Siva Sankara Reddy Singam
Senior Technical officer
Food Safety & Analytical Quality Control Laboratory (FSAQCL)
Central Food Technological Research Institute
India
Biography
Siva Sankara Reddy Singam is currently a Senior Technical officer in the Department of Dept. of Food Safety & Analytical Quality Control Laboratory (FSAQCL) Central Food Technological Research Institute, India. He completed Post-Doctoral Fellowship: from Chungnam National University, Daejon, South Korea in 2012 with Dr. Jeong Hun Sohn; Research Topic: Towards the total synthesis of (+)-Norsecurinine and preparation of amine and allenyne intermediates for kinetic studies using Grubbs’ catalyst. Ph. D. in Organic Chemistry from IICT Hyderabad, India in 2011 with Dr. G. Sabitha. Research Topic: Stereoselective approaches for the total synthesis of bio-active lactones: Cryptopyranmoscatones, Cryptofolione, Dodoneines, Cryptocaryalactones and (-)-(3S,6R)-3,6-dihydroxy-10-methylundecanoic acid. Master of Science (Analytical Chemistry) from Sri Krishnadevaraya University Anantapur, India in 2005 (74.2% of marks). Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) from Loyola Degree College, Sri Venkateshwara University, Tirupathi, India in 2003 (80.0% of marks).
Research Interest
Synthesis of lead molecules with potential biological activity by employing modern synthetic procedures, Development of new synthetic methodologies as tools in multi-step organic synthesis, Well acquainted with polymorphism of finished drugs and different techniques of preparation of new polymorphs.
Publications
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Stereoselective approaches to the total synthesis of (6R,4’S,6’R)-Cryptofolione. Gowravaram Sabitha,* S. Siva Sankara Reddy, D. Vasudeva Reddy, Vangala Bhaskar and J. S. Yadav. Synthesis 2010, 3453-3460
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First total synthesis of Cryptopyranmoscatone B1 from 3,4,6-tri-O-acetyl-D-glucal. Gowravaram. Sabitha,* S. Siva Sankara Reddy and J. S. Yadav. Tetrahedron Lett. 2010, 51, 6259-6261.
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Stereoselective total synthesis of Cryptopyranmoscatone A1. Gowravaram Sabitha,*S. Siva Sankara Reddy, and J. S. Yadav. Tetrahedron Lett. 2011, 52, 18, 2407-2409.
