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Seminars 2009 (Jan-November)

Sr.

Date

Topic

Speaker

 1.

07.01.09

Alkanes and xenon as ligands:NMR studies of photolytically generated,short-lived.

Graham E. Ball

School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales,Sydney 2052, AUSTRALIA

 2.

08.01.09

Transition-Metal Catalyzed Activation of C-H Bonds,Alkane Dehydrogenation, and Formation of C-C Bonds

Alan Goldman

Professor
Rutgers University -- Chemistry Department

 3.

09.01.09

"Bromodimethylsulfonium bromide in Organic Synthesis:A New Look".

Prof. A. T. Khan

Department of Chemistry
IIT Guwahati.

 4.

09.01.09

Spectro-Electrochemistry : Two Worlds Come Together.

Prof. W. Kaim

Stuttgart University
Germany

 5.

09.01.09

Forays into Organic Sulfur Chemistry:Synthesis of Heterocycles from Ketene Dithioacetals.

Prof. H. Surya Prakash Rao

Department of Chemistry
Pondicherry University
Puducherry - 605 014

 6.

16.01.09

Modeling Magnetic Materials using Density Functional Theory.

Dr. Gopalan Rajaraman

Universitàegli Studi di Firenze,
Polo Scientifico,
Dipartimento di Chimica,via della Lastruccia 3,50019
Sesto F.no, Italy

 7.

19.01.09

Cryptands-The Wonder Molecules.

Prof. Parimal K. Bharadwaj

Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur-208016

 8.

23.01.09

New trends in Transition Metal catalyzed Reactions.

Prof. Irina Beletskaya

Moscow State Lomonosov University,
Russia

FEBRUARY

 9.

16.02.09

"Chemistry of N-Confused and Core Modified Porphyrinoids". .

Dr. Iti Gupta

BITS Pilani, Goa

 10.

17.02.09

Linking gas-phase peptides with reality

Dr. Timothy Vaden

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
University of Oxford

 11.

20.02.09

Gas-Phase Pyrolysis: From Theoretical and Structure/Reactivity Correlations to Synthesis of Novel Organic Compounds. .

Dr. Nouria A. Al-Awadi

Chemistry Department, Kuwait University,
P.O. Box 5969,Safat 13060,
Kuwait .

 12.

23.02.09

Synthesis of Biologically Active Polyketide Natural Products.

Dr. Christophe MEYER

Directeur de Recherche au CNRS
Laboratoire de Chimie Organique
ESPCI ParisTech
10 rue Vauquelin
75231 Paris Cedex 05,
FRANCE

 13.

24.02.09

Importance of Inter System Crossing in Chemical Reactions. .

Dr. Biswajit Maiti

Department of Chemistry
Faculty of Science
Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi 221005

 14.

25.02.09

Multifunctional Nanostructured Materials and their Potential Applications.

Suresh Valiyaveettil

Department of Chemistry
NUS Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative
National University of Singapore
3 Science Drive 3, Singaproe 117543

 15.

25.02.09

Exploiting Novel Carbon Dioxide Reduction Reactions for Our Future Needs.

Kuo-Wei Huang

Department of Chemistry,
National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3
SINGAPORE 117543

MARCH

 1.

02.03.09

SCobalt-Mediated Cyclizations as Efficient Tools for Synthesis.

Dr Corinne Aubert

Universitéierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6

 2.

05.03.09

Solvent Stabilized transition metal cations as polymerisatio catalysts

Prof. Fritz Kuehn

Technical University of Munich

 3.

06.03.09

Structural colours in animals: Beetles & Butterflies.

Prof. Mohan Srinivasarao

Georgia Tech., USA

 4.

13.03.09

Spectroscopic Tracking of Structural Evolution in Ultrafast Reaction:Photoisomerization of cis-Stilbene.

Prof. Tahei Tahara

Chief Scientist
Director of Mol. Spectroscoopy Lab,
RIKEN, Japan.

 5.

16.03.09

Cascade Reactions for Alkaloid Synthesis.

Dr. Albert Padwa

Department of Chemistry
Emory University, Atlanta

 6.

20.03.09

Single-Molecule Imaging of Protein-DNA Interactions.

Dr. Eric Greene

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Columbia University, New York

 7.

20.03.09

The Other Side of Maillard Reaction.

Dr. Ashis Biswas

Department of Pathobiology
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA

April

 1.

06.04.09

Nanomedicine and Future Therapeutics.

Dr. Chittaranjan Patra

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Mayo Foundation,
Rochester, MN 55905, USA

 2.

15.04.09

Structural and functional studies of dynamic coordination polymers.

