Dr. Biswadip Banerji Senior Scientist PhD: Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (Prof. Javed. Iqbal)        M.Sc: Calcutta University 2008: Team lead, Chembiotek-Kolkata 2006-2008: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Prof. K. C. Nicolaou); CSL@ICES-A*-STAR 2003-2006: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Prof. C. J. Schofield); Oxford Centre for Molecular Science (OCMS) & Chemistry Research Laboratory (CRL), Oxford University, UK Contact - biswadip@iicb.res.in / biswadip.banerji@gmail.com

Current Research Interest :

• Synthetic Organic Chemistry with a focus on Biologically active molecules
• Synthesis of natural product derived hybrid scaffolds and its application in therapeutics
• Metal Catalyzed tandem reactions in organic synthesis to construct novel heterocycles
• Design and synthesis of nano particle(metal/ peptie based) and their application

Names of the group members including regular staff with designation and research fellows:

Fellow(JRF/SRF/RA)

1. Mr. Sumit K. Pramanik
2. Ms. Moumita Chatterjee
3. Suvankar Bera
4. K. Sunil Kumar (NIPER)
5. Md. Usman Siddique (NIPER)
6. K. Chandrasekhar (NIPER)
7. Pritam Das (Summer Trainee)
8. Arnab Dey (Trainee)
9. Rupsa Basu (Trainee)
10. Arpita Adhikary (Trainee)
11. R. Srinath (NIPER)

Position Available :

Position is open for individuals with NET (CSIR/UGC) fellowships to conduct research. Candidates with industrial exposure (synthetic experience) will be given preference.  

List of important Publications:

1. Synthesis and Cytotoxicity Studies of Novel Triazolobenzoxazepine as New Anticancer Agents Biswadip Banerji ,  Sumit Kumar Pramanik , Priyankar Sanphuib, Sameer Nikhara, and Subhas Chandra Biswas; Chemical Biology & Drug Design, 2013, (accepted)
2. Dipeptide derived from benzylcystine forms unbranched nanotubes in aqueous solution, Biswadip Banerji ,  Sumit Kumar Pramanik ,  Uttam Pal and  Nakul Chandra Maiti  Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry 2013, 3 (1), 12
3. Conformation and Cytotoxicity of a Tetrapeptide Constellated with Alternative D- and L Proline, Biswadip Banerji ,  Sumit Kumar Pramanik ,  Uttam Pal and  Nakul Chandra Maiti  RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 6744-6747
4. Synthesis, characterization and cytotoxicity study of magnetic (Fe3O4) nanoparticles and their drug conjugate Biswadip Banerji ,  Sumit Kumar Pramanik ,  Samir Mandal ,  Nakul Chandra Maiti and Keya Chaudhuri RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2493-2497.
5. Total Synthesis of the Originally Proposed and Revised Structure of Palmerolide A; K. C. Nicolaou*, Ramakrishna Guduru, Ya-Ping Sun, Biswadip Banerji, David Chen Yu- Kai* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 5896
6. Total Synthesis of the Proposed and Revised Structure of Palmerolide A; K. C. Nicolaou*, Ya-Ping Sun, Ramakrishna Guduru, Biswadip Banerji, David Chen Yu- Kai* J. Am. Chem. Soc, 2008, 130(11), 3633-3644
7. Selective Inhibition of Factor Inhibiting Hypoxia Inducible Factor Michael A. McDonough, Luke A. McNeill, Melanie Tilliet, Cyril A. Papamicaël, Qiu-Yun Chen, Biswadip Banerji, Kirsty S. Hewiston, Christopher J. Schofield* J. Am. Chem. Soc, 2005, 127(21), 7680-7681
8. The Inhibition of Factor Inhibiting Hypoxia Inducible Factor (FIH) by β-oxocarboxylic acids; Biswadip Banerji, Ana Conejo-Garcia, Luke McNeill, Michael A. McDonough, Matthew Buck, Kirsty S. Hewitson, Neil J. Oldham & Christopher J. Schofield*; Chem.Com, 2005, 43, 5438
9. Design, Synthesis and Conformational analysis of Inverse γ-Turn Cyclic Peptidomimetic of Hypoxia Inducible Factor (HIF); Morakot Kaewpet, Barbara Odell, Michael King, Biswadip Banerji, , Christopher J. Schofield* & Timothy D. Claridge; Org. Biomol.Chem, 2008, 6, 3476
10. Palladium (0) Catalyzed Regioselective Synthesis of α-Dehydro-β-Amino Ester From Amines and Allyl acetates: Synthesis of α-Dehydro-β Aminoacid Derived Cyclic Peptide As a Constrained β-turn Mimic; S. Rajesh, Biswadip Banerji and Javed Iqbal*; J. Org. Chem, 2002, 67(22), 7852-7857
11. Synthesis of Cyclic Pseudo 310-Helical Structure From β-Amino Acid-L-Proline Derived Tripeptides Via Ring Closing Metathesis; Biswadip Banerji, B. M. Mallesh, S. Kiran kumar, A.C. Kunwar and Javed Iqbal.*; Tetrahedron Lett., 2002, 43(36), 6479-6483
12. Synthesis of Cyclic β- Turn Mimics From L-Pro-Phe / Phe-L-Pro Derived di- and Tri-peptides Via Ring Closing Metathesis: The Role of Chirality of Phe- Residue   During Cyclisation; Biswadip Banerji, Madhushree Bhattacharya, Rajesh B. M, Saibal Kumar Das and Javed Iqbal.*; Tetrahedron Lett., 2002, 43(36), 6473-6477
13. A Facile Conversion of 310 Helical Structure To Cyclic β-Turn Mimic In Dehydro- Phenylalanine Derived Small Peptides Through Ring Closing Metathesis T. V. R. S. Shastry, Biswadip Banerji, S. Kiran Kumar, A. C. Kunwar, J. P. Nandy
    and Javed Iqbal*; Tetrahedron Lett., 2002, 43(42), 7621-7625
14. Synthesis of β-Methyl-β-alanine-L-Proline-XAA Tripeptides by Yb(OTf)3 Catalysed Michael Addition of Amines To N-Crotonyl-L-Proline-XAA: A Versatile Route To Cyclic β-Methyl-β-alanine Derived Tripeptides Via Ring-Closing Metathesis; Biswajit Saha, Debasis Das, Biswadip Banerji and Javed Iqbal.*; Tetrahedron Lett., 2002, 43(36), 6467-6471
15. Synthesis of Small Cyclic Peptides By Intramolecular Heck Reaction; V. Balraju, Rajmohan Reddy, G. R. Madhavan, Biswadip Banerji and Javed Iqbal.* Tetrahedron Lett., 2003, 44(2), 353-356
16. Synthesis of an α-Dehydro-β-Amino Acid Derived Cyclic Peptide As a Constrained β-Turn Mimic S. Rajesh, J. Shrivastava, Biswadip Banerji and Javed Iqbal*; ARKIVOC, 2001, 2, 10, 20-26.
17. a-Dehydro-β-Aminoacid Derivatives As Turn Inducers: Synthesis of Potential HIV  Protease Inhibitors Based On Structural Mimicry  S. Rajesh, J. Srivastava, Biswadip Banerji and Javed Iqbal*,   Ind. J. Chem, 2001, 40B, 1029-1032
18. Synthesis of L-proline derived cyclic β-turn mimics via ring closing metathesis Rajesh B. M, M. Bhattacharya, Biswadip Banerji and Javed Iqbal*; ARKIVOC, 2004, (viii), 111.