.Royal Ast. Soc., 2010,407,2207) . Guiding several scholars in this new field for statisticians, Chattopadhyay has joined the small international band of workers in Astro-Statistics. Professor Chattopadhyay has been elected as a Fellow of the Internatioanl Astrostatistics Association in the year 2016 for his continued service to astrostatistics and as an initial Council member of the International Astrostatistics Association for his sincere efforts to promote the cause of astrostatistics throughout India . He also received the Outstanding Publication Award for his book “Statistical Methods for Astronomical Data Analysis” (Springer Series in Astrostatistics) from the same Association. He has also been included in the list of elected members of International Statistical Institute in the same year. He was the President of Operational Research Society of India for the period 2015-16. He has been one among the middle-aged statisticians who is committed to academic activities, pursuing and guiding research in uncharted fields and devotes time and energy to expand the ambit of Statistics and related subjects through professional activities. Pretty well-known in academic circles, he strongly deserves appreciation by Scientific Bodies and I sincerely recommend his candidacy for Fellowship of the Academy. Professor Chattopadhyay has been nominated as Statistical Expert in the Task Force Committee for Big Data Science on Astrophysics, Govt. of India and selected as Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (WAST) in 2017. In the year 2018, Professor Chattopadhyay visited Concordia University, Canada as a visiting Scholar during the period September 01 to December 20, 2018 and delivered lectures at East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai, China, June 16-18, 2018, Carleton University, Canada, November 9, 2018, Series of Talks on Astrostatistics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Concordia University, Canada, October 5,19, November 26,2018. He has started joint research work in the area of Astrostatistics with Professor Partha Lahiri, University of Maryland, College Park USA and Professor Yogendra Chaubey, Concordia University, Canada. He has written a new book entitled “Statistical Methods in Social Science Research” jointly with S.P.Mukherjee and Bikas K Sinha published by Springer and also edited a proceedings volume jointly with Gaurangadeb Chattopadhyay entitled “Statistics and its Applications, Proceedings Volume of Platinum Jubilee conference”, Department of Statistics, Calcutta University and published by Springer. Professor Chattopadhyay has been selected as the Course Coordinator of the Online Refresher Course on Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calcutta (National Resource Centre) in 2018. He has also been selected as the coordinator of the IUCAA center for Astronomy Research and Development (ICARD) to be started on 1st April, 2019 at the Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta.

Proposer : Prof. S.P.Mukherjee, Seconder : Prof. Sankar K Pal 1. Clustering of Gamma-Ray bursts through Kernel Principal Component Analysis, Soumita Modak, Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay and Tanuka Chattopadhyay, Accepted for publication in Communications in Statistics- Simulation and Computation, 2018,47(4),1088-1102. (if=0.397, ci= 2) 2. Two phase formation of massive elliptical galaxies: study through cross correlation including spatial effect, Soumita Modak, Tanuka Chattopadhyay and Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay Astrophysics and Space Science, 2017, 362(11) article id.206. (if=1.622, ci= 3) 3. Incomplete Data in Astrostatistics, Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay, Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference online, 2017. 4. Tuli De, Didier Fraix Burnet and Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay , 2016,Clustering large number of extragalactic spectra of galaxies and quasars through canopies Communications in Statistics, theory and methods, 2016, 45(9), 2638-2653. (if=0.32, ci= 8) 5. Tanuka Chattopadhyay, Abisa Sinha, Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay, 2016, Influence of binary fraction on the fragmentation of young massive clusters? a Monte Carlo simulation, Astrophysics and Space Science, 2016, 361,120-133. (if=1.678, ci= 2) 6. Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay, Saptarshi Mondal and Atanu Biswas, 2015, Independent Component Analysis and Clustering for Pollution Data, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 22(1), 33. (if=0.925, ci=5) 7. Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay, Saptarshi Mondal and Tanuka Chattopadhyay, 2013,Independent Component Analysis for the objective classification of globular clusters of the galaxy NGC 5128.Computational Statistics and data analysis, 57,17, (if=1.4, ci=19) 8. Samba Siva Rao Pasupuleti and Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay, 2013, Probability distributions of number of children and maternal age at various order births using age-specific fertility rates by birth order, Sankhy series B, 75(2), 374. 9. Tanuka Chattopadhyay, Margarita Sharina, Emmanuel Davoust, Tuli De and Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay , 2012,Uncovering the formation of ultracompact dwarf galaxies by multivariate statistical analysis. Astrophysical Journal, 750, 91 (if=5.993, ci=14) Didier Fraix-Burnet, M.Dogue, T Chattopadhyay, Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay and Emmanuel Davoust, 2010, Structures in the fundamental plane of early-type galaxies, Monthly. Notices. Royal Astro. Soc.,407,2207. (if=5.107, ci=34)

389

DAS, PRATULANANDA (b 1970), Professor of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata – 700032


The nominee's contributions in Set Theory, Set Theoretic Topology and Summability Theory is really significant (with 830 citations). His most fundamental contribution has been in Set Theory, Theory of Analytic P-ideals, where he used weight functions to show that “c” many such distinct ideals can be generated[6,2] using the seminal characterization of such ideals w.r.t lower semicontinuous submeasures by Solecki and recently has been able to disprove Connor’s longstanding conjecture that only regular matrices generate such ideals. Showed that there are analytic P-ideals generated by nonregular matrices which cannot be generated by any regular matrix[1]. Has initiated a new direction in Set Theoretic Topology by introducing several notions of open covers and selection principles and one of the most important covering property, Hurewicz property, using ideals. Special types of ideals were used to prove several important results([3,4, 8] and a series of papers in TA). Has developed the theory of Ideal Convergence of sequences, double sequences, nets and functions including characterizing ideals of N, N×N, directed set for equivalence of I and I*/ I^K concepts[7], solved the open problem of characterization of the set of I-limit points showing it as Fσ set[9], introducing new summability methods which have been fundamental attracting large number of citations. Used the new notion of “A-density of a point” to establish a much Stronger result than the celebrated Osikiweicz Theorem and recently even proved it for nonregular matrices[5,1]. For his inspirational teaching he was awarded INSA Teachers Award.

Proposer: Prof. Basudeb Datta, Seconder: Prof. Sukumar Das Adhikari


1. Pratulananda Das, R. Filipow, J. Tryba, (2019) A note on nonregular matrices and ideals associated with them, Colloquium Mathematicum, (in press). (if=0.555, ci=0)

2. K. Bose, Pratulananda Das, A. Kwela, (2018) Generating new ideals using weighted density via modulus functions, Indagationes Mathematicae, 29, 1196 - 1209. (if=0.753, ci=1)

3. Pratulananda Das, D. Chandra, U. Samanta, (2018) On certain variations of I-Hurewicz property, Topology and its Applications, 241, 363 - 376. (if=0.551, ci=0)

4. L. Bukovski, Pratulananda Das, J. Supina, (2017) Ideal quasinormal convergence and related notions, Colloquium Mathematicum, 146 (2), 265 - 281. (if=0.555, ci=2)

5. A. Bartoszewich, Pratulananda Das, S. Glab, (2015), On matrix summability of spliced sequences and A-density of points, Linear Algebra and its Applications, 487, 22 - 42. (if=0.972, ci=3)

6. M. Balcerzak, Pratulananda Das, M. Filipzak, J. Swaczina, (2015), Restricted kinds of density and associated ideals, Acta Mathematica Hungarica, 147 (1), 97 - 115. (if=0.585, ci=16)

