| 3rd Indo-German Symposium on "Frontiers of Chemistry" |
| Scientific Program |
| September 27, 2011, Tuesday | |
| 9.00 – 9.15 | Registration |
| 9.15 – 9.30 | Inauguration |
| Welcome Address | Prof. Nand Kishore (Head, Department of Chemistry) |
| Introductory Remarks | Prof. Krishna P. Kaliappan (IIT Bombay) |
| Inaugural Address | Prof. Devang V. Khakhar (Director, IIT Bombay) |
| Session I | Plenary Lecture |
| Chairman: | Prof. Faiz Ahmed Khan (IIT Hyderabad) |
| 9.30 – 10.15 | Prof. S. Chandrasekaran (IISc Bangalore) |
| Tandem Ring Opening-Cyclization of Vinylcyclopropanes: A Facile Synthesis of Chiral Bicyclic Amidines | |
| 10.15 - 10.45 | Tea Break/Group Photo |
| Session II | |
| Chairman: | Prof. Martin E. Maier (University of Tuebingen) |
| 10.45 –11.15 | Prof. Oliver Reiser (University of Regensburg) Mag(net)ic Molecules - Synthesis and Applications |
| 11.15 - 11.45 | Prof. Santosh J. Gharpure (IIT Madras) Stereoselective Synthesis of Oxa- and Aza-cycles using Vinylogous Functional Groups |
| 11.45–12.15 | Prof. Magnus Rueping (RWTH Aachen University) Chiral Counterion Pair Catalysis: From Concepts to Applications |
| 12.15–12.45 | Prof. Raghavan B. Sunoj (IIT Bombay) Synergism between Theory and Experiments Enabled by Computational Organic Chemistry |
| 12.45 –14.30 | Lunch and Poster Session I |
| Chairperson for Poster Session I: | Prof. H. Ila (JNCASR, Bangalore) |
| Session III | |
| Chairman: | Prof. V. Chandrashekhar (IIT Kanpur) |
| 14.30 –15.00 | Prof. Martin E. Maier (University of Tuebingen) Struggling with Polycyclic Ring Systems |
| 15.00 –15.30 | Prof. M. Ravikanth (IIT Bombay) Functionalized Boron Dipyrromethenes and Their Applications |
| 15.30–16.00 | Dr. Torsten Fischer (Director, DFG New Delhi) |
| 16.00 –16.30 | Tea Break |
| Session IV | |
| Chairman: | Prof. Oliver Reiser (University of Regensburg) |
| 16.30 –17.00 | Prof. M. Eswaramoorthy (JNCASR Bangalore) Glucose derived carbon nanostructures and their applications |
| 17.00–17.30 | Prof. Roland. A. Fischer (University of Bochum) From Organometallic Complexes to Metalloid Clusters |
| 17.30–18.00 | Prof. Satish Patil (IISc Bangalore) Design Rules for Conjugated Materials in Photovoltaic Devices |
| September 28, 2011, Wednesday | |
| Session V | |
| Chairman: | Prof. Anindya Datta (IIT Bombay) |
| 9.30–10.00 | Prof. Günter Mayer (University of Bonn) Plug and play with aptamers - from chemistry to biomedical applications |
| 10.00–10.30 | Prof. Srinivas Hotha (IISER Pune) Glycopolymers and Glycomimetics by Gold-catalyzed Glycosidation |
| 10.30–11.00 | Prof. A. Stephen K. Hashmi (University of Heidelberg) Gold-Catalysis: New Ligands and New Mechanistic Insights |
| 11.00–11.30 | Tea Break |
| Session VI | |
| Chairman: | Prof. Prasenjit Ghosh (IIT Bombay) |
| 11.30 - 12.00 | Prof. Jitendra K. Bera (IIT Kanpur) Synergism in Organometallic Catalysis |
| 12.00 - 12.30 | Prof. Lutz Ackermann (University of Gottingen) Metal-Catalyzed C–H Bond Functionalizations for Sustainable Synthesis |
| 12.30 - 1.00 | Dr. Srivari Chandrasekhar (IICT Hyderabad) Approaches for the total synthesis of marine natural products as leads in Pharmaceuticals |
| 13.00–14.45 | Lunch and Poster Session II |
| Chairperson for Poster Session II: | Prof. G. Mugesh (IISc Bangalore) |
| Session VII | |
| Chairman: | Prof. R. A. Fischer (University of Bochum) |
| 14.45–15.15 | Dr. Pradyut Ghosh (IACS Kolkata) Chemosensing of Ions of Biological and Environmental |
| 15.15–15.45 | Prof. Sanjay Mathur (University of Cologne) Chemically Engineered Nanoparticles and Nanowires for Energy and Health Applications |
| 15.45–16.15 | Dr. Chinnakonda S. Gopinath (NCL Pune) Electronic decoupling of surface layers and its influence in catalysis - A potential concept to broaden catalytic activity regime |
| 16.15–16.45 | Tea Break |
| Session VIII | |
| 16.45–17.45 | Prof. Anil Kumar (IIT Bombay) Science in Magic |
| 17.45 –18.00 | Vote of Thanks and Concluding Remarks |