SANTOSH SINGH THAKUR

Dr S. S. Thakur obtained his Ph D in the area of Physical Organic Chemistry from Pt. R. S. S. Univ. Raipur under supervision of Prof Kallol K Ghosh. Dr Thakur has been awarded as a Senior Research Fellow by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi. He was a visiting fellow of IIT Kharagpur. His first postdoctoral research is in the area of Biomimetic Chemistry with Prof. Sung Soo Kim, Korea. Hewasa member of American Chemical Societyand Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers. He has also performed the advanced research in the realm of Chirotechnology and nanochemistry as a Senior Scientist in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Inha University, Inchon and Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea.South Korea. He has published many research articles in the international and national journals of repute.One of the research articles of Dr. Thakur has been published with cover page in Tetrahedron Letters for which he has received Tetrahedron Letters most cited paper 2005-2008 award by Elsevier, Ltd. Oxford, UK.

  1. Preparation of Highly Ordered Mesoporous TiO2 Materials with Crystalline Framework from Different Mesostructured Silica Templates via Nano-replication Chemistry Letters2008; 37, 140-141.
  2. Diels-Alder Cycloaddition of Cyclopentadiene with Ethylacrylate Catalyzed by Mesoporous Al-MCM-48 and Al-MCM-41 Catalysts Bull. Korean Chem. Soc. 2008, 29, 1993-1997.
  3. Design of Mesoporous Solid Acid Catalysts with Controlled Acid Strength Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry 2007, 13, 1201-1207.
  4. Efficient Catalytic Synthesis of Optically Pure 1, 2- Azido Alcohols through Enantioselective Epoxide Ring opening with HN3 Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical2006, 259, 116–120.
  5. Asymmetric Ring Opening of Terminal Epoxides via Kinetic Resolution Catalyzed by New Bimetallic Chiral (Salen) Co ComplexChirality 2006; 18, 37-43.
  6. Synthesis of Optically Active 1, 2-Diol Monoesters via-Kinetic Resolution and Asymmetric Cyclization Catalyzed by Heterometallic Chiral (Salen)Co Complex Tetrahedron Letters, 2006, 47, 3453-3457.
  7. Asymmetric Ring Opening of Some Terminal Epoxides Catalyzed by Dimeric Type Novel Chiral Co(Salen) Complexes Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis, 2006, 159, 205-206.
  8. A New Dinuclear Chiral Salen Complexes for Asymmetric Ring Opening and Closing Reactions: Synthesis of Valuable Chiral IntermediatesJournal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2006, 691, 1862-1872.
  9. Reactivity and Mechanistic Studies about the HO- Promoted Hydrolysis of Some Dihydroxamic Acid Chemical Engineering Communications, 2006, 193, 363-369.
  10. Highly Reactive and Enantioselective Kinetic Resolution of Terminal Epoxides with H2O and HCl Catalyzed by New Chiral (salen) Co Complex Linked with Al Tetrahedron Letters 2005; 46: 2263-2266 (Published with cover page).
  11. Enantioselective Hydrolytic Kinetic Resolution of 1,2-Epoxy-3-phenoxy propane Derivatives by New Chiral (Salen) Cobalt Complexes Catalysis Letters, 2005, 104, 151-156.
  12. Oxidative Coupling of Benzylamines into N-Benzylbenzaldimines with Mn(II)/tert-BuOOH Bull. Korean Chem. Soc. 2005; 26: 499-501.
  13. Oxidative Coupling of Benzylamines into N-Benzylbenzaldimines with Mn(II)/tert-BuOOH Bull. of Korean Chem. Soc. 2005, 26, 499-501.
  14. Synthesis of Optically Pure Terminal Epoxide and 1, 2-Diol via Hydrolytic Kinetic Resolution Catalyzed by New Heterometallic Salen Complexes Synthetic Communications2006, 36, 2371–2383.

Book Chapter

Heterogeneous Enantioselective Catalysis Using Inorganic Supports 2'nd Chapter pp. 25-72 in ‘Handbook of Asymmetric Heterogeneous Catalysis’ K Ding & Y. Uozumi (Eds.) Wiley-VCH Verlag, Weinheim, Germany First Edition Sept. 2008.

