XXIV NOST Organic Chemistry Conference, Venue: JP Hotel Agra 3rd March - 6th March 2025
| Day 1: Monday | March 3, 2025 |
| 14.00 to 15.20 h | Arrival & Check-in & Registration |
| 15.30 to 15.35 h | Welcome Remarks by Chair-NOST Council Krishna P Kaliappan (IIT Bombay) |
| 15.35 to 15.45 h | NOST-A Brief Overview by President-NOST Ganesh Pandey (BHU, Varanasi) |
| Session I (15.45 to 17.40 h) | Trustees Session |
| Chairpersons : D. S. Reddy and Jerome Lacour | |
| 15.45 to 16.15 h | Peter Seeberger (Max Planck Institute, Potsdam, Germany) ‘Curiosity Driven Chemical Research is Key to Developing Vaccines, Medications and a Circular Chemical Economy’ |
| 16.15 to 16.45 h | Srinivas Hotha (IISER Pune) ‘CIStER: A Chemical Glycan Editing Reaction Sequence’ |
| 16.45 to 17.05 h | Namrata Rastogi (CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow) ‘Reactivity Pattern of Diazo Group in Hypervalent Iodine Diazo Reagents’ |
| 17.05 to 17.25 h | Rajarshi Samanta (IIT Kharagpur) 'Transition Metal Catalyzed Insertion of Diazoquinones’ |
| 17.25 to 17.40 h | TEA BREAK |
| Session II (17.40 to 19.20 h) | Kondaiah and Palle Session |
| Chairpersons : Nitin Patil and Vidya Avasare | |
| 17.40 to 18.00 h | Indranil Chatterjee (IIT Ropar) ‘Light-Camera-Action: Shining Visible Light on Hantzsch Ester’ |
| 18.00 to 18.20 h | Pavan Kancharla (IIT Guwahati) ‘Frustrated Bronsted Pair Catalysis for Carbohydrate Chemistry and Beyond’ |
| 18.20 to 18.50 h | Scott Snyder (University of Chicago, USA) ‘Strategies for the Rapid Synthesis of Molecular Complexity’ |
| 18.50 to 19.20 h | David Sarlah (Rice University, USA) 'TBA’ |
| 19:30 to 21:30 h | Conference Mixer |
| Day 2: Tuesday | March 4, 2025 |
| Session III (09.00 to 11.00 h) | Astra Zeneca Session |
| Chairpersons : Santosh Gharpure & Diwan Rawat | |
| 9.00 to 9.30 h | Shu Kobayashi (University of Tokyo, Japan) 'Flow Methods for Organic Synthesis Toward a Sustainable Society' |
| 9.30 to 10.00 h | Vidya Ramadas (Enveda, Hyderabad) 'Discovery of Drugs for Hepatitis C: A Race Against Time & Key Learnings' |
| 10.00 to 10.20 h | Ch. Raji Reddy (CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad) 'Cascade Functionalization/Annulation of Enyne Precursors' |
| 10.20 to 10.40 h | Suman De Sarkar (IISER Kolkata) 'Regulating Chemoselectivity through Controlled Electrolysis' |
| 10.40 to 11.00 h | Indubhushan Deb (CSIR-IICB, Kolkata) 'Access to Functionalized N-Heterocycles via Electrochemical Synthesis and Annulation Reactions' |
| 11:00 to 11:30 h | Photo Session & TEA/COFFEE BREAK |
| Session IV (11.30 to 13.00 h) | Cipla Session |
| Chairpersons : Stellios Arseniyadis & Rajib Goswami | |
| 11.30 to 12.00 h | Alexander Zografos (Greece) 'Simplifying biosynthesis: how to access the natural complexity of sesquiterpenoids following easy steps' |
| 12.00 to 12.30 h | G. Sekar (IIT Madras) 'Asymmetric Domino Synthesis of Chiral Heterocyclic Compounds using Organocatalysts' |
| 12.30 to 13.00 h | Sunkyu Han (KAIST, South Korea) 'Biosynthetically Inspired Synthesis of Complex Natural Products' |
| 13.00 to 14.30 h | LUNCH BREAK |
| 14.30 to 15.30 h | Interactive Session |
| 15.30 to 16.00 h | Tea Break/NOST Trustees Meeting |
| Session V (16.00 to 18.00 h) | Panacea Biotech Session |
| Chairpersons : Ramakrishna Peddiniti & S. S. V. Ramasastry | |
| 16.00 to 16.30 h | Jerome Lacour (Geneva University, Switzerland) 'Stereoselective synthesis & catalysis with reactive metal carbenes' |
| 16.30 to 17.00 h | Shoubhik Das (Baeyreuth University, Germany) 'Selectivity-Driven Sustainability by Using Single Atom Photocatalysts' |
| 17.00 to 17.20 h | Alkananda Hajra (Viswa-Bharati University, Kolkata) 'Molecular Editing of Azaheterocycles' |
| 17.20 to 17.40 h | Ravi P. Singh (IIT Delhi) 'Atropisomerism in the Realm of Pharmaceutically Relevant Compounds' |
