Welcome - Prof. B.C. Ranu

Name: BRINDABAN CHANDRA RANU
Date of Birth: August 1, 1949
Address: Department of Organic Chemistry
                  Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
                  Jadavpur, Calcutta- 700032
E-mail: ocbcr@iacs.res.in
Fax: 91-33-2473-2805
Phone: 91-33-2473-4971, Ext. 122

Academic and Professional Career:
                 · M.Sc. from Calcutta University
                 · Ph.D. from Jadavpur University
                 · Postdoctoral work with Prof. T. Hudlicky at Virginia Tech, USA during 1982-85
                 · Senior Lecturer at IACS during 1984-89
                 · Reader at IACS during 1989-96
                 · Professor at IACS from 1996 to date
                 · Head of the department of Organic Chemistry since 2003

Awards and Honours:
                 · Received Professor N.S. Narasimhan Endowment Award for Creativity in Organic Chemistry in 1993
                 · Recieved Chemical Research Society of India Medal in 2001.
                 · Elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1995
                 · Visiting Professor at Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain, during July, 1995-March, 1996
                 · Invited by Professor L. Ghosez, Guest Editor, Tetrahedron, to contribute an article on Strain
                   Assisted Synthesis for Tetrahedron Symposia-in-Print
                 · Invited by Morton International Inc., USA to write a Review on "Selective Reduction with Zinc
                   Borohydride" for their periodical, The Alembic
                 · Invited by Professor K.P.C. Vollhardt, Editor-in Chief, SYNLETT, to contribute an Account on some
                   aspects of recent works
                 · Invited by Professor M.J. Hearn, Associate Editor, Organic Preparations and Procedures
                   International, to write a Review on "Dealkylation of Ether"
                 · Invited by Dr. Karen Hindison, Coordinating Managing editor, European Journals, to write a
                   Microreview for European Journal of Organic Chemistry on Indium-mediated Reactions
                 . Delivered 4th RK Borua Memor al Lecture at Gauhati University

Ph.D. Students supervised: 13+ (degree awarded)
Research Publications : 128+

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Iowa State Univerisity, Department of Computer Science

Atanasoff Hall, Ames, IA 50011

E-mail: sayanr@cs.iastate.edu