  1. Facile Route for the Preparation of Monodispersed Au Nanoparticles

Supported on Ordered Mesoporous Carbon 14th International Congress on Catalysis to be held on July 13-18, 2008, Seoul.

  1. Enantioselective Diels-Alder Reactions of Cyclopentadiene

with Chiral Acrylates in Confined Nanospaces of Al-MCM-48. American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, November 4-9, 2007 Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

  1. Redox Chemiluminescence of Hydrazine Salts With Hydrogen Peroxide:

Effect of Transition Metals on Chemiluminescence The 100th Fall Meeting of the Korean Chemical Society October 18-19, 2007, EXCO, Daegu, Korea.

  1. Synthesis of 2, 2`-Bipyridyl-4, 4`-diamine RuII Complex for using Dye Sensitized 35th The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Keimyung University (Seongseo Campus) Daegu, Korea , May 11-12 2007.
  2. Asymmetric Ring Opening of Some Terminal Epoxides Catalyzed by Dimeric Type Novel Chiral Co(Salen) Complexes 4’th Asia-pacific Chemical Reaction Engineering Symposim, Geongju, South Korea June12-14, 2005.
  3. Asymmetric Ring Opening of Terminal Epoxides Catalyzed by Bimetallic Chiral ( Salen)Co complex via- Hydrolytic kinetic Resolution” Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers Spring Meeting April 22-23, 2005, Yosu University, South Korea
  4. Asymmetric Cyclization of 1,3-Dichloro-2-propanol Catalyzed by Optically active Cobalt (Salen) type complexes Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers Spring Meeting April 22-23, 2005, Yosu University, South Korea.
  5. Asymmetric Hydrolytic Kinetic Resolution of Terminal Epoxides Catalyzed by New Chiral (Salen)Co Catalyst Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers Spring Meeting April 22-23, 2005, Yosu University, South Korea.
  1. Detection of Arsenic (III) and Arsenic (V) in Water using Chemiluminescence Technique National Workshop on Pollution of Ground Water around Industrial Clusters: Mitigation and Management, February 23, 2011, Central Ground Water Board, North Central Chhattisgarh Region, Ministry of Water Resources, Raipur (C.G.) India.
  2. Chemiluminescence Arising from an Oxidation of Hydrazine Salts with Organic and Inorganic Peroxides and Effects of Transition Metal Ions National Conference on Luminescences and Its Application NCLA 2011, February 7-9, 2011, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University Raipur (C.G.) India.
  3. Synthesis and Application of Heterogeneous Bimetallic Chiral Schiff Base Complex for Asymmetric Ring Opening Reaction of Terminal Epoxides 13'th National Symposium in Chemistry and 5'th Chemical Research Society of India-Royal Society of Chemistry Symposium, February 4-6, 2011, National Institute Science Education and Research, Bhuneshwar (Orrisa) India.
  4. Asymmetric Ring Opening Reaction of Terminal Epoxide with Water catalysed by Chiral (Salen) Co Complex Bearing Group 13 metal Salts 47th Annual Convention of Chemists 2010 and the International Conference on Recent Research Trends in Chemical Sciences (ICRRTCS10) Dec. 23–27, 2010, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University Raipur (C. G.) India.
  5. Synthesis Of Bimetallic Chiral (Salen) Co Complexes And Their Catalytic Utility To Hydrolytic Kinetic Resolution of Terminal Epoxides 12'th National Symposium in Chemistry and 4'th Chemical Research Society of India-Royal Society of Chemistry Symposium, February 4-7, 2010, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad (A.P.) India.
  6. Synthesis of Optically Active Compounds Catalyzed by Nanostructured Heterogeneous Chiral Catalysts 46th Annual Convention of Chemists 2009 and the International Conference on Recent Research Trends in Chemical Sciences (ICRRTCS09) Dec. 02–06, 2009, Vellore Institute of Technology University, Vellore (T. N.) India.

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