Dr. Dhayalan biography
Dr. Vasudevan Dhayalan He obtained his MSc in Organic Chemistry (2005) and his PhD in Organic Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. A.K. Mohanakrishnan (2011) at the University of Madras, India. He then joined the group of Prof. Masahiko Hayashi at Kobe University (Kobe, Japan) as a postdoctoral researcher (2011–2012). Later, he worked with Prof. Paul Knochel at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Munich, Germany) for three years (2013–2015). In 2016, he joined the group of Prof. Anat Milo at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Beer Sheva, Israel) as a PBC Outstanding Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2016–2020).
Then he worked as a DST-SERB Ramanujan Faculty Fellow at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Puducherry (Karaikal, India), supported by the Ramanujan Fellowship (2020–2025). Recently, he was awarded a prestigious Ramanujan Fellowship and Core Research Grant (CRG) from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India. As of January 6, 2025, he has been appointed as an Assistant Professor in the P. C Ray Department of Chemistry at NIT Puducherry, Karaikal, India.
His OMC research focuses on the design and synthesis of drugs and natural products through organocatalysis and organolithium, -magnesium, and -zinc-mediated cross-coupling reactions enabled by transition metals. He has published 82 research articles in reputed international journals as of December 2024.
ORCID-ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4548-2894
Google scholar ID: ‪https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IuS8y64AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao‬
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Acedemic researcher experience: 4 years
2020-2024-NIT Puducherry, India (Ramanujan faculty)
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Postdoc doctoral researcher experience: 10 years
2016-2020-BGU, Israel (Prof. Anat Milo Group)
2013-2015-LMU-Germany (Prof. Paul Knochel Group)
2011-2012-KU-Japan (Prof. Masahiko Hayashi Group)
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Peer-reviewed international research articles: 88
Peer-reviewed national research articles: 3
Patents: 1 and SERB-projects: 2
CRG Project – 2023-2025
Ramanujan Award – 2020-2025
PBC fellowship –2016-2019
SRF fellowship – 2008-2011
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
2016-2020
Chiral Synthesis and Organocatalysis
Prof. Dr. Anat Milo Group, BGU, Israel
2006 - 2011 (Ph.D.)
University of Madras
Lewis acid mediated domino reactions for the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds
Prof. A. K. Mohanakrishnan Research Group
2013-2015
Synthesis of Organometallic Reagents and Metal Catalysis
Prof. Dr. Paul Knochel group, LMU, Germany
2011-2012
Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis.
Prof. Dr. Masahiko Hayashi Group, Kobe, Japan
2003 - 2005 (M.Sc.)
University of Madras
Indole Chemistry
Prof. A. K. Mohanakrishnan Research Group
2000 - 2003 (B.Sc.)
University of Madras
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2020-present
Drugs and natural products Synthesis, with Catalysis Research Organometallics Developments
OMC Group, NITPY, India