Bhagwan D. Guptaobtained his Ph.D from The Flinders University of South Australia, Australia in 1975 and joined the department in 1980.

Modelling B₁₂ Chemistry.

Metal Mediated Organic Transformations

Insertion of small molecules in Co-C bond Formation and Cleavage of Co-C bond: Mechanistic Aspects
Reaction mechanisms

Selected Publications

• Co-C bond cleavage in the reactions of alkyl, benzyl and heteroaromaticmethyl cobaloximes with arene sulfenyl chloride: Homolytic and heterolytic pathways.

B. D. Gupta, Vandana Dixit and Indira Das,
J. Organometal. Chem., 1999 572 49-58
 
• Homolytic displacement at reactive centres: Organodicobaloximes and organodisulfonyl chloride.

B. D. Gupta, V. Vijay Kanth, Veena Singh, Kushal Qanungo and Raghvendra S Sengar,
J. Organometal. Chem., 1999, 582, 279-81
 
• Synthesis, characterization and cis-trans influence in cobaloximes with Nioxime.

B D. Gupta, Kushal Qanungo, R. Yamuna, A. Pandey, Usha Tiwari, V. Vijai Kanth, Veena Singh, T. Barclay and W. Cordes,
J. Organometal. Chem., 2000, 608, 106-114
 
• Organocobaloximes with mixed-dioxime equatorial ligands: a one-pot synthesis: X-Ray structures of BnCo(dmgH)(dpgH)Py and BnCo(chgH)(dpgH)Py.

B. D. Gupta, R. Yamuna, V. Singh, Usha Tiwari, T. Barclay and W. Cordes,
J. Organometal. Chem., 2001, 627, 8092.
 
• Inorganic carbaloximes with mixed dioxime equatorial ligands: a convenient one pot synthesis and cis influence studies: X-ray crystal structures of N₃Co^III (dmgH)(dpgH) Py and N₃Co^III (chgH)(dpgH) Py.

B. D. Gupta, Usha Tiwari, T. Barclay, W. Cordes,
J. Organometal. Chem., 2001, 629, 83-92.

bdg@iitk.ac.in

B.D.Gupta
Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, 208 016
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