Dr. SANJAY BATRA
 
Medicinal Chemistry Division
Central Drug Research Institute
PO Box 173,
Lucknow 226 001.
 
Phone No. 91-0522-2612411-18 Ext 4368
Fax No. 91-0522-2623405, 2623938
E- mail s_batra@cdri.res.in
Educational Qualifications M.Sc, Ph.D
Date of Birth

6th September 1965

 
POST DOCTORAL EXPERIENCE
 
From University of Mississippi, University MS 38677 USA during Nov. 2000-Nov. 2001
 
RESEARCH INTEREST
 
Design and Synthesis of antimalarial agents
• Search for new scaffolds and pharmacophores
• Synthesis of Hybrid compounds
Development of chemistry associated with the Baylis-Hillman reaction
• Search for new fast reacting electrophiles
• Synthesis of novel synthetic intermediates
• Synthesis of heterocycles
-Aza-systems
-Drug scaffolds
-Natural products and natural product mimics
Catalytic hydrogenation of 2-isoxazolines and isoxazoles
 
HONORS AND AWARDS
 

Fourth "Professor D.K. Banerjee Memorial Lecture Award" of the Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2011)

Bronze medal of Chemical Research Society of India (2010-2011)
Most Cited paper award from Tetrahedron for the block year 2006-2009
Chief-Co-Editor for Anti-infective Agents: Medicinal Chemistry (Bentham Publishers)
Awarded INSA travel grant for 2008-2009 to visit UK

Council Member of the NOST, India

Member of Governing Council of Chemical Research Society of India, Bangalore
 
RESEARCH STUDENTS
PhD Students
Dr. Amrendra K. Roy Senior Research Scientist Reddy’s Pharma, Hyderabad
Dr. Richa Pathak DAAD-Fellow Prof. A. Marx (Konstanz Univ)
Dr. Vijay Singh PDF Prof. A. G. Hartig (Konstanz Univ) (2008-2011), Prof. Eric T. Kool (Stanford University, USA) (2011- )
Mr. Sudharshan Madapa Research Scientist Aurigene, Bangalore
Mr. Somnath Nag Research Scientist Aurigene, Bangalore
Dr. Virender Singh Assistant Professor Punjab Central University, Bhatinda
Post Docs
Dr. Rashmi Saxena 2003-2005  
Dr. Zehra Tusi 2006-2008 (under DST-WOS-A scheme)
Present students
Ms. Amita Mishra SRF(CSIR)  
Mr. Samiran Hutait SRF(CSIR)  
Mr. Maloy Nayak SRF(CSIR)  
Mr. Subhendu Bhowmik SRF(CSIR)  
Mr. Subhasish Biswas
SRF(CSIR)  
Ms. Garima Pandey
JRF(UGC)  
Mr. B. Harikrishna
JRF(CSIR)  

Mr. Shashikant Uttam Dighe 

JRF (CSIR)  
 
Instruction for Students desirous of working with me

Intake of PhD students in CSIR-CDRI will be on biannual basis through interview. However candidates with good academic track record can apply to me directly. All candidates applying to me should post their Biodata/ CV essentially with their recent photograph, a paragraph about motivation to do research and two letters of references. Preference shall be given to candidates a) with good academic record; b) have completed a project work (as part of their masters program) or have some experience in pharma/chemical industry and c) have good communication skills.

 
REVIEW ARTICLES
 
Applications of allylamines for the syntheses of aza-heterocycles. S. Nag and Sanjay Batra Tetrahedron 2011, accepted.
1-Formyl-9H-β-Carboline: A Useful Scaffold for Synthesizing Substituted- and Fused β- Carbolines. V. Singh and Sanjay Batra. Curr. Org. Synth. 2011, in press.
Malaria and Leishmaniasis. Current Status of chemotherapy, New Leads and Targets for Drug Development. R. Pathak and Sanjay Batra AIA- Med. Chem. 2009, 226-267.
Advances in the synthesis of quinoline and quinoline-annulated ring systems. S. Madapa, Z. Tusi and Sanjay Batra Curr. Org. Chem. 2008, 12, 1116-1183.
Advances in the Baylis-Hillman Reaction-Assisted Synthesis of Cyclic Frameworks. V. Singh and Sanjay Batra Tetrahedron 2008, 64(20), 4511-4574. (Awarded most cited publication for the year 2006-2009 from TETRAHEDRON)
 