| 17.40 to 18.00 h | Shikha Gandhi (IISER Berhampur) 'Palladium/Brønsted acid catalyzed propargylic C-H activation' |
| Session VI (18.00 to 19.20 h) | Jubilant Life Sciences Session |
| Chairpersons : : T. Rajamannar & Srinivas Oruganti | |
| 18.00 to 18.30 h | George O’Doherty (Northeastern University, Boston, USA) 'De Novo Asymmetric Synthesis for Natural Product S-SAR' |
| 18.30 to 19.00 h | M. Manoharan (Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, USA) 'Biomimetic Chemistry of RNA Therapeutics ' |
| 19.00 to 19.20 h | Basker Sundararaju (IIT Kanpur) 'Evolution of Co(III)-Catalysis in Asymmetric C-H Bond Functionalizations' |
| 19.30 to 21.30 h) | DINNER |
| Day 3: Wednesday | March 5, 2025 06.00 to 09.00 h Visit to Taj Mahal |
| Session VII (11.00 to 13.00 h) | Syngenta Session |
| Chairpersons : N. Selvakumar & Vishal Rai | |
| 11.00 to 11.30 h | Suvarn Kulkarni (IIT Bombay) 'Total Synthesis of Zwitterionic Polysaccharide Repeating Units' |
| 11.30 to 12.00 h | Uttam Tambar (UT Southwestern, USA) 'Stereoselective Reactions with Feedstock Chemicals' |
| 12.00 to 12.20 h | Prasanta Ghorai (IISER Bhopal) 'Bifunctional Organocatalytic Michael Additions as the Key Strategy: Enantioselective Synthesis of Fused and Spirocyclic Organic Molecules' |
| 12.20 to 12.40 h | D. Sharada (Pondicherry University) 'Photocatalytic and Electrocatalytic C-H functionalizations' |
| 12.40 to 13.00 h | P. Rajamalli (IISc, Bangalore) 'A Rigid Xanthene-Anthracene based Scaffold Exhibiting Ultra Deep-Blue Emission with CIEy of 0.06: Multifunctional Material as Emitter and Host for blue OLEDs' |
| 13.00 to 16.00 h | Lunch Break/Free Time for Interactions |
| Session VIII (16.00 to 18.00 h) | BASF Session |
| Chairpersons : Harish Shinde & Swapnil Yerande | |
| 16.00 to 16.30 h | Santanu Mukherjee (IISc, Bangalore) 'Symmetry Breaking Routes to Natural and Unnatural Ladderanes' |
| 16.30 to 17.00 h | Anastasios Polyzos (University of Melbourne, Australia) 'New Strategies in Catalytic Radical Carbonylation of Organohalides' |
| 17.00 to 17.20 h | Srinivasarao Y. (University of Hyderabad) 'Propargyl-Claisen Rearrangement: Beyond Allenes' |
| 17.20 to 17.40 h | Kalyaneswar Mandal (TIFR, Hyderabad) 'Exploring Reciprocal Chiral Specificity to Inhibit Red Blood Cell Invasion by Malaria Parasites' |
| 17.40 to 18.00 h | Benudhar Punji (CSIR-NCL Pune) 'C-H Alkylation of Heteroarenes Using Unactivated Alkyl Halides Enabled by Iron and Nickel Catalysts' |
| (18.00 to 19.30 h) | ICOS Session (Flash Presentation) |
| Chairpersons : Akhila Kumar Sahoo & Dattatraya Dethe | |
| 18.10 to 19.30 h | 1. Kiran Kumar (IISER, Tirupati) 2. Alagiri Kaliyamoorthy (IISER, TVM) 3. Amit Simlandy (IISER Berhampur) 4. Rajeshwar Rao (IIT Dharwad) 5. Mintu Porel (IIT Palakkad) 6. Amrita Hazra (IISER Pune) 7. J. Nithyanandan (CSIR-NCL-Pune) 8. D. Sharada (Pondicherry University) |
| 19.30 to 21.30 h | Banquet Dinner |
| Day 4: Thursday | March 6, 2025 |
| Session IX (09.00 to 11.30 h) | Sun Pharma Session |
| Chairpersons : Sivapriya K. & T. Punniyamurthy | |
| 09.00 to 09.30 h | Alakesh Bisai (IISER Kolkata) 'Total Synthesis of Complex Natural Products of Biological Relevance’ |
| 09.30 to 10.00 h | Rene Koenigs (RWTH Aachen, Germany) 'Spin states matter - fundamentals, applications and translation to drug discovery’ |
| 10.00 to 10.30 h | T. Govindaraju (JNCASR, Bengaluru) 'Multifaceted Approaches to Mitigating Alzheimer's Disease' |
| 10.30 to 10.50 h | Indresh Kumar (BITS Pilani) 'Asymmetric Synthesis of Bridged Nitrogen Heterocycles by Exploring the Potential of 3-Oxindolium Ion Intermediate' |
| 10.50 to 11.10 h | Chandra Kumar Appayee (IIT Gandhinagar) 'Development of chiral secondary amine organocatalysts and their applications’ |
| 11.10 to 11.30 h | Concluding Remarks |
| 11.30 to 12.00 h | High Tea |
| 12.00 h | Departure |