7. Pratulananda Das, M. Sleziak, V. Toma, (2014), On I^K- Cauchy functions, Topology and its Applications, 173, 9 - 27. (if=0.551, ci=4)

8. Pratulananda Das, (2013), Certain types of selection principles and open covers using ideals, Houston Journal of Mathematics, 39 (2), 637 - 650. (if=0.47, ci=14)

9. Pratulananda Das, (2012), Some further results on ideal convergence in topological spaces, Topology and its Applications, 159 (10-11), 2621 - 2626. (if=0.551, ci=19)

10. Pratulananda Das, B.K. Lahiri, L.K. Dey, (2011), Cantor's Theorem in 2-metric spaces and its applications in fixed point problems, Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics, 15 (1), 337 - 352. (if=0.749, ci=24)

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390

LALITHA , C.S. (b 1966), Professor in Mathematics, University of Delhi, New Delhi - 110016


Prof. C.S. Lalitha has made significant contributions in the areas of optimization theory and variational inequalities (VI). Systematic study of optimality carried out for scalar optimization using Clarke subdifferentials [1] has been well-cited in literature. New notions of proper efficiency [2] and derivatives [3] for set-valued maps are employed to establish optimality for set-valued optimization problems, an area with applications in game theory and mathematical economics. The study of stability deals with the change of behavior of solutions under perturbation of the initial data and is widely studied in many modeling problems. Stability in vector optimization in terms of Kuratowski–Painlevé set-convergence of minimal solution sets of perturbed problems and Levitin–Polyak well-posedness considered in [4-6], has motivated many researchers to study these aspects in set-valued and semi-infinite optimization. Recently stability aspects have been studided in set-valued optimization in the papers based on well-posedness [7] and well-setness [8]. A significant achievement has been the introduction of a new class of VI in terms of bifunctions [9] which encompasses equilibrium, nonsmooth and complimentarity problems. The study of stability for Minty quasi VI in [10] has initiated yet another research direction as Minty VI’s provide sufficient optimality condition for minimization problems. Lalitha has published 57 research papers in journals of repute, edited two books and co-authored a well cited book [Generalized Convexity, Nonsmooth Variational Inequalities and Nonsmooth Optimization, Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, 2013, citation index 71]. She has supervised seven Ph.D. and fourteen M.Phil. students and is recipient of INSA Teacher Award 2016.

Proposer: Late Prof. R.N. Kaul, Seconder: Prof. Ajit Iqbal Singh


1. J. Dutta, C.S.Lalitha, 2013, Optimality conditions in convex optimization revisited, Optim. Lett., 7(2), 221-229 (if=1.103, ci=20)(if=1.103, ci=20)

2. R. Arora and C.S. Lalitha, 2015, Proximal proper efficiency in set-valued optimization, Omega, Inter. J. Manag. Sc. 33(5), 407-411(if=4.311, ci=2)

3. C.S. Lalitha, R. Arora, 2008, Weak Clarke epiderivative in set-valued optimization, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 342(1), 704-714 (if=1.138, ci=14)

4. C.S. Lalitha, P. Chatterjee, 2012, Stability for properly quasiconvex vector optimization problem, J. Optim. Theory Appl., 155(2), 492-506 (if=1.234, ci=21)

5. C.S. Lalitha, P. Chatterjee, 2012, Stability and scalarization of weak efficient, efficient and Henig proper efficient sets using generalized quasiconvexities, J. Optim. Theory Appl., 155(3), 941-961 (if=1.234, ci=16)

6. C.S. Lalitha, P. Chatterjee, 2014, Levitin–Polyak well-posedness for constrained quasiconvex vector optimization problems, J. Global Optim. 59(1), 191-205 (if=1.407, ci=10)

7. G.P. Crespi, M. Dhingra, C.S. Lalitha, 2018, Pointwise and global well-posedness in set optimization: A direct approach, Annals of OR. 269(1-2)2018, 149-166 (if=1.864, ci=3)

8. C.S. Lalitha, 2016, Well-setness and scalarization in set optimization, Optim. Lett., 10(8), 1657-1667 (if=1.103, ci=10)

9. C.S. Lalitha, M. Mehta, 2005, Vector variational inequalities with cone-pseudomonotone bifunctions, Optimization, 54(3), 327-338(if=1.170, ci=46)

10. C.S. Lalitha, G. Bhatia, 2011, Stability of parametric quasivariational inequality of the Minty type, J. Optim. Theory Appl., 148(2), 281-300 (if=1.234, ci=26)

391

MISRA, ARVIND KUMAR (b 1972), Professor, Department of Mathematics, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi - 221005


Dr. A.K. Misra is an eminent mathematician and a dynamic researcher working in the area of mathematical modeling. The thrust area of his research includes mathematical modeling of ecological, environmental, epidemiological and social systems. He has published more than 80 research papers in the journals of international repute. He has made sound contributions to the modeling of the various real life problems, such as eutrophication of lakes, survival of aquatic populations, agricultural crops, air pollution, artificial rain, spread and control of infectious diseases, water borne diseases, vector borne diseases, population dynamics, behavioral changes (Mass media, Social media, TV and Radio advertisements), prey-predator systems, forestry resource management, control of global warming gases, etc. He has also captured the dynamics of social problems like unemployment, political alterations and crime using mathematical models. He has bestowed some mathematical models that are very novel and open new dimensions for future research and innovation. For instance, Dr. Misra has first time introduced a new equation for the awareness programs in the modeling process to control the spread of infectious diseases in the population. This equation is highly appreciated and widely accepted at the International level. He has introduced a term in the modeling of forest resource management, which affects only the carrying capacity of the forest without affecting its intrinsic growth rate. The inclusion of this new term has made significant changes in various ecological models, especially in forestry resources. He has also proposed first nonlinear mathematical model involving differential equations for the unemployment.

Proposer: Prof. J.B. Shukla, Seconder: Prof. Peeyush Chandra


1. A.K. Misra, Anupama Sharma and J.B. Shukla, (2011), Modeling and analysis of effects of awareness programs by media on the spread of infectious diseases, Mathematical and Computer Modeling, 53, 1221-1228. (if=1.09(2014), ci=92)

2. J.B. Shukla, A.K. Misra and Peeyush Chandra, (2008), Mathematical modeling and analysis of the depletion of dissolved oxygen in eutrophied water bodies affected by organic pollutants, Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, 9(5), 1851-1865. (if=2.317, ci=48)

3. A.K. Misra and Vishal Singh, (2012), A delay mathematical model for the spread and control of water borne disease, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 301, 49-56. (if=1.980, ci=38)

4. A.K. Misra and Kusum Lata, (2013), Modeling the effect of time delay on the conservation of forestry biomass, Chaos Solitons and Fractals, 46, 1-11. (if=2.213, ci=19)

5. A.K. Misra and Arvind K. Singh, (2011), A mathematical model for unemployment, Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, 12(1), 128-136. (if=2.317, ci=20)

6. A.K. Misra and Maitri Verma, (2014), Modeling the impact of mitigation options on methane abatement from rice fields, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 19, 927-945. (if=2.585, ci=10)

7. A.K. Misra, (2014), Modeling the effect of police deterrence on the prevalence of crime in the society, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 237, 531–545. (if=2.108, ci=08)

8. A.K. Misra, Rajanish Kumar Rai and Y.Takeuchi, (2018), Modeling the control of infectious diseases: effects of TV and social media advertisements, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 15 (6), 1315-1343. (if=1.230, ci=02)

