Y. D. Vankar

Yeshwant D. Vankar obtained his Ph.D from National Chemical Laboratories, Pune in 1977 and joined the department in 1981.

Synthetic Carbohydrate Chemistry of Biological Relevance (Oligosaccharide and Glycoconjugate Synthesis).

Development of New Synthetic Methods of Contempory Interest Addressing Selectivity including Enantioselectivity.(1) Synthetic Carbohydrate Chemistry of Biological Relevance (Oligosaccharide and Glycoconjugate Synthesis).

Development of New Synthetic Methods of Contempory Interest Addressing Selectivity including Enantioselectivity.

Selected publications

K. Pachamuthu and Y.D. Vankar ,Stereo and regioselective palladium catalysed reduction of Baylis - Hillman products , Tetrahedron Lett. 1998,39,5439.
Vankar, P.S., Ram Reddy, M.V. and Vankar, Y.D., Applications of trimethylsilyl halides-oxidants combinations in organic synthesis. Org. Prep. Proc. Int. 1998,30(4),373. [ Review Article]
R. Kumareswarn and Y.D. Vankar , Paladium catalysed allylic substitution via in situ activation of allylic alcohols, Tetrahedron Lett., 1997,38,8421.
Pitre,S.V., Ram Reddy, M.V. and Vankar, Y.D., Zeolite (H-ZSM-5) catalysed oxidation of alcohols with chromium trioxide.J. Chem. Res. 1997, 462.
Gupta, A., Haque, A. and Vankar, Y.D., Zeolite (H-ZSM-5) catalysed reduction of conjugated nitrooelfins with sodium cyanohydride, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun.1996,1653.

vankar@iitk.ac.in

Y. D. Vankar
Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur,Uttar Pradesh 208 016
phone : +91-512-2597169