Bioorganic Chemistry Lab

Subtitle

Ongoing Project . . .


DBT, High value Low volume Biocatalytically prepared chiral systhons: studis on the enzymes involved in the production of L-carnitine intermediate, (05-09-2011 to 04-09-2014)

DST, Selectve Biocatalytic oxidation of alcohols; Developing a “green” oxidizing agent, Mentor: Prof Anju Chadha, Project Investigator: Dr .Preetha (06-09-2011 to 05-09-2014)

DST, Chemical strategies for conjugating fluorescent labeled VEGFR targeting peptides to gold nanoparticles. Mentor: Prof Anju Chadha, Project Investigator: Dr. Shoba Narayan (19-09-2011 to 18-09-2014)

CSIR, Development of a Biocatalytic process for the oxidation of primary and secondary alcohols: a kinetic and Mechanistic study   (19-10- 2012 to 18-10-2015)

Project Completed

DST, India sponsored project: “Biocatalytic asymmetric Synthesis-A Novel Deracemisation Reaction”, (25-07-2000 to 24-07-2003 )

CSIR, India sponsored project: “Novel Biocatalytic Synthesis of Optically pure β-hydroxy esters”, (29-01-2001 to 28-01-2004 )

MNES, India sponsored project: “‘towards an alternative Fuel: Biocatalytic conversion of natural glycerides (Oils) to higher value products”, (27-04-2001 to 26-04-2004)

DST, Porous silicon based biosensors- Jointly with Dr. Enakshi Bhattacharya, Electrical Engn. Dept. at IITM, Chennai, (17-10-2002 to 16-10-2005)

DST, Biocatalytic Deracemisation of Alpha-Hydroxy Carbonyl Compounds: Mechanism, Scope and Limitations, (03-02-2004 to 02-05-2007 )

DST, Rapid Monitoring of Transesterification and Assessing Biodiesel Fuel Quality by Estimation of Glycerol, (20-04-2004 to 19-07-2007)

DBT, Biocatalytic Production of a precursor of L-carnitine; Process Development and optimization studies, (20-04-2006 to 05-03-2010)

EID ,Biocatalytic Transformation of w-3 Fatty Airds (09-02-2009 to 07-08-2011)

DBT, Understanding Candida parapsilosis ATCC 7330 De-racemisation of alfa and beta-Hydroxy Esters: In silico study ( 22-03-2011 to 21-03-2012)

DST, Understanding Biocatalytic Deracemisation of alpha and Beta Hydroxy Esters; Purification of Enzymes involved, (05-06-2008 to 04-06-2012)

DBT, Application of Silicon based Biosensors developed in-House with Dr. Enakshi Bhattacharya, Electrical Engn. Dept. at IITM.

DST, Miniaturisation of the Biosensors developed in-house, as CoPi.May, 2007- Dec, 2010

Contact Information

Prof. Anju Chadha

Bioorganic Chemistry Lab

[email protected]

Address

Department of Biotechnology
Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences Building
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai 600036, India