Alakesh Bisai
Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences (DCS)
E-mail: alakesh [at] iiserkol.ac.in
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Research Interest:
The development of methodologies and strategies for target oriented total syntheses of architecturally intriguing alkaloids of biological relevance.
Academic Background:
- Ph.D. (Synthetic Organic Chemistry), IIT Kanpur, 2006
- MSc (Organic Chemistry), BHU (Banaras Hindu University), 2000
- BSc (Chemistry (H)), Midnapore College (Vidyasagar University), 1998
Positions:
- Professor, IISER Kolkata ( - )
- Professor, IISER Bhopal (2018 - 2019)
- Associate Professor, IISER Bhopal (2013 - 2018)
- Assistant Professor, IISER Bhopal (2009 - 2013)
- Postdoctoral, UC Berkeley (2006 - 2009)
Awards and Honors:
- Young Scientist Award from CRSI, India (2018)
- Lead Lecture at 'Pfizer Symposium' from IISc Bangalore (2016)
- Young Scientist Award from SERB, DST (2013)
- Young Scientist Award from BRNS-DAE (2011)
- GRC Award to Postdoc from GRC on Stereochemistry (2008)
- Postdoctoral Fellowship from UC Berkeley (2006)
Selected Publications:
- Babu, K. Naresh; Roy, Avishek; Singh, Manvendra and Bisai, Alakesh. 2018."Formal Total Syntheses of (-)-Chimonanthine, (-)-Folicanthine, and (+)-Calycanthine." Org. Lett., 20, 6327-6331
- Kumar, Nivesh; Maity, Arindam; Gavit, Vipin R. and Bisai, Alakesh. 2018."Catalytic N-Deacylative Alkylation Approach to Hexahydropyrrolo[2,3-b]indoles." Chem. Commun., 54, 9083-9086
- Das, Mrinal K.; Kumar, Nivesh and Bisai, Alakesh. 2018."Catalytic Asymmetric Total Syntheses of Naturally Occurring Amaryllidaceae Alkaloids." Org. Lett., 20, 4421-4424
- Babu, K. Naresh; Kinthada, Lakshmana K.; Das, Partha Pratim and Bisai, Alakesh. 2018."Cu(II)-tBu-PHOX Catalyzed Enantioselective Malonate Addition." Chem. Commun., 54, 7963-7966
- Chaudhuri, Saikat; Ghosh, Santanu; Bhunia, Subhajit and Bisai, Alakesh. 2018."Catalytic Asymmetric Total Syntheses of (+)- and (-)-Cycloclavine." Chem. Commun., 54, 940-943
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