Day1, Tuesday, 5th Dec. 2017Venue : B-NAG Auditorium, Victor Menezes Convention Centre (VMCC)
  
  
 Time Program
  
13.00 - 14.00Registration
  
14.00 - 14.15Opening remarks - Krishna P. Kaliappan, Head, Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay
  
 Session 1 (14.15 - 16.15) Chairperson: Goutam Kumar Lahiri
  
14.15 - 14.45 Alan Goldman
"Catalysis by Pincer-Iridium Complexes: Breaking C-H Bonds, Making C-C Bonds, and Various Combinations Thereof"
  
14.45 - 15.15 R. Murugavel
"Better Materials Chemistry through Chemical Synthesis: Designer Frameworks and Molecular Magnets"
  
15.15 - 15.45 Matthew Sigman
"Enantioselective Formation of Remote Chiral Centers through Pd-Catalyzed Alkene Functionalization"
  
15.45 - 16.15 Prasenjit Ghosh
"Chemical Catalysis and Biomedical Applications: A NHC perspective"
  
  
 16.15 - 16.45  Tea Break
  
  
 Session 2 (16.45 - 18.05) Chairperson: Sambasivarao Kotha
  
16.45 - 17.15 Connie Lu
"Leveraging Metal-Support Interactions for Catalysis"
  
17.15 - 17.45 S. J. Gharpure
"Reactions of Alkynes for the Synthesis of Oxa- and Aza-Cycles"
  
17.45 - 18.05 Flash presentation by students (3 min each)
 
  
 Day2, Wednesday, 6th Dec. 2017Venue : B-NAG Auditorium, Victor Menezes Convention Centre (VMCC)
  
  
 Session 1 (9.00 - 11.00) Chairperson: Krishna P. Kaliappan
  
09.00 - 09.30 R. B. Sunoj
"Noncovalent Interactions in Transition States and the Origin of Asymmetric Induction in Multi-Catalytic Reactions"
  
09.30 - 10.00 Christopher Uyeda
"Catalysis at Metal-Metal Bonds"
  
10.00 - 10.30 I. N. N. Namboothiri
"Synthetic and Biological Applications of Alpha-Functionalized Nitroalkenes"
  
10.30 - 11.00 James Morken
"Catalytic Reactions Enabled by a Metal-Induced Metallate Shift"
  
  
 11.00 - 11.30  Tea Break
  
  
 Session 2 (11.30 - 13.00) Chairperson: Ruchi Anand
  
11.30 - 12.00 Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague
"Metabolic Labelling of Cholesteryl Glucosides to Study Bacterial Virulence"
  
12.00 - 12.30 Pradeepkumar P. I.
"Structural and Functional Insights into the Translesion Synthesis Across N2-dG Damaged DNAs"
  
12.30 - 13.00 Nandita Madhavan
"Ion-Selective Transmembrane Channels from Small Peptides and Macrocycles"
  
 13.00 - 14.00  Lunch
  
  
 Session 3 (14.00 - 16.30) Chairperson: M. Ravikanth
  
14.00 - 14.20 Flash presentation by students (3 min each)
  
14.20 - 14.50 Uttam Tambar
"Stereoselective Functionalization of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons"
  
14.50 - 15.20 Debabrata Maiti
"Reaching Out to Distal Places"
  
15.20 - 15.50 Kevin Brown
"Metal Catalyzed Alkene Functionalization: An Approach Towards Stereospecific Cross Coupling"
  
  
15.50 - 16.20  C. M. R. Volla
"Metal-Catalyzed C-H Functionalization Reactions with Allenes"
  
 16.20 - 16.30  Closing Remarks
  
 16.30 - 17.00  High Tea