Suman Biswas, Ph.D. (University of Kalyani)

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry
West Bengal State University,
Berunanpukuria, Malikapur,
Barasat, 24 Pgs (N), Kolkata- 700 126
West Bengal, INDIA
Tel – +91-33-25241975
Mob. No – +919231830083
Fax: +91-33-25241977
E-mail: su_man_b@yahoo.com

Research Areas:

1. Development and application of synthetic route towards oxazole based macrocyclic natural product Telomestatin and its analogues.
2. Development of new synthetic route to some biaryl ether based macrocyclic anticancer natural products like K-13, OF-4949 by novel C-C bond formation
3. Regioselective synthesis of functionalised oxepin and oxocin derivatives based on ring closing metathesis (RCM).

1. Design and synthesis of oxazole based and/or amino acid based bio-active natural products.
2. Modern synthetic transformations.
3. Multi-step synthesis of chiral compounds and heterocyclic compounds of biological importance.
4. Synthetic studies towards transition metal catalysed reactions involving RCM, Heck-reaction, organo-zinc reactions etc.

1. Ph.D.- University of Kalyani, 2007
2. M.Sc. in Chemistry (Specialisation : Organic-chemistry)-University of Kalyani, 2002
3. B.Sc. in Chemistry- University of Kalyani, 2000

1. Recipient of Merit cum means Scholarship from University of Kalyani in B.Sc.,1998
2. 2. Recipient of the Best poster award in the joint International conference organised by Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, India and American Chemical Society, 2006 at IICT, Hyderabad.

• Present position: Assistant Professor at the West Bengal State University, Department of Chemistry since 23rd March, 2009.
• Previous position: Lecturer at Taki Govt. College (Date of joining: 30th March, 2007)

Publications:

1. Regoselective Synthesis of Oxepin- and Oxocin-Annulated 2-Quinolones. Chattopadhydy*, S. K.; Dey, R.; Biswas, S. Synthesis, 2005, 403.
2. A New [5+1]-Annulation Route to Some Quinazoline and Fused Pyrimidine Derivatives. Chattopadhydy*, S. K.; Dey, R.; Biswas, S. Synthesis, 2005, 1083.
3. Pd(0)-Catalyzed Heck-type Arylation of Didehydropeptides Chattopadhyay* S. K., Pal B. K. and Biswas S., Synthetic communications, 2005, 35,1167.
4. Efficient construction of a Doubly Functionalized Trisoxazole Derivative Relevant to the Synthesis of Novel Telomerase Inhibitor Telomestatin and its Analogues. Chattopadhyay* S. K, Biswas, S. and Pal,B K., Synthesis, 2006, 1289.
5. Convergent Synthesis of a 24-membered macrocyclic hexaoxazole derivative related to the novel telomerase inhibitor telomestatin. Chattopadhydy*, S. K.; Biswas, S. Tetrahedron Lett. 2006, 47, 7897.
6. Convergent Synthesis of Functionalised Tetra- and Penta-oxazole Derivatives Related to Some Bioactive Natural Products Chattopadhyay*, S. K.; Biswas S.; Ghosh, S K. Synthesis, 2008, 1029.