Dr. Sujit K. Ghosh

Kyoto University, Japan

 3.

30.04.09

Iminium ion catalysis : Tools and observations.

Dr Nicholas Tomkinson

School of Chemistry
Cardiff University, U.K

 4.

30.04.09

Publishing Chemistry in society journals.

Dr. Haymo Ross

Editor-in-Chief
European Journal of Organic Chemistry
Wiley, Germany.

May

 1.

08.05.09

Organocatalyst-mediated asymmetric reactions and total synthesis of biologically active molecules :Three pot synthesis of Tamiflu .

Prof. Y. Hayashi

Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

 2.

28.05.09

Electrochemistry of Nanophase Materials.

Santosh K. Haram

Department of Chemistry, University Of Pune,Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007

June

 1.

12.06.09

Bioinspired Design of Porphyrin and Bisporphyrin based Metal Complex.

Prof. S. P. Rath

Department of Chemistry,IIT Kanpur

July

 1.

15.07.09

Computation of Electronic Structure by Genetic Algorithm : A paradigm shift.

Prof. Shankar Prasad Bhattacharyya

Sr. Professor of Physical Chemistry ,IACS, Kolkata

 2.

20.07.09

Synthesis of coloured environmentally friendly polymers.

Prof. Prof. Christopher Rayner

Department of Chemistry, Leeds University

 3.

20.07.09

"Synthesis of Polycyclic Heterocycles through 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reaction".

Prof.R. Raghunathan

Department of Organic Chemistry, Madras University

August

 1.

13.08.09

Properties of Heterofunctional Ligands from Homogeneous Catalysts to 1-D Bime-tallie wires.

Prof. Pierre Braunstein

Strasbourg University, France

 2.

13.08.09

Organolanthanide Chemistry in Three Oxidation States:20 Years of Fascination.

Prof. Frank Edelmann

University of Magdeburg Germany

 3.

25.08.09

"Enzymes to Synthetic FunctionalModels: Spectroscopy-Electronic Structure - Reactivity". .

Prof. Balaji Jagirdar

IISc Bangalore

September

 1.

01.09.09

"Enzymes to Synthetic FunctionalModels: Spectroscopy-Electronic Structure - Reactivity".

Prof. Abhishek Dey

IACS, Jadavpur, Kolkata

 2.

04.09.09

On the theoretical treatment of multi-state Born-Oppenheimer system with ab-initio and dynamical calculations

Prof. Satrajit Adhikari

Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science,Jadavpur, Kolkata

 3.

30.09.09

Transition-Metal-Mediated Radical Reactions:From Mekchanistic Studies to the Synthesis of Carbohydrate Analogs .

Prof. Dr. Torsten Linker

University of Potsdam, Germany

OCTOBER

 1.

05.10.09

Asymmetric Catalysis : A Journey from Hydrogen-bonding to Lewis Acid Activation and Beyond.

Dr. Santanu Mukherjee

Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology,
Harvard University

 2.

29.10.09

An interesting reaction of Dimethylsulfonium Methylide with Activated Olefins and its applications

Dr. Sunil K. Ghosh

Bio-organic Division, B.A.R.C. Trombay
Mumbai 85

 3.

30.10.09

Semipinacol-Schmidt Based Domino Strategy for the stereoselective synthesis of Azaquaternary Ring Systems" .

Prof. S. Baskaran

Department of Chemistry,
IIT Madras, Chennai.

NOVEMBER

 1.

04.11.09

Labelling of bioactive peptides with organometallic compounds.

Prof. Nils Metzler-Nolte

Ruhr Universitat Bochun

 2.

06.11.09

From Donor Acceptor Complexes to Gallium Nitride Nanorods

Henry F. Schaefer III

Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry
Director, Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry
University of Georgia, USA

 3.

09.11.09

Enantioselective oxidations: new Fe- and Ru-based catalysts.

Prof. Marc Fontecave

Directeur de l'UMR 5249 (CEA-UJF-CNRS)
Professeur au Collè de France
"Chaire d Chimie des Processus Biologiques"
Membre de l'Acadée des Sciences
CEA Grenoble, 17 avenue des martyrs
38054 Grenoble Cedex 9

 4.

20.11.09

New synthetic Endeavours in Ketene Dithioacetal Chemistry.

Prof. H. Ila

Principal Scientific Advisor
Jubilant Biosys.,Bangalore
[Formerly at IIT Kanpur]

 5.

23.11.09

Polyimido sulfur ylides in metal coordination.

Prof. Dr. Dietmar Stalke

Institut fur Anorganische Chemie
Uni. Gottingen, Germany