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 
Convenient synthesis of a library of lactam-fused b-carbolines via Ugi-reaction. S. Hutait, M. Nayak, A. Penta and Sanjay Batra Synthesis  2011, 419-430
Copper-catalyzed cascade cyclization of 4-iodo-3-pyrazolecarbaldehyde with 1,2-phenylenediamines and 2-aminophenols. M. Nayak and Sanjay Batra Adv. Synth. Catal. 2010, 3431-3437. (highlighted in SYNFACTS 2011, 252).
Facile synthesis of dihydroquinoline-fused canthines via intramolecular Aza-Diels-Alder reaction. S. Hutait, V. Singh and Sanjay Batra Eur. J. Org. Chem 2010, 6269-6276.
RCM-based approach to 7- and 8-member ring fused ?-carbolines. S. Hutait and Sanjay Batra, Tetrahedron Lett. 2010, 51, 5781-5783.
Morita-Baylis-Hillman of indole-2-carboxaldehyde: New vistas for indole-annulated systems. S. Biswas, V. Singh and Sanjay Batra Tetrahedron 2010, 66, 7781-7786.
Expeditious synthesis of imidazole- and pyrrole-fused-benzodiazocines. A. Mishra and Sanjay Batra Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2010, 4832-4840.
Application of primary allyl amines from Morita-Baylis-Hillman adducts: Cyanogen-azide-mediated synthesis of substituted 5-aminotetrazoles and their attempted transformation to tetrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidinones. S. Nag, S. Bhowmik, H. M. Gauniyal and Sanjay Batra Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2010, 4705-4702.
Utility of allyl azide for the synthesis of annulated triazoles and tetrazoles. A. Mishra, S. Hutait, S. Bhowmik, N. Rastogi, R. Roy and Sanjay Batra Synthesis 2010, 2731-2748.
Advancing the Baylis-Hillman chemistry of 1-formyl-?-carbolines for the synthesis of indolizinoindole derivatives. V. Singh, S. Hutait, and Sanjay Batra Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2010, 3684-3691.
Isonitriles from the Baylis-Hillman adducts of acrylates: Viable precursor to tetrazolo-fused diazepinones via post-Ugi cyclization. M. Nayak and Sanjay Batra Tetrahedron Lett. 2010, 51, 510-516.
Functional attenuation of human sperm by novel, non-surfactant spermicides: precise targeting of membrane physiology without affecting structure. R. K. Jain, A. Jain, R. Kumar, V. Verma, J. P. Maikhuri, V. L. Sharma, K. Mitra, Sanjay Batra, and G. Gupta Human Reprod. 2010, 25, 1165-1176.
Versatility of substituted 1-formyl-9H-?-carbolines for the synthesis of new fused ?-carbolines via intramolecular 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition. V. Singh, S. Hutait, S. Biswas and Sanjay Batra Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2010, 531-539.
Baylis-Hillman reaction of 1-formyl-?-carboline: one-step synthesis of the canthin-6-one framework via an unprecedented cascade cyclization. V.Singh, S. Hutait and Sanjay Batra Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2009, 6211-6216.
First Copper-catalyzed intramolecular amidation in substituted 4-iodopyrazoles leading to the synthesis of pyrazolo[4,3-b]pyridine-5-ones. S. Nag, M. Nayak and Sanjay Batra, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2009, 351, 2715-2723.
Search for new pharmacophores for antimalarial activity (Part III): Synthesis and bioevaluation of new 6-thioureido-4-anilinoquinazolines. A. Mishra, K. Srivastava, R. Tripathi, S. K. Puri, and Sanjay Batra Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2009, 44, 4404-4412.
Synthesis of 2-amino-3,4-dihydroquinazolines and imidazo[2,1-b]quinazoline-2-ones. A. Mishra and Sanjay Batra Synthesis 2009, 3077-3088.
Stereoselective synthesis of homoallyl nitroalkane derivatives via base-promoted regioselective decarboxylation in Baylis-Hillman derivatives. M. Nayak and Sanjay Batra Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2009, 3505-3507.
Reductive-cyclization-mediated syntheses of fused polycyclic quinolines from the Baylis-Hillman adducts of acrylonitrile: Scope and limitations. V. Singh, S. Hutait and Sanjay Batra Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2009, 3454-3466.