SUBIR GHORAI

Post-doctoral Researcher

E-Mail: sghorai@chem.ucsb.edu

Post-doc (UC-Riverside, CA, USA, Advisor: Prof. Michael C. Pirrung) 2006
Ph.D. Chemistry (Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India) 2005
M.S. Chemistry (Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India) 1999
B.S. Chemistry (Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India) 1997

Current Research
(1) Design and synthesis of water soluble ubiquinone prodrug.
(2) Transition metal catalyst reactions in aqueous media.

Publications
(1) Ray, A.; Bhattacharya, S.; Ghorai, S.; Ganguly, T.; Bhattacharjya, A. "Synthesis and trans-cis isomerization of azobenzene dendrimers incorporating 1,2-isopropylidenefuranose rings" Tetrahedron Lett. 2007, 48, 8078-8082.
(2) Pirrung, M. C.; Ghorai, S. "Versatile, Fragrant, Convertible Isonitriles" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 11772-11773.
(3) Biswas, G.; Ghorai, S.; Bhattacharjya, A. "Mercuric Chloride and Iodide Mediated Cyclization of Tethered Alkynedithioacetals as a General Route to Five- and Six-Membered Rings: Tuning of Regioselectivity by Alkyne Substitution" Org. Lett. 2006, 8, 313-316.
(4) Srivastava, A.; Ghorai, S.; Bhattacharjya, A.; Bhattacharya, S. "A Tetrameric Sugar-Based Azobenzene That Gels Water at Various pH Values and in the Presence of Salts" J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 6574-6582.
(5) Ghorai, S.; Mukhopadhyay, R.; Kundu, A. P.; Bhattacharjya, A. "Intramolecular 1,3-Dipolar Nitrone and Nitrile Oxide Cycloaddition of 2- and 4-O-Allyl and Propargyl Glucose Derivatives: A Versatile Approach to Chiral Cyclic Ether Fused Isoxazolidines, Isoxazolines and Isoxazoles" Tetrahedron 2005, 61, 2999-3012.
(6) Ghorai, S.; Bhattacharjya, A. "Mercury (II) Chloride Mediated Cyclization-Rearrangement of O-Propargylglycolaldehyde Dithioacetals to 3-Pyranone Dithioketals: An Expeditious Access to 3-Pyranones" Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 207-210.
(7) Ghorai, S.; Bhattacharyya, D.; Bhattacharjya, A. "The first examples of anthracene capped chiral carbohydrate derived dendrimers: synthesis, fluorescence and chiroptical properties" Tetrahedron Lett. 2004, 45, 6191-6194.
(8) Ghorai, S.; Bhattacharjya, A.; Basak, A.; Mitra, A.; Williamson, R. T. "An Expedient Approach to Internally Functionalized Chiral Dendrimers: Synthesis of a Dendritic Molecule Incorporating Furanoside Skeleton" J. Org. Chem. 2003, 68, 617-620.