< Vijay Nair

Dr Vijay Nair, FASc

Senior Associate (JNCASR) 
Organic Chemistry Section
National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIST) CSIR, (Formerly RRL),
Trivandrum, 695 019,INDIA
Tel: +91-471-2490406 (O)
Fax: +91-471-2491712
E-mail: vijaynair_2001@yahoo.com



Vijay Nair was born and raised in Konni, Kerala State. He has Ph.D degrees from Banaras Hindu University (1967, with Professor R. H  Sahasrabudhey) and the University of British Columbia (1969, with Professor James P Kutney). Subsequently he did post-doctoral work with Prof. Josef Fried at the University of Chicago, Prof. Peter Yates at the University of Toronto and Prof. Gilbert Stork at Columbia University. He joined the Medical Research Division (Lederle Laboratories) of American Cyanamid Company as Senior Research Chemist in 1974 and become Principal Research Chemist in 1987. In 1981 he received the Outstanding Scientist Award of Cyanamid Company. In 1990, he returned to India to join the Regional Research Laboratory (CSIR) in Trivandrum. During 1997-2001, Dr. Nair was the Director of the Laboratory. He is now continuing in RRL as Senior Associate of JNCASR, Bangalore. He is also an Honorary Professor in Cochin University of Science and Technology.

            Dr. Nair has lectured in a number of Universities in Germany in 1998 under the INSA-DFG exchange fellowship. He has been an Invited Speaker at the 17th International Conference on Heterocyclic Chemistry in Vienna in 1999, MCR 2000, International Symposium in Munich and IUPAC-International conference on Organic Synthesis(ICOS-15), Nagoya, Japan 2004. He was a Visiting Scientist at Columbia University during 1979-82 and Visiting Professor at the University of Pernambuco in Brazil in May 2001. Dr. Nair is a Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences and a Silver Medalist of the Chemical Research Society of India. His research interests include cycloadditions, radical mediated C-C and C-Heteroatom bond forming reactions, multicomponent reactions and heterocyclic synthesis. Forty three students have completed Ph.D under his supervision and he has published more than 200 papers in major international journals.


Selected Recent Publication

  1. Novel Reaction of Huisgen Zwitterion with Chalcones and Dienones: Efficient Strategy for the Synthesis of Pyrazoline and Pyrazolopyridazine Derivatives. Nair, V.;Mathew, S. C.; Biju, A. T; Suresh, E.  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 0000
  2. Engaging Zwitterions in Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Nitrogen Bond-forming Reactions: A Promising Synthetic Strategy. Nair, V.; Menon, R. S.; Sreekanth, A. R.; Abhilash, N.; Biju, A. T. Acc. Chem. Res. 2006, 39, 520.
  3. N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalyzed Reaction of Chalcones and Enals via Homoenolate: an Efficient Synthesis of 1,3,4-Trisubstituted Cyclopentenes. Nair, V.; Sreekumar, V.; Manojkumar, P.; Mohan, R.; Suresh, E. J. Am. Chem. Soc 2006, 128, 8736
  4. The Reaction of Diaryl-1,2-diones with Triphenylphosphine and Diethyl azodicarboxylate Leading to N, N-dicarboethoxy Monohydrazones via a Novel Rearrangement. Nair, V.; Biju, A. T. ; Abhilash, K. G.; Menon, R. S.; Suresh, E. Org. Lett.  2005, 7, 2121
  5. Pyridine-Catalyzed Addition of Diaryl-1,2-diones to Dimethyl Butynedioate Leading to the Formation of 1,2-Diaroyl Dimethyl Maleates via an Unprecedented Rearrangement. Nair, V.; Pillai, A. N.; Menon, R. S.; Suresh, E. Org. Lett.  2005, 7, 1189.
  6. Recent Advances in Synthetic Transformations Mediated by Cerium(IV) Ammonium Nitrate; Nair,V.; Balagopal, L.; Rajan, R.; Mathew, J. Acc. Chem. Res. 2004, 37, 21.
  7. N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: Reagents, Not just Ligands!. Nair, V.; Bindu, S.; Sreekumar, V. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl. 2004, 43, 5130.
  8. Strategies for Heterocyclic Construction via Novel Multicomponent Reactions Based on Isocyanadies and Nucleophilic Carbenes. Nair, V.; Rajesh, C.; Vinod, A. U.; Bindu, S.; Sreekanth, A. R.; Mathen, J. S.; Balagopal, L. Acc. Chem. Res. 2003, 36, 899.
  9. Unprecedented Reactivity of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes towards DMAD and Aldehydes leading to Novel Multicomponent Reactions. Nair, V.; Bindu, S.; Sreekumar, V.; Rath, N. P. Org. Lett. 2003, 5, 665
  10. A CAN Induced Cyclodimerization–Ritter Trapping Strategy for the One pot Synthesis of 1- Amino-4-aryltetralins from Styrenes. Nair, V.; Rajan, R.; Rath, N. P. Org. Lett.  2002, 4, 1575
  11. The Reaction of Cyclohexyl Isocyanide and Dimethyl Acetylene dicarboxylate with Aldehydes: A Novel Synthesis of Aminofuran Derivatives. Nair, V.; Vinod, A. U. Chem. Commun. 2000, 1019
  12. Carbon-Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions Mediated by Cerium (1V) Reagents. Nair, V.; Mathew, J.; Prabhakaran, J. Chem.  Soc. Rev. 1997, 26, 127
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