Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

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Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208 016, India e-mail hila(cbiiik.ac.in. Fax 91-0512-597436, 91-0512-590260... 

C. N. R. Rao is Linus Pauling Research Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and honorary professor at the Indian Institute of Science. He was at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and has been a visiting professor at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a member of many science academies including the Indian National Science Academy, the Royal Society, London, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy, French Academy, Pontifical Academy and Japan Academy. He was President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, and is now President of the Third World Academy of Sciences. 

M. Venkat Ram Reddy, born in 1967, received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. Later, he worked with Nobel Laureate Professor Herbert C. Brown and Professor P. V. Ramachandran at the Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, for his postdoctoral studies. He was then appointed as the Assistant Research Scientist in the newly established Herbert C. Brown Center for Borane Research, Purdue University. Since Summer of 2004, he has been an Assistant Professor at the Departments of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth. He has co-authored more than 60 publications and three patents. His research interests include asymmetric organic synthesis and synthesis of small molecules as anticancer agents. 

Dr. Vidya Lohray did her PhD in synthetic chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India under the supervision of Prof. S. Chandrasekaran. She worked as a research associate with Prof. W. Adam at the University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany and with Prof. Dieter Enders at RWTH Aachen, Germany as an Alexander von Humbodlt Foundation Fellow. Later, she worked with Prof. T. Ross Kelly at Boston College, Boston, USA as a postdoctoral fellow in synthetic and medicinal chemistry. Presently, she is a director in Bhuvid Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India. 

C. N. R. Rao, a native of Bangalore, India, received his early education in Bangalore and Varanasi. He took his Ph.D. In chemistry from Purdue University and a D.Sc. from the University of Mysore, and he has been honored by a D.Sc. (honoris causa) from Purdue. From 1963 to 1976 he was Professor of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, from which position he moved to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, first as Head of the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit. Since 1964 he has been Its Director. During the year 1963-1964, he was Nehru Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge. He Is Vice President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and will succeed to the Presidency In September 1965. His main Interests are in solid-state chemistry, spectroscopy, molecular structure, and surface science. 

C. N. R. Rao obtained his PhD from Purdue University and the DSc degree from the University of Mysore. He has served as a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur) and the Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore) from 1959 to 1994 and has been associated since 1989 with the Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research (Bangalore), where he is the Linus Pauling Research... 

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V. C. is thankful to the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi for funding and for a J. C. Bose Fellowship. P. S. and K. G. thank the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi for financial support. 

Bhat, S. A. (2007). On-line optimizing control of bulk free radical polymerization of methyl methacrylate in a batch reactor using virtual instrumentation, Ph.D. Thesis, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 146 pages. 

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