NARSHINHA P. ARGADE, Ph.D. (Brief CV)

Born: May 18, 1962

HIGHLIGHTS

·         Twenty eight years research experience in basic and applied organic chemistry with 94 publications in national and international journals

·         Areas of Organic Synthesis - Heterocycles, Steroids, Pheromones, Bioactive Natural Products, Drugs, Drug Intermediates, Asymmetric Synthesis, Biotransformations and Combinatorial Chemistry

·         Creativity - Development of novel chiral and achiral synthetic routes and processes

·         Recognized as a Research Guide in Chemistry for Pune University

·         Training with eminent chemists - Dr. V. Balasubramaniyan (Doctoral work, 1984-89), Dr. S. Rajappa (RA, 1990-92) and Prof. Kenji Mori (Post-doctoral work, 1993-94) with national and international scholarships

·         Senior scientist at NCL, Pune since 1994

·         Delivered several invited lectures in India, Japan, Italy, China, Thailand, France and England

·         Thirteen students have got Ph. D. Degree and supervising Ph. D. dissertations work of seven research scholars

·         Successfully completed several Industry and DST-sponsored projects

·         Prof. V. V. Kogekar First Rank Award 1984

·         Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences

·         The Chemical Research Society of India Young Scientist Award 2002

·         Indian Science Congress Association, Professor R. C. Shah Memorial Lecture Award 2002-2003

·         Visiting Associate Professor at The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (June 2004-November 2004)

·         Organized ICS-UNIDO-NCL-Workshop on combinatorial chemistry and biodiversity at NCL, Pune (December 2006)

·         Professor N. S. Narasimhan Trust Endowment Prize for Research in Chemistry – 2006

·         NCL Research Foundation Scientist of the Year Award IYC-2011

·         Regular reviewer for Journal of Organic Chemistry and Organic Letters

LIST OF SELECTED FIVE RECENT PUBLICATIONS

1.      Palladium-promoted [2 + 2 + 2] cocyclization of arynes and unsymmetrical conjugated dienes: synthesis of justicidin B and retrojusticidin B

R. M. Patel and N. P. Argade*

     Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 14.

2.      Sonogashira coupling reactions of bromomaleimides: route to alkyne/(cis)-alkene/alkyl maleimides: synthesis of luffarin X and cacospongionolide C

P. S. Deore and N. P. Argade*

J. Org. Chem.  2012, 77, 739.

3.      Regio- and stereoselective selenium dioxide allylic oxidation of (E)-dialkyl alkylidenesuccinates to (Z)-allylic alcohols: synthesis of natural and unnatural butenolides

R. M. Patel, V. G. Puranik and N. P. Argade*

Org. Biomol. Chem. 2011, 9, 6312.

4.      Copper-catalyzed intramolecular N-arylation of quinazolinones: facile convergent approach to (^_)-circumdatins H and J

U. A. Kshirsagar and N. P. Argade*

     Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 3716.

5.      Chemoselective coupling reactions of 5,7-dimethoxyphthalide with the remotely functionalized alkyl iodides: facile racemic synthesis of  Helicobacter pylori antibiotics

M. Singh and N. P. Argade*

J. Org. Chem.  2010, 75, 3121.