Functionalisation of Heterocycles through Transition Metal Catalyzed C-H Activation

Prof. Debabrata Maiti received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2008 under the supervision of Prof. Kenneth D. Karlin. After postdoctoral studies at MIT with Prof. Stephen L. Buchwald he joined the Department of Chemistry at IIT Bombay in 2011. His research interests are focused on the development of new and sustainable synthetic and catalytic methodologies. Currently he is an Associate Editor of Journal of Organic Chemistry.

Dr. Sharma natively from Himachal Pradesh completed his Ph.D. from CSIR-IHBT, Palampur / GNDU, Amritsar. After that, he did two postdocs, first with Prof. D. Maiti, IIT, Bombay and second with Prof. Sukbok Chang, KAIST, South Korea. Dr. Upendra Sharma started his independent research in the fall of 2014, and his group research focus involves transition-metal-catalyzed remote C-H activation/functionalization and natural product chemistry. Mainly his group is looking for new antimalarial molecules either through metal-catalyzed modificat^150 research articles in reputed international journals and filed three patents till date. Recently he is admitted as Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), London, UK.