Gandhi K Kar
Myself, Prof. Gandhi Kumar Kar (popularly known as GKK Sir to his students) is a teacher cum researcher and currently working as Professor and Head (2nd term), Department of Chemistry, Presidency University, 86/1 College Street, Kolkata 700073, INDIA. Prof. Kar obtained his M.Sc (Chemistry) and Ph.D (Synthetic Organic Chemistry) degrees respectively in 1980 and 1986 from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. Prof. Gandhi Kumar Kar is a Synthetic Organic Chemist. His research includes the synthesis of various interesting compounds of natural and non-natural origin. Suitable β-bromo-α,β-unsaturated aldehydes are mainly used as building blocks to synthesize i) Natural furoterpenoids, furoquinone diterpenoids and analogs. ii) Polycyclic aza/thia-arenes as well as their oxidative metabolites as potential proximate carcinogens. ii) Condensed heterocylces like pyrroloindoles, Pyrroloindazoles, pyridocarbazoles which display versatile biological activities and iii) development of novel β- and ϒ-lactam derivatives in search of novel antibacterial agents.Recently Prof. Kar has been honored with the award “Siksha Ratna 2016" by Higher Education Department, Govt. of West Bengal. He has also been awarded with the “Best Teacher of Presidency University 2016.” He is mainly a teacher and teaching / taught the following courses: UG (B.Sc Chem Hons ): (Theory) Stereo chemistry of organic compounds, General treatment and investigation of reaction mechanism, Substitution and Elimination reactions, Rearrangements, Addition reaction (to C=O and C=C), Organometallic Chemistry, Enolate Chemistry, Carbohydrates, Heterocyclic Chemistry, Lipids
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