Short bio-data :
Born in 1949, Calcutta, Saswati Lahiri did her
M. Sc. from Jadavpur University in 1970 and joined Bhowanipur Education
Society College as a lecturer. Then she joined Indian Institute of Technology,
Kanpur in 1971 where she completed her doctoral thesis with Professor M.
V. George. She then joined the present department in 1977 as a lecturer
where she is still continuing as a professor. In 1988, she visited Max
Planck Institute für Strahlenchemie, Germany as a Guest Scientist
and worked in the group of Professor K. Schaffner till 1990.
Current Research Interest :
Organic photochemistry : Photochemistry of enones;
Exploring chromophore-selectivity in photochemistry of mixed enones; Electron
transfer reactions; Solid state photoreactions
Future plans :
Look for structure-reactivity relationship in
photoreactions Application of Organic photochemistry for preparing organic
materials.
Selected list of recent publications:
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Face-Selective Diels–Alder Reactions between Unsymmetrical Cyclohexadienes and Symmetric trans-Dienophile: An Experimental and Computational Investigation – Lahiri, S.; Yadav, S.; Banerjee, S.; Patil, M. P. and Sunoj, R. B. J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 435.
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Synthesis of bicyclo[3.2.1]octanones via ketyl radical promoted rearrangements under reductive PET conditions - Yadav, S.; Banerjee, S.; Maji, D. and Lahiri, S. Tetrahedron, 2007, 63, 10979.
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Importance of steric factor in face-selective cycloadditions: 1,6-annulated cyclohexa-1,3-dienes – Lahiri, S.; Yadav, S.; Chanda, M.; Chakraborty, I.; Chowdhury, K.; Mukherjee, M.; Roy Choudhury, A.; Guru Row, T. N., Tetrahedron Lett., 2005, 46, 8133.
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Steric-controlled Excimer formation in naphthalene Analogues of Chalcone – Chatterjee, S.; Kar, S.; Lahiri, S.; Basu, S., Spectrochim. Acta Part A, 2004, 60, 1713.
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Methoxynaphthyl Analogues of Chalcone: Photocyclization via Photoinduced Electron Transfer (PET), Kar, S.; Lahiri, S., Ind. J. Chem. Section B (Prof U. R. Ghatak commemorative volume), 2001, 40B, 1121 |
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Solid-state Photolysis of Sterically Congested cis-1,2-Dibenzoylalkenes : Isolation and Characterization of Vinylketenes, Chanda, M.; Maji, D.; Lahiri, S. J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Commun., 2001, 543.
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