BRINDABAN CHANDRA RANU

Senior Professor

Department of Organic Chemistry
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Jadavpur, Kolkata 700 032, India
E-mail : ocbcr [ AT ] iacs.res.in
Phone: +91-33-24734971 ( Ext. 404 )
Fax: +91-33-24732805

Short Bio-data :

Professor Brindaban C. Ranu received his early education in Calcutta University. In graduate studies he worked with Professor Ernest Wenkert at Rice University , Houston, Texas, USA and with Professor U.R. Ghatak at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta. He then took up a postdoctoral position at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA with Professor T. Hudlicky. He started independent research at the department of Organic Chemistry, IACS in 1985 as a Lecturer and was promoted to the post of Professor in 1996. He served as Head of the the organic chemistry department during 2003-2008. Currently, He is a Senior Professor. He was a visiting Professor at Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain during 1995-96. Professor Ranu has been elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1995 and Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 2008. He has received Prof. N. S. Narasimhan Award in Chemistry in 1993, Chemical Research Society Bronze Medal in 2001 and Silver Medal in 2010. During last few years Professor Ranu also visited several Universities and Institutes in USA, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Australia, Taiwan, China, and Japan and delivered lectures. He has been invited to write reviews for manverious journals including Tetrahedron, Synlett, Organic Preparations and Procedure International and European Journal of Organic Chemistry. He has published more than 212 papers in journals of international repute and so far 23 students have been awarded Ph.D. degree under his supervision.

Awards and Fellowship :

Received Professor NS Narasimhan Award in 1993

Received Chemical Research Society of India Bronze Medal in 2001 and Silver Medal in 2010

Elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1995

Elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 2008

Received J. C. Bose National Fellowship (DST, Govt. of India) in 2009

Current Research Area :

Metal Nanoparticles as Catalyst and Reagent for Organic Reactions

Heterogeneous Supported and Sustainable Metal Catalyst for Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Heteroatom bond formation

Green Synthetic Procedures (reaction on solid support avoiding hazardous organic solvent and toxic catalyst; use of ionic liquid as catalyst as well as reaction medium; reaction in neat without solvent)

Indium in Organic Synthesis (use of indium metal and its other derivatives for useful chemical transformations; discovery of new indium compounds for effective SET process)

Recent Important Publications :

	Transition Metal Free Procedure for the Synthesis of S-Aryl Dithiocarbamates Using Aryl Diazonium Fluoroborate in Water at Room Temperature – T. Chatterjee, S. Bhadra, B.C. Ranu, Green Chem. 2011, 13, 1837
	Ruthenium(III)-catalysed Phenylselenylation of Allyl Acetates by Diphenyl Diselenide and Indium(I) Bromide in Neat: Isolation and Identification of Intermediate – A. Saha, B.C. Ranu, Org. Boimol. Chem. 2011, 9, 1763.
	Alumina Supported Cu(II). A Versatile and Recyclable Catalyst for Regioselective Ring Opening of Aziridines and Epoxides and Subsequent Cyclization to Functionalized 1,4-Benzoxazines and 1,4-Benzodioxanes – S. Bhadra, L. Adak, S. Samanta, A.K.M.M. Islam, M. Mukherjee, B.C. Ranu, J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 8533.
	Using More Environmentally Friendly Solvents and Benign Catalysts in Carrying out Conventional Organic Reactions – B.C. Ranu, A. Saha and R. Dey, Current Opinion in Drug Discovery and Development, 2010, 13, 658.
	Recyclable Heterogeneous Supported Copper-Catalyzed Coupling of Thiols with Aryl Halides:Base Controlled Differential Arylthiolation of Bromoiodobenzenes – S. Bhadra and B.C. Ranu, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2009, 2369.
	Hydroxyapatite Supported Palladium (PdHAP) Catalyzed Efficient Synthesis of (E)-2-Alken-4yn Carboxylic Esters. Intense Fluorescence Emission of Selected Compounds – B.C. Ranu, L. Adak and K. Chattopadhyay, J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 000.
	An Alternative Method for the Regio- and Stereoselective Bromination of Alkenes, Alkynes, Toluene Derivatives and Ketones Using a Bromide-Bromate Couple – S. Adimurthy, S. Ghosh, P. U. Patoliya, G. Ramachandraiah, M. Agarwal, M. R. Gandhi, S. C. Upadhyay, P. Ghosh, B. C. Ranu, Green Chem., 2008, 10, 232.
	Solvent Controlled Highly Selective Bis- and Mono-allylation of Active Methylene Compounds by Allyl Acetate Using Palladium(0) Nanoparticle – B. C. Ranu, K. Chattopadhyay and L. Adak, Org. Lett. 2007, 9, 4595.
	Microwave Assisted Simple and Efficient Ligand Free Copper Nanoparticle Catalyzed Aryl-Sulfur Bond Formation – B. C. Ranu, A. Saha and R. Jana, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2007, 349, 2690.
	An Improved Procedure for the Three-Component Synthesis of Highly Substituted Pyridines Using Ionic Liquid – B. C. Ranu, R. Jana, and S. Sowmiah, J. Org. Chem. 2007, 72, 3152.

Last Update on August 09, 2011