9. Maitri Verma and A.K. Misra, (2018), Modeling the effect of prey refuge on a ratio-dependent predator-prey system with the Allee effect, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 80, 626–656. (if=1.484, ci=04)

10. A.K. Misra and Amita Tripathi, (2018), A stochastic model for making artificial rain using aerosols, Physica – A, 505, 1113-1126.(if=2.132, ci=0)

392

PRASAD, AMRITANSHU (b 1975), Professor H, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai - 600113


The nominee published "Representation Theory: A Combinatorial Viewpoint" in the series Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics in 2015. This book is a careful introduction to the most fundamental concepts of algebraic combinatorics. The nominee is the first author from an Indian institution to publish in this prestigious series, which includes some legendary titles, In 2016-17, the nominee published two papers (SLC 2017, JCTA 2018) in collaboration with Arvind Ayyer (IISc) and Steven Spallone (IISER Pune) which have generated great excitement in the community. The nominee and his collaborators showed that the subgraph induced in Young's graph by odd dimensional representations is an incomplete binary tree. This led to rapid developments on bijective aspects of the McKay correspondence by Bessenrodt, Gianelli, Kleshchev, Navarro, Olsson, Tiep, and others. In a second paper, they solved a much harder enumerative problem, that of counting the number of representations whose determinant was the sign character (chiral partitions). One of the nominee's most long-term contributions has been to the study of matrix groups and rings over principal ideal local rings like integers modulo a prime power. Collaborations with Vaserstein, Onn, Singla, Spallone and others over the years have led to a revival of interest in what was considered to be a hopeless problem. Recent interest in this problem has been driven by conjectures of Larsen and Lubotsky on representation zeta functions, a complex-analytic approach to representation theory. The nominee has also made significant contributions in Harmonic analysis, and the theory of automorphic forms.

Proposer: Prof. D.S. Nagaraj, Seconder: Prof. Parameswaran Sankaran


1. Arvind Ayyer, Amritanshu Prasad and Steven Spallone, 2017, Representations of symmetric groups with non-trivial determinant, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, vol 150, 208-232. (if=0.930, ci=1)

2. Arvind Ayyer, Amritanshu Prasad and Steven Spallone, 2016, Odd partitions in Young's lattice, Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, vol. 75, Art. B75g (if=Not available, ci=6)

3. Amritanshu Prasad, Pooja Singla and Steven Spallone, 2015, Similarity of matrices over local rings of length two, Indiana University Math. Journal, vol. 64, pages 471-514. (if=1.022, ci=4)

4. Kunal Dutta and Amritanshu Prasad, 2015, Combinatorics of finite abelian groups and Weil representations, Pacific Journal of Mathematics, vol. 275, pages 295-324. (if=0.433, ci=4)

5. Jayadev Athyreya, Anish Ghosh and Amritanshu Prasad, 2012, Ultrametric logarithm laws II, Monatshefte fur Mathematik, vol. 167, pages 333-356. (if=0.764, ci=10)

6. Kunal Dutta and Amritanshu Prasad, 2011, Degenerations and orbits in finite abelian groups, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, vol. 118, pages 1685-1694. (if=0.930, ci=4)

7. Amritanshu Prasad, Ilya Shapiro and M K Vemuri, 2010, Locally compact abelian groups with symplectic self-duality, Advances in Mathematics, vo. 225, pages 2429-2454. (if=1.373, ci=3)

8. Thomas Haines, Robert Kottwitz and Amritanshu Prasad, 2010, Iwahori Hecke Algebras, Journal of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society, volume 25, pages 113-145. (if=0.71, ci=30)

9. Amritanshu Prasad, 2003, Almost unramified automorphic representations for split groups over Fq(t) , Journal of Algebra, vol. 262, pages 253-261. (if=0.675, ci=1)

10. Amritanshu Prasad, 2002, Almost unramified discrete spectrum for split groups over Fq(t), Duke Mathematical Journal, vol. 113, pages 237-257. (if=2.539, ci=5)

393

RAVINDRANATHAN, THANGADURAI (b 1969), Associate Professor G, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj - 211019


In zero-sum theory in Combinatorial Number Theory, Prof. Ravindranathan has solved two conjectures (a) on Olson's constant (2004) (b) Schmit and Zhuang (2017) which is to appear in Journal of Number Theory. In Transcendental Number Theory, he proved the Schanuel's conjecture for uncountably many complex numbers in 2015. Also, in 2017, related to Borel's conjecture, he first time proved a frequency computation, under mild assumptions, on Mahler's theorem. This is the first ever result in quantitative version. In 2014, he verified the Erdos-Woods conjecture holds true with k =2 for about cx/\log x numbers among 1, 2, ... , x with c>2.

Proposer: Prof. S. D. Adhikari, Seconder: Prof. B. Ramakrishnan


1. W. D. Gao and R. Thangadurai (2004), On a variant of Kemnitz Conjecture, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, (Series A) , 107 (1), 69-86. (if=0.9, ci=18)

2. W. D. Gao , I. Z. Ruzsa and R. Thangadurai (2004), Olson’s constant for the group Z_p^2, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, (Series A) , 107 (1), 49-67. (if=0.9, ci=15)

3. W. D. Gao and R. Thangadurai (2006), On zero-sum sequences of prescribed length, Aequationes Mathematicae 72 (3), 201-212 (if=0,8, ci=17)

4. S. Gun, F. Luca, P. Rath, B. Sahu and R. Thangadurai (2007), Distribution of residues of modulo p, Acta Arith., 129 (4), 325-332. (if=0.6, ci=11)

5. W. D. Gao, Q. H. Hou, W. Schmid and R. Thangadurai (2007), On short zero-sum subsequences II, Integers, 7, Paper A21, 22 pp (electronic). (if=0.4, ci=29)

6. R. Thangadurai and A. Vatwani (2011), The least prime congruent to 1 modulo n, Amer. Math. Monthly, 118 (8), 737-742. (if=0.4, ci=10)

7. M. Ram Murty and R. Thangadurai (2011), The class number and digits of 1/p, Proc. Amer. Maht. Soc, 139 (4), 1277-1289. (if=0.84, ci=08)

8. M. Ram Murty and R. Thangadurai (2015), On the parity of Fourier Coefficients of modular J-function, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 143 (4), 1391-1395. (if=0.84, ci=01)

9. K. Senthil Kumar, R. Thangadurai and M. Waldschimidt (2015), Liouville sets and Liouville fields, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 143 (8), 3215-3229. (if=0.84)

10. K. Senthil Kumar, N. Meher and R. Thangadurai (2017), On a theorem of Mahler, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 145 (11), 4607-4615 (if=0.84)

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SAHOO, TRILOCHAN (b 1967), Professor and Former Head, IIT, Kharagpur - 721302


Prof. Trilochan Sahoo has made seminal contributions to applied mathematics by pursuing interdisciplinary research on wave-structure interaction problems arising in Ocean Engineering. His expertise includes both analytical and numerical methods for dealing with varieties of problems in Hydroelasticity and Coastal hydrodynamics. His research contribution to mathematical science is reflected through his 151 publications (83 journal papers, 66 conference papers, one book chapter and a single-authored monograph published by CRC press) having 1178 citations. His recent findings on blocking dynamics of flexural gravity waves and dead water analogue are some of his interesting discovery on wave interaction with very large floating structures and ice sheet ([1], [2] and [3]). The development of expansion formulae for wave-structure interaction problems, which are non-Sturm Liouville in nature, is his unique contribution to applied mathematics. These studies are supported by the derivation of characteristics of the associated eigenfunctions using complex function theory along with the convergence of various series and integrals ([7]-[9]). His models on flexural gravity wave propagation over poroelastic and viscoelastic beds will be of immense help in the reduction of wave loads on coastal/offshore structures. The model on surface gravity wave propagation through mangrove forests will provide useful insight for shore protection during extreme events such as tsunamis and storm surges. Other major contributions are the use of various techniques such as least square approximation method, Fredholm integral equations, mild slope approximation and boundary element method for solving complex coastal/ocean engineering problems ([4], [5], [6] and [10]).

