XXIII NOST Organic Chemistry Conference, Venue: ITC Hotel Bhubaneshwar 29thFebruary - 3rd March 2024
| Day 1: Thursday | February 29, 2024 |
| 14:00 to 16:00 h | Arrival & Check-in, High-Tea & Registration |
| 16:00 to 16:05 h | Welcome Remarks by Chair-NOST Council Krishna P Kaliappan (IIT Bombay) |
| 16:05 to 16:15 h | NOST-A Brief Overview by President-NOST Ganesh Pandey (BHU, Varanasi) |
| Session I (16.15 to 19.35 h) | Trustees & DST-SERB Session |
| Chairpersons : Vinod Singh/Jerome Lacour/Harinath Chakrapani | |
| 16.15 to 16.45 h | Hidetoshi Tokuyama (Tohoku University, Japan) ‘Total Synthesis of Structurally Complex Alkaloids via Late-Stage Oxidative Transformations’ |
| 16.45 to 17.15 h | Andrew Lawrence (University of Edinburgh, UK) ‘Rethinking Enantiocovergent Reactions’ |
| 17.15 to 17.45 h | Nandita Madhavan (IIT Bombay) ‘Ready Access to Cyclic Peptides for Pharmaceutical Applications’ |
| 17.45 to 18.15 h | Prabha Ibrahim (ReRx Therapeutics, USA) 'Role of Chemistry in Small Molecule Drug Disc & Development’ |
| 18.15 to 18.35 h | P. Venkatakrishnan (IIT Madras) ‘Strained to Perform: Conformationally Locked m-Cyclophane Crown Cages C 60’ |
| 18.35 to 18.55 h | Anant Kapdi (ICT Mumbai) ‘Acceptor Caged Phosphine Ligands: Exploration of Novel Catalytic Reactivity and Mechanism’ |
| 18.55 to 19.15 h | Nadja Simeth (Goettingen University, Germany) ‘Opto-Bioinorganic Chemistry for Smart Biological Tools and Labeling Agents’ |
| 19.15 to 19.35 h | Rajesh Viswanathan (IISER Tirupati) ‘Biogenesis of Plant and Marine Natural Products –A Template for Biomimetic Synthesis’ |
| 19:35 to 21:30 h | Conference Mixer |
| Day 2: Friday | March 1, 2024 |
| Session II (09.00 to 11.00 h) | Astra Zeneca Session |
| Chairpersons : Namrata Rastogi/Ravi P. Singh | |
| 9:00 to 9:30 h | Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy (Scripps Research Institute, USA) 'Organic Chemistry in the Pursuit of Chemical Origins of Life’' |
| 9:30 to 10:00 h | T. Punniyamurthy (IIT Guwahati) 'Merging Strained Rings and C-H Functionalization: Efficient Synthetic Tool for Heterocyclic Compounds’' |
| 10:00 to 10:20 h | Garima Jindal (IISc, Bangalore) 'Mechanistic Investigation of Ligand Enabled Dirhodium Catalyst Modification: Implication in Reactivity and Stereoselectivity' |
| 10:20 to 10:40 h | Chandra M.R. Volla (IIT Bombay) 'Allenes in Metal-Catalyzed C-H Activation Reactions’' |
| 10:40 to 11:00 h | Ch. Rambabu (CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad) 'Copper-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrofunctionalization of Alkoxy-allenes’' |
| 11:00 to 11:30 h | Photo Session & TEA/COFFEE BREAK |
| Session III (11.30 to 13.00 h) | Cipla & Jubilant Life Sciences Session |
| Chairpersons : N. Jayaraman/G. Sekar | |
| 11:30 to 12:00 h | Kana M. Sureshan (IISER, Thiruvananthapuram) 'Two Structurally Different Polymers from a Monomer' |
| 12:00 to 12:30 h | K. V. Radhakrishnan (NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram) 'Harmonizing Tradition and Innovation: Unveiling Nature’s Alchemy Through Multidisciplinary Scientific Exploration' |
| 12:30 to 13:00 h | Vibha Tandon (CSIR-IICB, Kolkata) 'Preclinical efficacy of Topoisomerase I targeting Small Molecule, PPEF and its in-situ nanosuspension against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus' |
| 13:00 to 14:00 h | LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:00 to 19:30 h | Sight Seeing Trip (Visit to Konark) |
| 20:00 to 22:00 h | DINNER |
| Day 3: Saturday | March 2, 2024 |
| Session IV (09.00 to 11.00 h) | Panacea Biotech Session |
| Chairpersons : S. Srivatsan/Vijaya Anand | |
| 9:00 to 9:30 h | Pritham Mukhopadhyay (JNU, New Delhi) 'Molecular and Supramolecular Architectures for Applications in Singlet Fission and as Conductive and Piezoelectric Materials' |
| 9:30 to 10:00 h | Hidehiro Sakurai (Osaka University, Japan) 'Recent Progress in Sumanene Chemistry' |
| 10:00 to 10:20 h | Amit Pawar (IIT Mandi) 'Harnessing N-Chlorobenzamide as an Oxidizing Directing Group for Reverse Regioselective Annulation with Vinylsilanes: Synthesis and Applications of 4-Silylated Isoquinolones' |
