Rc Padalia
Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants
CSIR
India
Biography
Dr. Rajendra Chandra Padalia is working as a Scientist in Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants (CSIR-CIMAP); a frontier Plant Research Laboratory of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Natural Product Chemistry, from Kumaun University, Nainital, India. He has adequate experience in the chemistry of natural products, essential oils, Aroma/volatile chemicals, chromatography and other separation techniques; and on various analytical methods and instrumentation work useful for research in Phytochemistry and related fields. He has published more than fifty Research Articles in Reputed Peer Reviewed Journals.
Research Interest
His main research interests include Herbal monograph, Chemistry of Natural Products, Essential oils & Aroma Chemicals, R&D on Quality evaluation of essential oils, aroma compounds and their value addition, Isolation, Characterization and chemical modification of bioactive compounds by Chromatography and other separation techniques and by Molecular Spectroscopy; Developing bioactive marker constituents in MAPs; R&D on Quality evaluation, Agrotechnology and Post Harvest technologies of aromatic plants.