Proposer: Prof. B.N. Mandal, Seconder: Prof. A. Chakrabarti


1. S. Das, T Sahoo and MH Meylan (2018) Flexural-gravity wave dynamics in two-layer fluid: blocking and dead water analogue, Journal of Fluid Mechanics 854, 121-125 (if=2.893, ci=1)

2. S Das, P. Kar, T Sahoo and MH Meylan (2018) Flexural-gravity wave motion in the presence of shear current: wave blocking and negative energy waves, Physics of Fluids, 30(10), 106606 (if=2.279)

3. S Das, T Sahoo and MH Meylan (2018) Dynamics of flexural gravity waves: from sea ice to Hawking radiation and analogue gravity, Proc. Roy Soc London Series A (Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences) 474, 20170223 (if=2.410, ci=7)

4. P Kar, S Koley and T Sahoo (2018) Scattering of surface gravity waves over a pair of trenches, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 62, 303-320 (if=2.617)

5. H. Behera, S Mandal and T. Sahoo (2013) Oblique wave trapping by porous and flexible structures in a two-layer fluid, Physics of Fluids, 25(11), 112110 (if=2.279, ci=21)

6. S Koley, R Kaligatla, T Sahoo (2015) Oblique wave scattering by a vertical flexible porous plate, Studies in Applied Mathematics 135 (1), 1-34 (if=1.829, ci=22)

7. J Bhattacharjee, T Sahoo (2008) Flexural gravity wave problems in two-layer fluids, Wave Motion 45 (3), 133-153 (if=1.723, ci=37)

8. S. R. Manam, J. Bhattacharjee and T. Sahoo (2006) Expansion formulae in wave structure interaction problems, Proc. Roy Soc. London, Series A, Vol 462, pp.263-287 (if=2.410, ci=68)

9. T. Sahoo, TL Yip and AT Chwang (2001) Scattering of surface waves by a semi-infinite floating elastic plate, Physics of Fluids, 13(11), 3215-3222 (if=2.279, ci=85)

10. T. Sahoo, MM Lee and AT Chwang (2000) Trapping and generation of waves by vertical porous structures, J of Eng. Mech., 126(10), 1074-1082 (if=1.764, ci=83)

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SASTRY, N.S. NARASIMHA (b 1951), Professor, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Dharwad - 580011


Methods from algebraic coding theory and modular representation theory have been used by Prof. Sastry to characterize of and determine the intersection pattern of, the classical ovoids in finite projective 3-space {[1], [3], [5] in (12)}. This also lead to two families of one-step completely orthogonalizable codes ([2] in (12) and [28] in (9)). Determination of the dimension and the minimum weights of the p-ary code defined by the hypersurfaces of rank k of a finite projective n-space using monomial theory also lead to an improvement of the classical Hamada formula {[8] in (12)}. Nonabelian representations of rank two geometries in the lattice of subgroups of finite groups, following John Thompson and Ivanov, lead to a characterization of finite symplectic geometries {[7], [9] in (12)}. A new method to prove the conjugacy of some maximal subgroups of a group has been initiated by showing the uniqueness, up to conjugacy, of the maximal subgroups ²X of the groups X∈{B₂(2²ⁿ⁺¹),G₂(3²ⁿ⁺¹),F₄(2²ⁿ⁺¹)} starting from the structure of the simpler group ²X. This is the algebraic analogue of the construction of higher rank buildings from their large sub-buildings due to Segre, Van Maldeghem, etc. This method also naturally lead to a family of equations over finite fields very similar to the equations appearing in Thompson's major analysis leading to the characterization of groups of Ree type. Both families of equations were solved by Bombieri (J. Algebra 257 (2002)).

Proposer : Prof. Sudhir R. Ghorpade, Seconder : Prof. Jugal K. Verma


1. N.S. Narasimha Sastry, B. Bagchi (1987) Even order inversive planes, generalized quadrangles and codes, Geo. Dedicata 22, pp. 137-147; (if=0.518, ci=57)

2. N.S. Narasimha Sastry, B. Bagchi (1988) One-step completely orthogonalizable codes from generalized quadrangles, Information and computation 77, pp. 123-130; (if=0.83, ci=8)

3. N.S. Narasimha Sastry, B. Bagchi (1989) Intersection pattern of the classical ovoids in symplectic 3-space of even order, J. Algebra 126, pp. 147-160;(if=0.60, ci=28)

4. N.S. Narasimha Sastry, G.Misra (1990) Bounded Modules, extremal problems, and a curvature inequality, J. of Functional Analysis 88, pp.118-134;(if=1.322, ci=17)

5. N.S. Narasimha Sastry, Peter Sin (1998) The code of a regular generalized quadrangle of even order, Proceedings of the Symposium in Pure Mathematics, American Mathematical Society V.63, pp.485-496; (if=NA, ci=19)

6. N.S. Narasimha Sastry, Peter Sin (2001) Codes associated with nondegenerate quadrics of a symplectic space of even order, J. Combinatorial Theory (A) V. 94, pp. 1-14; (if=0.775, ci=20)

7. N.S. Narasimha Sastry, B.K.Sahoo (2007) A characterisation of finite symplectic spaces of odd prime order, J. of Combinatorial theory (A) 114, 52-64;(if=0.775, ci=8)

8. N.S. Narasimha Sastry, S.P.Inamdar (2001) Codes from Veronese and Segre embeddings and Hamada's formula, J. Combinatorial theory (A), V.96, pp.20-30; (if=0.775, ci=7)

9. N.S. Narasimha Sastry, B. De Bruyn and B.K. Sahoo (2011) Non-abelian representations of the slim dense near hexagons on 81 and 243 points, J. of Algebraic Combinatorics 32, 127-140; (if=0.662, ci=2)

10. Sastry, N.S.N.: (2012) Some equations over, and automorphisms of, finite fields related to simple groups of Suzuki and Ree types, `Groups, finite Geometries and Buildings', Springer Proceedings in Mathematics, 10, 251-271; (if=NA, ci=0)

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TRIPATHI, AMITABHA (b 1961), Professor of Mathematics, IIT Delhi, New Delhi - 110016


Prof. Tripathi has made significant contributions to the Coin Exchange Problem in the area of combinatorial Number Theory over the past two decades. His focus has been on finding exact results for the Frobenius and Sylvester numbers in several special cases, the most significant of which are providing exact solutions to the general problem of giving exact results for the Frobenius number in three variables and the solution to a conjecture on the least size of partitions that satisfy certain natural constraints. His study of degree sets and degree sequences in combinatorial Graph theory over the past decade and a half has been divided almost equally into degree sets and degree sequences. The most significant work related to degree sequences include a simple constructive proof of the Erdos-Gallai theorem and an algorithm that significantly improves the result of the same theorem. His work on characterizing orders of graphs with a prescribed degree set completely answers an obvious but significant question in this field. His publications in the area of Ramsey theory are fewer in number, but very significant. His work on noncomplete graph Ramsey theory is probably the first of its kind characterization, and the work on finding the Rado number corresponding to a certain equation completely resolves the hitherto remaining case in the homogenous three-variable context. He has 56 research publications, about half of which are single-authored and a significant number of his co-authors have been undergraduate students at IIT Delhi.

