Dipakranjan Mal
Indian Institute of Technology, India
Dipakranjan Mal, born in 1952, received his B.Sc. (Hons) (1972, first class)
and M.Sc. (1974, first class) degrees from the Calcutta University. After
a short stint in 1976 as a CSIR Junior Research Fellow under Professor
P. L. Majumder at the University College of Science, Kolkata, he proceeded
to the University of Missouri at Kansas City for his Ph.D. degree (1981)
on intramolecular hydrogen bonding in ç-hydroxycarboxylic acids under
Professor Layton L. McCoy. During 1981-1984, he was a postdoctoral
research associate with Professor Frank M. Hauser of the State University
of New York, Albany. In 1984, he returned to India to accept the position
of a lecturer at Bose Institute, Kolkata. Since 1987, he has been with the
Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, where
he is now a full professor. His research interests are focused on the
development of domino strategies and total synthesis of angucyclines
and anthracyclines, furocoumarins, carbazoles, and isobenzofuranone
natural products. He has supervised 15 doctoral and 32 master students for their
degrees, and published 80 research publications. He was a recipient of
the gold medal of R. K. Mission College, Belur Math, in 1973. He received
the honor certificate of Phi Kappa Phi, USA, in 1978. He is a life member
of the Chemical Research Society of India.
Biography Updated on 27 November 2008
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