Program Schedule

Day 1: Tuesday	August 18, 2026
14.00 to 15.20 h	Arrival, Registration, Check-in & Lunch
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 17.25 h)	Trustees Session
	Chairpersons : D. Srinivasa Reddy and Rakesh Bandichhor
15.45 to 16.15 h	Junichiro Yamaguchi (Tokyo University, Japan) ‘Development of Heteroarene Swapping Reactions’
16.20 to 16.50 h	Manmohan Kapur (IISER Bhopal) ‘Unlocking Distal Reactivity: Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Enantioselective Remote γ- and ε-C–H Functionalizations’
16.55 to 17.25 h	Kazuaki Ishihara (Nagoya University, Japan) ‘Iodine Catalysis’
17.30 to 17.50 h	COFFEE BREAK
Session II (17.50 to 19.25 h)	Raghu and Venkata Palle Session
	Chairpersons : Venkata Palle and Ashwini K. Nangia
17.50 to 18.10 h	Pradeep Kumar (IIT Bombay) ‘Chemical Biology of Safrole-Induced DNA Damages’
18.15 to 18.35 h	Surisetti Suresh (CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad) ‘N-Heterocyclic Carbene Organocatalysis: Unlocking New Bond-Forming Strategies’
18.40 to 19.00 h	Ravindra Kumar (CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow) ‘Organo-catalysed Modular Approach for the Synthesis of Azaborines and of BN-Isosteres via Wolff-type rearrangement’
19.05 to 19.25 h	Santanu Panda (IIT, Kharagpur) ‘Stereoselective Synthesis of Olefins and Heterocycles by Exploiting Organoboron Compounds and Strain-release-driven Ring Opening’
19:30 to 21:30 h	Conference Mixer
Day 2: Wednesday	August 19, 2026
Session III (09.00 to 10.55 h)	PI Industries Session
	Chairpersons : G. Sekar & Rajesh Viswanathan
9.00 to 9.30 h	Raghavan B. Sunoj (IIT, Bombay) ‘Asymmetric Catalysis: Perspectives from Computational Organic Chemistry and Machine Learning’
9.35 to 10.05 h	Oliver Reiser (University of Regensburg, Germany) ‘Photocatalysis as an Enabling Tool for Applications in Small-Molecule Synthesis of Biologically Relevant Compounds’
10.10 to 10.30 h	Diwan S Rawat (Kumaun University) ‘From Molecular Hybridization to the Clinic: Discovery of a Phase II Clinical Candidate for Parkinson Treatment’
10.35 to 10.55 h	Rima Thakur (University of Delhi) ‘Catalytic Approaches to Controlled Glycosidic Bond Formation’
11:00 to 11:30 h	Photo Session & TEA/COFFEE BREAK
Session IV (11.30 to 13.00 h)	BASF Session
	Chairperson : Harish Shinde
11.30 to 12.00 h	Viresh Rawal (University of Chicago, USA) ‘Beyond Total Synthesis An Unplanned Journey into Organo-Bismuth Chemistry’
12.05 to 12.35 h	Hidetoshi Tokuyama (Tohoku University) ‘Total Synthesis of Structurally Complex Alkaloids: Denudatine alkaloids and Amatoxins’
12.40 to 13.00 h	Thirupathi Barla (IISER Berhampur) ‘Total Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products: From Structure Revision to Biological Activities’
13.05 to 14.00 h	LUNCH BREAK
Session V (14.00 to 15.05 h)	Jubilant Life Sciences Session
	Chairperson : Swapnil Yerande
14.00 to 14.30 h	Teigo Asai (Tohoku University, Japan) ‘The Biosynthesis of a Fungal Flavonoid Chlorflavonin Is Precisely Controlled by Two Types of Equilibrium States’
14.35 to 15.05 h	Satoshi Yokoshima (Nagoya University, Japan) ‘Synthesis of Natural and Unnatural Polycyclic Compounds’
Session VI (15.10 to 15.55 h)	Astra Zeneca Session
	Chairperson : N. Selvakumar
15.10 to 15.30 h	Ramakrishna G. Bhat (IISER Pune) ‘Versatile Reactivity of Diazo Carbonyl Compounds Towards Metal Catalysts and Visible Light’
15.35 to 15.55 h	Basudev Sahoo (IISER TVM) ‘Harnessing the Reactivity of Dihydroquinazolinones and Dihydropyridines in Organic Synthesis’
16.00 to 18.30 h	COFFEE BREAK/NOST Trustees Meeting/Free Time/Interactions
Session VII (18.30 to 19.40 h)	ICOS Session (Flash Presentation)
	Chairpersons : Santosh J. Gharpure & Vishal Rai
