Dr. B. D. Gupta
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur - 208016, UP, India

email: bdg@iitk.ac.in

 

 

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Main Areas of Research:

  • Synthesis and characterization of vitamin B12 model compounds
  • Cobalt mediated organic reactions
  • Activation of small molecules
  • Organo-bridged and ligand-bridged di-cobalt complexes
  • Chiral organo-cobalt and chiral organo-bridged di-cobalt complexes
  • Weak interactions in organo/inorganic cobalt complexes


Research Activity
Supervised: 6 M.S. students, 10 Ph.D. students, 9 Undergraduate students
Research team at present: 3 Ph.D. students, 2 Research Associates


Funds Received for Research Projects (last 10 years):

  • Department Of Science and Technology (DST), Goverment of India, New Delhi
    • Project title: Transition metal catalyzed organic transformations: The versatile organocobaloximes and organodicobaloximes (1993-96)
    • Project title: Cobalt mediated radical reactions in organic synthesis (Oct 1997-Jun 2001)
    • Project title: Novel cobaloximes with different equatorial ligands: Synthesis, characterization, molecular insertions and cis influence studies (Aug 2000-Jul 2003)
    • Project title: Asymmetric organometallic cobaloximes: Synthesis, characterization and Co-C bond reactivity studies (April 2005- March 2008)

 

  • Council Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Goverment of India, New Delhi
    • Project title: Synthesis and characterization of neutral ligand bridged and organo bridged dicobaloximes and related complexes (Mar 1995-Feb 1998)
    • Project title: Organocobaloximes and ligand bridged organodicobaloximes: Synthesis, characterization, intramolecular cyclizations and trapping of organic free radical with radical trapping reagents (Jan 1999-Jan 2002)
    • Project title: Coenzyme B12 related cobaloximes with substituted diphenylglyoxime: Synthesis, characterization, Co-C bond reactivity and cis-trans influence studies (March 2005- March 2008)

 

  • SRI International, Menlo Park, California, USA
    • Project title: Development of organocobaloximes as free radical initiators (1996)


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