Uday Maitra
Department of Organic Chemistry
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Uday Maitra obtained his BSc from Presidency College, Kolkata, and MSc from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur (1981). He did his PhD at Columbia University working on the remote fuctionalization of steroids, and on aqueous Diels-Alder reactions in the group of Ronald Breslow. He subsequently worked on inhibitors of chorismate synthase and purine nucleoside phosphorylase at the University of California, Berkeley, with Paul A Bartlett. After returning to India, he spent a year in the Chemistry Department at IIT Kanpur before moving to the Department of Organic Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in 1989.
Research Interest
Organic Chemistry: Supramolecular Chemistry, Chemistry of Bile Acids, Organo and Hydrogels, Asymmetric Synthesis