Proposer: Prof. Bhim Singh, Seconder: Prof. Sukumar Mishra


1. Amitabha Tripathi & Sujith Vijay, 2003, A Note on a Theorem of Erdos and Gallai, Discrete Mathematics 265, 417-420. (if=0.738)

2. Sachin Gautam, Ashish Kumar Srivastava & Amitabha Tripathi, 2008, On multicolour noncomplete Ramsey graphs of Star graphs, Discrete Applied Mathematics 156 (12), 2423-2428. (if=0.932)

3. Amitabha Tripathi, 2009, On the largest size of a partition that is both s-core and t-core, Journal of Number Theory 129 (7), 1805-1811.(if=0.774)

4. Amitabha Tripathi, Sushmita Venugopalan & Douglas B. West, 2010, A short constructive proof of the Erdos-Gallai characterization of graphic lists, Discrete Mathematics 310 (4), 343-344. (if=0.738)

5. Ram Krishna Pandey & Amitabha Tripathi, 2011, On the density of integral sets with missing differences from sets related to arithmetic progressions, Journal of Number Theory 131 (4), 634-647. (if=0.774)

6. Ankit Garg, Arpit Goel & Amitabha Tripathi, 2011, Constructive extensions of two results on graphic sequences, Discrete Applied Mathematics 159 (17), 2170-2174. (if=0.932)

7. Swati Gupta, J. Thulasi Rangan & Amitabha Tripathi, 2015, The two-colour Rado number for the equation ax + by = (a + b)z, Annals of Combinatorics 19, 269-291. (if=0.568)

8. Amitabha Tripathi, 2016, On the Frobenius Problem for {a,ha+d,ha+bd,ha+b^2d,..,ha+b^kd}, Journal of Number Theory 162, 212-223.(if=0.774)

9. Amitabha Tripathi, 2017, Formulae for the Frobenius number in three variables, Journal of Number Theory 170, 368-389. (if=0.774)

10. Sanjit Singh Batra, Nikhil Kumar & Amitabha Tripathi, 2019, Some problems concerning the Frobenius number for extensions of an arithmetic progression, The Ramanujan Journal 48 Issue not assigned, 21 pages. (if=0.711)

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UPADHYAY, RANJIT KUMAR (b 1967), Professor, Indian Institute of Technology(ISM), Dhanbad - 826004


Professor Ranjit Kumar Upadhyay, Department of Applied Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology(ISM) Dhanbad, significantly and widely contributed for the development of Chaos theory in Ecology, Epidemiology, Eco-epidemiology, e-epidemic and Neuronal population. His novel works on Ecological Chaos, Wave of Chaos (WOC) and Edge of Chaos (EOC) in terrestrial (Rabbit-Lynx and Vole population), marine and wetland systems, “paradox of the generalist predator” and detecting malicious chaotic signals in Wireless Sensor Networks are highly recognized. His diversified works use the concept of Chaos modeling, Reaction-diffusion and delay modeling, Dynamical systems theory, Network theory, Multiple-scale analysis and other modeling techniques to understand biological systems – from single neuron to network of neuronal cable, single population to food-chain/food web. He worked on a number of real-life problems like the spatiotemporal transmission dynamics of recent Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, West Africa, spread and outbreak of Bird flu, influenza and Zika viruses; Restoration of damaged eco-epidemiological system of Salton Sea, California, Socio-ecological problem of Chilika Lake in Odisha, Conservation of degraded wetland system of Keoladeo National Park, Rajasthan and Sundarban wetland, Conservation of Iberian Lynx in Europe, Controlling Red Fox in Australia. He has published 141 research papers (mostly SCI/ SCIE) in different International Journals and written a Book titled “Introduction to Mathematical Modeling and Chaotic Dynamics” published by CRC Press (USA), invited to be the Guest Editor of springer journals and handled a number of R&D and consultancy projects and visited to the University of Cambridge, Leicester, Le Havre Normandie, France.

Proposer: Prof. Vadrevu Sree Hari Rao Seconder: Prof. Ranjan Kumar Mohanty


1. R.K. Upadhyay (2009) Observability of chaos and cycles in ecological systems: lessons from Predator-prey models, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 19, No.10, pp. 3169-3234. (if=1.501, ci=16)

2. R.K. Upadhyay, S.R.K. Iyengar, V. Rai (1998) Chaos: An ecological reality? , International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos Vol. 8(6), pp.1325-1333. (if=1.501, ci=73)

3. W.W. Teka, R. K. Upadhyay, A. Mondal, (2017) Fractional –order leaky integrate-and –fire model with long-term memory and power low dynamics. Neural Networks, Vol. 93, pp.110-125. (if=7.197, ci=10)

4. R. K. Upadhyay, Parimita Roy, Jyotiska Datta (2015) Complex dynamics of ecological systems under nonlinear harvesting: Hopf bifurcation and Turing instability, Nonlinear Dynamics, Vol. 79(4) pp. 2251-2270. (if=4.339, ci=20)

5. R. K. Upadhyay, R.K. Naji, S.N. Raw, B. Dubey (2013) The role of top predator interference on the dynamics of a food chain model, Communication in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations Vol. 18 pp. 757-768 (if=3.181, ci=17)

6. R. K. Upadhyay, S.K. Tiwari, (2017) Ecological Chaos and the Choice of Optimal Harvesting Policy. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications Vol. 448, pp.1533-1559. (if=1.138)

7. Argha Mondal, R. K. Upadhyay, Arnab Mondal, S. K. Sharma (2018) Dynamics of a modified excitable neuron model: Diffusive instabilities & traveling wave solutions. Chaos, Vol. 28, 113104 1-14. (if=2.415, ci=2)

8. R.K. Upadhyay, Parimita Roy, C. Venkataraman Anotida Madzvamuse, (2016), Wave of Chaos in a spatial eco-epidemiological system: Generating realistic patterns of patchiness in Rabbit-Lynx dynamics, Mathematical Biosciences, Vol. 281, pp. 98-119. (if=1.5, ci=3)

9. R. K. Upadhyay, N. Bairagi, K. Kundu, J. Chattopadhyay (2008) Chaos in Eco-epidemiological problem of Salton Sea & its possible control, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol.196, pp. 392-401. (if=2.30, ci=30)

10. R.K. Upadhyay, Rashmi Agrawal (2016) Dynamics and responses of a predator-prey system with competitive interference and time delay, Nonlinear Dynamics, Vol. 83, pp. 821-837. (if=4.339, ci=16)

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CHANDRASEKARAN, PANDU RANGAN (b 1955), Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras


Prof. C. PANDU RANGAN has been serving as a faculty at IIT, Madras right from DAY ONE of the undergraduate Computer Science program in India (1982). He has contributed significantly for the development of two key areas – Algorithms and Cryptology- in India through his teaching and research. In algorithms, his major contribution is Application Specific Paradigms that are neither general purpose nor special purpose but are broad purpose problem solving strategies. His research span covers publications on subclasses of perfect graphs, Parallel Computing, Randomized Computing, Approximate Algorithms and Distributed Algorithms. His results on Quadratic forms, LCS problem in Stringology, visibility problem in Computational Geometry, parallel algorithms for tree construction, domatic partition problem and shuffle recognition, distributed algorithm for st-numbers, approximate algorithm for travelling sales person problem are among the best in algorithmics area. His results on quadratic form is discussed in the classical computer science book by Knuth and his data structure design for double-ended heaps have already been taught actively all over the world through the classic text book by Sahni. In cryptology, he was among the first in the country to introduce courses and build high quality research activities in all aspects of cryptology. He has several award winning publications in reputed conferences (IWSEC 2012, SECRYPT 2010), studied trade off between various parameters for message transmission, synchronous and asynchronous message transmission and Byzantine agreements. In provable security, his work includes attacks on existing protocols, novel and efficient design of protocols for PKI, ID based and certificateless paradigms.

