Saibal Das

Biography

He did his early schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya's (often called Central School) at Shillong (Meghayala) and finished his Secondary (1994) and Higher Secondary (1996) Schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya Masimpur (Assam). He completed his Bachelors (1999) in Chemistry as major from Gurucharan College, Silchar under Assam (Central) University followed by Masters (2001) in the same subject at Department of Chemistry, Assam (Central) University, where he worked on the synthesis of new V/U shaped Liquid crystals. In 2002, he moved to Bangalore and joined the group of Prof S. Chandrasekaran at Indian Institute of Science in the Department of Organic Chemistry to have a research stint until 2004, where he worked on the development of novel reactions using Selenium reagent (academic) and value additions to racemic aminoalcohols (as a part of industrial project). Then he moved to France to pursue his doctoral studies under the supervision of Dr Rene Gree at University of Rennes1 situated on the western part of the country and got his PhD degree (2007) in three years, where he worked on the synthesis of various prostaglandins, their analogues and development of sustainable processes using ionic liquids for fluorination and kinetic resolution of secondary alcohols.

Research Interest

Total Synthesis of Biologically active molecules, particularly, Anti-inflammatory and Anti-cancer. Applications of Ionic Liquids for sustainable processes. Development of novel DPP-IV inhibitors. Focused Chemical Library (heterocycles) Synthesis for HTS against various cell lines.