Research Interests

Methods

• Synthesis of Organo-transition metal complexes
• Applications as Catalysts in Organic Synthesis
• Study of Mizoroki-Heck reaction, Suzuki coupling, Sonogashira Reaction, Buchwald-Hartwig amination
• Development of New Organic Synthetic Methodologies- (transition metal catalyzed)
• Development of Nitrogen Ligands and Metal Complexes
• Catalytic Asymmetric Induction Reactions - Transfer Hydrogenation
• Racemic Catalysis - Asymmetric Induction using Racemic Ligands, Chiral Amplification

Professional Experience

• 1979-80 Junior Scientific Assistant, HEMRL, DRDO, Pune, INDIA
• 1980-81 Research Assistant, Ciba-Geigy Research Centre, Goregaon, INDIA
• 1990 - 91 Senior Research Chemist, Polyolefins India Ltd., Thane, INDIA
• 1988- Current- Principal Scientist, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
• 1986 - 88 Post Doctoral Research Fellow (with Nobel Laureate Prof. Ei-ichi Negishi. Purdue University,W. Lafayette, INDIANA, USA
• 1982 - 86 Ph.D Student (with Prof. Lanny S. Liebeskind, Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA