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Faculty Details

Alakesh Bisai
Alakesh Bisai

Department: Chemical Sciences (DCS)

Email: alakesh [at] iiserkol.ac.in

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Research Interests

The development of methodologies and strategies for target oriented total syntheses of architecturally intriguing alkaloids of biological relevance.

Academic Background

  1. Ph.D. (Synthetic Organic Chemistry), IIT Kanpur, 2006
  2. MSc (Organic Chemistry), BHU (Banaras Hindu University), 2000
  3. BSc (Chemistry (H)), Midnapore College (Vidyasagar University), 1998

Positions

  1. Professor, IISER Kolkata ( - )
  2. Professor, IISER Bhopal (2018 - 2019)
  3. Associate Professor, IISER Bhopal (2013 - 2018)
  4. Assistant Professor, IISER Bhopal (2009 - 2013)
  5. Postdoctoral, UC Berkeley (2006 - 2009)

Awards and Honors

  1. Young Scientist Award from CRSI, India (2018)
  2. Lead Lecture at 'Pfizer Symposium' from IISc Bangalore (2016)
  3. Young Scientist Award from SERB, DST (2013)
  4. Young Scientist Award from BRNS-DAE (2011)
  5. GRC Award to Postdoc from GRC on Stereochemistry (2008)
  6. Postdoctoral Fellowship from UC Berkeley (2006)

Selected Publications

  1. Babu, K. Naresh; Roy, Avishek; Singh, Manvendra and Bisai, Alakesh. 2018."Formal Total Syntheses of (-)-Chimonanthine, (-)-Folicanthine, and (+)-Calycanthine." Org. Lett., 20, 6327-6331
  2. 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

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