Proposer : Prof. C.Siva Ram Murthy, Seconder : Prof. Y.Narahari


1. Kiran Kumar, C. Pandu Rangan, New Linear Space Algorithm for the LCS Problem, Acta Informatica, Vol. 24, pp. 353 − 362 (1987) (if=0.405, ci=51)

2. G.Ramalingam, C. Pandu Rangan, A Unified Approach to Domination Problems on Interval Graphs, Information Processing Letters, Vol. 27, pp. 271−274 (1988) (if=0.479, ci=111)

3. Srinivasa Rao Arikati, C. Pandu Rangan, Linear Algorithm for Optimal Path cover problem on Interval Graphs, Information Processing Letters, Vol. 35, pp. 149 - 153 (1990) (if=0.479, ci=93)

4. Ravi Sundaram, Karan Sher Singh, C. Pandu Rangan, Treewidth of a Circular-arc Graphs, SIAM Journal of Discrete Maths, Vol. 7, pp. 647-655 (1994) (if=0.677, ci=52)

5. V. Guruswami and C. Pandu Rangan, Algorithmic aspects of clique traversal and clique independent set, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Vol. 100, pp. 183 − 202 (2000) (if=0.668, ci=71)

6. K.Srinathan, Arvind Narayanan, C.Pandu Rangan, Optimal Perfect Secure Message Transmission, CRYPTO 2004, LNCS series, Vol. 3152, pp 545 – 561 ( 2004) (if=3.02, ci=74)

7. Ashwinkumar Badanidiyuru, Arpita Patra, Ashish Choudhury, Kannan Srinathan, C. Pandu Rangan: On the trade-off between network connectivity, round complexity, and communication complexity of reliable message transmission. Journal of ACM Vol. 59 (5): 22 (2012) (if=2.353, ci=1)

8. Arpita Patra, Ashish Choudhury, C. Pandu Rangan, Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement with optimal resilience. Distributed Computing 27(2): 111-146 (2014) (if=0.400, ci=0)

9. Ashish Choudhury, Arpita Patra, B. V. Ashwinkumar, Kannan Srinathan, C. Pandu Rangan, Secure message transmission in asynchronous networks. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Vol. 71 (8): 1067-1074 (2011) (if=1.011, ci=1)

10. Arpita Patra, Ashish Choudhury, C. Pandu Rangan, Efficient Asynchronous Verifiable Secret Sharing and Multiparty Computation, Journal of Cryptology, December, 2013 (if=0.771, ci=0)

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KHARE, BRIJ BEHARI (b 1956), Professor, Department of Statistics, BHU, Varanasi - 221005


Prof. Khare has established an active research group during last 34 years in BHU making significant contribution by publishing 122 research papers (national and international journals of repute) and produced 8 Ph.D. Prof. Khare has made significant contribution in the field of sampling theory in statistics, particularly in building estimators, class of estimators and improved chain type estimators for population parameters using auxiliary and additional auxiliary characters in general case and also in case of non-response in sample surveys. In case of multivariate survey, the problem of estimation of mean vector in presence of complete response/ complete non-response and partial non-response on the units selected in the sample has been proposed for the first time (Tripathi & Khare (1997)). Prof. Khare has also promoted interdisciplinary research: (a). Determined the pattern of growth in height and weight (Sathyavathi et al.(1981)), (b). Established the norm value of physical growth characteristics and development of sexual characteristics of adolescent boys and girls of USE group (Agarwal et al.(1981), Tripathi et al.(1985), Pereira et al.(1983), Katiyar et al.(1985)). (c). The exhaustive study on the “current status of infant and early childhood feeding practices” for countrywide study divided in five zones and also for various important states in India (Agarwal et al. (1985)), (Khare et al. (1993)) has lead to an important medical conclusion through breast feed immediately after birth, reduce the practice of discarding colostrums and risk of infections.

Proposer: Prof. Ramesh Chandra Srivastava, Seconder: Prof. Ajai Kumar Srivastav


1. Sathyavathi, K, Agarwal, K.N., Khare, B.B. and Agarwal, D. K. (1981). The growth pattern of height and weight during adolescence. Ind. J. Med. Res. 74, 851-865. (if=2012(2.06), ci=16)

2. Pereira, P, Mehta, S, Khare, B.B., Katiyar, G.P., Agarwal, D.K., Tripathi, A.M. and Agarwal, K.N. (1983). Physical growth characteristics in adolescent girls of upper socio-economic group of Varanasi. Ind. J. Med. Res. 77, 839-844. (if=2012(2.06), ci=16)

3. Khare, B. B. (1987). Allocation in Stratified sampling in presence on Non-response. Metron- International Journal of Statistics, (Italy), 45(I/II), 213-221. (if=2015(0.59), ci=36)

4. Srivastava, S. Rani, Srivaslava, S. R. and Khare, B. B. (1989). Chain ratio type estimator for ratio of two population means using auxiliary characters. Commun. Stat. Theory Math. (USA), 18(10), 3917-3926. (if=2016(0.43), ci=38)

5. Khare, B. B. (1991). Determination of sample sizes for a class of two phase sampling estimators for ratio and product of two population means using auxiliary character. Metron- International Journal of Statistics, (Italy), XLIX, (1-4), 185-197. (if=2015(0.59), ci=14)

6. Khare, B. B. and Srivastava, S, (1993), Estimation of population mean using auxiliary character in presence of nonresponse. Nat. Acad. Sci. Letter, 16 (3), 111-114. (if=2016(0.345), ci=117)

7. Khare, B. B. and Srivastava, S, (1995). Study of conventional and alternative two phase sampling ratio, product and regression estimators in presence of non-response. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., India, 65 (A), II, 195-203. (if=2015(0.39), ci=91)

8. Khare, B. B. and Srivastava, S, (1997). Transformed ratio type estimators for the population mean in the presence of nonresponse. Commun. Statist. - Theory Meth(USA)., 26 (7), 1779-1791. (if=2016(0.43), ci=105)

9. Tripathi, T. P. and Khare, B. B. (1997). Estimation of mean vector in presence of non-response. Commun. Statist. - Theory Meth (USA), 26 (9), 2255-2269. (if=2016(0.43), ci=32)

10. Khare, B. B. and Sinha, R. R. (2009). On class of estimator for population mean using multi-auxiliary character in presence of non-response. Stats. in transition-new series.(Poland),10 (1), 3-14. (ci=38)

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KUNNUMMAL, MURALIDHARAN (b 1965) Professor, Department of Statistics, M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara 390002.


