Meet Our Editorial Board Member

Meet Our Editorial Board Member

Current Organocatalysis, 2018, Vol. 5, No. 2

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Meet Our Editorial Board Member Goutam Brahmachari Laboratory of Natural Products & Organic Synthesis Department of Chemistry,Visva-Bharati University Santiniketan-731 235, West Bengal, India Prof. Goutam Brahmachari currently holds the position of full professor of chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Visva-Bharati (a Central University), Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. He received his Ph.D. (Organic Chemistry) in 1997 from the same University and joined his alma mater as assistant professor in 1998. He has been involved in teaching, research, mentoring, advising and administration during the past 20 years. He has supervised 12 Ph.D. students and about 30 M.Sc. students in their master’s dissertations so far. Prof. Brahmachari’s research interests include (i) green chemistry-directed synthesis of natural product-inspired molecules; (ii) natural products from traditionally used medicinal plants; (iii) semisynthetic studies with natural products, and (iv) evaluation of biological activities and pharmacological Goutam Brahmachari potential of natural and synthetic compounds. In addition to considering other usual greener aspects in designing relatively benign protocols for useful organic molecules of biological promise, his research with a view ‘benign by design’ is also very much focused on energy-efficiency issues. Use of conventional energy sources (fossil fuels) is one of the major causes toward environmental pollutions with all kinds of subsequent outcomes including rapid depletion of the conventional energy sources as well. In resonance with this view, his dedicated research program is to attain energy-efficiency in performing a chemical reaction by judicious screening of reaction conditions capable to carry out the transformation only at room temperature and pressure. Besides, a somewhat challenging concept of designing catalyst-free synthetic processes is a step forward toward safe, cost-effective, waste-free, simple, and sustainable environment! His research group has published significant amount of research results based on designing of room temperature-based and/or catalyst-free synthetic methods for biologically relevant organic scaffolds without cooling and/or heating so as to making good use of Nature’s spontaneous energy source with a view to find out an effective way-out toward the steps in protecting our environment and its sustainability from the perspective of a chemical inventor [1-5]. In the field of natural products chemistry, his research group has unearthed chemical profiles of a number of important and traditionally used Indian medicinal plants, studied their chemistry and biology, and thus presented novel naturally occurring leads and their derivatives for their further exploration in the field of on-going research in drug discovery and development [6, 7]. His researches received financial supports from all the leading sponsoring bodies in India, such as UGC, CSIR, SERB-DST and DBT. Prof. Brahmachari has produced so far more than 180 publications including original research papers, review articles and invited book chapters in edited books in the field of natural products and green chemistry-directed organic synthesis from internationally reputed presses. He has authored/edited about 21 books (major references and texts) and nearly 40 invited book chapters so far published by internationally reputed major publishing houses, including Academic Press (London), Royal Society of Chemistry (London), Elsevier (Netherland), CRC Press (Taylor & Francis group, USA), Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA (Germany), De Gruyter (Germany), Alpha Science International (Oxford), World Scientific Publishing Co. (Singapore) and others. He guest-edited couples of thematic issues for internationally reputed journals, and also serves as an editorial advisory board member for several international journals. He is regularly consulted as a referee by leading international journals and also by various financial commissions. Prof. Brahmachari is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (London), a Who’s Who in the World-2015, 2016 & 2018 Listee, and also a recipient of Academic Brilliance Award-2015 (Excellence in Research) and Dr. Kalam Best Teaching Faculty Award-2017. He is the Series Editor of the Elsevier Book Series ‘Natural Product Drug Discovery’. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Brahmachari, G. Room Temperature Organic Synthesis. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2015. Brahmachari, G. Designing of organic transformations at ambient conditions: our sincere efforts to the cause of green chemistry practice. Chem. Rec., 2016, 16, 98-123. Brahmachari, G.; Nurjamal, K.; Karmakar, I.; Begam, S.; Nayek, N.; Mandal, B. Development of a water-mediated and catalyst-free green protocol for easy access of a huge array of diverse and densely functionalized pyrido [2,3-d:6,5-d'] dipyrimidines via one-pot multicomponent reaction under ambient conditions. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2017, 5, 9494-9505. Brahmachari, G. Catalyst-Free Organic Synthesis. The Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, London, 2018. Brahmachari, G. Recent advances in the synthesis of biologically relevant heterocycles in aqueous medium. Asian J. Org. Chem., accepted article, published online on 31st July, 2018 (doi.org/10.1002/ajoc.201800396). Brahmachari, G.; Das, S.P.; Biswas (Sinha), M.; Kumar, A.; Srivastava, A.K.; Misra, N. 3,5,7-Trimethoxyphenanthrene-1,4-dione: A new biologically relevant natural phenanthrenequinone derivative from Dioscorea prazeri and studies on its single X-ray crystallographic behavior, molecular docking and other physico-chemical properties. RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 7317-7329. Brahmachari, G.; Das, S.P.; Kumar, A.; Misra, N.; Sharma, S.; Gupta, V.K. Structural confirmation, single X-ray crystallographic behavior, molecular docking and other physico-chemical properties of gerberinol, a natural dimethyl dicoumarol from Gerbera lanuginosa Benth. (Compositae). J. Mol. Struc., 2017, 1136, 214-221. 2213-3372/18 $58.00+.00

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