Awards
1. CRSI- Silver Medal, 2006.
2.
Plenary Speaker, ACS-CSIR
Symposium, OCCB-2006, NCL-Pune, January-2006.
3.
Plenary Speaker, International
Symposium on Organic Chemistry (INSOC-2006), Kottayam, January-2006.
4.
Plenary Speaker, Southern Highlands Conference on Heterocyclic Chemistry, Moss Vale, Australia, September-2005.
5.
Visiting Professor, National
Science Council, Republic of China, Taipei, April-2005.
6. Professor Sukh Dev Endowment Lecture, NCL, Pune, April-2005.
7.
A. V. Rama Rao Foundation
Lecture, JNCASR, Bangalore, March-2005.
8.
Invited speaker ICOS–15,
International Conference on Organic Synthesis, August-2004, Nagoya, Japan.
9.
Invited speaker IUPAC-24th
ISCNP Symposium, New
Delhi, January-2004.
10.
Invited speaker NOST Symposium-Goa,
November-2003.
11.
Invited speaker- INSA-KOSEF
Symposium, Seoul, S. Korea, August-2003.
12.
Hon. Professor, Dept. of
Environmental Science, Cochin University of Science and Technology, 2002-06.
13.
Invited speaker, 11th
IUPAC Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry directed towards Organic Synthesis (OMCOS11), Taipei, Taiwan, July 22-27, 2001.
14.
Invited speaker, 18th
International Conference on Heterocyclic Chemistry, Yokohama, Japan, July 29 – Aug.3, 2001.
15.
Visiting Professor, University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil (sponsored by Brazilian National Research Council),
May
14-27, 2001.
16.
Invited Speaker, First International
Conference on Multicomponent Reactions, Munich, Germany, October-2000.
17.
Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, 1999.
18.
Invited speaker, ISHC-17th
International Conference on Heterocyclic Chemistry, Vienna, August-1999.
19.
INSA – DFG Visiting
Scientist, Germany, 1998.
20.
Member, Editorial Board,
Indian Journal of Chemistry, 1998-2004.
21.
Prof. Devaprabhakara Memorial
Oration, I.I.Sc., Bangalore, India, 1998.
22.
Prof. R. H. Sahasrabudhey
Lecture, University of Nagpur, 1989.
23.
Outstanding Scientist Award,
American Cyanamid Co., 1981.
24.
Visiting Scientist, Columbia
University, 1978-81.
Miscellaneous
Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam - Mar. 1995, Jan. 1996, January- 2003
Smith Kline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, Philadelphia, U.S.A, September-1996
Wyeth-Ayerst Research Center, Princeton, U.S.A, September-1996
University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany, May 1998, June-2005
University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, May-1998, July-2005
University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany, May-1998
University of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany, May-1998
University of Freiburg, Germany – May 1998, July-2005
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, May-1999
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, May-1999
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, October-1999
University of Kyoto, Kyoto, October-1999
University of Osaka, Osaka, October-1999
University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany, October-2000
Glaxo Smith Kline, Raleigh, U.S.A, October-2000
Phoenix Pharmaceuticals, Raleigh, U.S.A, October-2000
Univ. of Nagoya, Japan, July-2001
Schering Plough Research Institute, U. S. A, October-2002
Wyeth Research Laboratories, U. S. A, October-2002.
University of Paris Curie Institute, France, May-2002
University of Rennes, Rennes, France, May-2002
University of Hannover, Germany, September-2002
Technical University of Clausthal, Germany September-2002
Max-Planck Institute, Dortmund, Germany, September-2002
Pfizer Symposium Speaker. I.
I. Sc., Bangalore, 2002
University of Greifswald, Germany, June-2004
University of Regensburg, Germany, June-2004
University of Dresden, Germany, June-2004
Hümboldt University, Berlin, Germany, June-2004
Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, June-2004
University of Munich, Germany, June-2005
University of Köln, Germany, July-2005
University of Karlsruhe, Germany, July-2005
University of Siegen, Germany, July-2005
Technical University of Aachen, Germany, July-2005
University of Saarbruecken, Germany, July-2005
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, August-2005
University of
New
South Wales, Sydney , Australia, August-2005
University of Sydney, Australia, September-2005
Australian National University, Canberra, September-2005
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, September-2005
University of Rostock, Germany, July-2006
University of Dortmund, Germany, July-2006
University of Muenster, Germany, July-2006
University of Bonn, Germany, July-2006
University of Mainz, Germany, July-2006
University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A, October-2006
Pfizer Central
Research, U.S.A, October-2006
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Germany, May-2007
Technical University of Berlin, Germany, May-2007
University of Leipzig, Germany, May-2007
Referee for Professional Journals
1. Angewandte Chemie International Edition
2.
Journal of
American Chemical Society
3.
Organic Letters
4.
Journal of
Organic Chemistry
5.
Tetrahedron
Letters
6.
Chemistry A
European Journal
7.
European Journal
of Organic Chemistry
8.
Canadian Journal
of Chemistry