Major contribution by Dr. K. Muralidharan has been to the field of statistical inference – both testing of hypotheses and estimation of parameters. In the area of testing of hypotheses, Dr. Muralidharan considered some probability distributions such as power law, modulated power law, Rayleigh etc as models for characteristics of reliability problems and studied if the resulting tests are uniformly most powerful (UMP) or locally most powerful or UMP similar. He obtained some large sample tests based on conditional distribution for the shape parameter of Power law process. In the area of estimation, his significant contributions have been to construction of conditional confidence intervals for parameters of specific probability models such as Power law process. Another area of his interest has been inference in the presence of “inliers" which is a common feature in reliability related data. He, along with his students, developed methods for inference for inlier models. Dr. Muralidharan is a Black belt recipient on Six Sigma methodology and he is championing the need of six sigma quality consciousness in the industry. To sum up, Dr. Muralidharan has made substantial contributions to inference concerning probability models that are relevant to reliability studies. In addition to what I stated in the original nomination of Dr. Muralidharan, I have the following to add:He appears to have prepared 8 more papers (jointly with his research students) since 2015 , of which 4 appeared and the rest are due to appear. In addition he has also published a book entitled Six Sigma for Organizational Excellence: A Statistical approach, Springer.

Proposer: Prof. Sreehari Maddipatla, Seconder: Prof. Laxman S Chamyal Ten Best Publications: 1. Muralidharan, K., and Arti, K. (2014). Some statistical inferences on Inlier(s) models, International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management. DOI: 10.1007/s13198-014-0284-8. (Springer journal) (if=0.389, ci=9) 2. Muralidharan, K. (2013). Inferences on inliers in Rayleigh distribution. Metron- International journal of Statistics, 1-9 , October 08, DOI: 10.1007/s40300-013-0020-1. Print ISSN:0026-1424, Online ISSN:2281-695X. (Springer journal). (if=0.5, ci=20) 3. Muralidharan, K. and Chang, K. C. (2011). Some Large Sample Tests Based on Conditional Distribution for the Shape Parameter in Power Law Process, Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice. Vol 5, No.2, 327-334. ISSN: 1559-8608. (Taylor & Francis journal). (if=0.45, ci=15) 4. Muralidharan,K., Rupal Shah. and Deepak H. Dhandhukia. (2008). Future reliability estimation based on predictive distribution. Quantitative Techniques and Quality Management. 5(3), 193-201. ISSN: 1684-3703. (if=0.627, ci=12) 5. Muralidharan, K and Lathika, P. (2006). Analysis of instantaneous and early failures in Weibull distribution. Metrika , 64, 305-316. ISSN: 1435-926X. (Springer journal). (if=0.504, ci=38) 6. Muralidharan, K. (2002).Reliability inferences of Modulated Power Law Process #i, IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 51(1), 23-26. ISSN: 0018-9529. (IEEE-Explore journal). (if=1.934, ci=36) 7. Muralidharan, K. and Kale. B.K. (2002). Modified gamma distribution with singularity at zero. Communications in Statistics- Simulation and Computations, Vol.31, No.1, 143-158. ISSN: 0361-0926. (Taylor & Francis journal). (if=0.46, ci=22) 8. Muralidharan,K.(2001). Tests for Exponentiality against Gamma alternatives using normalized waiting times: Communications in Statistics.- Theory and Methods.,Vol.30, No.3, 397-405. ISSN: 0361-0926. (Taylor & Francis journal). (if=0.300, ci=28) 9. Muralidharan, K. (2001). On testing of parameters in Modulated Power Law Process. Applied Stochastic Models in Industry and Business, 17, 331-343. ISSN: 1526-4025.(Wiley journal). (if=0.574, ci=28) 10. Muralidharan, K. (2000). The UMVUE and Bayes estimate of reliability of mixed failure time Distribution. Communications in Statistics- Simulations and Computations, Vol. 29, No.2, 603-619. ISSN: 0361-0926. (Taylor & Francis journal). (if=0.46, ci=17)

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MOKKALA, PADMAVATHAMMA (b1963) Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati Member of the NASI : No (YON 2015, Mathematical Sciences) Prof. M. Padmavathamma working as Professor and BoS Chairperson, Department of Computer science, S.V. University, Tirupati. She rendered 27 years of academic service in various academic and administrative capacities like Principal, Vice Principal Co-ordinator, Head, Department of Computer science, Board of Studies Chair Person for S.V.University, Tirupati, Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa, Vikram Simhapuri University, Nellore, and Rayalaseema University, Kurnool. Further to inform that she is member of various committees like AICTE, UGC etc., Apart from the usual academic positions she has been appointed as Joint Secretary of UGC, New Delhi and worked with the utmost satisfaction of the UGC authorities during 2013. She has been granted prestigious Research Projects 4 from UGC, New Delhi & 2 from DST, New Delhi of worth more than One Crore Rupees. 5 Research projects successfully completed and 1 Research project under progress. 20 scholars (Two Foreign Scholars) received their Ph.D., degrees. In connection with her research collaboration, she visited many countries like Singapore, China, Malaysia, Hongkong, Mauritius, Kuwait, and Bahrain. She has been invited as keynote speaker for many International Conferences. 154 Research papers published in many National and International Journals & Conference Proceedings. She also published 4 Text Books. She has been accomplished with many research awards in many national & International Conferences. In accumulation, during 2014, she conferred with State Best Teacher Award (Inter University Level in Engineering Subjects), announced by Department of Higher Education, Government of Andhra Pradesh. I am herewith nominating her candidature for the award "Fellow of NASI"

Proposer : Prof Arunachalam Puduru Viswanatha, Seconder : Prof. R. Ramamurthi Ten Best Publications: 1. "Design & Implementation of Multi Power RSA-CRT Cryptosystem with N = PmO" M.Padmavathamma 2017 (if=6.577) 2. KN. Ramanjaneya Reddy , Chenna Reddy Pakanati, M. Padmavathamma Performance Enhancement of TCP Friendly Rate Control Protocol over Wired Networks 2016 (if= 1.2) 3. An Enhanced Queue Management Scheme for TFRC Over Wired Networks by M.Padmavathamma (if=5) 4. A.B. Rajesh Kumar, M.Padmavathamma " SEcure Protocols in Health Care System" , published in International Journal of Computer Science and information Technology & Security(IJCSITS), ISSN:2249- 9555, Vol.2, No.5,pp:926-930, October-2012 . (if= 0.4) 5. K.Venkataramana, M.Padmavathamma, "A Threshold Secure Data Sharing Scheme for Federated Clouds", published in International Journal of Research in Computer Science (IJRCS), ISSN: 2249-8257, Vol.2, lssue.5, and pp: 21-28, July 2012 . (if=0.362) 6. K.Venkataramana, M.Padmavathamma "Agent Based approach for Authentication in Cloud" published IRACST - International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology & Security (IJCSITS), ISSN: 2249-9555Vol. 2, No.3, June 2012, Pp598-603 (if=0.198) 7. K.Venkataramana, M.Padmavathamma "Multi-Agent Intrusion Detection and Prevention System for Cloud Environment" Published in International Journal of Computer Applications (0975-8887), PP.No.24- 29, Vol.49, No.20, July 2012. (if=0.814) 8. E.Madhusudhana Reddy, M.Padmavathamma, "Threshold MJ2-RSA Cryptosystern with one public key and one private key'', International Journal of Engineering and Management Sciences (\.J.E.M.S) , Vol.1 (1):pp.12-17, ISSN. 2229-600X. (if=0.229) 9. A.Ravi Prasad, M.Padmavathamma, "Development Of New Variant Mj2-Rsa Digitc:I Signature Scheme With One Public Key And Two Private Keys", International Journal of Engineering and Management Sciences (l.J.E.M.S), Vol.1 (1):pp.18-25, ISSN.2229-600X . (if=0.229) 10. C.Anitha, M.Padmavathamma, "Toward new Ontology of Node lock Licensing Mechanism- Patterns and Applicabi lity" International Journal of Computer Engineering & Technology( IJCET)", pp.98-106, Volumes, lssue3, March 2014, ISSN 0976-6367(PRINT), ISSN (if=8.5328)

