Prof. Arvind Anant Natu



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Visiting Faculty, Chemistry
E-mail: aa.natu@iiserpune.ac.in

 
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Education and previous work experience

1967 B.Sc., Poona University
1969 M.Sc., Poona University
1976 Ph.D., Poona University
1981 Diploma in German Language, Poona University


Post-doctoral research/experience

        1976-78 Institute of Organic Chemistry Technical University, Berlin, W. Germany (Prof. F. Bohlmann)
        1987 Institute of Organic Chemistry Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, W. Germany (Prof. E. V. Dehlmon)
        1990 Institute of Biomedical Science/Pharmacia, Upsala, Sweden
        1993 Shemyakin Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, USSR (Prof. V. A. Effimov)
        1997 Institute of Molecular Biology, Poland (Prof. G. Stec)

Teaching Experience:

All teaching experience at post graduate and graduate level. I am involved in teaching at various institutes for last 10-15 years ,besides my NCL research activities.
  • Course on Biopolymers (design, teaching and evaluation) M.Sc. Biotechnilogy, University of Pune. (Chemistry of building blocks , synthetic Organic chemistry)
  • Visiting faculty at Institute of Bioinformatics and biotechnology, University of Pune (Spectral Analysis)
  • Visiting faculty at Indian Institute of science ,education and research ,Pune (Biological Chemistry)
  • Garware college Pune (Synthetic methodologies, drug discovery process ,combinatorial chemistry)
  • Staff Development Courses for Post-graduate Teachers at Mumbai, Pune, Shivaji, Nanded Universities, National Defence Academy, Pharmacy Colleges & Hospitals.
  • National Chemical Laboratory for Ph. D. program (Spectroscopy, Synthetic Organiv chemistry)

Research Interests :

        Organic chemistry
        Bio organic chemistry
        Combinatorial chemistry and biology in drug discovery

Awards/Fellowships:

  • DAAD Research Ambassador, India
  • Fellow of the Maharshtra Academy of Sciences
  • Labdhi RDE Life time achievement award (Rs.1,00,000 )
  • Visiting Scientist at Bielefeld University, Germany
  • Member of senate, SVNIT University.
  • Board of studies, DY Patil University, Pune.

Recent publications

  • Diversity oriented synthesis of 1,2,3-triazole and 1,2,3,4-tetrazole-fused glycosides and nucleosides by an intramolecular 1,3- dipolar cycloaddition reaction", J. Comb. Chem (2007).
  • Expedient synthesis of 1,2,3-triazole-fused tetracyclic compounds by intramolecular Huisgen (‘click’) reactions on carbohydrate-derived azido-alkynes, Srinivas Hotha,* Ramakrishna I. Anegundi and Arvind A. Natu, Tetrahedron Letters 46 (2005) 4585–4588;
  • A new strategy for the synthesis of furan-3,4 dicarboxylic acid Deshpande, N. P. Argade, A. A. Natu , Synthesis (2005);