Tirumalai Rangachar Kasturi

Biography

Tirumalai Rangachar Kasturi obtained his BSc (Hons) degree (1952) from Central College, Bangalore and joined the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to pursue his research career. He did his MSc from Bombay University and worked in the area of steroids under the guidance of Dilip Kumar Banjerjee to obtain his PhD (1958) from Bombay University. After securing a Fulbright Travel Grant, he left for the USA as a post-doctoral fellow (1959) to work with George R Pettit. He was also associated with L Jaenicke of Institute of Bio-Chemistry, University of Koln, as a Humboldt Fellow on returning to India in 1961, he joined IISc as a Lecturer in the Department of Organic Chemistry. He was promoted to be a Professor (1973) and continued in the Department till 1992. After retirement he worked in the Department as an INSA Senior Scientist. He was Chairman, Department of Organic Chemistry; Chairman, Division of Chemical and Biological Sciences, and later of Chemical Sciences; and Dean, Science Faculty all at IISc, Bangalore.

Research Interest

Synthetic & Mechanistic Organic Chemistry