| 10:20 to 10:40 h | Biplab Maji (IISER Kolkata) 'Dearomative Cycloaddition Reactions via Visible Light Energy Transfer Catalysis' |
| 10:40 to 11:00 h | Beeraiah Baire (IIT Madras) 'Exploring the Reactivity of (Indol-3/2-yl)pentyn-3-ols: Approaches to Natural carbazoles, Unnatural Dimeric-carbazoles and Cyclopenta[b]indoles' |
| 11:00 to 11:30 h | TEA/COFFEE BREAK |
| Session V (11.30 to 13.10 h) | AVRA-IICT Session |
| Chairpersons : D. Srinivasa Reddy/Raji Reddy | |
| 11:30 to 12:00 h | Viresh Rawal (University of Chicago, USA) 'Methods and Strategies for the Synthesis of Intricate Molecules' |
| 12:00 to 12:30 h | Saumen Hajra (CBMRI, Lucknow) 'Asymmetric Total Syntheses of Complex Bioactive Natural Products' |
| 12:30 to 12:50 h | Mrinmoy De (IISc, Bangalore) 'Selective Antibacterial activity of Functionalized Nanomaterials' |
| 12:50 to 13:10 h | Ishu Saraogi (IISER Bhopal) 'Chemical Strategies to Address Protein Aggregation Diseases' |
| 13:10 to 14:00 h | LUNCH BREAK |
| Session VI (14.00 to 16.00 h) | Syngenta Session |
| Chairpersons : C. V. Ramana/N. Selvakumar | |
| 14:00 to 14:30 h | P. V. Ramachandran (Purdue University, USA) 'Tapping the Potential of Borane-Amines' |
| 14:30 to 15:00 h | Akhila Sahoo (University of Hyderabad) 'Harnessing C(sp3)-H Bonds with Bifunctional Reagents' |
| 15:00 to 15:20 h | Praveen Kumar Vemula (ISTEM, Bengaluru) 'Chemistry as a tool to develop biomedical technologies to solve unmet clinical needs' |
| 15:20 to 15:40 h | S. Srinivasa Gopalan (National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi) 'Chemical tools for unravelling the structure and function of glycoconjugates in living systems’ |
| 15:40 to 16:00 h | Nidhi Jain (IIT Delhi) 'Visible light photoredox catalysis in organic transformations' |
| 16:00 to 16:30 h | TEA/COFFEE BREAK |
| Session VII (16:30 to 17:30 h) | PI Industries Session |
| (Flash Presentations) Chairpersons : S. Gharpure/P. Srihari/Ramasastry | |
| 16:30 to 17:30 h | Parthasarathi Subramaniam (IIT Kanpur) 'Design and Synthesis of All-Oxygen Spirocyclic Orthoester: A Unified Total Synthesis of Aculeatin Natural Products’ Utpal Bora (Tezpur University) 'Studies on C-3 triaryl methylation of indoles and cyanation of arylhalides’ Ramasamy Anandhan (University of Madras) 'Photoredox/Electro-Catalysed Radical Cyclization Cascade of o-Alkynylated Benzamides' Sridhar Reddy (CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad) 'Rollover cyclometallation of biarylamines/arylphenols for selective annulations with unsymmetrical alkynes' Guru B Ramani (IIT Jammu) 'Practical Synthesis of Allenoates and Dihaloallenoates via Decomposition of Unprotected Alkynyl Hydrazones’ Sukalyan Bhadra (CSIR-CSMCRI) 'New Approaches for the Catalytic -Functionalization of Ketones’ Ganesh Venkataraman (IIT Kharagpur) 'Nickel-Catalyzed Oxidative Cyclization of π-Systems Over the Benchtop’ Ramesh Rasappan (IISER Thiruvananthapuram) 'Organosilanes: Synthesis and Application of Solid TMSZnI in Cross-Coupling Reactions’ |
| Session VIII (17.30 to 19.30 h) | Sun Pharma & BASF Session |
| Chairpersons : Srinivas Oruganti/Diwan Rawat/Vishal Rai | |
| 17:30 to 18:00 h | Yong Rok Lee (Yeung Nam University, South Korea) 'Construction of Biologically Interesting Aromatics via Benzannulation’ |
| 18:00 to 18:20 h | Parthasarathi Das (IIT-ISM, Dhanbad) 'Expanding Discovery Chemistry Toolbox: From Concept to Practice’ |
| 18:20 to 18:40 h | Stellios Arseniyadis (Queen Mary University, London) 'Revisiting Pd-AAA chemistry: Towards the development of active, selective, and stable single component chiral pre-catalysts' |
| 18:40 to 19:00 h | Anil Kumar (BITS-Pilani) 'Synthesis of N-Fused Polycyclic Heterocycles via Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Annulation Reactions' |
| 19:00 to 19:30 h | Brian Stoltz (California Institute of Technology, USA) 'Complex Natural Products as a Driving Force for Discovery in Organic Chemistry’ |
| 19:30 to 19.40 h | Concluding Remarks |
| 19:40 to 22:00 h | Banquet Dinner |
| Day 4: Sunday | March 3, 2024 (Breakfast & departure) |