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NANDA, ASOK KUMAR (b 1965), Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata - 741246


Being an outstanding researcher and an extremely talented Reliability Analyst, the nominee has made significant contributions in the field of Reliability Analysis and Information Theory. The book Stochastic Orders (2007) by Shaked and Shanthikumar (Springer) not only cited a lot of his works but also acknowledged the nominee in the Preface of the book, which shows his authority in the area of Reliability Theory. In his paper(9), he has solved a problem of three decades by showing that a series (parallel) system can be characterized by sum of its component failure rates (reversed failure rates). A distribution(10) developed by him has been used in Mining Engineering (http://geostats2012.nr.no/pdfs/1748002.pdf) to study the structurally controlled gold deposit. The same has been cited in Johnson et al. (2004): Discrete Multivariate Distributions (Wiley). The depth of his contribution can be assessed from his publication in very reputed journals dealing with theory/applications of Reliability and Information Sciences, viz. IEEE Transactions, Information Sciences, Naval Research Logistics, Sankhya etc., and also from the fact that his work has been used in Security Analysis, Network Systems, Operations Management and Engineering (cf. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (2012), 33, 212-236). He has provided a general framework for Ballistic Missile Defense Systems(1). His pioneering works have made places in some celebrated books viz. Marshall and Olkin (2007): Life Distributions (Springer), Balakrishnan et al. (2006): Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences (Wiley), Lovric (2011): International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science (Springer) and many others.

Proposer : Prof. Probal Chaudhuri, Seconder : Prof. Bimal K. Roy


1. Dhaifalla K. Al-Mutairi, Asok K. Nanda, and Richard M. Soland (2011): Monotonicity and Comparability in Ballistic Missile Defense Systems. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Vol. 141, pp. 2191-2200 (if=0.598)

2. Asok K. Nanda and Debasis Sengupta (2005): Discrete Life Distributions with Decreasing Reversed Hazard. Sankhya, Vol. 67(1), pp. 106-125.

3. Taizhong Hu, Asok K. Nanda, Huiliang Xie and Zegang Zhu (2004): Properties of Some Stochastic Orders: A Unified Study. Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 51(2), pp. 193-216 (ci=9)

4. Asok K. Nanda, Harshinder Singh, Neeraj Misra and Prasanta Paul (2003): Reliability Properties of Reversed Residual Lifetime. Communications in Statistics- Theory & Methods, Vol. 32(10), pp. 2031-2042. (if=0.284, ci=35)

5. Asok K. Nanda and Moshe Shaked (2001): The Hazard Rate and Reversed Hazard Rate Orders, with Applications to Order Statistics. The Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Vol. 53, pp. 853-864. (if=0.661, ci=26)

6. Rameshwar D. Gupta and Asok K. Nanda (2001): Some Results on Reversed Hazard rate Ordering. Communications in Statistics-Theory & Methods, Vol. 30(11), pp. 2447-2457 (if=0.284, ci=24)

7. Rosa E. Lillo, Asok K. Nanda and Moshe Shaked (2001): Preservation of Some Likelihood Ratio Stochastic Orders by Order Statistics. Statistics and Probability Letters, Vol. 51, pp. 111-119 (if=0.531, ci=24)

8. Debasis Sengupta and Asok K. Nanda (1999): Log-Concave and Concave Distributions in Reliability. Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 46(4), pp. 419-433 (if=0.563, ci=43)

9. Asok K. Nanda, Kanchan Jain and Harshinder Singh (1998): Preservation of Some Partial Orderings under the Formation of Coherent Systems. Statistics and Probability Letters, Vol. 39, pp. 123-131 (if=0.531, ci=11)

10. Kanchan Jain and Asok K. Nanda (1995): On Multivariate Weighted Distributions. Communications in Statistics- Theory & Methods, Vol. 24(10), pp. 2517-2539 (if=0.284, ci=9)

http://geostats2012.nr.no/pdfs/1748002.pdf

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RAMASUBRAMANIAN, SUNDERESWARAN (b 1952), Professor, Statistics & Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore - 560059


Initial research of S.Ramasubramanian concerned asymptotics of diffusion/ reflected diffusion processes, and related connections with partial differential equations. Since many reflected stochastic processes can be represented path-wise as solutions to the Skorokhod problem, the latter was studied in depth, along with relevant comparison and optimality properties. A class of reflected backward stochastic differential equations with oblique reflection was also considered. During these investigations, it was noticed that certain economic models, especially multidimensional insurance models, can be formally described in terms of the Skorokhod problem in an orthant. While one-dimensional insurance models have been extensively studied, very little is known about multidimensional set-up, in spite of known qualitative interactions among insurance companies. A quantitative way describing a risk diversifying agreement among a group of insurance companies is a salient feature of his mathematical model where the joint dynamics of the companies are governed by the solution to appropriate Skorokhod problem in an orthant. This is justified using optimality property of Skorokhod problem. In addition to research work, well-received expository papers have also been contributed.

Proposer : Prof. Mrinal Kanti Ghosh, Seconder : Prof. Gadadhar Misra


1. R.N.Bhattacharya and S. Ramasubramanian, 1982, Recurrence and ergodicity of diffusions. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Vol.12, pp. 95 –122.

2. S. Ramasubramanian, 1996, Transition densities of reflecting diffusions. Sankhya Ser. A, Vol.58, pp. 347 – 381.

3. S.Balaji and S. Ramasubramanian, 2000, Passage time moments for multidimensional diffusions. Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 37, pp. 246 – 251. 4.

4. S. Ramasubramanian, 2000, A Subsidy – Surplus Model and the Skorokhod problem in an Orthant. Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol.25, pp. 509 – 538.

5. S. Ramasubramanian, 2002, Reflected backward stochastic differential equations in an orthant. Proceedings of Indian Academy of Sciences (Mathematical Sciences), Vol. 112, pp. 347 – 360.

6. Amites Dasgupta and S. Ramasubramanian, 2003, Transition density of a reflected symmetric stable Levy process in an orthant. In Probability, Statistics and their Applications: Papers in honor of Rabi Bhattacharya (ed. K.B.Athreya, M.Majumdar, M.Puri and E.Waymire), IMS Lecture Notes—Monograph series, Vol. 41, pp. 117 – 131. Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Beachwood, Ohio.

7. S. Ramasubramanian, 2006, An insurance network: Nash equilibrium. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Vol. 38, pp. 374 – 390.

8. S. Ramasubramanian, 2007, A d-person differential game with state space constraints. Applied Mathematics and Optimization, Vol.56, pp. 312 – 342.

9. S. Ramasubramanian, 2011, Multidimensional insurance model with risk reducing treaty. Stochastic Models, Vol. 27, pp. 363 – 387.

10. O. Kella and S. Ramasubramanian, 2012, Asymptotic Irrelevance of Initial Conditions for Skorohod Reflection Mapping on the Nonnegative Orthant. Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 37, pp. 301 - 312.

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