Dr. CHANDAN SINGH
.. Dy. Director & Head
Medicinal Chemistry Division
 
 
E-Mail

chandancdri[at]yahoo dot com

Educational qualifications M Sc. Ph.D.
Date of Birth 27.06.1947
 
AWARDS
 
CDRI Technology Award for the year 1996
Member of CDRI team for CSIR technology shield for the year 1998

 
CURRENT AREAS OF INTEREST
 
to develop structurally simple synthetic analogues of antimalarial drug artemisinin.
to develop improved process for the preparation clinically useful derivatives of artemisinin.
to develop new antimalarials based on leads from natural products.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 
BF3.Oet2 catalysed alcoholysis of artemisinin : An improved procedure for the preparation of synthetically useful mono- and bicylic derivatives.
Chandan Singh and Rani Kanchan, Ind.J.Chem. (accepted) 38B, 1368 (1999).

One-pot synthesis of antimalarial drug artemethic from artemisinin. Chandan Singh and Pallavi Tiwari, Ind.J.Che. (41, B), 2185 (2002).
Photooxygenation of geraneol : Synthesis of novel series hydroxy-functionalized antimalarial 1,2,4-arioxanes. Chandan Singh, Nitin Gupta and S.K. Puri, Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 12, (2002).
In vivo active antimalarial isonitriles. Chandan Singh, Navin C.Srivastava and S.K. Puri, Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 12, 2277 (2002).

A one-pot conversion of artemisinin to its ether derivatives. Chandan Singh and Pallavi Tiwari, Tetrahedron Letters, 43, 7235 (2002).