Suman L Jain
Senior Scientist & Head
Chemical Sciences
Indian Institute of Petroleum
India
Biography
Dr. Suman L Jain is a Senior Scientist & Head of Area in Specialty and Applied Chemistry Chemical Science Division in CSIR - Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun. His acheivements are • Awarded CSI-Young Scientist Award-2010 • Awarded INSA-Young Scientist Medal-2005 • Awarded NASI-Platinum Jubilee Young Scientist Awrad-2007 • Awarded DST Fast-track young scientist-2009 • Awarded Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) research fellowship - 2007 • Awarded project under PPP-DAAD (Indo-German)-2007 • Awarded Hindustan Platinum Award for best oral presentation by Catalysis Society of India-2007. • Received most cited research paper Award for the paper published in Tetrahedron Letters by Elsevier Publications-2006 • Selected and participated in the 18th Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students In Chemistry-2006 held at Lindau, Germany and visited various research Institution of Germany during 1-7th July 2006. • University Topper and Gold Medalist in M. Sc
Research Interest
His research interests are • Green Chemistry. • Utilization of carbon dioxide for fuel and value added chemicals. • Novel synthetic methodologies for organic reactions. • Cost effective environmentally benign anti-wear additives for lubricating oils. • Value addition of various refining streams. • Photochemical/ photocatalytic processes.
Publications
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Cyclotriphosphazene grafted silica: a novel support for immobilizing the oxo-vanadium Schiff base moieties for hydroxylation of benzene. Praveen K. Khatri, Bhawan Singh, Suman L. Jain, A. K. Sinha and Bir Sain, Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 1610-1612
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Covalently attached silica bound oxo-rhenium as a potent catalyst for the one-pot oxidative conversion of aldehydes and primary amines to nitrones using solid UHP as oxidant. Bhawan Singh, Suman L. Jain, B. S. Rana, A. K. Sinha, Praveen K. Khatri and Bir Sain, ChemCatChem 2010, 10, 1188-1190.
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Heterogeneously catalyzed oxidative cyanation of tertiary amines with sodium cyanide/hydrogen peroxide using polymer supported Fe (II) phthalocyanines as catalyst. S. Singhal, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain, Adv. Syn. Catal. 2010, 352, 1338-1344.
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An efficient aerobic oxidative cyanation of tertiary amines with sodium cyanide using vanadium based systems as catalysts. Sweety Singhal, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain, Chem. Commun. 2009, 2371-2372.
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An efficient approach for immobilizing the oxo-vanadium Schiff base onto polymer supports using Staudinger ligation. Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain, Adv. Syn. Catal. 2008, 350, 1479-1483.
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Immobilization of Cobalt(II) Schiff Base Complexes on Polystyrene Resin and a Study of Their Catalytic Activity for the Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols. Suman L. Jain and Oliver Reiser, ChemSusChem 2008, 1, 534-541.
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PEG-Assisted solvent and catalyst free synthesis of 3,4-dihydropyrimidinones under mild reaction conditions. Suman L. Jain, Sweety Singhal and Bir Sain, Green Chem. 2007, 7, 740-741.
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Ionic liquid promoted highly efficient aziridination of alkenes with Chloramine-T using N-bromosuccinimide as catalyst. Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain, Green Chem. 2006, 8, 943-946.
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Ruthenium Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidation of Tertiary Nitrogen Compounds With Molecular Oxygen: An Easy Access to N-Oxides Under Mild Conditions. Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain, Chem. Commun. 2002, 10, 1040-1041.
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An Unconventional Cobalt Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidation of Tertiary Nitrogen Compounds to N-Oxides. Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2003, 42, 1265-1267.
