Dr. A. K. Choudhury

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Ph. D. from Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (from this Institute, Professor C. V. Raman was awarded for Nobel Prize), Jadavpur, Kolkata, INDIA.

Post-doctoral studies (more than 5 years) from ISRAEL, USA and JAPAN.

Visited Switzerland (10 weeks) for professional training.

Qualified in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) conducted by Department of Education, Ministry of HRD, INDIA

Worked on DST (Department of Science and Technology), INDIA approved projects during PhD.

Awarded for "JSPS-Postdoctoral Fellowship" by "The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science".

Awarded for "Visiting Fellowship" approved by "NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council)", CANADA.

Involved to synthesize new products and to develop new processes of known products and couple of them were commercialized.

Experienced to characterize new organic molecules using modern analytical techniques.

Wrote two project proposals under DPRP scheme of DST, INDIA and both of them were approved by DST, INDIA.

Interested on APPLICATION ORIENTED research on new molecules that could be achieved either by chemical/enzymatic synthesis, isolation from natural sources and to study their bio-activity for finding their applications in human health benefits and possibly to bring them into the market with the successful outcome.

Having more than 25 years of research experiences including doctoral and both post-doctoral (USA, JAPAN and ISRAEL) and Industrial R&D in "Synthetic Organic Chemistry/Medicinal Chemistry/Discovery Chemistry/Natural Product Chemistry/Cosmeceutical and Fragrance Chemistry/Chemical Biology".

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Publications (17)

• Synthesis of 1,6-Anhydro-2,3,5-tri-O-benzoyl-α-D-Galactofuranose
  Carbohydrate Chemistry: Proven Synthetic Methods: P. Kovac (Ed.); CRC Press (Taylor and Francis Group); USA; (2011), Vol. 1; pp 269-274. 2011
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• Methyl(Ethyl 2,3,5-tri-O-benzoyl-1-thio-β-D-Galactofuranosid)Uronate
  Carbohydrate Chemistry: Proven Synthetic Methods: P. Kovac (Ed.); CRC Press (Taylor and Francis Group); USA; (2011) Vol. 1; pp 327-339. 2011
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• Synthesis of proteins containing modified arginine residues
  Biochemistry 2007 DOI: 10.1021/bi062042r
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• Analogues of vaccinia virus DNA topoisomerase I modified at the active site tyrosine
  Journal of the American Chemical Society 2005 DOI: 10.1021/ja044182z
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• Synthesis of a cellobiosylated dimer and trimer and of cellobiose-coated polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers to study accessibility of an enzyme, cellodextrin phosphorylase
  European Journal of Organic Chemistry 2003
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• Synthesis of glycoconjugates for specific studies and synthesis of a biologically active nonapeptide, Leuprolide
  XVIII Carbohydrate Conference, held in Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkatta 32, INDIA, November 5-7, OP-14 (2003). 2003
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• Synthesis of cellobiose coated PAMAM dendrimers as substrates for the enzyme cellodextrin phosphorylase:
  The Japanese Society of Applied Glycoscience Conference, held on September 2002 at Tokyo, JAPAN, Abstract No. BP-8. This abstract has been published in "J. Appl. Glycosci. Vol. 49 (2002) 438". 2002
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• Synthesis and DNA cleavage activity of a novel bleomycin A<inf>5</inf> glycoconjugate
  Organic Letters 2001 DOI: 10.1021/ol010015h
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• An efficient method for the synthesis of a 1,6-anhydro-α-D-galactofuranose derivative and its application in the synthesis of oligosaccharides
  Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry 1999
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• Chemoselective glycosylation based on difference in the reactivities of ethyl and p-tolyl thioglycosides
  Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry 1999
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