Somnath Yadav
Assistant Professor
Applied Chemistry
Indian School of Mines
India
Biography
Ph. D. –Jadavpur University (Working at IACS, Kolkata) - 2007 Supervisor - Prof. Saswati Lahiri M. Sc. (Organic Chemistry)-2000 University of Kalyani, Kalyani, India B. Sc. (Honors in Chemistry)-1998 University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
Research Interest
Photochemical Approach to Metal Nanoparticles and Nanoclusters and their Catalytic Applications in Organic Reactions Asymmetric synthesis using carbohydrates and amino acids as templates and organo catalysis Development of synthetic methodologies relevant to the synthesis of various biologically relevant glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) and the synthesis of well defined and homogenous oligosaccharide sequences GAGs Visible light photoredox catalysis Novel materials from carbohydrates
Publications
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Partially acetylated or benzoylated arabinose derivatives as structurally simple gelators: Effect of the ester protecting group on gel properties†Rajkamal, Navendu P. Pathak, Tanmoy, Halder, Shubhajit Dhara and Somnath Yadav* Chemistry – An European Journal, 2017, (Accepted) DOI: 10.1002/chem.201701669. (Impact Factor – 5.317)