18.30 to 19.40 h	1. Someswara Rao Sanapala (IIT Tirupati) ‘Alkylation of Sterically Hindered Alcohols and Sugar Hydroxyls via Organocatalyzed Reductive Etherification’ 2. Venkateswarlu Yarlagadda (IIT Bombay) ‘Reengineered rifamycin exploits nutrient transporters to overcome Gram-negative permeability barriers’ 3. Rishikesh Narayan (IIT Goa) ‘Making a Dent in the Universe of Classical Cross-Coupling Reactions: One Oxidative Heterocoupling at a Time’ 4. Siddharth Sharma (Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur) ‘Merging Post-Ugi Cylization Reactions with Electrochemical Organic Synthesis’ 5. Soumitra Maity (IIT(ISM) Dhanbad) ‘Manipulating Reactivity Paradigms by Photocatalysis’ 6. Mangala Phadte (Syngenta Biosciences Private Limited, Goa) ‘Diversity-Oriented Total Synthesis of Waltherione Alkaloids’ 7. Anupam Bandyopadhyay (IIT Ropar) ‘Sequential Boronic Acid Bioconjugation enables Site-selective Modification of Peptides and Potential Bacterial Imaging’ 8. Vinod D. Chaudhari (CSIR – Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh) ‘Discovery of MBLs Inhibitors to Tackle Multidrug Resistant Bacterial Infections’
19.45 to 21.30 h)	DINNER
Day 3: Thursday	August 20, 2026
Session VIII (9.00 to 10.55 h)	Syngenta Session
	Chairpersons : T. Punniyamurthy and Rajib Goswami
9.00 to 9.30 h	Masahiro Terada (Tohoku University, Japan) ‘Enantioselective Catalysis by Higher Order Organosuperbase’
9.35 to 10.05 h	Igor V. Trushkov (Zelinsky Institute, Russia) ‘Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes: Magical Rings of Organic Chemistry’
10.10 to 10.30 h	Md Mahiuddin Baidya (IIT Madras) ‘Transition Metal Catalysis towards C–H and C–C Bond Activation: From Biaryl Frameworks to Biorelevant Scaffolds’
10.35 to 10.55 h	Guru Brahamam Ramani (IIT, Jammu) ‘Synthetic Versatility of Alkynyl Hydrazone and Diazo Compounds’
11.00 to 11.30 h	COFFEE BREAK
Session IX (11.30 to 13.00 h)	Sun Pharma Session
	Chairperson : Namrata Rastogi
11.30 to 12.00 h	Yoshiharu Iwabuchi (Tohoku University, Japan) ‘Diversity-Oriented Terpenoid Synthesis through Peripheral Decoration and Skeletal Remodeling’
12.05 to 12.35 h	Shinichiro Fuse (Nagoya University, Japan) ‘Innovations in Peptide Synthesis Driven by Microflow Synthesis Technology’
12.40 to 13.00 h	M. Bakthadoss (Pondicherry University, Puducherry) ‘Palladium-Catalyzed meta-C–H Functionalization of Aromatics’
13.05 to 14.00 h	LUNCH BREAK
Session X (14.00 to 15.05 h)	Panacea Biotech Session
	Chairperson : S. Srivatsan
14.00 to 14.30 h	Daniel Priebbenow (Monash University, Australia) ‘Advances in C–H Functionalisation: New Catalytic Strategies for Chemical Synthesis’
14.35 to 15.05 h	Masanori Shigeno (Tohoku University, Japan) ‘Reactive Brønsted Base System for Direct Molecular Transformation’
Session XI (15.10 to 15.55 h)	AVRA Session
	Chairperson : Santanu Mukherjee
15.10 to 15.30 h	Janakiram Vaitla (IIT, Delhi) ‘Vinyl Sulfoxonium Ylides: Unlocking New Opportunities in Organic Synthesis’
15.35 to 15.55 h	Durga Prasad Hari (IISc, Bangalore) ‘The Carbene Face of [1.1.1]Propellane’
16.00 to 18.30 h	COFFEE BREAK/Free Time/Interactions
Session XII (18.30 to 19.35 h)	Dr. Gopal Rao Session
	Chairperson : Harinath Chakrapani
18.30 to 19.00 h	Yujiro Hayashi (Tohoku University, Japan) ‘Organocatalysis for the Efficient Synthesis of Biologically Active Molecules’
19.05 to 19.35 h	Manas Kumar Ghorai (IIT Kanpur) ‘Asymmetric Synthesis of Bioactive Compounds via ROC/DROC/DKR’
19.40 to 22.00 h	Conference Dinner
Day 4: Friday	August 21, 2026
Session XIII (09.00 to 11.10 h)	Cipla Session
	Chairpersons : S. S. V. Ramasastry and Alakesh Bisai
09.00 to 09.30 h	N. D. Pradeep Singh (IIT Kharagpur) ‘Wavelength-Selective Monochromophoric Photoremovable Protecting Groups for Tuning Soft Matter Material Properties’
09.35 to 10.05 h	Cyril Bressy (Aix-Marseille Université, France) ‘Compartmentalized Multicatalysis: Chirality as Probe & Separation of Enantiomers’
10.10 to 10.30 h	S. Adimurthy (CSIR - CSMCRI, Gujarat) ‘Transannulation of Pyridotriazoles and Their Selective Functionalization’
10.35 to 10.45 h	Concluding Remarks
10.45 to 11.15 h	High Tea & Departure